# .htaccess | clean url | problems **URL:** \ **Category:** programming\ **Created:** [April 29, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/htaccess-clean-url-problems/224180 "2007-04-29T16:52:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1

**Author:** ![andreas\_h87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@andreas\_h87](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/andreas_h87)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/htaccess-clean-url-problems/224180/1 "2007-04-29T16:52:21Z")

**Hey everybody! I’m new to .htaccess and today, I tried to make the tutorial about Clean URLs with Apache. I am not sure, why it doesn’t show a clean url. I will show you the code of my example and what I changed in the “httpd.conf” file.** Firstly, I opened the httpd.conf file to clean the symbol in front of this row “LoadModule rewrite\_module modules/mod\_rewrite.so”. Secondly, I created a new file within my htdocs folder called “index.php”. ```auto

.htaccess

Home | AboutMe | Work |

``` Thirdly, I created the other files called “home.php, about.php, work.php”. A last, I created the file “.htaccess” with the same code like in the tutorial. ```auto Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/?$ index.php?category=$1 [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/?$ index.php?category=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/?$ index.php?category=$1&page=$2§ion=$3 [L,QSA] ``` Thanks!