Simple SEO rewrite using htaccess - SOLVED

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Last Post: May 5, 2010   (RSS)

By (Deleted User) - April 17, 2010 - edited: May 5, 2010

Hello,

I'm sure someone will know how to do this but I am going round and round in circles trying to work it out. I have an htaccess file at the root of my domain and would like to rewrite the following:

FROM
http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/conditions.php?detailpage-1

TO
http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/conditions/detailpage-1.html


Any ideas from anyone would be great!

Thanks Jono

Re: [jonoc73] Simple SEO rewrite using htaccess

By darrylo - April 18, 2010

Paste this into the .htaccess file

Redirect permanent /http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/conditions.php?detailpage-1 http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/conditions.php?detailpage-1.html
Darryl
http://darrylo.com

Re: [darrylo] Simple SEO rewrite using htaccess

By (Deleted User) - April 18, 2010

Thanks darrylo for the info but I should have been a little more clear! I meant it to be dynamic.

To dynamically change whatever is after the ? and take out the .php? and replace it with /

FROM
http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/conditions.php?detailpage-1
TO
http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/conditions/detailpage-1.html

as well as:

FROM
http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/conditions.php?detailarticle-5
TO
http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/conditions/detailarticle-5.html

for example - thanks J

Re: [jonoc73] Simple SEO rewrite using htaccess

By darrylo - April 18, 2010

I guess that was too easy! - checkout this Rewrite rules generator:
http://www.linkvendor.com/seo-tools/url-rewrite.html
Darryl
http://darrylo.com

Re: [darrylo] Simple SEO rewrite using htaccess

By (Deleted User) - April 18, 2010

Thanks once again for your help.

However when I put say http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/conditions.php?detailpage-1 in it comes back as just http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/conditions.html

Any ideas?

Thanks Jono

Re: [jonoc73] Simple SEO rewrite using htaccess

By darrylo - April 18, 2010

http://roshanbh.com.np/2008/03/url-rewriting-examples-htaccess.html

First example looks like what you are looking for.
Rewriting product.php?id=12 to product-12.html
Darryl
http://darrylo.com

Re: [jonoc73] Simple SEO rewrite using htaccess

By Jason - April 19, 2010

Hi, you could put this a the top of your php file:
<?php
$location = "/conditions/".$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'].".html";
header("Location:$location");
?>

What this will do is get the variable from the query string (detailpage-1 for example) and put a .html at the end of it. It will then redirect the page to your conditions folder and look for that page (conditions/detalpage-1.html).

This does have to be at the very top of the page though, or you may get an error.
Give it a try and let me know how it works.
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Re: [Jason] Simple SEO rewrite using htaccess

By (Deleted User) - April 20, 2010

Thanks for trying to help but I just get 404 errors when I add this to the top.

The other examples of code - I can't get them to work either. It's so frustrating as I know it can be done! Thanks for everyone's help so far though...

Re: [jonoc73] Simple SEO rewrite using htaccess

By (Deleted User) - April 20, 2010

I do have some other bits n bobs in the htaccess - could they be effecting anything?

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mywebsite.co.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]
<ifmodule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month"
</ifmodule>
FileETag none
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
# Insert filter on all content
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
# Insert filter on selected content types only
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript

# Netscape 4.x has some problems...
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html

# Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip

# MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

# Don't compress images
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary

# Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^conditions-([0-9]+)\.html$ conditions.php?id=$1