mod_rewrite issue

Hello all,

I have a site that has url's something like theis -
abcd.domain.ro/category.php?id=subzero

i did a mod rewrite and converted the dynamic pages to static to make it seo friendly .i wanted the pages to end with a .html extension ( my original pages are in php).So i used teh accecptpathinfo() directive to force the php files to be displayed as html.

this didn't work as i have apache 1.37 version installed and accecptpathinfo () is supported by apache 2.0 and above.

So i just made simple rewrite with the code like this -
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)-([0-9]+).html$ category.php?id=$2

will this work ? plus do i have to update the links as well or the search engines will automatically index the static pages by following the parameters in the .htaccess file.

thanks for your time.

 

there is a .htaccess faq thread under dp Apache forum. it's a sticky thread. did you check it?

 

Yes i had checked it...but i didn't find the specific answer

 

Try this one

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.html$ /category.php?id=$1 [L]

it should look like
http://abcd.domain.ro/subzero.html

 

will using [301,L] help me in any ways ? plus do i need to update my links as well or spiders will automatically find my new links and index it as per the parameters in the .htaccess file.