rewriting the URL so as to not use ?foo=bar

[abs]

Hi Everyone
I'm Andrew and live in Sydney, NSW, Australia. New here, I'm okay with doing WordPress stuff, but have been doing web stuff for some time, pretty much self taught.

Am revamping my wife's business website and am using WP & Genesis but now getting to some of the grittier pages where in the past I would do http://www.example.com/blah.php?foo=bar or using a Rewrite Rule do http://www.example.com/blah-bar (changing blah-* to blah.php?foo=* )

So, I'm now wanting to do this in WordPress. If I code blah.php?foo=bar, I get the $_REQUEST["foo"] has a value of bar, but where in WordPress can I set up the appropriate rewrite rules (or equivalent). Using the .htaccess doesnt seem to work, and I'm going around in circles searching online for answers.

Hoping someone can point me in a properling documented answer 🙂

Cheers

PS I thought I created a new thread earlier, but might not have done something properly... I apologise in advance if the original is their somewhere

[Brad Dalton]

Hi

What URL exactly do you want to rewrite and to what?

Try this http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/02/introduction-to-url-rewriting/

Also, this question is not really specific to StudioPress child themes. All questions are welcome here however you might find the .htaccess tag on Stackoverflow.com a better place to ask this type of question.

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/.htaccess

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[abs]

thanks for your replies Brad... just to clarify

change

website/blah-bar

to become

website/blah.php?foo=bar

Thus whatever comes after the blah- is passed in on the foo variable 🙂 but the URL is coded as website/blah-bar

Off to check those links

[abs]

If anyone can help, this is really strange

PS Brad, I already knew how to write rules but did glean some extra info from the links - thanks, this seems more specific to using rules in WordPress

So, my .htaccess currently reads :

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^aaaa$ /index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

with the line after the RewriteBase added by me to test. I would expect that if I go to website/aaaa to be taken back to my home page. But I just get page not found

It's almost as if the rules arent being looked at at all (even if I take out the IfModule statements too

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