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

[Debbie-Leigh]

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

[NogDog]

This is usually done at the web server level. If running under Apache, do a search on "mod_rewrite" and "apache url rewriting", etc.