.htaccess rewriting url : my scenario - what should I do?

[aaron_mason]

Hello. 

 

My scenario:

 

i want to have a page such as

1) www.website.com/shop/1234566.html

 

to load a page such as

2) www.website.com/shop/?id=123456

 

 

I think that this is far more user friendly.  How is this done?

 

This is my first post on phpfreaks : : :  Hello !

 

Aaron

[JasonLewis]

Okay, let's see how we go.

 

First you need to turn the engine on. So in .htaccess you would have:

 

RewriteEngine on

 

Then you need a rule, something like this:

 

RewriteRule ^shop/?id=([0-9]+)?$ shop/$1.html [L]

 

Try it out. So what you would do is go to www.website.com/shop/?id=123456 and it should display the contents of 123456.html

 

Also make sure that the rewrite module is enabled.

[svivian]

You've done that round the wrong way, he wants the .html to be rewritten as the PHP file. Should be:

RewriteRule ^shop/([0-9]+)\.html$ shop/?id=$1