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PHP: Clean URLs on Apache Server

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

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.

Syllabus

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

Taught by

David Powers

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