httpd.conf adding the rewrite (mod_rewite) rules to your server

[Scott Haines]

<Directory "/var/www/html">
Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +Indexes
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ^hackerblog/(.*)/(.*)$ blog_entry.php?action=$1&id=2
RewriteRule ^hackerblog/(.*)$ blog_entry.php?action=$1
</Directory>

You need to add the above block to your httpd.conf file on your server
to get rewriting to work.

Here is the catch, you need to have mod_rewrite installed in apache
for this to work and the rewrite engine needs to be turned on.

typical httpd.conf is located in either: /usr/local/apache or /etc/
httpd

Good Luck.

[andy]

Thanks for that!