apache URL rewrite

[gerzson]

Hello,

in this site I've read an article about
modular site design : "Building your website with cached dynamic modules". (you can find it: articles/site operation/caching).

In this article I found some instructions about how the Apache URL-rewrite module works, but when I tried it, it didn't work.
I'm totally not familiar with this feature of Apache and I'm wondering if anybody can help me to make this example work.

Now basically what I need is that every request to a file with extension "html" (or whatever you or I want) is changed to a request a specified php file (say, parse.php).

Now what I read and found in this article:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule *.html /lib/parse.php

I'm currently using Apache (1.3.12) on Windows with PHP 4.0.4pl1 (CGI). If it works I put th configuration to my Linux, where PHP is runninng as dynamic module of Apache.
Thank you for any help in advance:

Papp Gyozo
- [e-mail], [e-mail]

[yelvington]

You also need LoadModule and AddModule statements in your httpd.conf to instruct Apache to load and activate the rewrite module.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_so.html#loadmodule
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#addmodule

See also the docs for mod_rewrite:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html