Translating URLs on the fly, redirect to one file

[blirette]

Hi!

 

I'm fairly new to all this « mod_rewrite » thing but it seems to be the only way to help me with something.

 

Here's what I have to do :

 

Let's say I have this website « www.website.com ». I'd like any URLs to point to the same file for 3 URLs (languages) entered. Example : www.website.com/nouvelles.php should be displyed as www.website.com/nouvelles.php BUT use the file news.php to display the content of the website.

 

In short :

 

www.website.com/nouvelles.php

www.website.com/destacados.php

www.website.com/news.php

 

...should use the file « news.php » to display the content BUT the URL should stay as entered.

 

Is « mod_rewrite » the answer to this?

 

This would improve the SEO of the website because now I use things like « news.php?lang=es » while it should be (at best) « destacados.php » or « destacados.php?lang=es ».

 

Thanks a lot for your precious time!

[blirette]

So...

 

I've check some websites and I think another way would be to redirect all hits to a webpage and then redirecting to another page with only the url displayed in another language but calling the real file.php.

 

What do you think about that?