[RESOLVED] Converting dynamic urls into static urls

Mechaworx

Hi All,

I was wondering how I could go about converting the following url types into something more friendly as recommended by google for example url's like:

http://www.mydomain.com/product_details.php?pid=224

into something like:

http://www.mydomain.com/this-is-the-product-name-for-product-id-224

or a url like

http://www.mydomain.com/mysubdirectory/product_details.php?pid=115

into a url like

http://www.mydomain.com/this-is-the-product-name-for-product-id-115

I think I need to use a combination of mod-rewrite and also canonical urls with the <link rel='canonical'> tag in the header of each document. Which no-doubt would have to be written dynamically for the product_details.php page. I'm just unclear as to how to go about doing this.

And finally how would I handle dynamically-created links in my php code created like in the below example?


<h3><a href="'.$cDIR.'/'.$cPage.'?aid='.$id.'" title="'.$title.'">'.$title.'</a></h3>

Thanks for any insight.

vicodin

Check this out...

http://blogs.sitepoint.com/guide-url-rewriting/

Mechaworx

Thanks for the information. Another question, writing mod-rewrite rules in an .htaccess file uses different syntax? That is the rules are written differently on a Wamp server vs a Linux server correct?

I think that is where some of my problems are lying. I've developed my site locally on a wamp server then when I moved it to production it is now hosted on a Linux server.

Or am I off base here?

Thanks

bradgrafelman

Mechaworx wrote:
the rules are written differently on a Wamp server vs a Linux server correct?

Nope. There's no such thing as a "Wamp" server - it's just the name of a package that combines several binaries, one of them being Apache.

Apache's mod_rewrite directives have the same syntax regardless of which O/S Apache is running on.

Mechaworx

Ok, thanks grafelman