Rewrite a dynamic page to static page

I am trying to rewrite my site's urls from

http://www.mysite.com/folder/product-list.php?&dff_catnum=4297

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to

http://www.mysite.com/folder/products_category-4297

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I just can't get it to work. Pls help.

 

save following in .htaccess

Let me know if it works.

regards

 

Thanks for the response. That didn't work. I've tried it in .htaccess in the root and also in the folder within the root, but with no luck. I also tried changing it to

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/folder/category-([0-9]*)$ product-list.php?&dff_catnum=$2 [L]

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but that didn't work either.

 

Oh sorry, my typo, followng must work, save as .htaccess and upload in the sub-folder called 'folder'

and browse like: "http://www.mysite.com/folder/products_category-4297"

Let me know if this one does nto work too. I think it will work, although I did not test it.

regards

 

I am not sure what could be missing. That didn't work either. Is it really necessary to clear cookies?
Cheers.

 

Clear entire browse cache, and quite possible that your ISP be sending old pages, check your url through some proxy browsing site. I just added same feature in the short url creation script I provided a while ago, and it worked on that perfectly.

regards

 

1) you have to have in directory /folder context of your httpd.conf (something like this)

<Directory ~ "/folder$">
AllowOverride FileInfo
</Directory>

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After changind httpd.conf restart the server
2) .htaccess must be placed in the folder and must have the folowing lines

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^products_category-([0-9]+)$    product-list.php?&dff_catnum=$1 [L]

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My site is on a shared server, I don't have access to httpd.conf. The database for the content on my site resides on a different host. Probably that other host has to set this up for my urls to display properly. I am not sure why none of these solutions worked, but I think they should have. I appreciate all the help.