Change url to article in Cakephp

Question

I create a new website. In the old one I had the url to an article like:

www.mysite.com/article,{article_id},{article_title}.html 

I want to change the structure of my url in cakephp without losing my SEO position in google. How can I do it?

I use Cakephp 3.8 I haven't tried anything yet because I don't know where to start

Answer 1

Assuming you are using an apache webserver, I'd set 301 redirects in the htaccess to tell the robot the old URLs are moved permanentely .

This shouldn't affect SEO as it is a standard procedure.

Depending on how your new URL format looks like, you can then use a query-string for dynamic urls like so:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^article,.+ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+?)/([^/]+)/?$ $1/?article,$2 [L,QSA]