如何将带有附加参数的大网址变成较小的网址？

Question

Here is my problem.

I have a complex url - Example: www.mywebsite.com/first/second/something/index.html

And i want to convert it into something like www.mywebsite.com/index.html?a=64&e=453

I have seen this in some websites.

But I am not able to figure out how that is done. Any help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

Those URLs are generated by a server-side programming language, like PHP. The pages are generated dynamically, and are typically not desirable (because 'clean' URLs are easier to read and edit and better for SEO).

Technically, you can add ?a=64 to a regular web address and it won't prevent the page from rendering - but I'm not sure why anyone would want to do this.

Answer 2

The answer would most likely depend on what web server you are using. If you are using Apache, you can do this with mod_rewrite. You can find a lot of documentation on exactly how to set this up online:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html https://www.sitepoint.com/apache-mod_rewrite-examples/

For example, if you wanted to map a URL parameter to a path you could do something like

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}     a=64    [NC]
RewriteRule ^/index.html$       /first/second/something/index.html      [NC,L,R=301]

(I haven't tried that out, so the syntax might not be 100% correct.) But then you'd have to manually create a rule for every number to path mapping that you want, which might be a lot of work, so this might not be the best solution.