I need a mod rewrite for my directory,http://www.linkdirec.com but i am unsure on how to do this.right now the file is htaccess.txt.i read i need to change to htaccess but when i do that,i cant log in to the admin for some reason..any ideas?

Just rename the file from htaccess.txt to .htaccess

Thanks,but i did that and still show that long url...http://linkdirec.com/index.php?actio...aycat&catid=16
thats why im at a losss on this...

Don't know if this will help

1 check to make sure your hosting allows apache module mod_rewrites

2 What did you put in the .htaccess file ?
If I understand correctly you should have added something like this

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule index/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/$ /index.php?$1=$2&$3=$4


Which would give you

http://linkdirec.com/index/actio...aycat/catid/16/

Then again I could be totally off the beaten track of what you want