Please help me check this ".htaccess" code.

[youngbobby]

Are You Putting .htaccess in your "Site" Folder or Main Directory ?

It's in the Site folder

[something else]

Urrrrm I don't quite understand. I have put up the code above on the .htaccess file and on my site, i link directly to the url like i've set it up on the .htaccess file or is that not the right way of doing it?

Along the Line, once Page Loads completely it still displays URL in an "Unfriendly Manner"

Example:

My .htaccess has this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^categories/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ http://naijatop.net/Site/viewCategory.php?page=$1&id=$2&catname=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^view/([0-9]+)/(.*)/?$ http://naijatop.net/Site/viewSiteDetails.php?id=$1&sitename=$2 [R]

Now my PHP code for viewSiteCategory.php:

$we = htmlspecialchars_decode(trim($hen[1]));
$deef = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9]/', '-', $we);
  echo " <b><a title=\"".$hen[1]."\" href=\"".$siteurl."/Site/view/".$hen[0]."/".$deef."/\">".GO."</a></b>

Is there anything i am missing?

Are You Putting .htaccess in your "Site" Folder or Main Directory ?

[youngbobby]

I think you require:

Options +FollowSymLinks

i could be wrong tho :P

Just tried that but nothing worked!

[djlee]

u dont have any redirects such as header("Location:") in the scripts your directing to do you that are sending teh users onto a non-seo friendly url ? only thing i can think of if the redirects themselves are working.

[something else]

I think you require:

Options +FollowSymLinks

i could be wrong tho :P

[youngbobby]

Does your host provider allows it?

Yes, they do.

[Mysterio]

Does your host provider allows it?

[youngbobby]

For some reasons i don't understand, this .htaccess code is not working to my satisfaction. Someone please help me check and tell me whats wrong.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On # Turn on the rewriting engine
RewriteBase /
#DO NOT EDIT THIS IF YOU ARE A NEWBIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RewriteRule ^register/([^-]+)$ http://site.net/Admin/register.php?catch=$1 [NC,L] # Handle requests for "REGISTER"
RewriteRule ^verify/([^-]+)/([^&]+)$ http://site.net/Admin/verifyAccount.php?catch=verify&un=$1&vcode=$2 [NC,L] # Handle requests for "VERIFICATION"
RewriteRule ^verify/$ http://site.net/Admin/verifyAccount.php?catch=verify&un=&vcode= [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^cats/$ http://site.net/Admin/index.php [NC,L]
</IfModule>

It directs fine but after that i still see url the way i don't want it to.

Thanks in advance.