Comments on: Tutorial : Creating “Pretty SEO URLS” using Apache’s mod_rewrite

By: Esmeralda Cosey

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By: bassie

bassie — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:05:17 +0000

I understand the rewrite htaccess.
But Seo whise: The page still creates links with parameters and isn’t it so that the se crawlers will still see the links going to pages with parameters, and therefor isn’t there a need to 301 redirect, and make your php script create links that are seo friendly as well ?

grtz

By: ubh

ubh — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:16:14 +0000

patd, I am running apache 2.2 and php 5.2.9 and I have mod rewrite turned on.

My question is with this guy:
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php$ index.php?pageName=$1 [L]

Upon using it on a url like this:
http://localhost/newSite/home.php

The pageName variable in the index.php file comes out as “index” instead of the request “home”. Please my friend can you shed some light why when passing home.php into the pageName variable it comes out as “index”?

By: patd

patd — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:30:09 +0000

I have to say this .htaccess thing is pretty hard.

try tutorials that are available online, or try this book, its good “Definitive Guide to Apache mod_rewrite”

By: danreb

danreb — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:22:17 +0000

thanks, patd now it works, but i was pretty confuse, maybe need help with all the master here!, I was able to create a pretty URL in my company site , from this ugly URL – http://teamquest-inc.com.ph/index.php?id=1 now can be browse with this pretty URL of http://teamquest-inc.com.ph/pages1.html and so on ( all other pages also comes in that format – pages2,3,4,5.html)

but this URL I find it hard to convert into pretty URL -
[code]http://teamquest-inc.com.ph/index.php?id=6&action=show_blog_entry&blog_entry_id=1&blog_id=1
[/code] all I want is to Rewrite this URl to this one
[code]http://teamquest-inc.com.ph/pages/blog/entry1.html[/code] and so on….

Any suggestion how can I achived this? I am very new in URL Rewriting , thanks in advanced.

By: patd

patd — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:19:44 +0000

actually its was the problem of easyphp, but I used xampp, and it worked fine.

so friends use xampp.

By: danreb

danreb — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:56:27 +0000

Yes, just as patd said , the sample file is not working also in my server, the mod_rewrite option is also enabled.

By: patd

patd — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:35:30 +0000

Hi,
I have used the files you have provided, but its not working in my server.
I have already check the mod_rewrite option and its enabled.

can you tell me what could be the problem, does it work on windows. I have easyphp installed on windows.