How is Friendly URL or pretty URL is actually implemented?

Question

I see many sites where they use something like this:

http://www.example.com/someinfo/somenumber

and then they use the 'somenumber' at the end to display content. I dont think they make a page for every number (since there are more than 1000 numbers, How do they do this?

Edit: They even do it on this site: if you look at the url the last bit (using-url-directories-in-php).

Study about htaccess – Sunil Pachlangia May 08 '15 at 07:31 — Sunil Pachlangia, May 08 '15 at 07:31
I didn't know what seo friendly questions where, sorry – Lorenzo De Bie May 08 '15 at 07:40 — Lorenzo De Bie, May 08 '15 at 07:40

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 08 '15 at 07:41

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Create a .htaccess file in your website's dir and paste the following code in it:

RewriteBase /
RewriteEngine On
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]

There are many more things that htaccess could do for you, like blocking bad bots, ip block users (Not recommended on localhost server. You could try if you want.), redirect to a website, etc...

answered May 08 '15 at 07:41

Jimmy

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Guess that would do, it work on my. – Jimmy May 08 '15 at 07:41
What do the last three lines of this code do? – Lorenzo De Bie May 08 '15 at 07:42
The last 3 line of code is to hide the extension of the file. I set it to hide `php` and `html`. – Jimmy May 08 '15 at 08:02
Also `RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f` means that if the file with the specified name in the browser doesn't exist, or the directory in the browser doesn't exist then proceed to the rewrite rule below. – Jimmy May 08 '15 at 08:23

How is Friendly URL or pretty URL is actually implemented?

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