URL rewriting rules

[eluser]JohnDoerther[/eluser]
Hey everyone!

My second week developing using CodeIgniter - I am loving it so much I am actually porting some older websites to MVC!

For one of the websites I am porting, links look like this:

Code:

http://127.0.0.1/index.php?/home

On all the pages, for example the frontpage under

Code:

/home/index

, there are a bunch of static php links, for example about.php.

Want I would like to do is port the old website to CodeIgniter, but without changing the URLs - in other words, when visting

Code:

http://127.0.0.1/about.php

, I would like to define specific redirection rules for every page, for example mapping

Code:

http://127.0.0.1/about.php

to

Code:

http://127.0.0.1/index.php?/home/about

.

Is this possible using CodeIgniter? Changing the URLs is not an option, since this would break a lot of links...
A dynamic way of doing this would be perfect (something that says "map all traffic in 127.0.0.1/x.php to 127.0.0.1/index.php?/x for example" but if I have to manually define the rule for every page, that is fine too...

Best wishes and thanks in advance