How to create clean url using .htaccess

Question

This is my .htaaccess code.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$ movie.php?name=$1
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example\\.in$
Rew         


        

Answer 1

If you're want to have clean URLs, then you have to use clean URLs in your html code, e.g. use

Titanic

Your rewrite rules will take that doesn't-really-exist-on-the-server address (you don't really have a /movie directory that contains a titanic file, after all), and translates it in to the actual

/movie.php?name=titanic

The user would never see this url, however, because the rewrite would take place purely within Apache. As long as the HTML you send to the user contains only "clean" urls, they'll never see the query strings.