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Okay here is my "Duh report", it's had been about three months since I messed with this and I decided I'd try again today and of course it worked when I saw what I had done. Larry has <li><a href="index.php?p=that">That</a></li> in the menu and three months ago I had left it like that while I looked for the problem. Today when I changed the link to <li><a href="that">That</a></li> it worked like a charm. So the htaccess would have worked all along, anyway thanks for the help.

Thanks Johnathon I tried RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)ed/5advan/chp2work$ index.php?p=$1 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)ed/5advan/chp2work/$ index.php?p=$1 RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/ed/5advan/chp2work$ index.php?p=$1 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/ed/5advan/chp2work/$ index.php?p=$1 With no luck. If someone has done this exercise can they give it a try on the standard chapter 2 download, that's what I'm using, if it works on their computer I'll know its me. Thanks SJ

It's in the same folder as index.php http://localhost/ed/5advan/chp2work/ullmans-temp/index.php Thanks

Thanks for the reply Larry There's <Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs"> AllowOverride All in the httpd.conf file. This is really odd to me because this same, more or less(member is used instead of p), rewrite works in another folder.

xampp / php 5.3 I've used the chapter 2 "Modularizing a web site" and it works like a charm. However I was wanting to use htaccess to turn 'http://localhost/website/index.php?p=about' into 'http://localhost/website/about'. I can't get it to work here but I have used this simple htaccess before and it works fine on another website I have and for other files on my localhost. RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ index.php?p=$1 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$ index.php?p=$1 with the htaccess placed in the same directory as index.php and p is the same p in the example on page 62 or 64. Does anyone know what I can do to get this to work, from the things I've read it should produce the url I need. Thanks for any help S