mod_rewrite

[DeathsAlive]

Having a little trouble getting mod_rewrite to work. Has anyone managed to get this working? Or offer any insight into a solution :) ?

Edited August 14, 2013 by DeathsAlive

[a_bertrand]

Honestly I wonder why you would like to use mod_rewrite? Make the URL "nicer"? Does that have any real impact for your players?

[DeathsAlive]

Honestly I wonder why you would like to use mod_rewrite? Make the URL "nicer"? Does that have any real impact for your players?

Primarily due to ascetics (as you said "nicer" URLS) and SEO. No other REAL reason outside of that :)

[a_bertrand]

SEO => I can tell you it has NO impact. Google and most others don't care at all about what is the look of your URL.

Ascetics is not all that useful for the player, I mean they play, they don't look the url once they are inside.

[Dave]

SEO => I can tell you it has NO impact. Google and most others don't care at all about what is the look of your URL.

Ascetics is not all that useful for the player, I mean they play, they don't look the url once they are inside.

Google will match search queries to URL's. Especially on things like blog articles, so I believe it can promote SEO providing the page is crawled by Google as the internal pages of a game obviously aren't.

Nice URL's are currently somewhat expected by any site, vBulletin even does it with the post title here. I personally think nicer URL's make your site seem more professional.

Anyway....

What exact issues are you having? If you're trying to use them on your localhost you'll need to enable the apache module.

[a_bertrand]

Dave: http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/seo-friendly-urls-myth-and-fact/

So no it doesn't really improve your ranking.

For a website with content, like a wiki or whatever, yes it would make sense as it's easier on the eyes, and it's may be easier to link back. It also may add some "keywords" to google, but honestly I never saw any difference in ranking if you do it or not.

For the ingame content, it's mostly useless. Players don't check the URL while playing, and google will not index it anyhow. So it's basically useless. It actually do have some impact on the server performances as it require yet a bit more processing (sure it's really small).

Ooo and for VBulletin, it's afake, the only usefull part if the XXXX number after the showthread.php/ so if you don't know that number you can't access any post. For me that's not a user friendly URL as it requires an id ;)

[Script47]

If you're looking for cleaner URL's check this thread out. I found this tool and liked it a lot. Hope it helps.

Cleaner URL's

[rockwood]

for mod rewriting, you have to know Regex properly and as per my view by mod_rewriting you can make url nicer and less input way for users

Edited August 15, 2013 by rockwood