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i was just about to put up nearly an identical post,.... funny heh!
my oscommerce is currently on an offline testing server and i too can only get the url with the 'osc-id' attatched to the end and only when using 'cName'.....
i'd really like to use 'Rewrite' mode but this just takes me to a 'page not found'...
any help would be greatly appreiciated, i dont know if it helps but ive included the following snippets ...
my - .htaccess
# $Id: .htaccess,v 1.3 2003/06/12 10:53:20 hpdl Exp $
#
# This is used with Apache WebServers
#
# For this to work, you must include the parameter 'Options' to
# the AllowOverride configuration
RewriteEngine On
# Change "folder" to your catalog directory name
RewriteBase /catalog/
RewriteRule ^(.*)-p-(.*).html$ product_info.php?products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-c-(.*).html$ index.php?cPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-m-(.*).html$ index.php?manufacturers_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
and the 'cookies' bit from - htdocs\catalog\includes\configure.php
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://localhost');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', ''); // eg, https:
define('ENABLE_SSL', false);
define('HTTP_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'localhost');
define('HTTPS_COOKIE_DOMAIN', '');
define('HTTP_COOKIE_PATH', '/catalog/');
define('HTTPS_COOKIE_PATH', '');
cheers all ..... larry