Ken Shafer's Bloggity-Blog » .htaccess http://shaferdesigns.com SEO, Social Media and General Web Designs Stuffs Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:16:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Mod_Rewrite for GoDaddy and WordPress http://shaferdesigns.com/coding/mod_rewrite-for-godaddy-and-wordpress/ http://shaferdesigns.com/coding/mod_rewrite-for-godaddy-and-wordpress/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:10:55 +0000 Ken Shafer http://shaferdesigns.com/?p=77 Maya is Driving

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Back in 2008 I posted an article about getting mod_rewrite working on a GoDaddy account. I thought it’d be a good time to update that information with another example. This time we’re going to be looking at making some changes on a GoDaddy account with a WordPress installation.

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Options +FollowSymLinks
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^DirectoryName/(.*)/(.*)/(.*) pagename.php?paramB=$2&paramC=$3paramA=$1

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
DirectoryIndex index.php

Options +FollowSymLinksOptions -MultiViewsRewriteEngine onRewriteRule ^attorneys/(.*)/(.*)/(.*) practice.php?geo=$2&pa=$3&state=$1
# BEGIN WordPress<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>RewriteEngine OnRewriteBase /RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-fRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-dRewriteRule . /index.php [L]</IfModule>
# END WordPress
DirectoryIndex index.php

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This implementation takes this: “domain.com/pagename.php?paramB=Y&paramC=ZparamA=X”
and turns it into “domain.com/DirectoryName/X/Y/Z ”

I like this set up since it fits in with my normal WordPress url structure. Just make sure that you pick a directory name that isn’t going to be used within WordPress.

Also, notice that the custom rules are inserted before the usual WordPress rules. This was the only way I was able to get it to work.

Hope this helps! Just let me know if you have any questions at all.

]]> http://shaferdesigns.com/coding/mod_rewrite-for-godaddy-and-wordpress/feed/ 0 GoDaddy .htaccess mod_rewrite is working!!! http://shaferdesigns.com/coding/godaddy-htaccess-mod_rewrite-is-working/ http://shaferdesigns.com/coding/godaddy-htaccess-mod_rewrite-is-working/#comments Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:58:08 +0000 Ken Shafer http://shaferdesigns.com/?p=79 Ok, so I know this is a little out of the blue but a recently acquired SEO client is using GoDaddy for their hosting. Their domain name is something to the effect of www.chicago(businesstype).com. I’ve only been optimizing the site for a couple of weeks and we’re already doing well for keyword phrases using “chicago.”

However, the client wants to attack markets in the surrounding suburbs so I needed to come up with a quick way to create “city pages” for each new market. I did this by using www.domain.com/cityPage.php?city=name. Easy enough…but i needed something friendlier for Google. Enter mod_rewrite for GoDaddy.

I searched around online until I found this combination which works for me.
Original URL: www.domain.com/cityPage.php?city=name (meh)
New URL: www.domain.com/name (wonderful!)

Here’s the magic code!
Options FollowSymLinks
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/?$ /cityPage.php?city=$1 [L]

You can see this code working at the Chicago Title Loans site (www.chicagotitleloans.com)

Enjoy!

thx to the following sites for your help!
http://gidden.net/tom/2006/05/26/4/
http://surf11.com/entry/153/godaddy-hosting-mod-rewrite-with-htacces
http://www.btjones.com/2007/12/09/godaddy-mod_rewrite-problem-fix/
http://www.webmasterworld.com/apache/3380566.htm

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