Question

I’m making changes to some software.

What I would like to do is change part of the url. In all of the urls in my site, there is “index.php” in it. Example: “domain.com/index.php?action=area”. I would like to change “index.php” to “view”. Example: “domain.com/view?action=area”.

From what I understand, this can be changed via htaccess. Although, htaccess is only for linux, correct? What about windows? How can this be done for both linux & windows?

Answer 1

You have mod_rewrite that an Apache module. It works under Linux and Windows as long as you’re using Apache (on windows, it may be referred to as “Wamp”, though Apache can also be installed by itself).

If you are using IIS, there’s a URL Rewrite module that behaves similar to Apache’s mod_rewrite. The syntax and sometimes the behavior of the rewrite engine isn’t exactly the same as in Apache, so for simple things this should be fine.

You could also try to re-implement your Apache rewrite rules to use IIS’s webconfig. There’s some tools for doing this.

The mod_rewrite rules in question would look something like:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?view$ /index.php [L]

Pretty simple.