Help rewriting this page?

[Perad]

I am redeveloping a site and the client wants to keep the link structure. The link structure is bad and I am strugling to rewrite it.

 

If someone could help me with this first one I should be able to rewrite the rest of them.

 

This is the URL.

 

http://localhost/iraqidinars/iraqidinars/newiraqidinars.html

 

I need the server to redirect requests for this file to...

 

http://localhost/iraqidinars/index.php?page/1

 

I tried adding this line

 

RewriteRule ^iraqidinars/newiraqidinars\.html$ iraqidinars/index.php?site/show/1

 

However this generates an error. Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this?

[POG1]

Why would you want to make a nice URL into a not nice URL?

[Perad]

To be honest, the url should be like this.

 

sitename.com/pagename/

 

However, I have been told that I must, MUST keep existing url's. I have no choice on this matter, this is despite my best arguing.

 

All I want to do is this.

 

When someone goes to this page.

 

http://localhost/iraqidinars/iraqidinars/newiraqidinars.html

 

The URL should show the above. However the server needs to show this page.

 

http://localhost/iraqidinars/index.php?page/1

 

I thought that this was what mod_rewrite was for.

 

To make sitename.com/page into sitename.com/index.php?page=...

 

All I want to do is make a php page display when a html page is called. I hope that makes sense.

[POG1]

I'm sure you will be doing it with a quite a few URLs do try something like this..

 

RewriteRule ^/([a-zA-Z]+)/([a-zA-Z]+)\.html$ /index.php?site=$1&page=$2 [L]

 

I'm not very good with regular expressions but if it works as i think it will then you could have something like;

 

iraqidinars/newiraqidinars.html

 

and it would go to;

 

index.php?site=iraqidinars&page=newiraqidinars