Write page title in URL instead of page ID

Question

I am having my website and whenever I add a new page into it, it creates an url with random id number which I don't want. I would like to use the page/product name as my URL, so what currently I am having is:

Current: http://www.abcdex.in/deal/d29e96cfd623a83f37f1bc12b4465131

Desired: http://www.abcdex.in/deal/Product-Name

I have gone through with my .htaccess file and it shows at the bottom the following code:

RewriteEngine On
Options -Indexes
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|assets|forum|robots\.txt|canvas\.xml)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]

Could anyone help me out because It is creating a lot of mess and I am loosing my site rank because of this?

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

learn from this example and apply in your .htaccess Example

  AddDefaultCharset utf-8
 Options +FollowSymlinks -Indexes
 RewriteEngine on 
 RewriteBase /living/
 # skip all files and directories from rewrite rules below
 #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
 #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
 #RewriteRule ^ - [L]
 #RewriteRule ^authors/([^/]*)\.html$ main.php?authchar=$1 [QSA,L]

your .htaccess will be something like this your filenames

  AddDefaultCharset utf-8
  Options +FollowSymlinks -Indexes
  RewriteEngine on 
  RewriteBase /
 # skip all files and directories from rewrite rules below
 #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
 #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
 #RewriteRule ^ - [L]
 #RewriteRule ^deal/([^/]*)\.html$ yourscript.php?d29e96cfd623a83f37f1bc12b4465131=$1 [QSA,L]

Answer 2

You can try do all of this in htaccess, but I like to solve these issues in PHP

On all of your pages with URLs similar to

http://www.abcdex.in/deal/d29e96cfd623a83f37f1bc12b4465131

Convert the product name into a variable, such as $ProductName

Then redirect:

 <?php 
 header("Location: http://www.abcdex.in/deal/'.$ProductName.'"); 
 ?>

It is better if you alter the header into a 301 moved permanently, but you will only be able to alter the header if the Product-Name is passed into the variable $ProductName before any parts of the page have been loaded.

 header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); 

If you can't alter the header, then there are ways to redirect in PHP without using the header. I believe the following code works:

 $URL="http://www.abcdex.in/deal/'.$ProductName.'";
 echo '<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="0;URL=' . $URL . '">';
 echo "<script type='text/javascript'>document.location.href='{$URL}';       </script>";