Help Needed: Rewritting Uris From .htaccess Making ugly dinamyc URIs look nicer

[herenvardo 0]

I think this should be easy for someone experienced, but I have never done something similar, so I need a bit of guidance.

 

I have a mini-site under a subdomain that entirelly relies on dynamic URIs. All pages have URIs in the form

 

http://towo.dragon-tech.org/cat/main

http://towo.dragon-tech.org/cat/main

 

and so on. The index.php script takes care of retrieving the appropriate content from both the database and some include files, and everything is working fine. Only that these URIs look quite ugly on any visitor's browser, and I want to make them prettier.

I have read that I can use RewriteRule on the .htaccess file to make them look like

 

http://towo.dragon-tech.org/esp/news

http://towo.dragon-tech.org/eng/main

and so on; but my ability with regular expressions is null (the few attempts I have ever made to use regular expressions for anything have devolved into too deep recursions or something that didn't do what I wanted; on most cases both ). Also, I'm a bit worried because the examples I have found on the web use paths relative to the root "/", rather than absolute; but these should only be applied to the subdomain.

 

In summary, I'd like to have URIs converted like this:

 

http://towo.dragon-tech.org/cat/mainlanguagecode/sectionname => http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/=languagecode&section=sectionname

http://towo.dragon-tech.org/cat/mainlanguagecode/sectionname?whatever => http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/=languagecode&section=sectionname&whatever

 

and I need this to not mess up with URIs in the main domain or other subdomains of the site.

 

Any help will be appreciated.

 

BTW, sorry for the "auto-links", but I don't know how to disable them