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Asked: 2026-06-01T12:46:30+00:00

I am complete newbie in mod_rewrite , and I have been going through some

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I am complete newbie in mod_rewrite, and I have been going through some sites reading how to handle this, all I could find was when the get variable was numbers and nothing about strings, and it turns out be over my head.

What I want to do is to rewrite display.php?name=blahblah123 to display/blahblah123

Together with the answer, I would love some sites where I can build some grasp over mod_rewrite myself.

Thanks

Edit:

With more searching, I came up with this

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^display/([a-z]+)$ display.php?name=$1 [L]

The code above works, but for some reason, The page I get has no CSS. The CSS I see included shows Hostgator’s 404 page CSS. But HTML looks fine, so does the content and everything else. Any idea?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Just to be clear, mod_rewrite is something that happens internally in apache. I find that sometimes people do not understand what it does and doesn’t do. It will not take a url that you output and change it from 

    display.php?name=blahblah123

    to
    display/blahblah123

    It will however, allow someone to make a request from your site for display/blahblah123 and convert that to display.php?name=blahblah123, so that your display.php script can operate on it.

    Rewrite rules require an understanding of regular expressions. The better you understand regex the easier mod_rewrite will be for you.

    As a beginner this article should help: http://www.sitepoint.com/guide-url-rewriting/

    For your specific question, I’d probably use:

    RewriteRule ^display/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ /display.php?name=$1
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