Rewriterule ^category/ /?foo=1 [L]
rewrite mod works

But if exists a file called category.php, then rewrite mod doesn’t work

I tried do this:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
Rewriterule ^category/ /?foo=1 [L]
and this:

Rewriterule ^category/$ /?foo=1 [L]
and also I tried this:

Rewriterule ^category([^\.php])/$ /?foo=1 [L]
But doesn’t work. I need help Is possible this rewrite?? or i have to delete category.php file?
Thanks

Here i am working in wamp server, so i have created a url.htaccess in www directory.
Now i created a folder called http access, in that i created a file called product.php

In the url.htaccess
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^product-([0-9]+)\.html$ products.php?id=$5

in the product.php

Name
:

so Finally when i want to access product-5.html, it gives the out put 404 error file not found..

and also i have enable mod_rewrite in the conf directory .htaccess file.

could u please help me …

I checked with all rules mentioned here and we get to convert dynamic web page query string into .html format URL you can see here http://www.addonsolutions.com/Hire-Enterprise-Java-Beans-Developer-Programmer-EJB-Developers-EJB-Programmer.html website design and development page but if can not be converted from PHP to html
any idea?

Thanks

Could you help me in rewritting url ..I am writing url rewritable rule.i want to the caetgory name and sate name change. like this http://www.abc.com/catergory name /state name/state name.html
i want to write a rule that catergory name and state name will change … please help me

*** URGENT ***
I am trying the below htaccess

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.htm$ $1.php

I can get the .htm files to call the equivalent .php files no problems but the extensions are not swapping out. How do I get .php to change to .htm?

After this I tried the code like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php$ $1.htm [R=302,N]

this changes the extension of the file to .htm but with an error message

Error 404: File Not Found

I want to do it from the redirection only .Because if we do it by making the url as
, then it will affect the ranking of my site.So to maintain the ranking
I want to do it by using redirecting methods.Kindly suggest me about this.

Regards,
Sunil Sharma