Apache Mod Rewrite question

[neooptic]

Hi everybody,

I need to rewrite this url using mod rewrite, but I've got stuck.

http://www.diamondgeezer.com/theultimate/search/index.php?sortprice=asc&followSearch=9673&q=eternity+rings

I'd like it to show this one instead:

http://www.diamondgeezer.com/eternity-rings

I'm no expert on this stuff, so any help would be great!

Thanks

[willcritchlow]

It's hard to write this kind of code without being able to debug it, but hopefully this will point you in some sensible directions.

First my assumption - based on the URLs you included, I'm assuming you want to rewrite http://www.diamondgeezer.com/anything to serve http://www.diamondgeezer.com/theultimate/search/index.php?sortprice=asc&followSearch=9673&q=anything behind the scenes.

I think there might be some complications around replacing hyphens (-) with pluses (+), but just serving the search results page for the word appearing after the first slash should be as simple as:

^/(.*) /theultimate/search/index.php?sortprice=asc&followSearch=9673&q=$1 

The documentation here should help:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html