How to properly redirect or rewrite Joomla article urls

Question

Some of my article pages are linking to a menu items that uses aliases as the page url. For example: mysite.com/realurl. However these articles can still be accessed via the browser using mysite.com/?option=com_content&view=article&id=xx, where xx is the article id.

What is the best and easiest way to redirect/rewrite all these urls to the menu item alias, seo friendly, urls?

Answer 1

the standard way to rewrite urls is to use the joomla router function:

echo JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=xx'); 

This calls the router.php - file for the component in question (here com_content/router.php)

regards Jonas

Answer 2

This should achieve what you are looking for

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|POST)\ /\?option=com_content&view=article&id=(.*)\ HTTP
RewriteRule ^ /%2\? [R=302,L]

RewriteRule ^([0-9]+) /?option=com_content&view=article&id=$1 [L]