Change from dynamic to static pages?

[swiftmed]

Hello guys,

Looking for a bit of your expert advice....again!. I have been given the task to change this website: The Directory for Design, Designers and Style from dynamic pages to static pages. can anyone give any advice on how one goes about doing this please?....any suggestions, advice, possible change of software, any advice whatsoever you can offer is very much appreciated. the site is run from an admin panel, so that new entries can be added to the directory by the site administrator.

Cheers guys.

[craig]

If you want to change it to a static page,open the page in you web browser, view the source, copy it all, and paste over the dynamic file on the server....
Why would you want to do this?

[swiftmed]

would you have to do this to each page EVERY time you make an update to the directory? i want the system to produce static pages, not dynamic, because its better for the search engines.

[sypher]

I dont think they mean actual static pages, just static to search engines so instead of being
index.php?cat=dfmkdmf&id=7&search=475 etc etc

index.php/music/band.htm

If you want it like this you need to use mod_rewrite, heres a tutorial:

URL Rewriting | redirecting URLs with Apache’s mod_rewrite || HTMLSource ]

[swiftmed]

Ahhh mate, thats a real help. thanks very much. this is great. i will let you know how i get on with it.