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TK421
TK421

Reputation: 905

How to use .htaccess mod_rewrite to make an seo friendly url

I'm trying to make an SEO friendly URL using an .htaccess file.

The url I am trying to change looks like this:

https://www.example.com/category/?title=a+really+really+long+title

and what I would like to have is:

https://www.example.com/category/a+really+really+long+title/

I have tried:

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/category/?title=(.+)$ ^/category/$1/ [NC]

but it does not give me the desired results. Any help would be most appreciated!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 91

Answers (1)

nice_dev
nice_dev

Reputation: 17805

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^title\=(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?category/?$ /category/%1 [NC,R,L,QSD]

  • We first check to see if there is a query string present using RewriteCond. If it matches ^title\=(.+)$, meaning, if there is a query string with key title, then capture the value of it.

  • Using RewriteRule, we match if request URI has a category. If yes, then rewrite it as /category/%1 where %1 is the value of the title key matched in rewrite condition for a query string. The %1 is a backreference(scroll down a bit) to the captured group number in the regex(of the query string).

  • Note that if you want to do it for any key-value pair in the query string, then change title to \w+ or [a-zA-Z0-9]+ to be more precise.

Upvotes: 1

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