Mod rewrite needed

I give up

I've been trying for 3 weeks to get some pages i have into a spiderable state but I've failed miserably.

In return for someone sorting this out I am quite happy to put a link on 5 or 6 sites if you want i will add a link to the footer file on the site in question currently around 700 pages and growing.

Below is a current page

I'd love this to read

http://www.trackbikes.co.uk/store/page3.htm or something similar and the same for all 271 pages!..

http://www.trackbikes.co.uk/store/s...3&search=Motorcycles&searchtype=KeywordSearch

 

here is the tuto that will get you on the right track

http://www.datakoncepts.com/seo

as you have a couple of vars

you will end up with


http://www.trackbikes.co.uk/store/en/books/page3.htm

or
http://www.trackbikes.co.uk/store/motorcycles/en/page3.htm

each var you intercept into $1 or $2 or $4 etc you can use or not use! or use in different sequence.

Expat

 

domain.com/.htaccess

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^store/page(.*).htm$ store/store.htm?language=en&locale=uk&mode=books&page=$1&search=Motorcycles&searchtype=KeywordSearch [L]

This is ONLY if the only change in the store URLs is the page number. If search, mode language or locale changes, it'll need to be a longer rewrited URL.

 

Thanks, I tried that but the url is still showing up as

http://www.trackbikes.co.uk/store/s...2&search=Motorcycles&searchtype=KeywordSearch

I know mod rewrite works as I already have 2 scripts using it already,
one being phpbb

any ideas what I could have done wrong?

Does the .htaccess need to be in the root or in the store folder. (I've tried both)

 

Yes, you got it working....

http://www.trackbikes.co.uk/store/store/page25.htm

Just has an extra directory. Looks like it's the one at domain.com/store/.htaccess
that's doing it. So what ever is there, delete and upload up to domain.com/.htacess

Or delete domain.com/.htaccess and have

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /store/
RewriteRule ^page(.*).htm$ store.htm?language=en&locale=uk&mode=books&page=$1&search=Motorcycles&searchtype=KeywordSearch [L]

at domain.com/store/.htaccess

 

Thanks for all the help nintendo, I think I am almost there, the next question may well be because of a complete lack of understanding on my behalf, so accept my apollogies in advance!

I can now manually enter a SEO friendly ur, l i.e

http://www.trackbikes.co.uk/store/page8.htm

However if I then press the next button instead of getting

http://www.trackbikes.co.uk/store/ page9.htm that I would expect I get

http://www.trackbikes.co.uk/store/p...9&search=Motorcycles&searchtype=KeywordSearch


BTW Pm me any links you want placing

 

In the script some where it has the code that generates the links. That needs to be changed. (I've never used that script, I use MrRats.) Search for something like KeywordSearch until you see something that looks like the link.

 

I found the piece of code below ...

Where to next oh wise one!

 

Something like

echo "<li><a href='store/page".
'page' .'='.($page-1) .'&'.
.html"'>".xu('previous results')."</a></li>\n";

with the page change for all three is all I can guess. You might want to E-Mail the person who created the script.

 

I actuallly emailed him before and didn't get very far, I've now decided to call it quits and i've installed another script that was SE friendly out of the box (so to speak!)

thank you for all your help it was much appreciated.