NationGamer Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 hello i am currently making my own personal game engine for my own game and was wondering is url rewriting a good idea as i wanted to do something like this http://domain.com/files/login.php to http://domain.com/login.php i know how to do all this but just wondering would it be a good idea along with some rewriting that is seo friendly like http://domain.com/index.php?p=medals to http://domain.com/index/medals.php could someone please give me some good advice on this and if it is a good idea thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Not worth the time. URL re-writing is used for mostly for search engine's ;] Since google will not be crawling your member restricted content, there really is no reason to mod-rewrite url's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NationGamer Posted January 20, 2011 Author Share Posted January 20, 2011 yeah that true but my main pages are not single either they are formatted like http://domain.com/home.php?login http://domain.com/home.php?signup http://domain.com/home.php?contact http://domain.com/home.php?tos so on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Palmer Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Using htaccess.. http://eisabainyo.net/weblog/2007/08/19/removing-file-extension-via-htaccess/ =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NationGamer Posted January 20, 2011 Author Share Posted January 20, 2011 yes i know using htaccess stated at the very top im just saying is it a good idea to be using url rewrite please could you read my post first Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Palmer Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 That post tells you the benefits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NationGamer Posted January 20, 2011 Author Share Posted January 20, 2011 lol didnt read that part thanks but only think ive done it now but how do you redirect the old url to the new mod rewrite url as i dont want users using the old links but the new ones is it actually possible as ive tried nearly everything to do it but nothing works Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Palmer Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 It should automatically redo the URLS.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NationGamer Posted January 20, 2011 Author Share Posted January 20, 2011 yeah it has done the urls auto but the links still work like home?login but i want it to redirect auto to the new url home/login.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a_bertrand Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 SEO friendly URL are actually not important as search engines now doesn't give a smaller score to dynamic pages than static one. It now purely cosmetic if you want to have your URL different. Now, for your link problem you should edit your pages such that you use the nicer URL that's it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilith Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Would something like this deter a player from typing in the URL directly? Or will the htaccess file just redirect them to where they want to go? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a_bertrand Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 URLs rewrited just look nicer normally... beside that it doesn't offer any real functionality to the user. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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