Pretty URLs with .htaccess Rewriting

Pretty URLs always helps you to boost up search engine page ranking. In this post I want to explain about URLs rewriting techniques using .htaccess file. Friendly URLs looks neat on the browser address bar.

Original URL.

Eg. http://flickr.com/users.php?id=username&page=2

Rewriting Friendly URL.

Eg. http://flickr.com/username/2

.htaccess Code

//First Parameer

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ users.php?user=$1

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ users.php?user=$1

//Second Parameter

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([0-9]+)$ users.php?user=$1&page=$2

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([0-9]+)/$ users.php?user=$1&page=$2

Demo: http://www.9lessons.info/2009/11/pretty-urls-with-htaccess-file.html

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