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Hi, can anyone tell me what im doing wrong. below is a rewrite rule saved as .htaccess. the page loads and i dont get a 500 error but the url didnt change like it should have in the rewrite rule. The .htaccess is located in the root folder. Any idea what i'm doing wrong guys?
  <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^products/$ view/inventory.php

</IfModule>

Hello,
I'm learning how to write simple CMS and I'd like it to support page aliases. So that instead of http://www.myweb.com/?id=123 I could use http://www.myweb.com/some-page for example. I don't want to use rewrite rules in .htaccess but I'd like to do it similarly as Drupal. I understood Drupal redirects 404 page not found error to index.php and then somehow handles it. Can you advise how to do it please? Or is there any tutorial or example available?

Thank you in advance! Vojta

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