Getting clean urls for SEO

[laflair13]

Hey all, Not sure if this is the right section, So I apologize if not and please move to correct area.

 

Ok, my question is, I have a site where I can add stuff quick through the admin. But it gives is a numeric url.

 

And example

mydomain.com/pop.php?Play=179

 

But I want it to say something like

 

mydomain.com/here-is-a-seo-page

 

Is there any way to do this, and if so can you point me in the right direction so I can learn it and put it on my site.

 

Thanks in advance.

[K_N]

It's all right there in the sticky at the top of this forum, but for quick reference...

 

If your server does have mod_rewrite enabled, add the following to your .htaccess file in the same directory as pop.php:

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule		^([0-9-]+)$		pop.php?Play=$1 [L]

 

This will make it so any request for "http://mydomain.com/179" loads "http://mydomain.com/pop.php?Play=179"

 

Alternatively you could make it look like "http://mydomain.com/play/179" like this:

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule		^/play/([0-9-]+)$		pop.php?Play=$1 [L]

 

If you want to do anything more advanced, I suggest checking out the cheat sheet in the sticky.

[laflair13]

I appreciate it.

 

But I want the domain.com/pop.php?play

 

to become

 

domain.com/play/shows-title

 

 

[K_N]

That wouldn't be too hard, you just need to use this:

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule      ^/play/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)$      pop.php?Play=$1 [L]

 

And then have a php function to take $_GET['Play'] (which would contain shows-title) and search your database for the correct thing to play.

 

 

Unless I'm misunderstanding and you want it to retrieve the title from the database and insert it in the url?

[laflair13]

Your exactly right, I want it to pull the data from the database and put it in the url.

 

So it will look like domain.com/stream/Here-is-the-title

 

I have been reading up on it and in order to have it say stream, I would have to rename the pop.php to stream.php

 

 

[K_N]

Well, you can't change the URL once the page has been loaded... the point of a url is to access a page.

 

Nope, you don't have to rename it.

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule      ^/stream/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)$      pop.php?Play=$1 [L]

 

Will do that.