not PHP, but how do I do URL Rewriting

[TorontoMan]

What is a good URL Rewriting procedure?

I've searched the net but not really found anything practical.

If I need to do URL Rewriting on some .biz, .info and .com domains what would be a good procedure for this?

This is the article I am reading on the topic:
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/sitemanagement/urlrewriting.html

In the article, is this the best way to do URL Rewriting?
Must I have .htaccess files in every folder I want redirecting enabled?
What's the performance hit of url rewriting?

Thanks

[Weedpacket]

Moving to the "not PHP" forum, and suggesting a search of the forums on the subject of "url rewriting".

Oh, and the use of mod_rewrite to to URL rewriting at the server level is exactly what the module is for; while relating resources to resoure locators also the server's job, so that's exactly where it should be done.

The performance hit is in using .htaccess instead of httpd.conf; if .htaccess files are being used, Apache has to find, read and parse all .htaccess files that might be relevant when doing URL resolution.