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PHP or ASP (In: General Search Engine Optimization)
what is best php or html? (In: General Search Engine Optimization)
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omoutop
Joined: Feb 16, 2004
# Posts: 22
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Posted: 2004-Jul-28 15:46
Hi,
I have great results in Google with .htm pages. For easier work I decided to change my .htm pages to .php pages. For exemple: ../spain-hotels.htm to ../spain-hotels.php (on the same domain)
I was told:"use the same mod_rewrite to make your actual php pages look like .htm for the search engines and others.
You may use something like this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule (.*).htm$ /$1.php"
Can anyone can explain me what it theoricaly means?
Thank you
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bhartzer
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Joined: Jun 08, 2000
# Posts: 7042
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Posted: 2004-Jul-28 16:55
In other words, your urls won't change. You will still have the www.domain.com/product.htm page but it will act just like a PHP page, so you can put all the php code into that page and it will work just fine.
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StupidScript2
Joined: Mar 23, 2004
# Posts: 183
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Posted: 2004-Sep-01 20:30
Right (of course), bhartzer.
Specifically:
RewriteEngine on
Turns on the Apache Rewrite Engine (if it is compiled in during installation)
RewriteBase /
Sets the base address for applying the rewrite rules to the web document root directory (all files under that directory and in its subdirectories)
RewriteRule (.*).htm$ /$1.php"
This is a "regular expression" that says:
(.*).htm$
- Match (first position in the expression) and remember (the parentheses) any string that contains any number of any characters (the "dot" means any character followed by the "asterisk" which means any number of them) followed by the characters ".htm" at the end of the filename (the "$" means at the end of).
/$1.php
- Take the match ("$1" means the first pattern matched) found by the previous expression (that's the "/" slash separating what to look for and what to do with it when found) and prepend the found pattern to the string of characters ".php" (the new file extension).
So if you have a file named "something.htm" in your http://domain.com/ directory, this set of instructions causes Apache to "rewrite" the name of the file before other programs process it and deliver it to the client.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase [http://domain.com]/
RewriteRule (something).htm$ /something.php"
These instructions can go in a file named ".htaccess" (no quotes) in your root directory, or you can add it to your Apache httpd.conf file, save it, and restart your Apache web server. Modifying the .conf file works fastest, but you may not have access to the entire web server, in which case .htaccess may be your only option.
Note that the filename will remain "something.htm" unless you change it yourself, but this will cause Apache and its application partners to treat the file as if it had the ".php" extension.
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
# Posts: 10418
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Posted: 2004-Sep-09 18:54
Why not set up the server so that HTM pages are parsed as if they were PHP pages?
No need for the re-write rule then.
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mincklerstraat
Joined: Eons Ago
# Posts: 10
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Posted: 2004-Sep-16 18:04
do yourself a favor and find yourself a tutorial, google 'mod_rewrite tutorial short urls' - example, http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/sitemanagement/urlrewriting.html . This is not hard, but at first daunting enough to want a tutorial for it.
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