http://mysite.com/songs/company-name/song-name
i want to redirect it to
http://mysite.com/songs/index.php?name=company-name&song=song-name
i read some articles about that mod_rewrite but actually i couldnt understand exactyly, i appreciate if you can help me.
thanks
EDIT: mod rewrite is enabled
Check if your apache installation has mod_rewrite enabled.
In its simplest form, the rule to accomplish what you want to do would be:
In your .htaccess
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ http://mysite.com [R=301,L]
RewriteRule songs/(.*)/(.*)$ songs/index.php?name=$1&song=$2
But give it a read to the apache documentation http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html as well as verify your configuration, and here you'd find some useful stuff as well http://perishablepress.com/press/2006/01/10/stupid-htaccess-tricks/#redirects
Hope that helps.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([\d\w]+)/([\d\w]+)$ test.php?name=$1&song=$2 [L]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/songs/([\d\w\-]+)/([\d\w\-]+)$ test.php?name=$1&song=$2 [L]
Sometimes it helps to have logging turned on:
RewriteLogLevel 4
RewriteLog /home/www/mysite.com/log/rewrite.log
