Hi I have "domain.com/word1" as a valid page with content.
Can I now have "domain.com/word1/word2" as another valid page? Notice that word1 is common in both urls..
Kindly advise.. Thanks!
lucy24
5:42 am on Mar 17, 2016 (gmt 0)
Sure. Absolutely no problem whatsoever. Just make sure that the rule that rewrites from /word1 to /word1.php (or whatever the real filename is) is appropriately anchored, so you don't get the wrong rewrite. It's also best to put the RewriteRules for /word1/word2 before the ones for /word1 alone.
Whether you really want to do this is a whole nother question. But it's a human-usability question, not an Apache question. For many years I had a whole package of /directory/word1/more-stuff /directory/word1.html /directory/word2/more-stuff /directory/word2.html and so on. I changed it because it made no sense for humans. Including, ahem, me ;)
tangor
5:45 am on Mar 17, 2016 (gmt 0)
You can do anything you like. The question, which I suspect you are asking, is SHOULD I?
Depends on the word (as in keyword stuffing and might get a hit). Try it. See if it works. But do know that once you do you can never take it back as the search engines NEVER forget a url they have met.
Your hierarchy needs to make sense to both you, the user, and the search engines. Keep that in mind.
tangor
5:49 am on Mar 17, 2016 (gmt 0)
lucy24, where is the query rewrites coming from? Did I not get the memo?
lucy24
2:27 am on Mar 18, 2016 (gmt 0)
It is possible on paper to have physical files on your server called "blahblah" without extension, and then use handlers or content negotiation to get everything processed appropriately. But it is vastly more likely that the URL example.com/blahblah represents the physical file example.com/blahblah.php -- or, for that matter, example.com/index.php?page=blahblah.
