url rewriting - Apache rewrite url need help

Question

Hello everyone I need help for apache mode rewrite cause I'm novice and. Actually I don't know how to make this done.

here is mys problem

I have some urls that I want to edit them with apache

1- mywebsite/category.php ---> I want that url to stay like it is mywebsite/category.php?sid=categoryname ---> mywebsite/category/categoryname.html

2- mywebsite/news.php --> No modification mywebsite/news.php?view=1(2,3,4,5....etc id in the database) ---> mywebsite/news/topic header.html topic header is the title of the news that will be called from the database via the id

Well Thanks everyone for you help cause really I don't know how to do this. All what I can do is create a htaccess file ^^.

Answer 1

In your .htaccess file put:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^/category.php?sid=([^&]+) /category/$1.html [L,R]