URL Disguising

[Trevor]

Many pages have URLs like this one
http://www.appraisers.com/usa/califo...an_bernardino/ instead of
long nasty URLs with disgusting query strings and such. Can anybody
point me to some place where I can understand how this works and learn
how to use it?

Thank you,
Trevor

[NC]

Trevor wrote:

Many pages have URLs like this one
http://www.appraisers.com/usa/califo...an_bernardino/
instead of long nasty URLs with disgusting query strings
and such. Can anybody point me to some place where
I can understand how this works and learn how to use it?

Sure thing:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html

Cheers,
NC

[J Wynia]

NC wrote:

Trevor wrote:

Many pages have URLs like this one
http://www.appraisers.com/usa/califo...an_bernardino/
instead of long nasty URLs with disgusting query strings
and such. Can anybody point me to some place where
I can understand how this works and learn how to use it?

Sure thing:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html

Cheers,
NC

If the URL's have a distinct pattern, mod_rewrite is the first tool you
should use. If you need something more arbitrary, you might want to take
a look at CamoAlias, a script of mine that lets you set up completely
arbitrary URL's. It's under a BSD license so you can do pretty much
whatever you want to with it.

CamoAlias - http://www.wynia.org/articles/camoalias.html

Which, incidentally is an alias for:
http://www.wynia.org/wordpress/2005/...urls-you-want/

Which is actually a mod_rewrite setup for something more like
http://www.wynia.org/wordpress/index.php?id=458

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J Wynia
The Glass is Too Big
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