URL Rewrite
A beginner's guide to URL rewriting, with plenty of examples.
URL Rewriting for Beginners - Added Bytes
Apache 's Rewrite Module allows developers to define extensive URL Rewriting and Redirecting Conditions & Rules , one of which could be to add trailing slashes to Representational State Transfer ( RESTful ) URLs.
Using .htaccess to add trailing slashes to all URIs or URLs | Geekology
Crazy Advanced Mod_Rewrite Tutorial
Are you an advanced mod_rewrite expert or guru? This article is for YOU too! Just make sure to read all the way to the bottom.. The following undocumented techniques and methods will allow you to utilize mod_rewrite at an "expert level" by showing you how to unlock its secrets .
Static URLs are known to be better than Dynamic URLs because of a number of reasons 1. Static URLs typically Rank better in Search Engines. 2. Search Engines are known to index the content of dynamic pages a lot slower compared to static pages. 3.
URL Rewriting - Create Search Engine Friendly URLs
URL Rewriting | redirecting URLs with Apache’s mod_rewrite
Path // → → URL REWRITING The Apache server’s mod_rewrite module gives you the ability to transparently redirect one URL to another, without the user’s knowledge. This opens up all sorts of possibilities, from simply redirecting old URLs to new addresses, to cleaning up the ‘dirty’ URLs coming from a poor publishing system — giving you URLs that are friendlier to both readers and search engines. This page was last updated on 2012-08-21.htaccess tricks and tips.. part two: url rewriting with mod rewrite.
<ifModule> more clever stuff here </ifModule> redirecting and rewriting "The great thing about mod_rewrite is it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail. The downside to mod_rewrite is that it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail." - Brian Behlendorf, Apache Group One of the more powerful tricks of the .htaccess hacker is the ability to rewrite URLs. This enables us to do some mighty manipulations on our links; useful stuff like transforming Very Long URL's into Short, Cute URLs, transforming dynamic ?
Unicode Transformation Formats
The ISO 10646 Universal Character Set (UCS, Unicode ) is a coded character set with more than 40'000 defined elements. It is expected that this cardinality will grow to more than 100'000 soon, through additional definitions for characters that do not yet have a coding, so that all the world's characters will be represented in Unicode. But how can you represent more than 2^8 = 256 characters with 8bit bytes? This chapter explains and discusses the concepts of coded character sets versus their encoding schemes as well as the various Unicode representation schemes along with their implementation level on Unix: most prominently UTF-8 beside its precursors EUC and UTF-1 and its alternatives UCS-4 , UTF-16 , UTF-7,5 , UTF-7 , SCSU , HTML , and JAVA . Another fine web page describing these subjects is Jukka Korpela's tutorial on character code issues . What is a coded character set?
This new challenge is related to a related thread posted earlier: [ webmasterworld.com ...] After doing some changes to the settings, the end result became quite nice: Before, the use of international characters would look like this: domain/b%C3%A5t But now, they are being preserved as they are: domain/båt [båt is Norwegian and means boat] International characters are being transformed into UFT-8 code that I decode in the script, and if I only write domain/båt, then that is being done in the background and what has been written is being preserved.
New international characters challenge related to using mod_rewrite
Add Trailing Slash to the End of the URL with .htaccess Rewrite Rules » My Digital Life
For a website that has URLs that end with a slash (/), it’s a good practice to ensure that all url links been parsed by the web server ended with trailing slash, even if visitors forget to enter the ending slash. This avoid visitors been served with 404 Page Not Found or Page Cannot be Displayed error as some web servers treat links without trailing slash as a file name instead of directory, and thus unable to locate the documents. It also eliminates the possibility that both pages with same content, one with slash at the end and another without, been viewed by search engines as duplicate content. As an example, all hits to http://www.mydigitallife.info/contact should be redirect to http://www.mydigitallife.info/contact/. Most web server, including the popular Apache HTTPD web server supports mod_rewrite module where rules can be set in .htaccess file in order to redirect to add trailing slash to the URLs that does not already have one.
Setting up a consistent, well-organized website is kind of like building a new house.