nice url with apache and php

Question

I have urls like /story.php?id=31
I want to show it as /31.html How?

Answer 1

mod_rewrite is the answer. See e.g. this guide or this one.

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/31.html -> /story.php?id=31 (rendering your links is another - and easier - issue)

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule   ^/([0-9]+)\.html$ /story.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

Answer 2

Using apache and mod_rewrite, a possible sollution could be:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)\.html /story.php?id=$1 [NC,QSA,L]

Answer 3

You'll want to use Apache's mod_rewrite engine.

The rule you are looking for would look something like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)\.html$ story.php?id=$1 [L]