Friendly URL Help (Beginner)

[freews]

Hi,

How are the rules used in .htaccess to convert

this: www.example.com/example.php?x=1

in this: www.example.com/1

Thanks.

[richardk]

Try

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/?$ /example.php?x=$1 [QSA,L]

[freews]

I will try to do it.

thank you richardk.

Try

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/?$ /example.php?x=$1 [QSA,L]

[slobjones]

How are the rules used in .htaccess to convert

this: www.example.com/example.php?x=1

in this: www.example.com/1

I've got a question about this process, which is supposed to display static urls that are more friendly to search engines.

The rewrite doesn't actually result in the url displaying as example.com/1. It merely allows the url to be written that way.

The blog still produces the url as example.com/example.php?x=1, and search engines still index it that way.

We still have dynamic urls, and Google still doesn't like them. So what advantage is gained here?

[richardk]

You are supposed to edit your script so that it does output the friendly URLs, then you might gain something. The mod_rewrite is only a small part of it.

[slobjones]

You are supposed to edit your script so that it does output the friendly URLs, then you might gain something. The mod_rewrite is only a small part of it.

richardk, do you mean I should edit the blog script? As a user and not a programmer, that's not likely to happen.

But if I were able to edit the blog script so it output friendly urls, why would I need a mod rewrite?

[richardk]

do you mean I should edit the blog script? As a user and not a programmer, that's not likely to happen.

Yes. Then you should ask the authors/community of the blog script if there is a friendly URL version/modification/plug-in or if anyone is willing to help you create one.

But if I were able to edit the blog script so it output friendly urls, why would I need a mod rewrite?

It depends on how you edit the script. Usually, editing the blog script makes it output the new URLs (the links would be friendly) but they would not work when clicked. Mod_rewrite would make the new URLs work.

[TeckniX]

It would be nice if we could redirect a user to a certain url but send the search engine a redirect of a completely different form.

So you could have:

domain.com/example/more_stuff/my_item

The different folder levels would help to display the right page, yet the search engine would get a hard redirect/permanently moved for:

domain.com/my_item

That would be some sweeet mod-rewrite action!

[richardk]

It would be nice if we could redirect a user to a certain url but send the search engine a redirect of a completely different form.

That's more likely to harm your ranking than help it. URL Redirection, Manipulating Search Engines.

domain.com/example/more_stuff/my_item

The different folder levels would help to display the right page, yet the search engine would get a hard redirect/permanently moved for:

domain.com/my_item

To redirect /example/more_stuff/my_item to /my_item based on the user agent

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} googlebot|slurp [NC]
RewriteRule ^example/more_stuff/my_item/?$ /my_item [R=301,L]