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I am on a godaddy server now and trying this mod-rewrite stuff and it is still not working.
I have been searching google now for hours looking for the answer and cannot find it.

Here is my entire .htaccess file:
#Rewrite Rules
Options -MultiViews
Options +FollowSymLinks +Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)(/?)$ index.php?p=$1 [L]

#RewriteEngine On
#RewriteBase /
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
#RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /$1.php [L,QSA]
#RewriteRule ^c/([^/.]+)/?$ index.php?p=$1 [L]


The stuff thats commented out is what I tried the first time, then I tried many many other ways to try and get this to work with no luck.
Thanks,
Brian

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Brief summary and diagnosis: reported that pretty URLs did not appear to work, but demonstrated that a clean path returned the expected page — which indicates Apache was honouring rewrite rules. The effective gap was that the application was still emitting query-string links (index.php?p=...), so the visible behavior looked like “nothing changed.” ’s example showed the simplest mapping to a .html slug; the remaining step was to make the app generate those slugs (or to add a rewrite that accepts the existing link format).

Common checks and gotchas:

  • Confirm the file is actually named exactly .htaccess in the document root (some FTP tools strip the leading dot).
  • Ensure the host parses .htaccess (a quick temporary test directive will reveal whether Apache reads it) and that file permissions and encoding are sane (644 and UTF-8 without BOM).
  • Verify the host allows rewrite overrides for that directory (AllowOverride must permit rewrites on the server side).
  • Make sure internal links/templates output the clean paths or the rewrite cannot change what the browser requests.

A minimal, robust pattern for multi-segment clean URLs (skip real files/dirs, preserve query strings) can be used as the routing basis inside the document root:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# let existing files and directories pass through
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]

# map clean path segments (letters, digits, -, _) to index.php?p=...
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_-]+(?:/[A-Za-z0-9_-]+)*)/?$ index.php?p=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

Practical notes: update the site’s link-generation (templates or routing code) to emit the clean paths, test with curl -I and server error logs if it still fails, and contact the host if AllowOverride appears disabled. This sequence explains why saw no change until the links themselves were adjusted.

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Anyone have any insight on this?

... the weird thing is I got an email saying someone replied to this and I dont see anything.

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What do you mean with "is not working"?
Your rule RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f requests that for a request like /abc the file named /abc.php exists. Is that what you want?
Your last rule will never catch anything in its second pair of brackets. In RewriteRule ^(.*)(/?)$ index.php?p=$1 [L] the first bracket pair catches all content.

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My goal is to get a domain like this domain.com/training or domain.com/contact instead of domain.com/index.php?p=training.

I have checked numerous sites even a thread on here doing the same exact thing using the same exact example, and i believe he was also using a godaddy server. I used his same code and got nothing, eventually just confused myself because I have used so many different snippets from all over.

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Anyone have any insight on this?

... the weird thing is I got an email saying someone replied to this and I dont see anything.

This happened because a spammer replied to your thread, but then a moderator deleted their post.

Try the .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule		^([a-z0-9]+).html$		index.php?p=$1	[L]

Then, blah.html will redirect to index.php?p=blah

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I have your code in there right now and its still not working. I almost positive that is something I have tried before also.

You can check it out at http://kbrlifestyles.com and just click on a link to see what I am talking about.

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ok I see, so I actually need to change the link from "index.php?p=contact" to just "/contact"

This would not happen automatically?

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There is nothing in the IT world which happens automatically.
To make the /contact link work, you'll first have to install the modification from my previous post.

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Yeah, well it works. thats all that matters to me.

Thanks a bunch!!

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Please mark this thread as solved.

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