Hi,

I came across this article http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess2.php on URL rewriting with .htacces. i've carefully read it and wanted to apply it on the profile module (to replace http://www.mysite/modules/profile/userinfo.php?uid=777 with http://www.mysite/modules/profile/777 but it didnt really work. .htaccess didn't change a thing. I wonder if it's just that XOOPS is incompatible with this mod_rewrite or i'm just a lamer?

hello?

URL rewriting is a function of Apache and is suitable for all kinds of URL, also these from XOOPS. It needs only the right conversion rules.

Did you check if the module mod_rewrite of Apache is activated?
Try this:
- Create a directory named test in your site root: http://www.yoursite.com/test/ .
- Create a file test.html in this directory with content:

- Check if http://www.yoursite.com/test/test.html says 'OK !'.
- In this directory create a file .htaccess with this content:
- Try to access http://www.yoursite.com/test/unknown.html
If it gives error 404 then your system is not set up for URL rewriting.

Edit:
The code tags are not displaying the enclosed code correctly!!!
This is what it should say:
Quote:Or in plain:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^unknown\.html$ /test/test.html [L]

How can we share code if the code tag is not functioning properly?

it works well. maybe i messed up the code. how would you change the url for the profile module as I mentioned in my 1st post?

the problem is fixed