Clean URLs

[raamay]

i have been trying a hell lot to achieve the task of cleaning my urls but has not been able to succed. I downloaded the example codes from http://www.lucabiagini.com/2008/03/p...friendly-urls/ in order to understand the way and tried it in my machine. But even this example do not work in my machine. Do not work in the sense that when i click on an archive entry i am directed to the url http://localhost/ex/single.php?id=1. This means the url is not in the form as it ought to be.

I am using WAMP. i am sure this example sampe is working perfectly and there might be some other way to deal for the solution in WAMP. Please advice me!

[Dormilich]

but you have Apache with a working mod_rewrite?

[raamay]

@Dormilich
yes i have done it ...............................

[Dormilich]

what does your .htaccess file look like?

[raamay]

infact today i am with somewhat a better picture in understanding the clean urls. In case of me what i wanted was to transform url something like this.

http://www.mysite.com/record.php/202
 

instead of

http://www.mysite.com/record.php?id=202

where the id value is from mysql database.

People usually have tutorials which teaches us how to write the htaccess file without giving the details of whole scenario. In my case i think its not just writing into htaccess file that will suffice my need. i think we have to write some php script also to achieve this. So, this is what i wanna know?

[Dormilich]

to be honest, I don't see the necessity to use PHP too. usually a correct .htaccess file should do it.

[raamay]

@Dormilich
i see, ok then please direct me how to do it if you dont mind.

[Dormilich]

read here or here. this should get you started.

[mwasif]

A simple and good tutorial on URL rewriting http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess2.php