So here's the deal:
episode.php?s=1&e=3 brings up information for season 1 episode 3.
So make it SEO friendly I want to be able to have users be able go to the following:
domain.com/episodes/ShowName_Season_1_Episode_3_The_Title_Of_The_Episode.html (or without the .html, doesn't really matter).
This is what I have so far:
RewriteRule ^episodes/([a-z0-9-]+)_$_([a-z0-9-]+)_$_([a-z0-9-]+).html episode.php?s=$1&e=$2
I know this is not right...how can I make it take the two numbers in the rewritten URL and associate them with PHP GET variables in the actual URL?
I know how to do more basic mod_rewrites but this one has been confusing me. I am guessing it is something stupid, so thanks in advance for your patience.
Here's what you can do:
RewriteEngine ON
#domain.com/episodes/ShowName_Season_1_Episode_3_The_Title_Of_The_Episode.html
RewriteRule ^episodes/([a-z0-9\-]+)_Season_([0-9]+)_Episode_([0-9]+)_(.*)$ episode.php?s=$2&e=$3 [NC,L]
#Even more SEO friendly: http://domain.com/ShowName/Season/3/episode/4/title/
RewriteRule ^episodes/([a-z0-9\-]+)/season/([0-9]+)/episode/([0-9]+)/(.*)/? episode.php?s=$2&e=$3 [NC,L]
#or Even more SEO friendly: http://domain.com/episodes/ShowName/season-3/episode-1/title
RewriteRule ^episodes/([a-z0-9\-]+)/season\-([0-9]+)/episode\-([0-9]+)/(.*)/? episode.php?s=$2&e=$3 [NC,L]
I don't recommend to use "_" for SEO but "-"
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I know there's a million similar questions on stuff like this, but clearly there's much I don't understand because I haven't been able to derive answers or a solution to my (as I understand it) fairly simple question.
Basically, I'm trying to get an old site back up, but want a more professional look to it this time round, which includes cleaning up the URLs. A typical page is as follows (hosted locally at the moment, but will be assigned a domain in next few days):
192.168.0.200/album-reviews.php?albid=22
Using the following code, I have been able to achieve the above example page loading via manually typing 192.168.0.200/album-reviews/22 into the browser:
RewriteRule ^album-reviews/([0-9a-zA-Z]+) album-reviews.php?albid=$1 [NC,L]
However, what I want as well is for when the link is clicked on my site, it directs the user to /album-reviews/22 instead of album-reviews.php?albid=22. The only way to get the clean URL at the moment is to manually type it into the bar, links from my site do not get the clean URL, the code I have been playing around with (and have been unable to get working) based on sources I've found is this:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /album-reviews/?(?:\.php)?\?albid=([0-9a-zA-Z]+)
RewriteRule ^ /album-reviews/%1? [L,R]
So if anyone could shed some light on how I get all this working as desired, I'd be grateful, I hope my question has been articulated appropriately.
On a side note, If i wanted to include the post title in the URL too like this:
192.168.0.200/album-reviews.php?albid=22&ptitle=my first post
how would alter any code to make it like this:
192.168.0.200/album-reviews/22/my first post
Thank you.
You can use:
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /album-reviews/?(?:\.php)?\?albid=([^\s&]+)&ptitle=([^\s&]+)
RewriteRule ^ album-reviews/%1/%2? [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /album-reviews/?(?:\.php)?\?albid=([^\s&]+)
RewriteRule ^ album-reviews/%1? [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^album-reviews/([^/]+)/?$ album-reviews.php?albid=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^album-reviews/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ album-reviews.php?albid=$1&ptitle=$2 [NC,L]
If you want to show the contents of http://yoursite.com/album-reviews.php?albid=22 at the url http://yoursite.com/album-reviews/22, you need these codes:
Your htaccess needs this lines:
RewriteEngine On
Options -Indexes
RewriteRule ^album-reviews/(.*)$ album-reviews.php?pretty=$1 [L,QSA]
And your PHP these:
$pretty = $_GET['pretty'];
$parameters = explode('/',$pretty);
$albid = $parameters[0];
Your user won't be redirected, your website will show directly the page at the pretty url.
Now, what happened? That you instructed htaccess to send everything after album-reviews as a GET parameter called "pretty". Then in your PHP you cut it for every / that appeared in it, and that way you formed the array $parameters. So you can even get more parameters, for every /, they are all in the array $parameters:
$second_parameter = $parameters[1];
$third_parameter = $parameters[2];
$fourth_parameter = $parameters[3];
I have searched for a solution of this problem all over the Internet, read various threads and articles about it but did come to a full solution for my - i think quite generic problem in mod_rewrite. Here is the issue:
I have developed a small webapp that lets users make calculations (splitting costs after holidays "who pays to whom"). Now I have come to the point where I want to make it (especially the static pages) language dependent. What seemed like no big deal by passing a get parameter ?lang= seems to be a problem for search engines according to my research - so apache mod_rewrite to the rescue to have beautiful URLs like
example.com/en/index => example.com/index.php?lang=en.
example.com/en/about => example.com/about.php?lang=en.
Moreover, users should be able to share their calculations with their friends - for this they are issued an ID after caluclation therefore a rule like
example.com/c/9842398dfalkjdsf98sfdasf => example.com/c.php?id=9842398dfalkjdsf98sfdasf
is used to call their previous calculations (language handling is done here directly in the script automatically, also this links are not needed to be indexed in any search engine).
To achieve this I have come up with these rules:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^c/([^/]+) c.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^c/([^/]+)/ c.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ $2.php?lang=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ $2.php?lang=$1 [L,QSA]
So far these rules work - however:
Here are my questions:
1) Is this approach a good approach for language dependent sites - meaning will google index the "static" sites like "about" etc. correctly?
2) Come somebody come up with a Rewrite Rule to also have requests like
example.com/about => example.com/about.php?lang=en.
(notice the missing language parameter in the first url)
to send them to the standard language
OR should I then first get their accpted langauge and then redirect them to example.com/LANG/about
3) How should I design the language detection - especially on the homepage? Right now it works according to the rules above - howver I have seen solutions on the Internet passing everything first to a index.php which then call the disred page like
index.php?lang=en&page=about
When google "visits" it will usually not provide an HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE so will it even ever see the other language versions like example.com/it/about ?
4) Turns out that using RewriteRules kill your relative CSS, JS, picture links in your code (suprise!), however I found a page on the internet saying that this also could be handled with a RewriteRule instead of using absoulute paths in the html? (here). Unfortunately I where not able to implement it.
In a nutshell:
I am a little confused, hope somebody can help how to set up a simple SEO conform, language dependent site and that this will help others to see a best practice solution as a whole.
Thanks in advance!
Try this , thank you
RewriteEngine On
# This is to prevent the rules from looping, they only work as on-shot
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} 200
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
# If the url is blank, go to 'web/en/'
RewriteRule ^/?$ /web/?lang=en [L,QSA]
# If the url starts with en,es,pt-br, remove it and add ?lang=$1 ,has /web
RewriteRule ^/?(en|es|pt-br)/web(/?.*)$ /web$2/?lang=$1 [L,QSA,R]
# If the url starts with en,es,pt-br, remove it and add ?lang=$1 ,has no /web
RewriteRule ^/?(en|es|pt-br)/?$ /web/?lang=$1 [L,QSA,R]
# If the url starts with en,es,pt-br, remove it and add ?lang=$1 ,everything else
RewriteRule ^/?(en|es|pt-br)/(.+?)/?$ /$2/?lang=$1 [L,QSA,R]
I am trying to do some URL rewriting with Apache and PHP. This is for SEO reasons so that foo.com/product-category/product-title becomes foo.com/product.php?id=999. I would of course want the URL not to change and be the SEO friendly version.
I have a current site which has a working setup but it's very much a hack rather than a maintainable solution, so I am trying to do things right!
At the moment I have:-
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_\ \-\%]+)/?($) /url_redirect.php?page=$1 [QSA,L]
Which works perfectly, http://foo.com/random-url?foo=1&bar=2 ends up at /url_redirect.php with $_GET['page'] = 'random-url' and $_GET['foo'] = 1 etc etc..
I want the exactly the same thing to happen if you one level deeper
(eg http://foo.com/non-existing-directory/random-url?foo=1&bar=2)
I could make the non-existing-directoy a real directory and then .htaccess from there but there has to be a easer way.. I would prefer me not to have to hardcode any directory names (which is sort of how my current solution works).
I think the issue is probably something not right with the regular expression, they always defeat me.
I just tried this, might not be the best way to achieve it though (I'm no rewrite guru)
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_\ \-\%]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_\ \-\%]+)?($) url_redirect.php?page=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_\ \-\%]+)/?($) url_redirect.php?page=$1 [QSA,L]
Sorry that was for my local setup here's how I think you would want it!
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_\ \-\%]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_\ \-\%]+)?($) /url_redirect.php?page=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_\ \-\%]+)/?($) /url_redirect.php?page=$1 [QSA,L]
Notice the / before url_redirect.php
i'm new to mod_rewrite, and i'm trying to convert my web address from:
website.com/profile.php?user=andy
to the following:
website.com/user/andy
This is my following code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^user/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/?$ profile.php?user=$1 [NC,L]
I researched extensively and this does seem to be the correct way to do it, but it doesn't redirect to where i want it to, it just redirects to this:
http://website.com/profile.php?user=andy
which means i must doing something wrong...
Can anyone help me out here? I would appreciate any tips.
If you want
http://website.com/profile.php?user=andy ->301-> http://website.com/user/andy
http://website.com/user/andy means http://website.com/profile.php?user=andy
They are 2 different things, you'll need 2 rules:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^user=([A-Za-z0-9]+)
RewriteRule ^profile.php /user/%1? [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^user/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/?$ profile.php?a=b&user=$1 [L]
The first will 301 (moved permanently) redirect to the pretty url.
The second will allow your application to understand the pretty url.
Whenever you change the url scheme for a site you should take care of existing links. As such, that first rule is required/a good idea. You should not, however, need the first rule when using your own application. If your own application is generating links to profile.php?user=me - change your application code.
You have to change your URLs when outputting them in your HTML to be in the format you want (/user/andy).
mod_rewrite will rewrite /user/andy to main.php?... not the other way around.
What do you mean by my result?
mod_rewrite won't change existing links in your source code. Navigate to website.com/user/andy and you should see it work.
I am currently coding a pagination script into many parts of my site, this has been a well needed and requested feature and I have finally been able to come round and start coding it, it is all going well, until I find that my rewritten urls don't like working with the pagination urls.
So, an example page on my site would be news.php. This file structure can be something like news.php?id=5. I have rewritten the url like so:
/news/5/
## Rewrite URL's for News & Dev ##
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]+)/$ /news.php?id=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]+)$ /news.php?id=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^news$ /news.php [L]
RewriteRule ^news/$ /news.php [L]
The pagination script I am using prepends two new variables in the url, the new url turns out to be this:
news.php?page=1&ipp=55id=5
I would really appreciate it if anyone could assist me in making the urls look better, as it defeats the object of having it in the first place if after they use the pagination, it changes the url back to a clunky and ugly url.
I don't want it to be required to have parts of the url, that is something I really don't want..
e.g I don't want the url to be required to be /news/1/55/5, instead id like it to be optional.
Thank you for your time, it is appreciated!
Additional Information
The links in my news script currently display like so:
news.php?page=1&ipp=55id=5
I don't like to see ugly urls like that, and want to make the url look better using mod_rewrite, It would be better if the urls would display like so:
/news/PAGE/IPP/ID/ -> return news.php?page=1&ipp=55id=5
Also, to make it as user friendly as possible, I don't want any of the fields to be required as such, so for example I would like to have the following link accessible at all times without it requiring the other fields.
/news/ID/
Then, when the user clicks a pagination link, it would use the following link structure:
/news/PAGE/IPP/ID/ -> return news.php?page=1&ipp=55id=5
This is all from user feedback of my site, and is something that people have been asking for. Problem is, I don't understand even simple .htaccess
Thanks
RewriteBase /
# add slash to end of url if not present (and do a redirect)
RewriteCond $0 !/$
RewriteRule ^news([^\.]*)$ $0/ [L,R=302]
# rewrite url with format /news/[<id>/[<page>/[<ipp>/]]]
RewriteRule ^news/(?:([0-9]+)/)?(?:([0-9]+)/)?(?:([0-9]+)/)?$ /news.php?id=$1&page=$2&ipp=$3 [L]
Not sure what ipp is supposed to be, but my guess is it shows the number of item per page. I would personally not like to have that in my url.
You can have :
news/id/page/ipp with
RewriteRule ^news(/?)$ news.php [L]
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]+)-(.*)_([0-9]+)(/?)$ news.php?page=$1&ipp=$2&id=$3 [L]
news/1222-subjet-for-example_34
return :
news.php?page=1222&ipp=subject-for-example&id=34
use (/?) instead of create many rules ;)
Hope it's works for you.