cPanel redirects question

[furry]

Sorry for the complete noob question here, but I was wondering if the cPanel Redirects button serves the same function as an Apache mod_rewrite, in order to make my URL's more SEO friendly.

[cPanelDavidG]

Yes, this functionality uses mod_rewrite.

[furry]

So by choosing permentant, and then entering in a new URL in the redirect field, this will alter my .htaccess file so I can clean up my URLs?

[djbob2]

Ermm, I thought it used mod_alias? This is the .htaccess directive it generates for me:

RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ http://www.heliohost.org/intro.html

So by choosing permentant, and then entering in a new URL in the redirect field, this will alter my .htaccess file so I can clean up my URLs?

You'll need to be more specific. What do you mean by clean up your URLs?

[furry]

You'll need to be more specific. What do you mean by clean up your URLs?

What I mean is I want to redirect this :

http://furryfuriends.com/index.php?p...y_Vet_Listings

to something like this :

http://furryfuriends.com/Furry_Vet_Listings

[furry]

Anybody???