Re: URL rewriting...anybody done this?

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 11:14, Ryan A wrote: > Hi, > I have a blog kind of app running on my site...presently it shows like this: > show.php?category=Beginners%20Corner&sid=1&id=1 > > After searching on google on how to make my blog my search engine friendly I > came accorss > mod_rewrite and couple of tutorials on it, finally the one I understood and > tried to use was this one: > > http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/23/0.php > > so I added this to my .htaccess: > RewriteEngine On > RewriteRule ^show/(.*)/(.*)/(.*).php > /show.php?category=Beginners%20Corner&sid=$2&id=$3 > > and added this to my httpd.conf: > AccessFileName .htaccess > <Files ~ "^\.ht"> > AllowOverride all > Order allow,deny > Deny from all > Satisfy All > </Files> > > <Directory /usr/local/www/rizkhan.net/www/articles> > Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews > AllowOverride all > </Directory> > > But somehow its not working :-(( I made the changes in the httpd.conf and > also in a .htaccess file... How isn't it working? What happens? I would try one variable first, get that working, then add the others. Also, I am not sure how it will handle the space in "Beginners Corner". Try passing simple values first. I am assuming you have Apache compiled with mod_rewrite and you have the proper settings in httpd.conf (ie. LoadModule). Did you restart Apache? - Brad