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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Apache rewrite rules for development workstation and server
I've got developers editing pages for several sites on a WAMP stack and then uploading to the public servers running LAMP stacks. We're pretty happy with it, but we have this minor annoyance: we can't ...
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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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Site-wide redirect with Tomcat4
Disclaimer: My webmastering experience is almost nil. Apologies if anything seems ignorant - if it sounds that way, it probably is.
My employer is in the middle of switching over from one version of ...
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How can I fix an Apache redirect loop
I have a strange Apache/WordPress redirect loop that I can't seem to figure out.
Here is the relevant logs and other info: http://pastebin.com/E1afW2vw
It seems that the page request gets made, and ...
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Apache: Virtual Host and .htacess for URL Rewriting not working
I have configured a virtual host in my local machine and every thing is working fine.
Now I want to use SEO friendly urls. To achieve this I have used the .htaccess file.
My virtual host ...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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How does Google handle “clean” URLs is the URL is always changing due to edits?
So, since some "clean" URL system pull the wording directly from content I was wondering how Google handles this?
Here's an example of content changes changing the URLs:
Version 1 of the Title:
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Want to create dynamic subdomain in codeigniter? [closed]
In my site i want to add an functionality for user to use their username with domain.
Like in codeigniter right now i want to give the user to use their own url to login in site and do other stuff.
...
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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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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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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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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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How to remove trailing slashes from URL with .htaccess?
The situation
Across the entire domain, we'd like the URLs to hide file extensions and remove trailing slashes, independent of the domain name itself (as in, works on any domain).
Sample of our ...
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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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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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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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Best SEO practices for mobile URLs: 301, rel=canonical, or something else?
I am developing a site with a mobile version and am trying to figure the appropriate way to manage the URLs for search engines. So far I've considered:
Having a separate mobile site (m.example.com) ...
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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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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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Using ending .html for URL re-write?
For re-writing URLs to generate SEO friendly pretty URLs, it was usually recommended to use the ending extension (normally .html), as without the extension, the URL seems to be incomplete. Probably, ...
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.htaccess rewrite www to non-www and remove .html
I need rewrite rules to redirect the following:
http://www. to http://
/file.html to /file
I've tried using a combination of these but each time it results in a redirect loop on one of the ...
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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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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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Htaccess - Rewrite png to php file
I currently use trans.png.php?id=1&campaign=test to track my newsletter campaigns.
I want to use trans.png instead as it's the src of an img tag.
How can i do this in htaccess? Also is there any ...
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Pretty URLs for dynamic links generated based on a 3rd party soap web service
We have a 3rd party web service which we interact with via Soap. In this regard we query the 3rd party for resources, construct a home page and all links generated on this index page are referencing ...
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How do I implement URL rewriting in my .htaccess file?
I'd like to do some URL rewriting (Why? See this question.) so that instead of users seeing addresses like
labouseur.com/course-compilers.html
they can instead see and use simply
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Help with URL and HTACCESS
I have a social engine 3 website, in my website all URLS can be changed(URL-REWRITING) through the SE-url settings automatically, but in my website their is one module which is custom coded, where I ...
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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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URL Rewrite http to https EXCEPT files in a specific subfolder
I am trying to force all traffic on my web site to use HTTPS, using the URL Rewrite 2.0 module added to IIS 7.5. I got that working and now have a need to exclude a couple of pages from using SSL. So ...
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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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Redirecting URLs when launching a new website - how to avoid dropping page rank
i have over 100 urls in my website which i need to redirect:
E.g.
/page/how-to-bake-chocolate-cookies/ will redirect to /cookies/how-to-bake-chocolate-cookies/
/page/contact/ will redirect to ...
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1answer
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DNS name/host-header specific url-pattern/security-constraint, to not require SSL with Tomcat6
I am needing to enable SSL on an application hosted through Tomcat6 and I have added the following to the tomcat web.xml:
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
...
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How Do I Setup 301 Redirects in Google Apps Site?
I have just moved a website from a shared host to a Google Apps site.
Is there a way I can setup 301 redirects on my Google Apps site so that old links (with a different URL) can be 301 redirected to ...
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Are urls with ?page=something bad for SEO? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is a URL with a query string better or worse for SEO then one without one?
I have a listing of members on my homepage. My dynamic urls are quite simple:
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Can Google Index Rewriten URLs?
Can Google index rewriten URLs? I mean, if I have the link
<a href="http://mydomain.com/document">Grab the document!</a>
and if I instruct Apache to rewrite http://mydomain.com/document ...
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In IIS what is the difference between rewrite rules managed by URL Rewrite Module versus those only in web.config?
In IIS what is the difference between rewrite rules managed by URL Rewrite Module versus those which are only in the web.config file and do not appear in the URL Rewrite Module?
Using the URL Rewrite ...
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Moving a site that was already moved - how should I deal with rewrites and redirects?
I have a site that used to have all of its pages hosted on a single domain (e.g. mydomain.com). At some point, a portion of the site's content was moved to another domain and the folks who did the ...
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SEO/performance - building blog article page [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?
I've been using WP up and until now, but want to spread my wings and build a bespoke blog for my ...
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Looking for a step by step guide to URL re-writing with mod_rewrite and other methods
I'm looking for step by step resource about how to rewrite URLs and have a few specific questions.
I've read the documentation on mod_rewrite in Apache, but I still find myself a little lost.
If ...
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Tool to generate list of redirections (sitemap for .htaccess)
Is there any good tool (preferably for Ubuntu), that can help me generate a list of URLs used on a site?
I'm building new version of some site, but I don't want to get 404 errors for the old pages. ...
