IMEL wrote: “Hi,
I just want to ask one question, for example: if I have website with URL address http://www.example.com/index.php?option=com_user
But I just want to display URL like “http://www.example.com/“.
What should I do?
Thanks in advance”

Imel, I also would like to know the answer to your question. It would seem to me to be a fundamental problem, and surely very simple to solve. And yet, I’ve searched for too long and found NO answer.

How can this be? What are we missing?

i want to redirect any url from my website that look like this..
"www.mysite.com/detail.php?cid=12&cname=Website&mid=345&mname=My-Web"

TO

"www.mysite.com/Website/My-Web.html"

would really appreciate any help from anyone :)
Thanks

i am using

cat/ambulance/12

and this is redirected to the page written in htaccess, i just want to use the same url as above. how can it be possible

very cool post!! thanks a lot!!

I read all your article and tried to sort out my problem, but I’m still having trouble :/ I would appreciate you so much if you give your few minutes to see my issue; (explained at the link below)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2319033/404-error-page-redirection-and-404-page-200-ok-header-issues

I appreciate so much! I’m fighting with this issue for weeks, but couldnot make even a step :(

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite\.com
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^80$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L,QSA]

Simply moving them over doesn’t work.
Years ago it took me forever to figure out the above commands to help search rankings with the non www thingy.

NEW URL (Required):
site.com/first_JavaScript

Please guide me,
Regards,
Hussain

I have a PHP framework that uses root level index.php, so a typical URL will look like this:
www.domain.com/index.php/argument1/argument2/etc

it is simple enough to remove the index.php so the URL looks pretty, like:
www.domain.com/argument1/argument2/etc

Where I get stuck is trying to “replace” the index.php with a “KEYWORD” – to help with SEO… e.g.
www.domain.com/KEYWORD/argument1/argument2/etc
but retain the underlying URL (as far as PHP application is concerned) as
www.domain.com/index.php/argument1/argument2/etc

Is this possible?

For example, you say you can redirect:
/somepage-1234.html

to the page:
/?somepage=1234 [R=301]

But when you do that, the user is taken to that page, and it is shown in the address bar as the dynamic page. So how to you keep the original url in the address bar?

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %1/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteCond %1/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule index.php?=%{REQUEST_FILENAME} [L]