Mod ReWrite help for search engine friendly pages

Junior WebHelper Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Posts: 1

To enable complete deep indexing of our site I am "playing" with the linux ReWrite rule and creating a search engine only site map of my dynamic pages. This is because only a few of the major search engines follow dynamically generated pages.

eg script.php?var1=100&var2=200
to script/query/var1/equal/200/and/var2/equal/200

I have a lot of different active scripts so the ReWrite rule must be non variable and script specific.

so far I have:

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)/query/(.*)$ $1.php?$2
RewriteRule ^(.*)/equal/(.*)$ $1=$2 [N]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/and/(.*)$ $1&$2 [N]

Trouble is, the first ReWrite rule ( /query/ ) works fine, but the other 2 ( /equal/ + /and/) I cannot get to work for the life of me.

Can anyone please tell me where I am being stupid. If and when I get this going I'll post a how-to for it.

Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 5:08 pm (20 years, 2 months ago)

the easier thing to do would be something like:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^script/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/$ /script.php?var1=$1&var2=$2 [L,NC]

that should make http://whatever.com/script/1/4/ be treated as whatever.com/script.php?var1=2&var2=4 (assuming you only want numbers in the query string).