| Edward Alfert 2004-11-24, 6:29 pm |
| "Shiperton Henethe" <shiphen@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:41a502ab$0$6095$afc38c87@news.easynet.co.uk:
>
> Hi
>
> Is it possible to somehow send the keyword phrase used (e.g. on
> GoogleAds) to our back end if we are using .htaccess URLs ?!
>
> The problem is that we run a new auction each month,
> so each month the URLs all move.
> And then we have to re-submit all the URLs to each PPC search engine
>
> One way around is of course to link to an ".htaccess" URL
> and simply edit our ".htaccess" file each month so that it
> points to the all the latest live URLs.
>
> Is there some cunning way we can pass parameters to the
> .htaccess file so that it passes them on?
>
> e.g.
> if the user searched on google for "plasma tv auction"
> we might have specified the URL
> www.mydomain.com/htaccess-dir/myfil...asma_tv_auction
> where our ".htaccess" file lived in the location:
> www.mydomain.com/htaccess-dir
>
> With thanks
>
>
> Ship
> Shiperton Henethe
Not guaranteed to work, but try:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/myfile\.html
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /myrealfile.html?page=$1 [L]
Then have your backend parse the variable "page" for everything after the ?
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