What is Rewrite URLs?
Some times you need to have a SEO URLs in your site, if your link structure is not SEO friendly like for example in WordPress default link structure www.htaccessmaker.com/?p=1 for posts or www.htaccessmaker.com/?cat=3 for categories, this links scheme is not SEO friendly because when you see www.htaccessmaker.com/?p=1 you will not know any thing about the content of this page, but suppose if you have a rewrited URL like www.htaccessmaker.com/htaccess-301-redirec/ by seeing this URL you will know that this page will talk about how to make 301 redirect using htaccess file.
How to make htaccess Rewrite URLs ?
A famous example about how we could force the redirect of the non www URLS to www URLS in a specific site, suppose we have the site name htaccessmaker.com, it will be like this:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.htaccessmaker\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://www.htaccessmaker.com/$1 [L,R]Note that to use the Rewriterule you must do the following things first:
- Use the Tag <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> in the beginning of the rewrite code and </IfModule> at the end.
- Start bu activating the RewriteEngine by setting it to on.
- Determine the RewriteBase for you rewrite, for example “/”.
A full example is to rewrite URLS for WordPress Blog:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>