Mod URL with htaccess?

[Gregg]

Hello all,

I’m having a great difficulty understanding how to use the url rewrite capability of htaccess.. this is what I would like to do:

Convert the user typed url: www.something.com/about/
Into: www.something.com/index.php?p=about

With much thanks, could anybody tell me how I could do this?

Also, while we’re discussing htaccess, I am wondering if its possible to redirect any 404 error..or any error for that matter to the homepage with errors.. (www.something.com/index.php?p=errors)

Thanks guys, you’re great!

[Sniper]

.htaccess rules can be tricky, thats why I prefer do it how wordpress does it.

.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule>

then in your index.php

[PHP]<?php

echo ‘

’;

print_r($_SERVER);

echo ‘

’;

$path = trim($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’], ‘/’);

if ($path == ‘about’)
{
echo ‘about page’;
//or include(‘about.php’);
//or go into the database to get the page contents
}[/PHP]