php - How to define friendly URL rules using .htaccess?

Question

Long time I am trying to define Rewriting rules but I could not succeed yet? I have a simple page http://www.myURL.com/pdf.php?id=2. I want to make it friendly by this: http://www.myURL.com/pdf/2/ ...

I wrote this rule after spending time on google:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^pdf/([0-9]+)$ pdf.php?id=$1. 

When I uploaded my .htaccess file on server and try to run first it give me 500 ERROR. Second time it loaded page but it could not show me friendly URL; it was showing as before. Kindly tell me better solution, I followed many instructions to make it useful but could not successful. My Client are not going further unless I showed him friendly URL. kindly help me as soon as possible. This is my client hosting Organization: Justhost.com.

Answer 1

You can do this using Apache's Rewrite Engine. Something like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^pdf/([0-9/]+)$ /pdf.php?id=$1 [L]

This will allow you to go to http://yoursite.com/pdf/192 instead of http://yoursite.com/pdf.php?id=192