SEO Friendly URL Rewrite

[aksm4783]

Hi,

I have questions about the URL rewrite. Currently, I have the following rules setup in my .htaccess file.

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RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /brand\.php.*\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^brand\.php$ http://www.computersox.com/brand/%1/ [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^brand/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)$ http://www.computersox.com/brand/$1/ [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^brand/([_0-9+a-z-A-Z]+)/$ brand.php?brand=$1&search=$1&allwords=on [L]


The first one is I want to transform parameterized URL to SEO Friendly URL. I know it is not working now.

e.g.
http://www.computersox.com/brand.php?brand=Sony&search=sony&allwords=on
TO
http://www.computersox.com/brand/Sony/
(All I need is the parameter for Brand)

The second one is to add the / at the end of URL
The third one is to rewrite SEO url to Parameterized URL.

Currently, the last 2 rules are working, but the first rule I don't know how to make it work.

Any helps will greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much for reading this post.

Andrew

[richardk]

With %{QUERY_STRING}

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*&)?brand=([^&]+)(&.*)?$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^brand\.php$ http://www.computersox.com/brand/%2/? [NC,R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^brand/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)$ http://www.computersox.com/brand/$1/ [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^brand/([_0-9+a-z-A-Z]+)/$ brand.php?brand=$1&search=$1&allwords=on [L]

[aksm4783]

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   RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /brand\.php\?brand\=(.*)\&search\=(.*)\&allwords\=(.*)\ HTTP/
   RewriteRule ^brand\.php$ http://www.computersox.com/brand/${tolower:%1}/? [R=301,L]

   # Upper or Lower Letter without backslashe
   RewriteRule ^brand/([a-zA-Z]+)$ http://www.computersox.com/brand/${tolower:$1}/ [R=301,L]

   # Upper Letter Only
   RewriteRule ^brand/([A-Z]+)/$ http://www.computersox.com/brand/${tolower:$1}/ [R=301,L]

   # Mixed Upper and Lower Letters
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   RewriteRule ^brand/([a-z]+)/$ brand.php?brand=${tolower:$1}&search=${tolower:$1}&allwords=on [L]

Do you know how to write the syntax that capture the mixed of upper and lower case without falling into the endless loop?

Write now the syntax can write the following to SEO friend URL

http://www.computersox.com/brand.php?br ... llwords=on
http://www.computersox.com/Sony
http://www.computersox.com/sony
http://www.computersox.com/SoNy

to

http://www.computersox.com/sony/

BUT for URL like http://www.computersox.com/SoNy/
I can't rewrite it to
http://www.computersox.com/sony/

Any help will be appreciate.

Thanks.

[richardk]

Try

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*&)?search=[^&]+(&.*)?$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*&)?allwords=[^&]+(&.*)?$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*&)?brand=([^&]+)(&.*)?$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^brand\.php$ http://www.computersox.com/brand/${tolower:%1}/? [NC,R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^brand/([a-z]+)$ http://www.computersox.com/brand/${tolower:$1}/ [NC,R=301,L]

# At least one upper-case letter.
RewriteRule ^brand/([a-zA-Z]*[A-Z][a-zA-Z]*)/$ http://www.computersox.com/brand/${tolower:$1}/ [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^brand/([a-z]+)/$ brand.php?brand=$1&search=$1&allwords=on [L]