How to rewrite/change url using javascript

Question

I know this has already been answered, but mine is somehow special.

Firstly, my site is not a PHP site (it's an XHTML site).

So, can someone teach me how to rewrite url like this:

mysite.com/forum2_theme_CATEGORY-ID.xhtml?n=PAGE-ID&tema=TOPIC-ID 

To something like:

mysite.com/forum2/CATEGORY-ID/TOPIC-ID/PAGE-ID

Please note that my site is not a PHP site, it's just an XHTML site.

I will be happy if I can get a suitable solution.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You will have to get your hands a bit dirty with Apache mod_rewrite. There's lots of good tutorials for beginners:

http://www.sitepoint.com/guide-url-rewriting/

you also might be able to find an existing examples of similar rewrite rules to yours as your case is pretty standard

Answer 2

If you want to change the url you can use: window.history.pushState("", "", '/newpage'); But it's not the proper way to build a website.

I don't understand how are you creating a forum without using any server site language like PHP. I suggest to use a framework like ZendFramework(PHP), Spring(Java), ExpressJS, etc. Instead of modifying the mod_rewrite.