Question

I want to be able to access sitenamehere.com/folder/index?a=something by visiting sitenamehere.com/folder/something in my address bar.

How can I do this?

I’ve looked into mod rewrite but I don’t understand it.

Answer 1

Your .htaccess or httpd.conf.

# Turn on URL rewriting
RewriteEngine On

# Installation directory
RewriteBase /

# Your rule
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ $1/index?a=$2 [L]

This assumes you want where folder is to be mapped over to where folder is in your example. If you want to match the literal folder, just replace the first capturing group with it (and add it to the replacement).