mod_rewrite specific question

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 10:27 pm (19 years, 5 months ago)

Hi,
I have read several posts on the whole mod_rewrite stuff and had a very specific use.

I have (what I thought was) a site with SEO friendly URL's but my SEO "specialist" is complaining that the 2nd level folders will kill all his hopes of high placement.

Here is what I have:
http://www.domain.com/pages/my-page-name-64.php
http://www.domain.com/categories/my-category-name-17.php
http://www.domain.com/products/my-product-name-23.php

pages, categories and products are pages without suffix's that collect the rest of the url for processing.

is there a mod_rewrite way I could change these URL's to

http://www.domain.com/page-my-page-name-64.php
http://www.domain.com/cat-my-category-name-17.php
http://www.domain.com/prod-my-product-name-23.php

Or something similar, hiding the folder (looking) names.

Thanks for any help I can get.

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 11:38 pm (19 years, 5 months ago)

For anyone looking for answers, this worked...

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)p-(.*)$ $1products/$2
RewriteRule ^(.*)c-(.*)$ $1categories/$2
RewriteRule ^(.*)pag-(.*)$ $1pages/$2