The Apache server’s mod_rewrite
module gives
you the ability to transparently redirect one URL to another, without
the user’s knowledge. This opens up all sorts of possibilities, from
simply redirecting old URLs to new addresses, to cleaning up the ‘dirty’
URLs coming from a poor publishing system — giving you URLs that are
friendlier to both readers and search engines.
An Introduction to RewritingReadable URLs are nice. A well designed website will have a logical
file system layout, with smart folder and file names, and as many
implementation details left out as possible. In the most well designed
sites, readers can guess at filenames with a high level of
success.
However, there are some cases when the b
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