Question

I apologize if this is a basic question, however I have been searching on this and can’t find anything of use, probably since I don’t really know the proper terms.. I am wondering if there is a way to interpret the url that is called on the server, such as:

http://mydomainname.com/site1/module1

and then using PHP (ideally), or some other technology if necessary, change the display of the url to the use as something else, such as:

http://domainname.com/app1

I realize I would have to put in specific things to change urls to and from, just am not sure if this is possible.. thanks for any advice.

Answer 1

An .htaccess file like this works:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule \.(css|js|png|gif|jpg|xml|txt|zip|rar|swf|flv|as|ico|csv|xls|php|pdf|html)$ - [S=1]
RewriteRule .* index.php [L,NC]

Your index.php file will need to handle the routing of the page from there. It’s a good place to start for those with custom content management systems.