Question

For example, let’s say my website is http://www.mywebsite.com/profile.php?id=1. My account is 1, but instead of having that /profile.php?id=1, I want to instead to be able to give a link to my friends that is my name instead, so it ends up being http://www.mywebsite.com/chrisgreene.

I was looking into Apache’s URL rewrite, but I didn’t know if that was something that converted it after the fact (just a ‘cover up’ to show as you went to the page), rather than a hard link to use to get to the same page.

Answer 1

Visit http://roshanbh.com.np/2008/03/url-rewriting-examples-htaccess.html

Maybe can be useful for you.