Need mod rewrite rule

Hi, I just need help writing the correct mod_rewrite rule to transform my script-generated URL's to the actual pages I wish to use:

http://www.domain.com/index.php?a=page&id=word

to

http://www.domain.com/word.htm

best would be rule which could deal with either .htm or .html, as I actually need to transform pages to both, but I'll settle for the first.

Here's a rule that isn't doing anything. Can anyone tell me what might be wrong with this?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.html$/index.php?a=page&id=$1 [L]

 

Belongs to Apache.

 

Options +FollowSymLinks +Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)\.html$ index.php?a=page&id=$1 [L]

Only if you want search engines seeing duplicate content should you use both .htm and .html.

 

What I mean is, I have some pages (early ones) that are .htm, started using .html later, so some pages would .htm. I also have to figure out how transform for directory URLs.


Thanks for the rule...I'll see if it does the trick.

It did not: it gave me:
The requested URL /karmaalliancelightinstitute.com/w0712/d37/s14/b0286d91/www/karmaalliancelightinstitute.com/index.php was not found on this server.

It's really strange...all the rules I try do the opposite of what I want-if they work at all.

 

It acts like

karmaalliancelightinstitute.com/index.php doesn't exist.

 

whats your full base dir to the www folder ? some hosts have a very wacky modrewrite implementation knowing your base dir will help.

 

er, yah!! That might help!!!!

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

 

Thanks Nintendo-the rule works with RewriteBase /

Must always remember that when doing .htaccess.

Now the problem is that this works too well-rewrites all .html addies.

Maybe I'll use all those pages with the script and make new pages with wordpress permalinks to get rid of the extension.

I also need one-to-one rule that will rewrite specific subdirectories (i.e. domain.com/title/ as I have some pages like that that also need to change.

Is is a bad idea to write one-to-one RewriteRules for each page and have 30-40 rules in my .htaccess?
In that case, I guess I just replace the parenthesis with the page title.
I'll return to the thread with any problems I run into.

 

You would have to add a fake directory or change the extension for it to not mess up real pages.