Search engine friendly URL's

cellb10ck

Hi,

I am looking at ways of converting URL's to be search engine friendly.

I need a way to convert the query string into 'fake folders', so www.mysite.com/index.php?go=news will become www.mysite.com/news/

All I know is how to check for a query string:

if(isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
   //do something
}

It has to work on a IIS 5 with no admin rights.

Thanks

Mordecai

I'm not so sure you can do it on IIS. If you had Apache, it'd be a case of mod_rewrite or mod_alias.

cellb10ck

According to this thred it can be done. If you take a look at the second last post you'll see that the user claims he made it work using this piece of code.

if(isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
    $_GET['path'] = "/" . ereg_replace("404;" . 'DI_HOST_NAME' . "/", "", $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']
);
if(substr($_GET['path'], strlen($_GET['path'])-1) == "/")
    $_GET['path'] = substr($_GET['path'],0,strlen($_GET['path'])-1);
}

My problem is that I havn't got any ide how to make it work.

volleytotal_ch

that's exactly what i guessed: working with the 404 error pages! but therefore you need to have access to the 404 error page!
Once you have access, you can use the $_ stuff to see which page the user wanted to see and send him the right content!
But i guess cellb10ck doesn't have access to the 404-files ...

cellb10ck

...so there is no way 🙁
Anyway thanks for clearing that up!