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Tryin2Code
Tryin2Code

Reputation: 121

SEO Friendly URLs & .htaccess

I'm trying to make my URLs SEO friendly but am having issues with my .htaccess

This is how my URL currently looks:

http://www.mysite.com/dns/?domain=stackoverflow.com&submit=Report

But I want it to show like this:

http://www.mysite.com/dns/stackoverflow.com

I've tried so many things I don't know if it's even possible to do so I just wanted to start over with guidance from you guys. The .htaccess I'm working with is in the /dns/ folder. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 338

Answers (1)

Jon Lin
Jon Lin

Reputation: 143846

Step 1: change all of your links and anchors in all of your pages to look like this: http://www.mysite.com/dns/stackoverflow.com, so when someone clicks a link on your site, they go to a link that looks like http://www.mysite.com/dns/stackoverflow.com instead of http://www.mysite.com/dns/?domain=stackoverflow.com&submit=Report

Step 2: In the htaccess file in your document root, add these rules (above any rules that you may already have):

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/?dns/(.+)$ /dns/?domain=$1&submit=Report [L,QSA]

Step 3: In the event that a GET method form submission is generating the link, you can add these rules too:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|HEAD)\ /dns/\?domain=([^&\ ]+)(&submit=Report)?
RewriteRule ^/?dns/?$ /dns/%2? [L,R=301]

Upvotes: 1

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