Changing .php files to .xxx and accessing it

[d.shankar]

Then it sounds like you have alot of work to do.

 

You mean the renaming of 200 files ??

[trq]

Exactly.

[d.shankar]

This is what I use:

 

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/[^\.]+[^/]$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/ [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ /index.php?q=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ /index.php?view=$1&id=$2 [L]
# RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ /index.php?section=$1&subsection=$2&page=$3 [L]

# These rewrite rules can be used over and over for different master pages.
# For example, see below.

# RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ /profile.php?user_id=$1 [L]
# RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ /profile.php?category=$1&page=$2 [L]
# RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ /profile.php?category=$1&subcategory=$2&page=$3 [L]

 

However I doubt that would be sufficient enough for over 200 different filenames. However, it should help you out a bit. Hopefully.

 

Thanks wolf.

How should i hardcode a link in a htmlpage to a file called profile.php which is previously like this <a href='profile.php'>profile</a>

[discomatt]

You're going to have to change every local HREF to match your new URL scheme. Have fun

[Wolphie]

You're going to have to change every local HREF to match your new URL scheme. Have fun

Yes, you will.

 

As I mentioned before, this really isn't a sufficient method to use for a scale of 200 files give or take. Hence why you should use Clean URLs (mod_rewrite) when starting an application, that way you can put contingency and fail safes in place.

 

For a pre-built website with 200 files or more and hundreds if not thousands of redirects and anchor links, I'd for sure advise against this. On the other hand, if you were just starting this application. I'd support you all the way and advise you to use Clean URLs provided you have fail safes and contingency in place.

 

For a dynamic URL you would use something like..

 

http://domain.com/val1/val2/

http://domain.com/index.php?var1=val1&var2=var2

[DarkWater]

And just so you know, this isn't going to make your site more secure.  It'll probably just help a tiny bit with SEO.  If there's an exploit, there's an exploit. Also, even if a page doesn't have a .php extension (like they rewrite foo-bar-25.html to foo.php?cat=bar&id=25 on some sites for example), you can still tell that it's dynamic and it's a good chance that it's PHP.  If you didn't start your application with mod_rewrite, it'll be a headache to convert it now.