Quoting Post Archived Topic: It will not be bumped to the top of the forum. Topic What do you use to prettify your URLs? Membername   Not a member? Sign Up Free (takes 20 seconds) Password   Forgotten your password? Post Font: Verdana Arial Black Georgia Comic Sans Impact   Size: Tiny Normal Big Huge   Color: Default Dark Red Red Orange Brown Green Olive Cyan Blue Dark Blue Indigo Black [ Check Spelling ] [ Post Preview ] [ LiveTags ] Quote: from [m]Mediocre[/m] at 6:29 pm on Dec. 30, 2008[quote]A lot of popular applications rewrite everything to the index file and include from there. I, on the other hand, have a mod_rewrite entry for each page, based on the assumption that it would be faster (and simpler) to let Apache handle everything. So my .htaccess has about 60 lines like this: [code]RewriteRule ^reply/?([0-9]+)?/?([0-9]+)?/?$ view.php?action=reply&pid=$1&cid=$2 [L][/code] I have never seen anyone else do this. Why? Is it a bad idea?[/quote] FAQ Keyword Search: Post Options Favorites Manager Notify me of new replies to this topic by email Notify me of new replies to this topic by private message Original Post Mediocre Posted at 6:29 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 A lot of popular applications rewrite everything to the index file and include from there. I, on the other hand, have a mod_rewrite entry for each page, based on the assumption that it would be faster (and simpler) to let Apache handle everything. So my .htaccess has about 60 lines like this: Code: RewriteRule ^reply/?([0-9]+)?/?([0-9]+)?/?$ view.php?action=reply&pid=$1&cid=$2 [L] I have never seen anyone else do this. Why? Is it a bad idea?

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