CODEWITHSUNDEEP
php.htaccessseo
Aleksandra Poskurica
Aleksandra Poskurica

Reputation: 11

SEO friendly .htaccess always lead me to home page

I have problem with seo friendly url. I've try to change my url with .htaccess and off course I have problem.

My link in header for my contact page is like this:

index.php?=contact

So I wrote rules in .htaccess like this:

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^contact index.php?=contact

And off course changed my link in header to be like this:

contact

And now when I click on contact on header I get nice url like this:

www.mywebsite.com/contact

But website lead me always to home page (index.php).

What I did wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 378

Answers (2)

Aleksandra Poskurica
Aleksandra Poskurica

Reputation: 11

I made this clear, and now working. I just changed link, and put page. Static link working now for me, but how to write to dinamic link. For instance, my link is like this:

<a href=index.php?page=kategorije/$row[id_cat]/$newname>{$row['name']}</a>

$newname give "-" instead empty space between words.

And this kind of link give me this url:

www.mywebsite.com/index.php?page=category/3/The-Name-Of-Shop

How to write .htaccess to get:

www.mywebsite.com/The-Name-Of-Shop

Upvotes: 0

Panama Jack
Panama Jack

Reputation: 24448

Here give this a try and see how it works. You have an = between index.php?contact Try removing that.

If you want to make all your links URL friendly and not just contact you can do this.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+) index.php?$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

EDIT:

Your array is blank because you're not passing anything to it. I can't see how you check in your index.php file but you typically pass parameters as item=value like index.php?page=contact. You're not giving it an item using index.php=contact so your array is blank with the mod_rewrite.

Based on the info I have, if you used the variable as the item and value like below

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ index.php?$1=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

Go to http://www.yoursite.com/contact

You'll get this from PHP $_GET

Array ( [contact] => contact )

But if you do this

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ index.php?page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

Then go to http://www.yoursite.com/contact

Then you'll get this from PHP $_GET

Array ( [page] => contact )

Then you check it like

if($_GET["page"] == "contact"){
//do whatever 
}else{
 //show homepage
}

There is nothing wrong with the .htaccess rules I can see. It's your PHP setup.

Upvotes: 0

Related Questions