Following instructions here: [url]https://www.ecommercetemplates.com/seo/search-engine-friendly-urls-php.asp[/url]. Works fine for product detail pages, but for categories I still get: products.php?cat=8

I've made the includes.php changes and the .htaccess, but not yet the 301 redirects.

[url]https://www.mad-trees.com[/url]

Hi

It looks like it is working fine for the internal navigation. You'll need to change the menu links to point to the new URLs.

Andy

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Can I change this to say plants instead of products?

$seoprodurlpattern="/products/%s";

Yes, you can but also make the corresponding change in the .htaccess file.

Andy

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So, what is my link to what was categories.php?

And the link to view all products (plants)?

I would use the internal navigation to get the correct links and copy those to your menu.

Andy

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Figured these out. But for all plants, I now have /plants/products/

What do you have in includes.php and the .htaccess file for the new Urls?

Andy

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Includes:
$seodetailurls=TRUE;
$seocategoryurls=TRUE;
$detlinkspacechar="-";
$seocaturlpattern="/category/%s";
$seoprodurlpattern="/plants/%s";

.htaccess:

[code]<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^category/([^/.]*)/?$ /categories.php?cat=$1 [QSA,nc,L,B]
RewriteRule ^plants/([^/.]*)/?$ /products.php?cat=$1 [QSA,nc,L,B]
RewriteRule ^manufacturer/?$ /categories.php?man=all [QSA,nc,L,B]
RewriteRule ^manufacturer/([^/.]*)/?$ /products.php?man=$1 [QSA,nc,L,B]
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)$ proddetail.php?prod=$1 [QSA,nc,L,B]
</IfModule>[/code]

For consistency, it would be great to make search.php, cart.php and contact.php extentionless.

The URLs work fine for me. Could be you have .htaccess file cached.

Andy

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Right. URLs work fine. I'm referring to how they appear. With SEO Friendly URLs for the products, there are no file extensions (https://www.mad-trees.com/Boxwood-~-Buxus-Microphylla-Green-Mountain)

But non-product pages like search, about, privacy, contact, etc. have a .php extension (https://www.mad-trees.com/contact.php).

I suppose I could use this in .htaccess as I have for other sites.

[code]<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
# For security reasons, Option followsymlinks cannot be overridden.
# Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
RewriteBase /

# Add trailing slash to url
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/|#(.*))$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/ [R=301,L]

# Remove .php-extension from url
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)/$ $1.php

# Remove .html-extension from url
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)/$ $1.html

# End of Apache Rewrite Rules
</IfModule>[/code]

The extensionless URLs are for the product based pages. I think you may run into problems using that approach for some other pages like cart.php or thanks.php.

Andy

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