.htaccess

domain.com/.htaccess

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ articles/articles [L,QSA]

is my only guess.

 

wow..that worked... many thanks for your help (and to hacker as well)

 

Perhaps this thread should be closed now, but anyway... Two notes:

1) No offence, Nintendo, your efforts to make the world a better place are great , but I could have told you, mehbooba, that rule. It simply redirects any requests for ANY non-existent files to articles/articles. This may work for you (indeed, my home-made CMS engine redirects all requests for files not under /_static/ to index.php) but be aware that you may have a lot more requests than necessary to the php file) creating excess overhead. Also - and I'm sure you're aware of this too - make sure you parse the request so that it doesn't contain anything except A-Za-z0-9_.+= whatever - NO QUOTATION MARKS etc. - to prevent a security risk through "MySQL injection".

2) For any other people reading this thread: the way to get information about a request without the query string (i.e. "?article=something&page=10..." etc.) is to use environment variables. So long as the mod_rewrite rules are not sending a 301 redirect - [R=301] - the variable REQUEST_URI gives access to the ORIGINAL request, not the modified version. In PHP, the syntax is $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]

Happy rewriting to you all!