Topic: How can I shorten an url and still keep the parameters?

[DebbieFigg]

Hi,

I've been studying the Apache manuals for a while now, but I still can't figure out how I can achieve the following.

If I have an url:

http://example.com/blah/index.php?parm1

and I would like to shorten it to:

http://example.com/blah/parm1

i.e. so I don't have to specify index.php or the question mark, but I can still have the parm1 parameter passed to my PHP program.

Can anyone tell me how I can achieve this? I would need a solution that I could preferably implement in PHP, but if that's not possible, then in an .htaccess file, because I don't have access to the server's config file.

Debbie

[glsmith]

if index.php is one of the DirectoryIndex(es) then this should work already

http://example.com/blah/?parm1

[DebbieFigg]

Hi glsmith,

Thank you for the suggestion. However, I was trying to avoid using a ?, but I couldn't figure out how to use the apache rewrite commands from the manual explanations and I couldn't find a way to do it using PHP either.

Any explanation of how to do it without using a ? would be very welcome.

Debbie