[MOD][Updated] SEO friendly url

[Updated]

This modification goes in your .htaccess file.

It will re-write the urls after you do a search (it does not do categories yet) to make them "nicer".

in the folder where you have your search.php file create or edit your file under the name of ".htaccess"


Note 1: I have my sphider in the search/ folder. SO if you have your folder as www.domain.com/sphider, you will have to replace search for sphider.

Note 2: Also change the domain name, otherwise your searches will end up on my site.

Note 3: replace the htttp for http (I had to do that, othewise, the forum showed urls)
Add these lines

#sphider rewrite
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^query=(.*)\&type=(.*)\&results\=(.*)\&search=1$
RewriteRule ^search/search\.php$ /search/%2/%3/%1\.html? [R=301,L]

#More results fix
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^query=(.*)&search=1&results=(.*)&domain=(.*)
RewriteRule ^search/(and|or|phrase)/[0-9]{2}/search\.php$ /domain/%2/%3/%1\.html? [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^domain/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)\.html /search/search\.php\?query=$3&results=$1&domain=$2&search=1&do=1 [L]

#Did you mean?
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^query=(.*)\&search=1$
RewriteRule ^search/and/10/search\.php$ /search/and/10/%1\.html? [R=301,L]

#Main search
RewriteRule ^search/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)\.html /search/search\.php\?query=$3&type=$1&results=$2&search=1&do=1 [L]

#Logo
RewriteRule ^search/(and|or|phrase)/[0-9]{2}/(.*)\.png$ htttp://www.fmpwizard.com/search/$2.png [L]
RewriteRule ^domain/[0-9]{2}/(.*)/(.*)\.png$ htttp://www.fmpwizard.com/search/$2.png [L]

#css files
RewriteRule ^search/(and|or|phrase)/[0-9]{2}/(.*)\.css$ htttp://www.fmpwizard.com/search/$2.css [L]
RewriteRule ^domain/[0-9]{2}/(.*)/templates/(.*)\.css$ htttp://www.fmpwizard.com/search/templates/$2.css [L]

#Suggest framework
RewriteRule ^search/(and|or|phrase)/[0-9]{2}/include/(.*)$ htttp://www.fmpwizard.com/search/include/$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^domain/[0-9]{2}/(.*)/include/(.*)$ htttp://www.fmpwizard.com/search/include/$2 [L]

Diego Medina
Web Developer



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/08/2007 06:43AM by fmpwizard.

It is currently not working on my site as I found out there was a problem with the "Did you mean" link.

Please check back later

Diego Medina
Web Developer

thanks, i`ll sure keep an eye on this topic!

ok, add this

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^query=(.*)\&search=1$
RewriteRule ^search/and/10/search\.php$ /search/and/10/%1\.html? [R=301,L]


right below the line that has

RewriteRule ^search/search\.php$ /search/%2/%3/%1\.html? [R=301,L]

P.S. My site is working again so that you can check it out. If you find any bugs, just post here and I'll work on it as time permits.

Diego Medina
Web Developer

[UPDATED]If you have sphider on the root of your domain, use this code

Note: Please remove the extra t in htttp (I did it to avoid the forum formatting that as a url).

This also fixes an error when clicking "More results from..." it was showing an error before.

Enjoy it!

#sphider rewrite
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^query=(.*)\&type=(.*)\&results\=(.*)\&search=1$
RewriteRule ^search\.php$ /search/%2/%3/%1\.html? [R=301,L]

#Did you mean fix
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^query=(.*)\&search=1$
RewriteRule ^search/(and|or|phrase)/[0-9]{2}/search\.php$ /search/and/10/%1\.html? [R=301,L]

#More results fix
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^query=(.*)\&search=1\&results=(.*)&domain=(.*)
RewriteRule ^search/(and|or|phrase)/[0-9]{2}/search\.php$ /domain/%2/%3/%1\.html? [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^domain/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)\.html /search\.php\?query=$3&results=$1&domain=$2&search=1&do=1 [L]

#Redirect main search
RewriteRule ^search/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)\.html /search\.php\?query=$3\&type=$1&results=$2&search=1&do=1 [L]

#Redirect sphider's logo
RewriteRule ^search/(and|or|phrase)/[0-9]{2}/(.*)\.png$ htttp://www.throughowleyes.com/$2.png [L]
RewriteRule ^domain/[0-9]{2}/(.*)/(.*)\.png$ htttp://www.throughowleyes.com/$2.png [L]

#Redirect the complete Suggest framework
RewriteRule ^search/(and|or|phrase)/[0-9]{2}/include/(.*)$ htttp://www.throughowleyes.com/include/$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^domain/[0-9]{2}/(.*)/include/(.*)$ htttp://www.throughowleyes.com/include/$2 [L]

#Redirect css files
RewriteRule ^search/(and|or|phrase)/[0-9]{2}/(.*)\.css$ htttp://www.throughowleyes.com/$2.css [L]
RewriteRule ^domain/[0-9]{2}/(.*)/templates/(.*)\.css$ htttp://www.throughowleyes.com/templates/$2.css [L]





Alright, that should do it.

Diego Medina
Web Developer



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/08/2007 06:38AM by fmpwizard.

hi ! thanks a lot for this ! but i still have a problem, it just does not work... is the code right ? i have tried many things but nothing works, can you help me please ? it would be very nice !
Thanks !

Does your webserver/host provide mod rewrite capabilities?

hello, yes ! i have tried on my local host and on my online server, and nothing works...

i have put my .htaccess in /www/ and my sphider in /www/search/ and i juste pasted your code (just to try, and then to optimize it with my own url)... but i don't have any change.

Do you have a website where i could see it action ?
thanks a lot for trying to help me

ps: here a example: i have just downloaded a fresh "spider" file, uploaded it in www/search/ and put my (your ?) .htaccess in www/search

[www.nitrokaine.com]

i still do not have url rewriting...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/13/2007 03:21PM by jeanv.

and just to know i have well understood... it means that if make a search for "internet" in my sphider, i will this url:

[www.mydomain.com]

that will appear like this:

[www.mydomain.com]

or something like that ? right ?
sorry if my questions seem to be very simple, but i am not an expert ! ;-)

you can see a working example here

[www.fmpwizard.com]

do you have the "AND OR Phrase" options enable on your site?

Diego Medina
Web Developer

hi, have disabled this option, do you think that the problem is that ?

hi
where do we must put the htaccess please , at the root of the sphider instalation ?
also we must change the word domain and search too ? like here :
RewriteRule ^search/(and|or|phrase)/[0-9]{2}/(.*)\.png$ htttp://www.throughowleyes.com/$2.png [L]
RewriteRule ^domain/[0-9]{2}/(.*)/(.*)\.png$ htttp://www.throughowleyes.com/$2.png [L]

many thanks

why did you post the SEO url for apache only ?

You got nothing for lighttpd ??

Database contains: 325 sites, 122837 links, 37 categories and 3307500 keywords
[www.cyberfun.ro]

any wordpress mod

Not definition for page number , 404 error !

thanks tested it and works perfect

Interesting thought, i completely agree with your perspective...
seo

Hi
Do you have a version for the wordpress sphider plug in

wordpress org extend plugins sphider

add the dot and dashes or search for it
i did not want to post a url

Your code does not work.
The URLs do not change.