Mod rewrite

[Chatmaster]

Alright, I am an ASP guy and truly not that good with PHP. Would anyone be nice enough to give us a summary on how mod rewrite can be done in PHP or if possible using cpanel.

[Blazingpie]

you use an .htaccess file for mod_rewrites, afaik, as mod_rewrites are done at server level, not application level.

SEOmoz has a decent explanation of mod_rewrites: http://www.seomoz.org/article/guide-to-applying-301-redirects-with-apache

tho do you mean rewriting a url, eg from page.php?pest=hobo to /hobos-infestions-are-difficult-to-remove ?

[Chatmaster]

tho do you mean rewriting a url, eg from page.php?pest=hobo to /hobos-infestions-are-difficult-to-remove ?

Yep! That is exactly what I am talking about...

[Glen]

Carl is an expert at this, send him a PM if he doesnt notice it

[Paz]

LOL... well I'm still learning about mod_rewrite, but it is very powerful - especially for SEO.

A rewrite can't usually be done in CPanel as such, and I can't think of many php situations where you would do one there as first choice.

Why don't you give us some more specific specs and we can have a look?

Cheers,
Paz.

[Chatmaster]

Paz, my main objective is to be able to refer people to this thread. I often get asked how mod rewrite gets done using PHP and it will be usefull to refer the people to a thread that can explain it in detail.

[daniel]

mmm, maybe we can write this up as a article too,

It will work well for link bait

Daniel