redirect dynamic .php url to .html url

redirect

[gagankkharbanda]

Hi, my site url is http://www.example.com/review.php?cid=14 and i want to redirect to http://www.example.com/review.html?cid=14.

There are hundreds of pages in my site like this which i want to redirect.

Please help for solution!

[DarkEden Genesis]

Hi gagan welcome.

First of all, you are looking for something called "mod rewrite".

You could make maybe better urls, like:

example.com/review/14/title-of-the-review
That would represents this -->> (example.com/review.php?cid=14)

Why?
Because changing review.php to review.html, KEEPING the same dynamic URL makes no sense.

Create a file named .htaccess and write this code inside it:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule reviews/([^/]+)/([^.]+) review.php?cid=$1&title=$2 [L]

Upload .htaccess to your root directory (with index.php).


After that you must change your PHP code to change the way it shows URLs.
If it actually does

review.php?cid=$id

so you must change to

reviews/$id/$title

I'm assuming your review has a title.


PS: Remember to check if your system acceppts mod rewrite.

[g1smd]

This is exactly the right time for you to "go extensionless".

I'd use a URL like example.com/r14-the-page-name

Using a folder level for the id number is NOT appropriate.

These two recent threads may also be useful:
[webmasterworld.com...]
[webmasterworld.com...]

[gagankkharbanda]

Hi,
Thanks for your help and direction.
Im new into this and dont have much knowledge about all this issues.
Here is the type of pages I have on my site:

example.com/review.php?cid=2&carpet=royal - 100 pages with different cid's and different carpet names
Want to change to example.com/carpet/royal

example.com/gas.php?gas=oxygen - 10 pages with different gases names.
Want to change to example.com/gas/oxygen

example.com/toxic_gases.php - 10 pages with different type of gases details
Want to change to example.com/toxic_gases.php

example.com/pages.html?action=Disclaimer - 10 pages with different type of actions.
Want to change to example.com/Disclaimer
Please guide me what changes i need to do for the same.
My site already having a .htaccess file and scripting is:

SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 5.3
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^http://localhost/
RewriteRule (.*) [localhost...] [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ example.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1.php
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Please help me out of this..
Thanks & Regards,
Gagan

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1.php

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Please help me out of this..

Thanks & Regards,
Gagan

[g1smd]

If the ID number is not going to appear in the new URLs, then you need to internally rewrite to a PHP script that then issues the redirect. This script will need to look in the database to see what the new URL will be.

Your current htaccess file has a large number of errors and inefficiencies. Luckiliy these are the same ones that are mentioned or discussed several times each week here.

Use http://www.example.com and http://example.com in this forum to prevent URL auto-linking.