Changing ?n=dog to dog.html

Hey guys,

I have heard loads about changing php extensions into html extensions but I don't know how to change a variable into an html extension... how would i be able to rewrite http://www.sitename.com/?n=running to http://www.sitename.com/running.html

If you know, please tell me.

Also, if you know how to do this. If I make a link to http://www.sitename.com/running.html will it still show the stuff like I will use the variable running to create the whole page so will it know that the variable $n=running?

Thanks.

 

.htaccess rule:

If you don't have them...

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

Code (markup):

Specific to this problem:

RewriteRule   ^running\.(html|php)/?$   index.php?n=running   [L,NC,QSA]

Code (markup):

Matches:

running.html
running.php
running.html/
running.php/

Code (markup):

Doesn't match:

running
running/run
running.shtml
running/folder/subfolder/running.html

Code (markup):

 

So the first code will turn anything into .html?
And if I enter the URL as running.html will it load the same content?

 

First block of code switches on the RewriteEngine and sets the RewriteBase to / (change this as appropriate.)

Also stops it matching actual files and directories. (Which is normally what you want, very rare you don't - and certainly not in this case.)

Dan

 

Thanks very much, worked my problem! +rep!