Htaccess Mod Rewrite trouble

Hi all,

I'm trying to make my url's seo friendly, but I can't quite wrap my head around all the configuration options of mod rewrite.

I have this in my htaccess file:

RewriteRule ^browse/([0-9]+)/.*_online_review[/]?$ show.php?id=$1&redirect=true{QUERY_STRING} [QSA,L]

Both, url's work. For example /browse/546/thisbook_online_review and /show.php?id=1101. But I'm trying to redirect (301) this "/show.php?id=1101" to this "/browse/546/thisbook_online_review" as google has both links indexed, which isn't good.

I've tried to do this [R=301,QSA,L], but the result is a 404 error.

Any ideas / help is appreciated.

Thanks!

 

Without knowing all of the SEO friendly URLs and their corresponding SEO un-friendly URLs, it's hard for me to give you a "generic" solution. But generally speaking, when trying to make SEO un-friendly URLs SEO friendly it involves 2 sets of RewriteRules - one that is a redirect, another that is a URL rewrite.

For example, if "/browse/546/thisbook_online_review" is your SEO friendly URL and "/show.php?id=1101" is its SEO un-friendly equivalent then I might setup something like the following in my root .htaccess:

BTW using underscores in your folder and page names is NOT SEO friendly. Google does NOT recognize the underscore as a word separator. You should be using hyphens.