[SOLVED] Getting info from the addressbar, i.e. /news or /footy

[masterbaker]

I am designing a site for my brother and I want to be able to to redirect certain URLs to make it more user friendly.

i.e. if someone types http://www.mysite.com/footy or http://www.mysite.com/news then I want to redirect to http://www.mysite.com/sports/football/index.php and http://www.mysite.com/news/daily/currentheadlines.php.  I am stuck on how to do this.

Could I somehow redirect the ABC part of the following to a single php page and then deal with the forwarding there (http://www.mysite.com/ABC). I know how to redirect fine its just dealing with the /footy or /news
Thanks
master

[Shu]

the easiest way is to set the 404 error page to '/404.php'

then in 404.php u could check if the person request that url and then redirect it.

[AV1611]

there are a zillion ways but I think what you need to do is just make the default doc type for those directories equal to the location with a simply javascript redirect or you could do a php header:

[ToonMariner]

You need to do some url rewriting (mod rewrite) in apache.

1st you need to make sure you can - some hosts will not let you.

this link will probably the one that will help you most initially.

[url=http://www.alistapart.com/articles/succeed/]http://www.alistapart.com/articles/succeed/[/url]

This guy has set up his entire site to be run from index.php something I do quite a bit but only recently have I started to use this method for search engine friendly urls - BUT a very good tool if you ask me (makes coding significantly easier too.)

[masterbaker]

Thanks a lot for your help.  It seems straightforward now