8 replies to this topic

[MicroBoy]

How can I use Question Mark "?" on a URL after rewriting it via .htaccess, above are the examples I want to look like:

The url is:

http://webpage.com/read.php?id=342

I want to use it as:

http://webpage.com/?id=342

[Alexander]

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http://webpage.com/?id=342

This would not really be a job for mod_rewrite, you can replace index.php with read.php and this would do what you have asked for you.

[MicroBoy]

index.php contains another code, I can't replace read.php with index.php

[Orjan]

/? will always access index.php and no other file with normal configured web server. you can of course add the functionality of read.php into index.php and have something selecting which part to execute at which times...

[Alexander]

Yes, for example if id is not defined, show the index. It is not too odd to do that.

[MicroBoy]

Aha thanks a lot for helping me.

[Alexander]

You are welcome!

[Mark Wylde]

What you may be able to do is create a .htaccess file with the following#;

DirectoryIndex read.php

You could then put some code in your read.php file which says if there are no parameters in the query then redirect to the index.php file.

[Orjan]

Yes you can, but what's the point doing that really? a rename would be more effective... There is no point changing the convention to have the main page called index.????. The most important useage for DirectoryIndex is to add more extentions for other program language like python etc...