SEO Friendly URLs with PHP | mod_rewrite | .htaccess

In this tutorial I am going to explain the process ‘ How can we change the URLs in a SEO friendly URLs with the help of PHP, mod_rewrite and .htaccess in Apache’.

This is the very good and simple way to create a SEO friendly website with dynamic content.
Basically mod_rewrite is an Apache module and it takes care of rewriting URLs, like

http://www.example.com/page.php?id=2 convert in to http://www.example.com/page/2.html

To turn on the module use mod_rewrite in first line in htaccess using below line

RewriteEngine on

Now start with very simple htaccess.

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]).html$ /page.php?id=$1

Actual mod_rewrite rule is line 2.

RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]).html$  redirect to /page.php?id=$1

When you call the http://www.example.com/page/2.html it will call the dynamic urls

http://www.example.com/page.php?id=2

Here RewriteRule ^page/
([0-9]).html$ call the number value which is ID in URL.

You can call multiple numbers on this rule like below

RewriteRule ^page/([0-9])/([0-9]).html$ /page.php?id=$1&pagenum=$2

After that URL look like below

http://www.example.com/page/2/3.html it will call the dynamic urls

http://www.example.com/page.php?id=2&pagenum=3

And you get the two variable

1. id
2. pagenum

You can call these variable and show the actual page results.