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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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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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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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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What impact (if any) will using the term 'portal' in my subdomain names, have on SEO for my website?
I am building a portal for a specific category of information. I am trying to decide whether to use subdomains like:
www.portal.mysite.com/home.html (home page)
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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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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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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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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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How can I mask sub-directory to work as DocumentRoot for multiple domains pointing to the same location?
I am trying to mask sub directories to effectively work as DocumentRoot for multiple domains. e.g. I have two domains - domain1.com & domain2.com both pointing to the same location.
I want ...
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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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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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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 ...
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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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dynamically rewrite URLs upon the user's selection - is it possible?
In my PHP based web application, there's a form that generates a URL according to the user's selection.
The form has 7 different fields, each one of them affects the final URL, none of them is ...
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URL rewrite subfolder to root and forbid accessing subfolder
I have Drupal installed in a subfolder drupal but I want to access pages as it is in root folder: http://www.example.com instead of http://www.example.com/drupal
I'm able to have this working, but ...
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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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#! 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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How to allow nonsense characters as web url for example: & * Ö :: and more
I have a database which contain many name with combination of those characters. Once i will reload them, they will become public web url.
So that visitor if open this url (its valid??): ...
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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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Pretending a file is in subdirectory with .htaccess
I have a web application, and it has a RESTful PHP backend that uses Zend framework (which does its own URL rewriting magic).
The problem is, my backend's entry-page is api.php and the endpoints look ...
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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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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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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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“Rule caching” in .htaccess - How to force apache to re-read a modified .htaccess?
I am reorganizing the link structure of a dynamic php-based site of mine. What I am trying to obtain is:
redirect old links onto new ones;
create new RewriteRules for new links, since every 'link' ...
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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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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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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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.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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Cannot allocate resources due to URL rewriting
I've a rewrite rule to convert mysite.com/?lang=en to mysite.com/en, but this now gets me into troubles as the referenced files in the .html are relative to parent folder, and now its supossed to be ...
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Sitemap and url are laid out differently from each other
There is a website and the layout looks something like below:
home->approved->
education entertainment business
| ...
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RewriteRule was matching before migration, but now browser gets a 404 error
I have this URL rewrite rule in my .htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^home$ home.php
but when I try to reach awatag.com/home I get a 404 error.
This rule worked perfectly before moving the ...
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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 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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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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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$ $1.php [NC]
This is working fine. But now I want to ...
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Remove index.php from url and still be able to POST [duplicate]
I am redirecting requests to index.php with .htaccess as follows:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} index\.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]
It works fine but the problem is forms are not ...
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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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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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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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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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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 [duplicate]
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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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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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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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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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 ...
