I am pretty new to programming, and have encountered the following problem. Please kindly advise me.
I have a website with a URL like www.mysite.com/products.php?cid=3
where the value of the parameter cid
(3 here) is generated from a backend database, and can be a number from 1 to 3.
I would like Apache to rewrite the URL, so that:
www.mysite.com/nike
will redirect to www.mysite.com/products.php?cid=1
www.mysite.com/reebok
will redirect to www.mysite.com/products.php?cid=2
www.mysite.com/kswiss
will redirect to www.mysite.com/products.php?cid=3
etc...
I have a text file named category.txt under the root directory with the following content:
nike 1
reebok 2
kwiss 3
and .htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
rewritemap categorymap txt:/image/categorymap.txt
RewriteRule ^(.*) /products.php?cid=${categorymap:$1|NOTFOUND} [PT]
</IfModule>
This, however does not work, please advise me,