Friday, April 30, 2010

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I’m going to show you how to rewrite the URL instead of renaming the file extension Using this technique you will see product.html in the address bar of the browser but the actual file name remains product.php and you don’t need to rename the file extension. Furthermore you can rewrite the URL like product.php?id=5 to product-5.html.

what is the benefits of rewriting URL?

When a search engine visits the dynamic url like product.php?id=5 it does not give much importance to that URL as search engine sees “?” sign treat it as a url which keeps on changing. so we’re converting the dynamic URL like the product.php?id=5 to static url format like product-5.html. We’ll rewrite the url in such a way that in browser’s address bar it will display as a product-5.html but it actually calls the file product.php?id=5. So that why these kind of URL also named as SEO friendly URL.

what is required for URL rewriting ??

To rewrite the URL you must have the mod_rewrite module must be loaded in apache server. And furthermore, FollowSymLinks options also need to be enabled otherwise you may encounter 500 Internal Sever Error. 

Examples of url rewriting for seo friendly URL

For rewriting the URL, you should create a .htaccess file in the root folder of your web directory. And have to put the following codes as your requirement.
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.htm$ $1.php [nc]

The following example will rewrite the test.php to test.html i.e when a URL like http://localhost/test.htm is called in address bar it calls the file test.php. As you can see the regular expression in first part of the RewriteRule command and $1 represents the first regular expression of the part of the RewriteRule and [nc] means not case sensitive.
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^product-([0-9]+)\.html$ products.php?id=$1

The following example will rewrite the product.php?id=5 to porduct-5.html i.e when a URL like http://localhost/product-5.html calls product.php?id=5 automatically.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Cool posting here. please keep in continue.

Regards~
Prasen Dutta
Business Development LLC, at software development india

Learnphp said...

Thanks for your comment. visit again to get more advanced concepts.

Philips' Page O'Stuff said...

nice article..
but, how can i do if i don't want to display "id" in my URL, something like this
http://www.example.com/product/something-product-title-here/
instead of
http://www.example.com/product-12.htm
or
http://www.example.com/product/12/something-product-title-here/

if you have any solutions for this, please confirm me:
philipstel@gmail.com

it will be very apreciated
thx in advance !

Learnphp said...

Dear "Bisnis Online Merekrut Rupiah Masuk Rekening Anda" .,

I understand your problem, you need 'SEO url rewrite'. For you , I will post another one article about it soon.

Thanks
Admin

Anonymous said...

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