PHP News Reader - URL Rewrite

URL Rewrite Function (first appeared in PHP News Reader v2.2.0)

URL Rewrite is a cool function that make the link more readable, and this is also known as a search-engine friendly feature.

For example, the link to read an article is:

http://webnews.domain.net/pnews/read.php?server=news.nopy.com&group=nopy.test&artnum=21012

If you enable the URL rewriting, the link will become:

http://webnews.domain.net/pnews/article/news.nopy.com/nopy.test/21012

With pnews version greater than v2.2.1 and if news.nopy.com is your default news server, the link even becomes shorter:

http://webnews.domain.net/pnews/article//nopy.test/21012

PHP News Reader includes an access control file ".htaccess" to do the transformation for you.

To enable URL Rewrite, you need:

Apache web server with "mod_rewrite" enabled
Valid setting for AllowOverride at the program's directory in httpd.conf
Setting $CFG["url_rewrite"] to true in config.inc.php

For more information about Apache's mod_rewrite, visit http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html for details.

Check the Installation Manual for other configuration parameters.