Question

I have a php script on a webserver. Currently, the script is being accessed as http://www.mydomain.com/scriptname.php .
Is there a way i can create a user friendly url for accessing this script, something like http://www.mydomain.com/appname, so when this url is called it invokes the php script ?

Please help.
Thank You

Answer 1

You want mod_rewrite if you’re using Apache HTTPD: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html

If you’re using a different web server, it may have something similar (lighttpd has a similar functionality builtin).

Once it’s enabled, you can use something like this in your .htaccess file to rewrite appname to scriptname.php

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^appname$ scriptname.php