A URL rewrite engine is software that modifies a web URL's appearance (URL rewriting). Rewritten URLs (sometimes known as short, fancy URLs, or search engine friendly - SEF) are used to provide shorter and more relevant-looking links to web pages. The technique adds a degree of separation between ...
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Move a website to subdomain while preserving (rewriting) URLs
I'm considering to move the (Confluence) wiki content of www.site.com to the subdomain wiki.site.com to make room for a well-designed landing page (Wordpress) which should take the wiki's place on ...
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Force url to use www [duplicate]
I'm confused about how to force my url to use www in the address.
I have a .htaccess code like this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
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Why extensions are hidden in URL?
I know HTML and CSS like a mid level still not a pro. Many times I see in URL extensions are hidden (e.g. .html, .php) but everybody is not doing this.
Why do they do that? Is it for security, or for ...
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http://www.mysite.com/c/v to display different domain:http://www.myothersite.com/c/v
My site is written in asp.net using C#/MVC 4.5, and is hosted on Windows Server 2008, IIS7. #
It has the following route https://mysite.com/c/v. When the user types in https://www.myothersite/c/v, I ...
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optimize htaccess
I have two condition which are conflict
RewriteRule ^patients/findadoctor/(.*)\.html$ subcategorydoctor.php?id=$1 [L,NC] and
RewriteRule ^patients/findadoctor/(.*)\.html$ ...
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SEO - Big revamp of my URL structure - please suggestions [duplicate]
I have a big network of sites in many countries. There are over 30-40 Million indexed pages in 34 countries, what will be re-indexed hopefully and will be redirected with 301 to the new URL structure, ...
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Are there some permalink typology better than others for SEO?
I am pretty new in WordPress and on my blog I am using permalinks.
I have seen that there are 5 topologies of permalinks and I don't know if some types are better than others for search engines for ...
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New to URL Rewrite [duplicate]
I have absolutely no knowledge in this and have tried several attempts to turn
http://mcserverworld.net/library/site/register.php
into
http://mcserverworld.net/register
I am using a xampp ...
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how can I set parameters for google webmaster tools to index my dynamic content
I have read questions about URL parameters in Google Webmaster Tools in this site and the Google Webmaster Help Center but I have a problem.
My site searches in the database and show some ...
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Redirecting previous domain subfolder links
I've recently bought a domain that was unregistered. After looking in Google webmaster tools, Google is trying to crawl random pages that don't exist. Turns out it did have a previous owner.
The ...
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Redirect multiple cctld's subdomains to tld subdomain
I have a site I use for development testing on one of our development servers, it is hosted at dev.domain.com.
I basically want to have www.domain.com, www.domain.ca, fr.domain.ca all point to ...
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Rewritten URLs stopped getting indexed a month ago
I'm working on a website for someone which sells their products on their web site. There is an item.php page which displays the item for sale. I switched all item pages/inks from dynamic URLs to ...
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URL rewrite with mod_rewrite
I have rewrite rule in parent directory which rewrites URL:
From example.com/index.php?id=test&cat=category
To example.com/index?test&cat=category
Here is my .htaccess file:
Options ...
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domain and subdomain working with drupal
I have a domain let its called www.example.com and I have a Drupal instance of this as a subdomain called dev.example.com. example.com is place directly at the root of public_html while the Drupal ...
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Why is ww35 used in some URLs? [duplicate]
A question asked on my website here http://www.wrangle.in/topic/av5b5ymlhoyc/what-is-the-difference-between-www-or-ww
I want to give them answer but I didn't find anywhere on google. So I thought ...
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Are there any possible pitfalls/issues that can arise from URL Rewrites?
I'm in the process of move a website for a client, utilizing a new theme. Usually this is straightforward enough but some of the base 'category' URLS they use are mess and they would also like to be ...
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URL re-write for indexed pages [duplicate]
I have a blog with around 40 posts, and i want to change the URL structure these posts. this is my old URL something like:
http://domain.com/blog/2013/02/04/string-here.html
i want to set the URL ...
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Is it bad to use Japanese characters in search-friendly URLs?
I'm new to SEO and I'm implementing SEO-friendly URLs in my site.
The code works perfectly, however I would like to know if using Japanese characters (Kanji / Hiragana / Katakana) in the URL affects ...
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do we have to add/remove a trailing slash for pagination page numbers in the url. how seo considers that?
My module is paginated. I want to either add a trailing slash or remove a trailing slash.
For now i am thinking of adding a trailing slashes to all URLS.
What will be the effect on adding a trailing ...
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How to handle CNAME host redirect to virtual directory?
I have an internal website and virtual directory http://server2012/logs. I created a CNAME on my DNS server as LOGS -> server2012. I would like to set it up so that http://LOGS redirects to ...
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How do I use htaccess to make a short URL to a MediaWiki page?
I'd like to rewrite /liam to /index.php/Liam_Edwards-Playne. I've currently written this below in the appropriate .htaccess file but it is still returning a 404:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/liam$ ...
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redirection time duration [closed]
I am using a seo function to generate clean urls :
$link = BASEURL.'/myword/'.$details['id'].'_'.SEO(clean(str_replace(' ','-',$details['title']))).$plist;
in my php file there's lines to do the ...
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My WordPress site must be being affected by outside sources
Some of my pages are resulting in 310 errors (too many redirects). We recently switched domains from kgstiles.com to healthmasterysystems.com then discovered healthmasterysystems.com was listed as not ...
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Changing uri-design SEO
I think I need to redesign my uri-collections of my site.
Right now I am using the following structure by a mistake:
/fruits for the whole collection
/fruit/banana for an item in the collection
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how to rewrite %20 in .htaccess
I need to perform an equivalent rewrite to:
RewriteRule ^/this%20file.pdf http://www.example.com/
How do I handle the %20?
I have tried
RewriteRule ^/this\%20file.pdf http://www.example.com/
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Job Search Engine Url Structure Issue [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL?
I am working on a job board, and i'm trying to figure out a good design for URL structure.
Some things that I have found ...
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Increase traffic to a site through a site on subdomain [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Subdomain versus subdirectory
We have two sites, one is mainly a portfolio site (built with Yii framework) and the other is a digital shop (built with open cart) where ...
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How to take off .html from domain.com/page.html
I am using cPanel to build a website and I am not sure how to take the .html or .php file extension off my webpages. Usually I will use a python framework and I do the routing manually but I am not ...
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URL-rewriting on Plesk using ISAPI_rewrite3 Lite
I am using Plesk Windows based web server with Windows 2008 server OS with IIS-6 for my e-commerce website.
I want to rewrite URLs for all dynamic pages, So I installed ISAPI_Rewrite 3 Lite on my web ...
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PHP URL Rewrite engine for small project
I use PHP. I want to setup a micro site as a prototype, where I can work with the frontend only, separated from any CMS.
URL Rewrite
I also want the URL rewrite to be correct, like ...
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How do I use IIS7 rewrite to redirect requests for (HTTP or HTTPS):// (www or no-www) .domainaliases.ext to HTTPS://maindomain.ext
I have multiple domain names assigned to the same site and I want all possible access combinations redirected to one domain. In other words whether the visitor uses http://domainalias.ext or ...
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How do I do URL re-writes on Plesk?
I am very new to URL re-writing and I am using Plesk which is window-based web server, hence I can't use Apache's mod_Rewrite. Can anyone tell me what is the proper procedure for this?
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Which URL is SEO friendly?
I have to choose between two usernames, one comprises of just my first name i.e. http://example.com/john while the other comprises of full name i.e. http://example.com/johnsmith.
Which of the above ...
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Google on capital letters in url
I created one of my websites with the following url structure:
http://domain.com/Animal/Pig
http://domain.com/Pigs
If I change the url map to lower case letters instead, will google reindex those ...
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URL rewriting via forward proxy
I have an app that runs inside my firewall and talks out to multiple end points via HTTP/HTTPS on a non-standard port e.g. http://endpoint1.domain.com:7171, http://endpoint2.domain.com:7171
What I ...
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Rewrite Generic URLs into real URLs on Google Analytics
I have an iPhone app for a forum which also has a limited Google Analytics reporting.
This app reports the page views in following generic form:
/forum/67
/thread/29036
etc...
The numbers above ...
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Wild card redirect in htaccess giving error this webpage has a redirect loop
In my website I changed the directory name "vehicles-cars" to "vehicles-cars-for-sale". When I tried to redirect using a wild card redirect from my old directory name to new directory name in my web ...
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url naming convention for improved seo and page rank [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL?
Using url rewriting methods, what is a better way to organize the structure of the URLs of your website for SEO and user ...
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rewrite url for articles with htaccess
I've had a look through several other questions to see if i could get this working but have had no success at all at the moment so i'm hoping someone can help.
This is the url i currently have,
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2answers
441 views
Avoid SEO loss after URL structure change
We recently re-wrote our site from Umbraco to WordPress. This has been done by third-party developers. I have been the project manager and it is my mistake that I haven't notice the change of URLs ...
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URL for separate mobile site
I've had a look through this site and found several similar questions but none which address my current needs.
Normally I create responsive sites but on occasion I will create a 'desktop' and a ...
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Managing 404 error pages with noindex and url rewrite
Currently I use custom 404 error pages, having the following meta on them :
<meta content="noindex" name="robots">
My guess is this way Google will remove deleted pages faster from the index, ...
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Where does one find syntax descriptions for IIS URL Rewrite condition input variables?
The need to understand what the variable represents and also perhaps examples of what it contains would be helpful. I've seen such postings for URL Rewrite of Apache in the documentation, but nothing ...
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IIS Rewrite Module 2.0 question
If I have to install "IIS Rewrite Module 2.0" on my machine for it to work, since my web site runs on a shared web server, does that mean that my host has to have this installed in order for it to ...
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urlrewrite and search engines
I have a urlrewrite that rewrites my urls like
mypage.aspx?id=123&title=mytitle
into
...page/mytitle/123/
I'm trying to understand what are the pros / cons if any of having it like
...
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apache rewriting url doesn't work(using godaddy hosting)
I'm using a framework to create my website(codeigniter) by default the urls are like this:mysite.com/index.php?/etc/etc/etc.
And I'm trying to remove the index.php?, I tried to remove it by doing ...
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URL Rewrite for SSL
I have SSL configured for a cart directory in my website. I'm having a very difficult time trying to configure SSL for a different directory within the same website. I ask the question on SO, and was ...
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Decode url in httpd.conf or htaccess
For some reason I am getting 404 errors in my log file because of users trying to access something like http ://www.domain.tld%3Fid%3D222 instead of http://www.domain.tld?id=222
I've unsuccessfully ...
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URL rewrite and domain frame
I have registered the domain www.posti.sh at nic.sh. The website is on the server www.myskoob.com/postish. Unfortunately, nic.sh does not support frames, i.e. that the domain stays posti.sh as it ...
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Handling URL Rewrite in IIS5
On an older server, using IIS5, I have an error handling page which for some missing pages uses Server.Transfer to load other pages based on a database.
The pages all work for a browser but some ...
