Search Engine Friendly URLs Problem

[cameron]

I'm trying Method 3 from Chris's article (http://www.websitepublisher.net/article/search_engine_friendly_urls/3).

I added the following to my .htaccess file and uploaded it to my main directory.
<Files cheats>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>

Method 1 is working fine:
http://www.god-games.com/cheats.php/7

Method 3 isn't working:

http://www.god-games.com/cheats/7

Is there something wrong with my container? Any other ideas on what the problem could be?

[chromate]

Are you sure you've made a file called "cheats" without the .php ?

[chrispian]

Some hosts don't allow the forcetype directive (mine doesn't).

You could do the same thing with rewrite rules if that doesn't work for you.. example:



RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /cheats
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.god-games.com/cheats.php?id=$1

[cameron]

Originally posted by chromate
Are you sure you've made a file called "cheats" without the .php ?

I tried to do that, but the ftp wouldn't let me. It recognized files without an extension as a directory. Then I went back and read the article and didn't notice anything about renaming the file anyway.

I tried with Cute FTP and got it working. What do I have to do to be allowed to make such a change with WS_Ftp?

[cameron]

I just tried renaming a different file with WS_FTP and it worked. Not sure what the problem was before. Thanks for your help.

[eMEraLdwPn]

did you already have a directory called cheats? if you did, that's why it wouldn't let you change cheats.php to cheats (same name)