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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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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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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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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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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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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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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After URL rewriting Google still features many of the old and dirty URLs
I did a complete URL rewriting of my site some three months ago, however Google still features many of the old URLs.
They're not dead links as they correctly redirect to the new URLs, but it sort of ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 rewriting removing question mark and replace it with slash
How can I rewrite my URL from edit.php?id=2 to edit/id/2?
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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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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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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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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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Removing page levels/ keeping url clean
I have recently put my site live - http://www.soundplaza.co.uk
I then bumped into a few articles mentioning about page length and depth and I was wondering if I should change the URL structure while ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SEO : urls : best place for the id
I would like to know what's the best location for an id in a SEO optimized URL:
http://www.site.com/id/slug-title
http://www.site.com/slug-title-id
What do you think ?
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Force google to just index rewrited urls
Let's think we have a website with a URL like http://www.domain.com/webdesign/
that rewrites http://www.domain.com/?article=1.
now when i search my keyword in Google, it will show up ...
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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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nginx proxy rewrite not matching
I'm setting Nginx to forward requests to several backend services using proxy_pass
A few of them I have to add rewrite rules to strip the folder off, however for this particular service, the rewrite ...
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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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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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1answer
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What does the '^' mean in “rewrite ^ http://test.com permanent;”
I found some configuration of nginx contains:
if($args ^~ post=140) {
rewrite ^ http://test.com/ permanent;
}
What does the ^ mean in rewrite ^ http://test.com/ permanent?
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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 Remove Extensions From, and Force the Trailing Slash at the End of URLs?
Example of current file structure:
example.com/foo.php
example.com/bar.html
example.com/directory/
example.com/directory/foo.php
example.com/directory/bar.html
...
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rewrite url (redirection)
How to rewrite url:
www.domain.com
domain.com
to
www.domain.com/sell.html
Were sell.html is already rewritten I need some kind of redirection.
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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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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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1answer
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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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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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Having trouble redirecting old product sites and categories to new pages
I recently upgraded a shopsystem to prestashop and imported the previous products (~1200), and I managed to keep the old category_id and product_id. I'm trying to set up those 2 rules to redirect all ...
