Question

How do I strip a part of the url? I do not know much about htaccess or apache.

I would like to strip www.mysite.com/page=services to www.mysite.com/services for example.

What exactly do I need to put in the .htaccess file in order to achieve this, and would that work for other pages as well?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I tried this for one of my sites lately and came up with this and for me it works fine,

this goes into the .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z]+)/?$    index.php?page=$1    [NC,L]

then if you would write yoursite.com/pagename it would send yoursite.com/index.php?page=pagename to your php.
You will link to the page like so: yoursite.com/pagename
it wont change yoursite.com/index.php?page=pagename to yoursite.com/pagename in the adress bar after you send it.(if that makes sense 🙂 )

I hope this is what you are looking for…