htaccess rewrite rules

Hey guys, how do I rewrite web requests of type http://mydomain.com/mypage.php?id=somenumber where somenumber is an integer TO http://mydomain.com/directory

like http://mydomain.com/mypage.php?id=15 to http://mydomain.com/directory

From serverfault Daniel t.

• Yeah, well, assuming the comment on your question is what you in fact want, you would do something like:

  Somewhere on apache's config:

  LoadModule rewrite_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_rewrite.so
  

  On your .htaccess:

  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteRule ^/directory/$ /mypage.php?id=something [NE,PT]
  

  This would make it so that when you open http://mydomain.com/directory/ it would serve exactly the same content as http://mydomain.com/mypage.php?id=something.

  Edit: fixed typo on RewriteEngine and fixed the regexp too... was distracted.

  Hope this helps you.

  Daniel t. : this one generated internal server error.

  Khai : Do you have mod_rewrite on your apache config? Something like `LoadModule rewrite_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_rewrite.so`. Oh I see the problem now... editing answer :P RewriteEngine not Rewire hehe!

  warren : @Khai - I could go for a "rewire" engine for apache!

  Daniel t. : when tested, removing the / preceding directory seems to work RewriteRule ^directory/$ /mypage.php?id=15 [NE,PT]

  Khai : That makes sense. Since you're putting the RewriteRule in a .htaccess file the RerwiteBase (baseline for all rewritten URLs) is automatically set to the directory where the .htaccess is. Generally I put my RewriteRules on the vhost definition and I keep the preceding / for readability instead of setting RewriteBase.
  From Khai