Seo Friendly Links with mod_rewrite
Apache’s mod_rewrite module solves several typical Search Engine Optimization (SEO) problems. It is a module which provides a powerful way to do sophisticated url manipulations. Not only can mod rewrite be used to avoid duplicate content, redirect moved urls or non existing inbound links, and create search engine friendly urls. It can also be used for to gain higher PageRank and search engines rankings, get your web site indexed by the search engines, and receiving more visitors. Here are some the most popular url manipulations.
Avoid duplicate content
RewriteEngine On # Redirect non-www to www. RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example.com$ [NC] RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]# Redirect direct requests for "<anything>/index.html" to "<anything>/" RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*)index\.html http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Redirect relocated URLs
RewriteEngine On # Redirect relocated old urls to the new urls RewriteRule ^oldpage\.html$ http://www.example.com/newpage.html [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^directory/oldpage\.html$ http://www.example.com/directory/newpage.html [R=301,# Redirect relocated directories to the new directories RewriteRule ^olddir/(.*) http://www.example.com/newdir/$1 [R=301,L]
Redirect non existing incoming links
RewriteEngine On
#+---------------------------------
#+ - BEGIN: URL fixup redirect routine
#+---------------------------------
# Get the requested URI, query string and hostname.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/[^?]*)([?].*)?$
RewriteRule . - [E=myUri:%1,E=myQuery:%2]
# Replace hmtl, htlm, and thml file extensions with html extension.
RewriteCond %{ENV:myUri} ^(.*)[.,](hmtl|htlm|thml)$ [NC]
RewriteRule . - [E=myRedirect:yes,E=myUri:%1.html]
# Replace comma(s) or multiple filetype delimiter periods in the url
# with a single period.
RewriteCond %{ENV:myUri} ^(.*)([,.]{2,}|,)((s?html?|php[1-9]?|aspx?|pdf|xls).*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule . - [E=myRedirect:yes,E=myUri:%1.%3]
# Remove invalid trailing characters
RewriteCond %{ENV:myUri} ^([/0-9a-z._\-]*)[^/0-9a-z._\-] [NC]
RewriteRule . - [E=myRedirect:yes,E=myUri:%1]
# Remove trailing punctutation
RewriteCond %{ENV:myUri} ^(.*)[._\-]+$
RewriteRule . - [E=myRedirect:yes,E=myUri:%1]
# Do the external 301 redirect only if needed and the resource exists
# at the corrected URI.
RewriteCond %{ENV:myRedirect} ^yes$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{ENV:myUri} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{ENV:myUri} -d
RewriteRule . http://www.example.com%{ENV:myUri}%{ENV:myQuery} [R=301,L]
#+---------------------------------
#+ - END: URL fixup redirect routine
#+---------------------------------
SEO-friendly URLs
For example, your urls look like this: http://www.example.com/widgets.php?cat=blue&page=1
Obviously, you want to transform it into something that look like this: http://www.example.com/widgets/blue/page1.php
RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^widgets/(.*)/page(.*)\.php /widgets.php?cat=$1&page=$2 [L]
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