.htaccess

[deansaddigh]

Does anyone know how to get htacess file working on fasthosts.

 

Im trying to get search engine friendly urls with this

 

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

 

it doesnt seem to do anything.

 

Any help would be brill 

[cags]

What URL are you typing in/ clicking on.

[deansaddigh]

http://www.languageschoolsuk.com/view_all_schools.php

I wanna acess it like http://www.languageschoolsuk.com/view_all_schools

 

And also i wanna re-write links like this http://www.languageschoolsuk.com/school_details.php?id=126

 

to a more friendly seo link

[cags]

Your rule will work given the example URL you gave, typing in or clicking a link to...

 

http://www.languageschoolsuk.com/view_all_schools

 

...will display...

 

http://www.languageschoolsuk.com/view_all_schools.php

 

Due to the extreme simplicity of your pattern though it will match every single link on your site, including the ones it has already redirected.

 

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^.])$ /$1.php

 

Would be closer, because this way you are only rewriting patterns URLs that don't exist as a file or directory, plus you are only rewriting rules that don't contain a fullstop, meaning you won't match anything that already has a file extension.