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[mrruben5]

I've just installed etomite on a site where mod_rewrite is not installed, but the user I installed etomite for someone who does like to use aliases. Who doesn't anyway? Who likes index.php?id=123456789 ?

The solution was easy.

• When you enable mod_rewrite for etomite, and also enable aliases, etomite generates a prefix and postfix for the alias.
  
• Etomite "listens" to 2 sorts of query strings:
  • ?id=????
    
  • ?q=???

So what did I do? I set the prefix for fur's to "index.php?q="

Now you can use aliases without mod_rewrite

Sticky please?

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[Dean]

Sticky'ed

[jaredc]

Very clever. Very clever indeed.

[vw53a]

So this will turn the URL /index.php?id=2 to the friendly URL /index.php?q=2
I don't get it. What's so clever about that. It's even one character longer.
Probably Funny URLs

[mrruben5]

If you put an alias on a document, it will use that instead of a number. id only accepts numbers while q also accepts aliases.

[vw53a]

Ah, so I could use things like /index.php?q=homepage, /?q=faq and /?q=about_us, presuming I have aliases of homepage, faq and about_us. Cool.
I'll go and test it since my host is very slow with answering my requests about enabling mod_rewrite (see other thread about Furls).
Thank you very much for your explanation.

[mrruben5]

Oh, yes, I don't even need to put index.php inthere. just ?q=

[cathode]

Unbelievably cool...

[luke]

mod-rewrite is for unix only so does anyone know if this can be used on Windows Server?

[mikef]

it should work - all it does is change the way links are generated by etomite.

However, you may find that some snippets don't work correctly, depending on what assumptions the author of the snippet made about how links are generated.

[luke]

This is now sorted and I have managed to get FUL's working on a windows server as per my post http://www.etomite.com/index.php?showtopic=548&st=165