Converting dynamic URLs to static URLs.

[poleposters]

Hi,

 

I'm working on quite a large project, and I want to add a professional touch to it. I want to convert all dynamic URLs to static.

 

ie http://www.domain.com/blog/article?id=1 to http://www.domain.com/blog/articleone.html(or close enough)

 

The site is hosted on a third party server, so I don't have access to mod_rewrite.

 

I found a great article on sitepoint, however its quite limited. Its only shown me how to turn http://www.domain.com/blog.php to http://www.domain.com/blog

 

An example of what I'd like to do is found on

 

http://www.mikebaird.com.au/interactive/mikes_blog/sat_21_march.html

 

I know that the blog articles are created from a  database. And that a file called sat_21_march.html hasn't been specifically written.What I don't know is how its being done?

 

Can someone point me in the right direction.

 

Cheers,

 

Matt

 

 

 

 

[trq]

The site is hosted on a third party server, so I don't have access to mod_rewrite.

 

If the server is apache you can usually define mod_rewrite rules via a local .htaccess file. Without mod_rewrite, your probably going to be fighting an uphill battle.

[poleposters]

Thanks. I think you're right about it being an uphill battle.

 

I've created a .htaccess file and I get a server error when i try to use it.

 

I'm pretty sure I've named it correctly. I'm putting in my htdocs folder.

 

Below is the total contents of the file:

 

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule index/(.*)/(.*)/$ /blog/index.php?$1=$2

 

Am i doing something wrong? Do i need to change something in my php.ini file?