seo friendly url for blogs

Question

am building a blog system and i have a table a in my database called url which save the post title with the date i also have a page called index.php with display all the data from database, which when click take you to post.php .the problem is that the url is not SEO friendly site/post?url=seo-friendly-url.html/2017-09-29 ,i have a .htaccess file which works well

`Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^post/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ post.php?url=$1  
RewriteRule ^post/([a-zA-Z-0-9-]+)/ post.php?url=$1  
`

but refuse to rewrite my blog post,my index hyper link look like this <a href='post?url=".$row['url']."'> , have tried to rewrite it to <a href='post/".$row['url']."'> but is not working,have made research but still no progress,please any help would be much appreciated,as have been on the issue for some days now.

Answer 1

Add AliasMatch in VirtualHost file of your website (This will be located in your apache folder)

These are the lines you need to add in Virtual host file

AliasMatch ^post/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ post.php?url=$1  
AliasMatch ^post/([a-zA-Z-0-9-]+)/ post.php?url=$1

In linux based server. The virtual host will be located in the folder

/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ 

Here in this folder find your website virtual host file and add these two lines

Virtual host will have code similar to this

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined


    #Add these two line only donot disturb any other lines 

    AliasMatch ^post/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ post.php?url=$1  
    AliasMatch ^post/([a-zA-Z-0-9-]+)/ post.php?url=$1


</VirtualHost>

In your .htaccess file Remove these two lines

RewriteRule ^post/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ post.php?url=$1  
RewriteRule ^post/([a-zA-Z-0-9-]+)/ post.php?url=$1

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Bonus

Now if you want to redirect the users who are visiting to old url (/post?url="old_url.html") to new seo friendly url (/post/old_url.html) add this to your .htaccess file

RewriteRule ^post.php?url=([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ post/$1
RewriteRule ^post.php?url=([a-zA-Z-0-9-]+)/ post/$1

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If you have all the lines as comments(# infront of all lines) in virtual host file add this to your virtual host at the bottom

 <VirtualHost *:80>
        DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
        AliasMatch ^post/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ post.php?url=$1  
        AliasMatch ^post/([a-zA-Z-0-9-]+)/ post.php?url=$1


    </VirtualHost>

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Remember to restart your Apache Server after you do the changes

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