Parsing Question Marks in URL

[Kevin Matthews]

Hi, i'm trying to change the question marks in the url..

eg. index.php?page=home

to something along the lines of

index.php/pages/home

I heard their was a way to do this, but can't find anything on the net which
is what I want to do. Its just so that some search engines that cannot crawl
sites with question marks in them will be able to.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Cheers

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Kevin

[Ian P. Christian]

Kevin Matthews wrote:

> Can someone point me in the right direction?

Sure.
modrewrite, the apache module, check on google for more help!

Kind Regards,

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Ian P. Christian

[Kevin Matthews]

"Ian P. Christian" <pookey@pookey.co.uk> wrote in message
news:bmuurj$e2s$1@goat.anlx.net...

> Kevin Matthews wrote:
>
>

> > Can someone point me in the right direction?

>
> Sure.
> modrewrite, the apache module, check on google for more help!

Cheers.. didn't know that existed. however

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^sections/(.*) /index.php?page=$1

That is what I now have in my .htaccess file (local server)

index.php holds the actual site engine, and the page is where I want to go.

Now this rewrite rule should allow users to type "sections/Home" or whatever
to goto that same page right?

Well what happens when I do this... is the page "index.php?page=Home" is
loaded however the actual design of the page that is done in the index.php
is not carried through leaving a plain page with no styling... is it poss to
get round this?!?!

Kevin