Would it be possible to do this with .htaccess?

[Ryan Fitton]

Hi all, i have some pages that i want to use .htaccess on, the file names are below:

photos_something.php

Would it be possible to make them appear as:
/photos/something.php

so they would appear in a doman as:
http://www.domain.co.uk/photos/something.php

instead of:
http://www.domain.co.uk/photos_something.php

Thanks very much, Ryan.

[Ryan Fitton]

Anyone?

[Beverleyh]

I dont really know much about .htaccess myself but this old forum post might help: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum92/2545.htm

[djr33]

Yes, it's very possible. You won't find that exact situation anywhere, but you can adapt a similar situation (really, most mod_rewrite setups are similar), and just update the regex patterns in it for your specific setup.
Alternatively you could look at my tutorial in the coding tips section, though it's a little complex. What it does is moves the redirect to PHP, so if you know PHP well but not .htaccess, it is easier.

[Beverleyh]

I forgot about your tutorial so thanks for reminding me. I think it could be useful to my next project.

BTW - your external php javascript/CSS files tutorial has been most useful to me too.

[djr33]

Ah, that's from a long time ago. Glad it's still useful. That reminds me to add that one also to the PHP scripts site currently in development.

[Beverleyh]

Yes, it looks like its coming along well. I have a few small snippets to contribute that I hope will be useful too.

[Ryan Fitton]

Thanks for the reply