Question about the News module

[jd]

Hi,

I have the following question - I'm planning on using the news module for publishing articles. However, I don't want the url of the articles to be something of the sort http://localhost/news/14/22

I want it to be http://localhost/something/14/22

Anyone have the idea how to change this in the news module?
Thanks in advance

[Dr.CSS]

I beleive you would have to go thru the news module files and change every instance of news/News.

This would in essence create a new module.

[jd]

This is a noobie question, I know, but how can I do that the easiest way?
The news module works fine for me, except for the addresses that it generates.

[Pierre M.]

If you have mod_rewrite (apache or lighttpd), it should be straightforward without any code modification : one configuration line (RewriteRule)
PM

[KoalaBlue]

Hi, can anyone explain exactly how to do that?

where do we make the change?

thanx!

[Pierre M.]

With mod_rewrite (see the doc on apache site : http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/misc/rewriteguide.html), something like this in .htaccess :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^something/(.*)$ news/$1

not guaranted, but somewhat on the way

PM