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Reputation: 375

how to rewrite joomla pagination to friendly url with htaccess

I want to rewrite pagination URLs http://mydomain.com/category?start=15 to http://mydomain.com/category/start/15, but I don't know how to achieve this with .htaccess.

PS: those URls ( http://mydomain.com/category?start=15) are referenced in search engines so I need to add 301 redirect to my new URLs. I want mention that I already enabled SEF mode in Jommla configuration

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1556

Answers (1)

Michael Cornel
Michael Cornel

Reputation: 4004

First, if you want your URLs to look like /start/15 you have to rewrite them from the pretty format to the internal, not otherwise.

I currently have no access to an Apache, but your expression should look something simliar to this:

RewriteRule ^category/start/([0-9]+)$ http://mydomain.com/category?start=$1 [QSA,L]

Then, it would be neccesary to tell Joomla how to generate the pretty URLs, this happens without the htaccess file, for example in a SEO plugin.

Finally, to output 301 messages, you will want to add "Redirect" commands to your .htaccess file. Redirect incoming ?start=15 URLs to the pretty format. Make sure that this does not happen after your Rewrite...

Upvotes: 1

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