URL Rewrite - Query String

Question

I have a news (blog) site that returns urls in the following format when individual posts are selected:

website.net/sitenews.php?q=posts/view/postname/12


        

Answer 1

If you are using any CMS, like wordpress, or joomla or SE, then you have option to do that else you need to have an .htaccess file where you can write the code, refer this links

http://roshanbh.com.np/2008/03/url-rewriting-examples-htaccess.html

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum92/2545.htm

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=htaccess+change+the+url&aq=0p&aqi=p-p1g4&aql=&oq=htaccess+&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=c875dd2b8adea15a

Answer 2

Try this instead in your .htaccess:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^q=(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1/%1? [R=301,L,NE]

R=301 will redirect with https status 301
L will make last rule
NE is for no escaping query string

%1 is capture group for query string q= (whatever comes after q=)
$1 is your REQUEST_URI