SEO URL

[raymond_feliciano]

I am new to SEO urls and I have been reading on mod-rewrite and seo urls so I decided to implement this on my site. I am trying to rewrite http://mysite.com/index.php?page_id=1

So I created a .htaccess file and dumped it in the root of my site and add these lines

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index/([0-9]+)\.html$ index.php?page_id=$1

But it seems that I am doing something wrong because it does not rewrite the url. Is there something that I need to add in my index.php page or is my rule wrtten wrongI have been working on this for about 8 hrs with no luck. any suggestions would be appricated.

[scootstah]

It doesn't look like there is a problem.

 

What do you  mean it "does not rewrite the URL"? What happens when you go to index/1.html?

 

 

[raymond_feliciano]

I am new so I figured it would display the rewritten url in the address bar. When I navigated to that url I get the page but the css is gone. How would I get the new url to display and keep the css intact. Thanks for your help I really do appricate it

[scootstah]

It doesn't change the existing URL's to new pretty URL's, it just points the pretty URL to the existing URL.

 

As for the CSS, you'll need a flag that allows real files to be exempt from the re-write. I bet your CSS URL is being re-written to the pretty URL and thus it doesn't exist.

 

Try this:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^index/([0-9]+)\.html$ index.php?page_id=$1 [L]

 

This will exclude directories and files from being re-written.

[raymond_feliciano]

Thanks for your advice it helped me out