mod-rewrite recursive loop

Question

I want to change my website\'s dynamic urls to Search Engine Friendly URL\'s

Now the urls like this www.website.com/news.php?id=127591 , I want it became this www.websit

Answer 1

If you're only concerned about search engines, you could create a robots.txt file containing:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /news.php

This will make sure that search engines don't follow the news.php links.

To fix your rewrite rules, you might try adding L to the first RewriteRule to make sure that mod_rewrite doesn't continue:

RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]+) /news.php?id=$1 [PT,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([0-9]+) 
RewriteRule ^news\.php /news/%1? [R=301,L]