url titles

[gvp16]

Hi, im looking to make the URLs for pages more seo friendly, i currently have something like this

 

www.mysite.com/content/index.php?page=56543

 

and would like to make it look like this:

 

www.mysite.com/content/56543/this_is_todays_news

 

So the title of the page/article/information is in the url.

 

Ive seen it done before and cant quite figure out how its done.

 

Im looking for a nudge in the right direction.

 

Thanks.

[The Little Guy]

Try adding this to your htaccess file:

 

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule /content/(.*)/this_is_todays_news$ content/index.php?page=$1 [nc]

[gvp16]

Hi, thanks for the quick reply, im guessing its not as simple as just putting that code into the htaccess.

 

im new to htacess so im not really sure what im doing, but im guessing that I have to set up my links slightly different and then that code rewrites them to make them look better?

[The Little Guy]

you will have to rewrite all the links to look like:

www.mysite.com/content/#/this_is_todays_news

[gvp16]

thanks for that,  ive got it working where  www.mysite.com/page/about  goes to  www.mysite.com/index.php?page=about

 

but how i do it when a real directory is involved? eg  www.mysite.com/content/5 would go to www.mysite.com/content/index.php?id=5