First of all thanks for all the helpful advice. It's great to have a site like this to turn to for help.
My question is this (I think this idea would be valuable for many):
I would like to have members of my affiliate program be able to promote a more SE friendly URL like: http://profitblaze.net/4/admin
instead of http://profitblaze.net/x.cgi?id=admin
Is there a way to setup a rewrite in the "4" directory to automatically insert the "x.cgi?id=" before the affiliate code?
I have been searching all over the net all day and finally found your site. Can you help?
Sincerely, Mark Kessler
http://profitblaze.net
Check out our Apache forum (it's a subforum within Web Hosting) for something called mod_rewrite. You should find your answer there :) What you're looking for can be done with an edit to your .htaccess file.
What you are saying is ForceType. For more information http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Search-Engine-Optimization-Help/PHP-Search-Engine-Optimization/3/
Like cscgal said, mod_rewrite does work well. You may want to take a look (easier for beginner) http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/mod_rewrite-rewriterule-generator.shtml
