URL Rewriting for Beginners - Added Bytes. A beginner's guide to URL rewriting, with plenty of examples. Introduction URL rewriting can be one of the best and quickest ways to improve the usability and search friendliness of your site. It can also be the source of near-unending misery and suffering. Definitely worth playing carefully with it - lots of testing is recommended. With great power comes great responsibility, and all that. There are several other guides on the web already, that may suit your needs better than this one. Apache URL Rewriting Guide - The best guide around Before reading on, you may find it helpful to have the mod_rewrite cheat sheet and/or the regular expressions cheat sheet handy.
What is "URL Rewriting"? Most dynamic sites include variables in their URLs that tell the site what information to show the user. The problems with this kind of URL structure are that the URL is not at all memorable. Clearly a much cleaner and shorter URL. . Flags. Using .htaccess to add trailing slashes to all URIs or URLs | Geekology. 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. RESTful URLs are Uniform Resource Indicators (URIs) that are more user- and SEO-friendly than standard GET-based URIs. For example (GET vs. REST): ...or (GET vs. To use URL Rewriting to add a trailing slash to all RESTful URIs, create a .htaccess file in your website's root folder (if it doesn't exist yet), open it, and add this content: <ifModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !
The first three sections mean "any characters repeated any amount of times" whereas the fourth section means "any single character except for a forward slash". 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. Most if not all web developers and server administrators struggle with Apache mod_rewrite. It's very tough and only gets a little easier with practice. Why mod_rewrite is so tough ^ I have come to the conclusion, after many hours of zenful thought, that the reason mod_rewrite is so tough is pretty obvious, people are trying to apply regular-expressions to URLs and Variables that they don't really understand. Hit-Or-Miss with mod_rewrite ^ A lot of the mod_rewrite "experts" and "gurus" floating around the net absolutely know their mod_rewrite, but what separates them from a beginner or novice is for the most part an understanding of what the URLS and Variables look like that are targeted by the regular expressions.
Php htaccess file generator/creator tool - aka. 'Dot Htaccesser', by Chris Todd. URL Rewriting - Create Search Engine Friendly URLs. 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. Static URLs are always more friendlier looking to the End Users. Example of a dynamic URL This tool helps you convert dynamic URLs into static looking html URLs. Example of the above dynamic URL Re-written using this tool Note* You would need to create a file called ".htaccess" and paste the code generated into it, Once you have created the .htacess file simply copy it into your web directory.
Dynamic URLs vs. 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 An Introduction to Rewriting Readable URLs are nice. However, there are some cases when the best possible information design can’t stop your site’s URLs from being nigh-on impossible to use. This is a horrible URL, but it and its brethren are becoming increasingly prevalent in these days of dynamically-generated pages.
It exposes the underlying technology of the website (in this case ASP). Luckily, using rewriting, we can clean up this URL to something far more manageable. .htaccess tricks and tips.. part two: url rewriting with mod rewrite. Corz.org uses cookies to remember that you've seen this notice explaining that corz.org uses cookies, okay! <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. Make no mistake, mod_rewrite is complex. The way that rules can work one minute and then seem not to the next, how browser and other in-between network caches interact with rules and testing rules is often baffling, maddening. After all this, it does work, and while I'm not planning on taking that week-end crash-course any time soon, I have picked up a few wee tricks myself, messing around with web servers and web sites, this place.. Very little here is my own invention. Beginning rewriting..
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? An abstract character is a unit of textual information like the U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A ('A'). The naïve approach. New international characters challenge related to using mod_rewrite. 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.
The problem surface when I want to change the appearance of the URL. I have added this code to transform " " into "_": RewriteRule ^(.+)\ (.+) $1\_$2 [N,R] What is working perfectly for everything that does not contain international characters, like for instance: "domain/blue coat" is being transformed into "domain/blue_coat" Writing is without this rule would give this result: "domain/blue%20coat" Then the result is transformed into: "domain/båt_blue"
Trailing Slash - A List Apart. Setting up a consistent, well-organized website is kind of like building a new house. You can rush in, sticking bricks and mortar hither and yon with wanton abandon, and wonder why a few months down the track your roof leaks and visitors are hit by falling debris. Or you can plan ahead, and make up a blueprint for your site, keeping expandability in mind at all times. After all, what designer doesn’t want to add new content? And what site doesn’t sometimes need to change its underlying technology?
Sadly enough, a frequently overlooked step in this process is the structure of your links—the actual URLs you’ll be using to point to items on your site. Here are a few handy tips. YOUR FRIEND, THE TRAILING SLASH#section1 Chances are, you’ve come across an example of poor link structure in your many travels online. Let’s look at an example link. A link Right? Not entirely. Browser: Give me ‘subdirectory.’ Server: Just a minute; first I’ll try to find a file called ‘subdirectory.’ ... A link About About.