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

Please try this rule in your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks -MultiViews

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

RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]+) /news.php?id=$1 [L,NS,NE,QSA,NC]

UPDATE:: Based on your comments:

Inside news.php when URL doesn't have /some-title then output this META tag to stop indexing /news/987 type URIs:

<meta name="robots" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">

Once you notice URI of /news/987/some-title inside news.php simply mask above META tag. I have tested it and seems to be working fine so let me know if doesn't work for you.

Answer 2

simplest answer just add a canonical link in your head of your html document, this will stop your duplicate content issue.

Answer 3

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]

Answer 4

If [L] doesn't work for you, the issue might be separate internal requests (not sub-requests that you could halt with [NS]).

See here.

Answer 5

try using L

[L]

instead of

[PT]

Answer 6

You need to inspect the URI in the HTTP request line (i.e. %{THE_REQUEST}) as the other could already have been rewritten (like in your case):

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