PHP and SEO friendly links - Mod Rewrite doesn't work

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zarathustra

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After much reading, I'm sure I'm banging my head against a brick wall here?
I'm building a new site with PHP, and would like to change the usual .php?=5 (for example) link into something more SEO friendly. I'm on the windows reseller account. I've tried creating a .htaccess file in the root directory, but it hasn't got me very far... Is it possible to do this with Jodohost, and if not what are the alternatives as I'm really looking to make the site as search engine friendly as possible, and would not like to start looking for other hosts just to make this possible. Thanks in advance!
 
.htaccess is unix controls not windows.

Yes you are banging your head on this, move to linux if you want it, won't work on windows like that.
 
Thanks Stephen. Is it easy to migrate to Linux - I've no experience with it. Also is there any alternative to doing what I wish to do with Windows? I know others are able to, but I'm guessing you have reasons for not allowing any mod rewrites?
 
yes, we have reasons, it doesn't allow any proper logging(hpshere specific issue), which doesn't allow any analysis etc. This is not a good situation.

you can set index.php to be the first page in search order then ?=3 link will work without needing index.php in there.

to be honest its a bit of a myth that search engines find those pages 'unfriendly' in the first place. This forum is WELL indexed and in fact dropped a lot after we installed a SEO package.
 
Thanks Stephen. Interesting to know.
I've actually just tried setting up a Unix account, and everything appears to work well, so I'll switch soon. Unix seems a lot more flexible, and I shan't have to bother support about changing file/folder permissions either. I also like the use of htaccess which I haven't bothered with in the past.
 
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