Renaming PHP URLs with HTACCESS

Question

I am building a web app that puts out a link like the following:

http://www.sample.com/?a=bj7phm

I would like for it to look something like this:

http://www.sample.com/BJ7PHM

Is this possible within the HTACCESS?

-B

Answer 1

In order to do URL rewriting, you first need to:

• Make sure you have mod_rewrite enabled on your server.
• Make sure you have the proper permissions to add rules to your .htaccess file.
  (AllowOverride must be set to All or include FileInfo)

Then create the following .htaccess file in your web root:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([\-_0-9A-Za-z]+)$  index.php?a=$1 [L]

You can customize RewriteRule as much as you want.

The first parameter is the regular expression to match the REQUEST_URI with (relative to the folder the .htaccess is in).

The second parameter is what you want to rewrite it to, $n being your match groups.