tell me sir, if the url is .com/index.php?page=page3911

how do it make it go .com/p/page3911 ??

thank you

If i’ve understood your question right you want to redirect all 404 errors. you can add this to your .htaccess file to and change the links to your custom 404 page etc

ErrorDocument 403 /frameworks/pages/error.php

ErrorDocument 404 /frameworks/pages/error.php

ErrorDocument 500 /frameworks/pages/error.php

Ashley

So that this article (or any article) for example would redirect from:
http://papermashup.com/mod-rewrite-in-10-minutes&usg=dsl146kdggklang145fkidhksjbf

to:
http://papermashup.com/mod-rewrite-in-10-minutes

Thanks,
Paperboy

No problem, great to hear your feedback, good point with the Chain rules i will make an amendment to the post to include the most popular. Let me know if you’d like to write a guest post on WordPress mod_rewrite rules as it sounds like a good post to me!

Thanks

Ashley

You have a small error in your final rewrite script. Your second regex, after the /blog/ section, is only going to match numbers, but your url is expecting “papermashup.” You need this to be your final rewrite rule:

RewriteRule ^user/([a-z0-9]+)/blog/([a-z0-9]+)$ pages/blog.php?id=$1&blogid=$2 [NC,L]

It would be worth explaining how to chain rules, what the NC, L, and other designators and flags mean too.

I think the basic WordPress mod_rewrite rules are really pretty cool, and you should definitely explain them. If you need some help, let me know, I’d be glad to assist.