Genrating SEO friendly url using .htaccess and modrewrite

Here how you can create clean SEO friendly url: Normal practice of using url: 1) http://sforsuresh.in/user.php?u=123 2) http://sforsuresh.in/user.php?u=123&cat=php 3) http://sforsuresh.in/page.php You can just rewrite it like 1) http://sforsuresh.in/user/123 2) http://sforsuresh.in/user/123/php 3) http://sforsuresh.in/page Let see how we can achieve this: 1) You need to enable "mod_rewrite" of apache as below: For enabling "mod_rewrite" open file "httpd.conf" and remove "#" from beginning of the below line: LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so 2) Htaccess file: Create .htaccess file in your root directory, just open notepad and save the file with".htaccess" (no name only extension) as UTF-8. If you already have one, no need to create it again. Put the below lines:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^user/([0-9]+) user.php?u=$1 [NC, L]
RewriteRule ^user/([0-9]+)/([0-9a-zA-Z]+) user.php?u=$1&cat=$2 [NC, L]
rewirteRule ^page  page.php

Let see what i have written: RewriteEngine: To enable we need to enable rewrite engine on. RewriteRule: The RewriteRule directive is the real rewriting of rules that need to be executed. $1 and $2 : Are variable used to represent dynamic values which we are pass in url against id and category.First ([0-9]+) represent $1 and second ([0-9a-zA-Z]+) represent $2 (from left to right) and so on. NC: Non case sensitive pattern match L : Stop the rewriting process immediately and don't apply any more rules after this. Few more directive you can use it as below: RewriteBase : Specifies the URL prefix to be used. If your project inside some folder say myproject than you can write like this: RewriteBase /myproject/ RewriteCond : defines a rule condition.One or more RewriteCond can precede a RewriteRule directive. You can get more information or try and test your own rules: 1) Apache.org 2) Bluehost.com [si-contact-form form='1']