PHP: Clean URLs on Apache Server

Optimize your URLs for search engines and site visitors. Learn how to use the Apache mod_rewrite module to create clean URLs for PHP sites.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Checking Your Setup

• Testing whether Apache mod_rewrite is enabled
• Enabling mod_rewrite in the Apache configuration file
• Setting up the database for the example site

2. Basic URL Rewriting

• How to use mod_rewrite
• Creating simple regular expressions
• Removing .php from the URL
• Working with a nonexistent directory
• Replacing a query string with a numeric value
• Replacing a query string with a text value
• Using RewriteBase

3. Advanced Techniques

• Creating a clean URL for search results
• Displaying the search results
• Linking to a specific part of a page
• Setting conditions for rewriting URLs
• Creating a clean URL for any PHP file
• Using RewriteMap with a text file
• Using an indexed hash file with RewriteMap
• Increasing the log level to troubleshoot problems

Conclusion

• Review
• Goodbye