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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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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How does WordPress determine which template to show?
So I recently set up a Wordpress blog and I've noticed that when I make posts, the link is http://www.domain.com/?p=2. I was wondering how you could specify which file to use to parse such requests.
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what are benefits of URL rewriting?
URL rewriting has become quite popular but I think it only adds more complexity to the Web. They call the old fashioned URL's, "dirty URL" so I'll use that term.
They argue that with rewriting, it ...
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How do i point my domain to wordpress blog
I would like to know that if we have our WordPress blog like: http://koolkabin.wordpress.com and our domain like: http://www.outsourcingnepal.com then
Can we make it like working and posting all ...
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mod_rewrite change . to -
I'm moving my site and the URL structure has changed because of the new CMS. The urls would be similar to http://www.example.com/my.products.htm on the new site we are changing the URLs to this ...
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Different robots.txt for two different domains point to same folder
I have the following two domains:
domain.com
test.domain.com
Both point to same folder which is "public_html". What I want is a different robots.txt file for each domain. So when someone ...
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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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Which of these 3 URL-Rewritings are better seo friendly URLs?
Imagine my current flat-file non-cms website with an URL like http://website.com/en/tomato
This is of course very unsexy and could be anything really from tomato soup, tomato the music band, tomato ...
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How to block access to a sub-site with mod_rewrite?
Let's say I have the sites siteA.com and siteB.com. They are hosted such that siteB.com actually points to siteA.com/siteB.
How can I block someone from visiting siteA.com/siteB using mod_rewrite?
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Ars Technica .ars URL suffix — Vanity or SEO Benefit?
The Technology website Ars Technica has adjusted their URL rewrite rules to end with a .ars. Traditionally, sites have taken advantage of this URL rewriting capability to completely eliminate file ...
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In a URI, what does the suffix “.do” stand for?
I see URI ending in ".do" on some enterprise websites. I've always been curious to know what that stands for, but my Google searches have so far not turned up an answer.
Here is an example from ATT ...
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Which URL format is better? domain.com/[id]/title OR domain.com/title/[id].html [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
SEO : urls : best place for the id
My site uses URL rewriting in both formats (for different things), but I'm wondering which one is the better approach?
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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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apache domain redirect to subfolder
I have a hosting account with godaddy. Its a linux system running apache. The way they do their setup is your primary domain is the root folder. When you add a subdomain its in a subfolder of the ...
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Moving large website to new CMS - URL changes
I was wondering if you have any tipps on the following situation.
I'm going to move a large website to a new Content Management System, here are some details on the site:
online news magazine with ...
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Rewrite for robots.txt and favicon.ico
I have setup some rules in which subdomains (my users) will default to where I have located the robots.txt, favicon.ico, and crossdomain.xml
therefore if a user creates a site say
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Please explain some of the features of URL Rewrite module for a newbie
I am learning to use the IIS Rewrite module and some of the "features" listed in the page is confusing me. It would be great if somebody could explain them to me and give a first hand account of when ...
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Domain forwarding with url substitution in the address bar
I have a blog being served by a machine I have at home. Since the ip can change i set up a dyndns domain to always point to that machine. However, I purchased a more friendly domain (at godaddy.com) ...
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Should I use subdomains or subfolders for my user groups?
I run a photography website where each user has its own subdomain (i.e. user.site.com). I'm thinking of adding user groups but I'm unable to decide if I should also associate a separate subdomain or ...
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Joomla 1.6 URL rewrite on IIS7 (removing /index.php/)
Joomla 1.6 was released today and I'm wondering if anyone knows how to get rid of the /index.php/ part?
How link looks now:
http://www.example.org/index.php/stuff
How link would look after URL ...
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Re-writing URL's with lighttpd
I'm using Lighttpd to serve a GET based API that I'm working on, and I'm having some difficulty with re-writing requests.
My API calls are very simple. An example would be :
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#! in URL: Is there any merit to using the shebang (#!) in URL if there is no AJAX-loaded content, but otherwise dynamic page generation?
Is there any reason, possibly SEO related, to using the shebang (aka "hashbang") in rewritten URLs on a dynamic site, but one that does not use AJAX?
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Need help getting user friendly URL
I trying to get a user friendly URL.
My current link is this:
http://www.norwegianfashion.no/designers/?designer=Batlak-og-Selvig&bid=9
What I want is this
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Rewrite rule to show as directory using .htaccess
I want to implement a rewrite rule in my .htaccess file to show a specific url as a directory of my server. See the code below I written,
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ ?page=$1 [NC]
This will rewrites urls ...
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Restrict access of rewriting file using .htaccess
I rewrite my .php files to .htm, using the following code in .htaccess file.
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.htm$ $1.php [NC]
This is working fine. But now I want to ...
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How do i force www subdomain on both https and http
For whatever reason I can't seem to get this right, I've looked at many examples on here and apache's website. I'm trying to force www.domain.com instead of domain.com on EITHER http or https but I am ...
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WWW.yoursite.com or HTTP://yoursite.com which one is futureproof?
http://yoursite.com
www.yoursite.com
http://www.yoursite.com
yoursite.com
Which of these would you choose as your favourite to work with, if you were to make a site for 2011 and beyond, which ...
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SEO and Changeable-But-Optional URL's
Is there any sort of downside for a URL being changeable?
Take any stack exchange question for example. The URL looks something like this:
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URL rewrite - should I write a fake file suffix (.html) or something more realistic to the platform? (like .asp or .cfm)
First, I'd like to preface this question by stating that I insist upon publishing a file name suffix, but only on the outer most entity of our site, the detail pages. I do realize the suffix is not ...
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SEO: do we need to redirect also pages with final slash?
i read on Google SEO REPORT CARD that for search engines this page:
http://www.domain.com/somepath
is a different page than this one:
http://www.domain.com/somepath/ (note the final slash '/')
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How to add an exception to this rewrite rule
I need to change this so that one file in wp-admin is not forced through https:
# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ ...
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How to track subdomains with Google Analytics while having mod_rewrite redirect to a subdomain?
When users come directly to domain.com or www.domain.com, I am redirecting them to shop.domain.com via this .htaccess rewrite:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com$ [OR]
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file need to go through a php page using .htaccess
I'm looking for a way to convert this type of url : h11p://www.mywebsite.com/dl/F5EGD6
Into h11p://www.mywebsie.com/dl/files/my_file.zip sing a PHP page to request the URL from the DB with F5EGD6. I ...
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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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URL rewritten pages take much longer to load
(Same issue as http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3987754/how-to-diagnose-htaccess-speed-issues-via-rewritelog but more clearly explained below)
We have a site which has scripts like this:
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SEO benefits of URL as: www.example.com/category/subcategory/ [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
debating between different kinds of URL and see if one is more seo-friendly than other…
Our SEO advisors are claiming that having our URLs in the form:
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Good Practice for Formatting SEO-Friendly URLs?
Does anybody know what the best SEO practice and most effective format for URLs is currently?
All lowercase or mixed case? Example:
http://www.mysite.com/What-is-My-Site/
OR
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Should I differentiate parameters in my URLs?
I think I read somewhere that it was a good practice to have certain "totally dynamic and irrelevant" parameters excluded from the nice URL rewriting techniques. Like here on the StackOverflow galaxy, ...
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Debating between different kinds of URL and see if one is more seo-friendly than other…
So something like domain.com\x\y\z\t and domain.com\x?var1=y&var2=z&var3=t (var1, var2 and var3 will be replaced by legit words that make more sense).
Which one is more SEO friendly? For my ...
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How can I rewrite an old URL using variables to a static html page?
I am an htaccess newbee
I am trying to redirect the old URLS for my site to the new URLS for my site.
The old site used variables in the URL but the new site uses SEO friendly URLs.
When I try to ...
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Why is www. working but no-www is not?
Right now my site runs on http://www.example.com but I need to run that without www also i.e example.com
Can some body tell me here that how can i do that?
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Mod Rewrite not working on my addon domain
have a wordpress website on my main domain
For the wordpress website i have this in my .htaccess file
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond ...
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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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Removing the script extension with URL rewriting on Apache
Given a (slightly theoretical) physical disk layout of:
\products\cameras\50d.jpg
\products\cameras\20d.jpg
\products\lenses\18-55.jpg
\products\lenses\28-135.jpg
\products.php
At the moment, I've ...
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Poor Man's Clean URLs vs. Mod_Rewrite
At the company where I work, we're getting ready to design a new web site, and there's some disagreement about how to do clean URLs. Over the past year we've been making small improvements to our ...
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Problem with .htaccess and mod_rewrite after moving site to new server
The site seems to draw the correct links but its not redirecting me to the correct view.
The same code works fine on the old server here http://ruse.systemio.net/q&a/.
The new server is here ...
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How do you remove invalid characters when creating a friendly url (ie how do you create a slug)?
Say I have this webpage: http://ww.xyz.com/Product.aspx?CategoryId=1
If the name of CategoryId=1 is "Dogs" I would like to convert the URL into something like this: http://ww.xyz.com/Products/Dogs
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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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What's the quickest/cheapest way to get URL rewriting implemented?
Related to another question - if you need to get URL rewriting implemented ASAP, what are some methods that you've used or know of that can speed this up?
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Is using URL Rewritting the only way to make sure all pages are cached by Google?
If I keep the pattern (index.php?module=test¶m=1) will pages be less likely to be indexed then if I use the pattern (test_param_1.html) ?
