This is an article that can get someone started with mod_rewrite.. which has to be enabled by apache. http://www.sitepoint.com/article/910/ and here is the Apache documentation apache 1.3 http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html apache 2.0 http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html Simon Perry wrote: > Geoff Sheridan wrote: > >> Hello >> >> I'd like people to type in: >> >> http://mysite/foo/ >> >> The folder 'foo' does not exist. >> Instead, a script would look up user 'foo' in a MySQL database, find >> the userID was '123' and redirect to >> >> http://mysite/script.php?$id=123 >> > Geoff, > > Sitepoint.com have a good article[0] explaining how to do this. > > Simon > > > [0] http://www.sitepoint.com/article/910