I've added this to my .htaccess

# Rewrite for SE/User friendlyness
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^travelguides/(.+) /cgi-bin/directory/page.cgi?g=$1&d=1 [L]

it works like a charm, does in fact redirect the user to where I want them to go. here's my question: once a user gets into the links by going to http://www.mysite.com/travelguides/whatever the navigation in the templates still shows dynamic addresses. is there a rewrite rule that I could use so that if they hit "home" they didn't get http://www.mysite.com/.../page.cgi?g=&d=1 in their browser? I'd rather them not bookmark that, I'd rather them bookmark http://www.mystie.com/travelguides/index.htm or something like that... not to mention spider food.

any help is greatly appreciated.

Will

just to be clear, I'm also referring to add, modify, etc. etc. etc. is there a rewrite way to do this AFTER the user has gotten into the links? (it's very late and I'm prolly not thinnking clear right now )

thanks!

Try leaving the d=1 off the end of the address.

thanks for the suggestion.

I left off the d=1 at the end, and when I did, my HOME, TOP, and NEW nav for some reason led to the static build pages... not what I want. I guess I'll put the d=1 back in, but I still have my original problem.

I guess I should hardcode those URLS in the template?

Then you'll need to add rewrite rules for each of the pages which is not covered by the rule above - I guess your homepage rule would need to be something like:

RewriteRule ^$ /cgi-bin/directory/page.cgi [L]

If you have rules which cover each of the static urls in your directory then you can have the whole directory appearing to be static.

thanks a lot! I'm new to lsql and I'm sure I'll have bunch of other questions. thanks for the help. it's appreciated!