[Stangsta]

Originally Posted by criscokid

I'm trying to get my head around this (taken from the installation instructions):

Download the .htaccess file I have attached and place it in your forum's root folder. This will give you those wonderful links for the usernames. ex. www.yourdomain.com/forums/stangsta

First off I'm ussing IIS on Windows Server 2003 so there's no .htaccess file - I use ISAPI Rewrite.

What does the contents of the .htaccess file really do? I understand that it's supposed to be enable you to use nice URLS like www.yourdomain.com/forums/stangsta - but how does the webserver tie up member.php?u=1 to www.yourdomain.com/forums/stangsta? In other words how does it know that u=1 belongs to stangsta or vice versa?

It wont work on Windows, sorry.

As far a s the logic behind the .htaccess file, the u=1 is tied to the username via the database. The same way a variable $username would know.