Mod rewrite Tutorialsoverview - syntax - basic - medium - advanced Mod Rewrite Overview We're hearing more and more about mod rewrite every day. E commerce applications are making add-ons to their software to allow for it, content mangement systems are using it and most of all blogs are taking it to the next level as they are now becoming more and more popular. So what is mod rewrite, what can it do and how can I use it to further the opimization of my website? Mod rewrite is just one of the many modules that are tacked on to the Apache webserver. It's main purpose is to detect incoming uri request (file name) and rewrite them to a redirect or to an alias file.
What does mod_rewrite really rewrite? First lets start off by killing the implied meaning of a mod rewrite.
In this sample below we're telling the mod rewrite that if the file called file_name.htm is request that it should be rewritten to its alias file_name.php. Rewrite Sample: RewriteRule ^file_name.htm /file_name.php [L] SEOs use mod rewrite more as a translator. An SEO can instruct his web developer to out put clean urls for a dynamic application and then by using mod rewrite translate those clean urls back to it's dynamic form on the server. In this example the mod rewrite is looking for the directory named mod/rewrite/tutorial/ it is then going to make three references () and then call those references and rewrite the folder to it's alias some_file.php?name=mod_rewrite_tutorial Rewrite Sample: #rule to rewrite /mod/rewrite/tutorial/
to it's dynamic So lets dig in and start learning the mod rewrite syntax. |
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