I just want to make sure I have this right...

 

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^display/(\w+)/$ post.php?p=$1 [nc]

Personally I'd put it in the IfModule tags just to be sure that the rewrite module is installed

Options +FollowSymlinks
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^display/(\w+)/$ post.php?p=$1 [NC]
</IfModule>

 

and change the nc to NC but other than that it looks fine

OK, thanks a lot, I'll try that out now.

hmmm, it's still not working. Does it have to be in the root? If it helps, I'm trying to get

 

http://blog.jackbliss.co.uk/page.php?p=15

 

to look like

 

http://blog.jackbliss.co.uk/post/16/

 

or even better

 

http://blog.jackbliss.co.uk/16/

 

Is this even possible?

hmmm, it's still not working. Does it have to be in the root? If it helps, I'm trying to get

 

http://blog.jackbliss.co.uk/page.php?p=15

 

to look like

 

http://blog.jackbliss.co.uk/post/16/

 

or even better

 

http://blog.jackbliss.co.uk/16/

 

Is this even possible?

 

 

Options +FollowSymlinks
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^post/([0-9]+)$ page.php?p=$1 [NC]
</IfModule>

 

It needs to be placed in the root of your subdomain (httpdocs/public_html) on most hosts. Of course that's not going to include the trailing slash.

 

If you wished to have it like http://yoursite.com/16 you'd need to take into account that the image/ css/ etc folders would be rewritten too, therefore they would not function. To solve this problem you'd need to add a conditional and off the top of my head it'd look something like this:

 

Options +FollowSymlinks
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(images|css|style|index\.php)
RewriteRule ^post/([0-9]+)$ page.php?p=$1 [L]
</IfModule>

For me, I have the folder for my subdomain set up to be http://jackbliss.co.uk/blog/, so if you visit that it shows the exact same thing as when you are look at the subdomain. Can I just put the .htaccess file inside this folder? I don't seem to have a httpdocs folder in my root directory. Does it work if I just make one?

 

I'm still kind of new to servers, I've never really touched a .htaccess before and I'm still learning. Sorry if I'm making any blaring mistakes.

For me, I have the folder for my subdomain set up to be http://jackbliss.co.uk/blog/, so if you visit that it shows the exact same thing as when you are look at the subdomain. Can I just put the .htaccess file inside this folder? I don't seem to have a httpdocs folder in my root directory. Does it work if I just make one?

 

I'm still kind of new to servers, I've never really touched a .htaccess before and I'm still learning. Sorry if I'm making any blaring mistakes.

That folder is fine.

Is the blog a wordpress installation? If so, simply put a blank .htaccess file in the same folder as the wp-config.php and then give it full write permissions (777). Then set the permalinks in the settings

Is the blog a wordpress installation? If so, simply put a blank .htaccess file in the same folder as the wp-config.php and then give it full write permissions (777). Then set the permalinks in the settings

 

+1, this would be much better - wordpress allows you to have the blog title as the slug. Give it full write permissions and then change them back (refer to CHMOD). (0777)

no, sorry, its not. I wanted to see if I could do it my self, without wordpress. I know that wordpress is better, as it makes life a lot easier when doing this sort of thing, but I thought this would be better from a learning stand point.

Absolutely. I would suggest you take a look at the wordpress htaccess file however. You will see that it checks if a file or folder for the URI exists, and if not passes it to wordpress's index.php file which then processes the routing