Enable mod_rewrite in Ubuntu 8.04
Mod_rewrite is an apache module which enables rewriting of urls requested by client before the pages are fetched by apache. For example www.site.com/products.php?code=459 can be written as www.site.com/products/459 or www.site.com/products/459.html . The second url is re-written into the first one by mod_rewrite using rewrite rules specified in the .htaccess file.