rewrite help

i need to know what to put in htaccess fiile that will make my urls

on www.bidsdirectory.com show as

example
goto directories category it shows as d.html i want it to be directories.html

any ideas

this is what is currenty in htaccess

# Enable mod_rewrite engine
RewriteEngine On

# Translate content requests
RewriteRule ^link/([0-9].*).html(.*)$ /index.php?link=$1$2
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_].*).html/([0-9].*)$ index.php?id=$1&page=$2
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_].*).html$ index.php?id=$1

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You have to know php and know how to edit the script so they link there, and also know how to get rid of special characters and spaces.

What you got right is messed up. Entertainment --> http://www.bidsdirectory.com/e.html

is just a page for 'e'!

 

i know but if i change e.html to entertainment.html i get page cannot be found

 

Is 'e' in the original URL?

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/([^.]+)\.html$ index.php?id=$1 [L]

http://www.bidsdirectory.com/e/Entertainment.html

But you would have to know how to edit the script to make it link like that.

 

here is the part of the code that has the urls in

<div class="tmenu" id="tmenu">
<a href="{dir_base}a.html"><div class="{linkstyle}" onMouseOver="this.className='{linkstyle}h'" onMouseOut="this.className='{linkstyle}'">Arts</div></a>
<a href="{dir_base}b.html"><div class="{linkstyle}" onMouseOver="this.className='{linkstyle}h'" onMouseOut="this.className='{linkstyle}'">Business</div></a>
<a href="{dir_base}c.html"><div class="{linkstyle}" onMouseOver="this.className='{linkstyle}h'" onMouseOut="this.className='{linkstyle}'">Computers</div></a>
<a href="{dir_base}d.html"><div class="{linkstyle}" onMouseOver="this.className='{linkstyle}h'" onMouseOut="this.className='{linkstyle}'">Directories</div></a>
<a href="{dir_base}e.html"><div class="{linkstyle}" onMouseOver="this.className='{linkstyle}h'" onMouseOut="this.className='{linkstyle}'">Entertainment</div></a>
<a href="{dir_base}f.html"><div class="{linkstyle}" onMouseOver="this.className='{linkstyle}h'" onMouseOut="this.className='{linkstyle}'">Education</div></a>
<a href="{dir_base}g.html"><div class="{linkstyle}" onMouseOver="this.className='{linkstyle}h'" onMouseOut="this.className='{linkstyle}'">Goverment</div></a>
<a href="{dir_base}h.html"><div class="{linkstyle}" onMouseOver="this.className='{linkstyle}h'" onMouseOut="this.className='{linkstyle}'">Health</div></a>
<a href="{dir_base}i.html"><div class="{linkstyle}" onMouseOver="this.className='{linkstyle}h'" onMouseOut="this.className='{linkstyle}'">Internet</div></a>
<a href="{dir_base}k.html"><div class="{linkstyle}" onMouseOver="this.className='{linkstyle}h'" onMouseOut="this.className='{linkstyle}'">Kids & Teens</div></a>
<a href="{dir_base}l.html"><div class="{linkstyle}" onMouseOver="this.className='{linkstyle}h'" onMouseOut="this.className='{linkstyle}'">Lifestyle</div></a>
<a href="{dir_base}m.html"><div class="{linkstyle}" onMouseOver="this.className='{linkstyle}h'" onMouseOut="this.className='{linkstyle}'">Myspace</div></a>
<a href="{dir_base}n.html"><div class="{linkstyle}" onMouseOver="this.className='{linkstyle}h'" onMouseOut="this.className='{linkstyle}'">News</div></a>
<a href="{dir_base}p.html"><div class="{linkstyle}" onMouseOver="this.className='{linkstyle}h'" onMouseOut="this.className='{linkstyle}'">People</div></a>
<a href="{dir_base}r.html"><div class="{linkstyle}" onMouseOver="this.className='{linkstyle}h'" onMouseOut="this.className='{linkstyle}'">Recreation</div></a>
<a href="{dir_base}u.html"><div class="{linkstyle}" onMouseOver="this.className='{linkstyle}h'" onMouseOut="this.className='{linkstyle}'">Shopping</div></a>
<a href="{dir_base}s.html"><div class="{linkstyle}" onMouseOver="this.className='{linkstyle}h'" onMouseOut="this.className='{linkstyle}'">Sport</div></a>
<a href="{dir_base}t.html"><div class="{linkstyle}" onMouseOver="this.className='{linkstyle}h'" onMouseOut="this.className='{linkstyle}'">Technology</div></a>
<a href="{dir_base}v.html"><div class="{linkstyle}" onMouseOver="this.className='{linkstyle}h'" onMouseOut="this.className='{linkstyle}'">Real Estate</div></a>
<a href="{dir_base}w.html"><div class="{linkstyle}" onMouseOver="this.className='{linkstyle}h'" onMouseOut="this.className='{linkstyle}'">Science</div></a>
<a href="{dir_base}x.html"><div class="{linkstyle}" onMouseOver="this.className='{linkstyle}h'" onMouseOut="this.className='{linkstyle}'">Webmaster</div></a>
<a href="{dir_base}reference.html"><div class="{linkstyle}" onMouseOver="this.className='{linkstyle}h'" onMouseOut="this.className='{linkstyle}'">Reference</div></a>
<a href="{dir_base}y.html"><div class="{linkstyle}" onMouseOver="this.className='{linkstyle}h'" onMouseOut="this.className='{linkstyle}'">Forums</div></a>
<a href="{dir_base}z.html"><div class="{linkstyle}" onMouseOver="this.className='{linkstyle}h'" onMouseOut="this.className='{linkstyle}'">Hosting</div></a>
<br clear="all" />
</div>

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What were the original URLs like, the non-mod_rewrite ones? It wasn't a.html cause they don't work.

 

thats what they where originally look at this site www.biduplinks.com

running same script as www.bidsdirectory.com i just changed from alphabet to category

 

You're toast. It wasn't made to have 'Entertainment' or all those other named categories. A, B, C...is what it's made for.

http://www.phplinkbid.com/en/contact