help with url hiding

[Jnerocorp]

Hello,

 

I have links like this on my site:

 

its a search so where it says &q=yahoo thats cuz i searched yahoo so that would change depending on what was searched

 

 

http://joeyelectric.com/search/search.php?cx=008406457722762222407%3Azeakjf5um_o&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=yahoo&sa=Search

 

I want them to look like this:

 

I want to make the the url just show the query that was searched but still access the url above ... is this possible?

 

http://joeyelectric.com/search/yahoo

 

-John

[Alex]

You're looking for mod_rewrite

[Jnerocorp]

wow that mod rewrite stuff is difficult im not very sure what apache is or how to use it

 

im guessing i need a code somewhat like this:

 

 

RewriteRule /search/([i need this to accept all numbers and letters]+) /siteengine/search.php?cx=008406457722762222407%3Azeakjf5um_o&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=google&sa=Search

 

but how do i make it so so that it only uses "q=google" for the rewrite?

 

-John

[Jnerocorp]

this is the closest

i could get:

 

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule search/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/$ /search/search.php?$1=$2&$3=$4&$5=$6&$7=$8&$9=$10

 

which makes a url like this:

 

http://joeyelectric.com/search/cx/008406457722762222407:zeakjf5um_o/cof/FORID:9/ie/UTF-8/q/how to use mod rewrite/sa/Search/

 

What i had searched was "how to use mod rewrite" <- which is $8

 

I want the url to just have $8

 

[Dragen]

RewriteRule /search/([a-z0-9]+)/? /siteengine/search.php?cx=008406457722762222407%3Azeakjf5um_o&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=$1&sa=Search