How is mod rewrite meant to work?

I have this in my .htaccess:

Options +FollowSymLinks 
RewriteEngine on 
RewriteRule ^articles/(.*).html$ index.php?page=$1 [NC]

Code (markup):

When I goto access the rewritten cleaner URLs (eg. http://www.domain.com/articles/page.html) it works fine, however all the links which I have rewritten on the page are still dynamic links.

Is this how its meant to work when configured properly? Are you supposed to edit the actual dynamic links on the pages aswell?

 

Only way to change the links is edit the script. All mod_rewrite does is makes the fake URLs work.

 

I agree...you will change a lot in your programming to put out those fake URLS...a code_rewrite..is the best

code_rewrite does not exist...am joking...