Rewriting URLs or mod_rewrite

I started work on creating search engine friendly urls today with the help of the apache webservers mod_rewrite functions. Turned out to be both harder and easier than I expected! A great help was the site modrewrite.com.

I want to write properly about what I found out today but its a tad late so I save that for the next post. Just as a reminder to myself though remember you will need to cover regular expressions, using multiple rules to catch different variable arrangements, and the knock on problems of a rewrite rule – namely loading images, style sheets and javascripts.