SEO friendly knowledgebase links

[Cody Salter]

Ok, got it working with a few kinks.

 

http://secure.pc-core.net/knowledgebase/13/75/How_do_I_login_to_my_VPS_Power_Panel_(VZPP).html

 

404 error.

http://secure.pc-core.net/knowledgebase/13/87/Are_iptable_modules_supported_on_vps_Can_I_install_APF_firewall.html

 

Works.

 

Why do some work and some not?

 

Also, the links like this:

 

Knowledgebase

You are here: Support > Knowledgebase > Managed VPS and Dedicated Hosting > Managed VPS

 

They are relative, how do I fix this to absolute values, they give 404 errors when you try to go back to the category.

 

I don't want to use SEO for the categories.

[hostajax]

Hi! I'm using the default template and the link for category article is:

 

a href="knowledgebase.php?action=displaycat&catid={$kbcat.id}"

 

and for article is:

 

a href="knowledgebase.php?action=displayarticle&catid={$kbarticle.category}&id={$kbarticle.id}"

 

The default template don't get /knowledgebase/{$kbcat.id}/{$kbcat.name|...

 

How can I use the string replace to use with the default template?

 

Thanks

[edrom]

Got it working now. Took me a couple of hours due to language differences, but got it working now.

Very nice "how-to". Thank you jasonBV!

[edrom]

Works perfectly!! Now I need solve the problem of replacement of accents by letter without the accent (eg "é" by "e" and, "á" by "a").

 

Thanks!

Try adding those characters to the "replace" action:

 

Original by jasonBV:

<a href="/knowledgebase/{$kbarticle.category}/{$kbarticle.id}/{$kbarticle.title|regex_replace:"/ /":"_"|regex_replace:"/[\?\'\.\,\!]/":""}.html">{$kbarticle.title}</a>

 

Edited to ignore á é í ó ú and ¿

<a href="/knowledgebase/{$kbarticle.category}/{$kbarticle.id}/{$kbarticle.title|regex_replace:"/ /":"_"|regex_replace:"/[\?\á\é\í\ó\ú\¿\.\,\!]/":""}.html">{$kbarticle.title}</a>

 

Hope this helps.

[minadreapta]

anyone knows how to extend this to the announcements ?

 

thanks.

[jasonBV]

anyone knows how to extend this to the announcements ?

 

thanks.

 

You should be able to use the same concept for the announcements as well by adding the entry to your .htaccess file and modifying your announcements template.

[minadreapta]

i know that, but i just don't know how to. i am not so skilled.

[myinsideguy]

My categories dont display nor do the pictures and when i click on the number (number of articles in cat) i get a 404 error and the correct SEO url. I can see my top articles but when i click on those i get the correct url but 404 error any thoughts please.

 

Thank you,

 

Cameron

[YoungL]

I am going through my Hosting site and trying my best to SEO, I am not brilliant at it but I understand where its coming from.

 

I understand that google does not like duplicate content? So if I have two pages with identical content it wont look good on google.

 

So...

 

If a page links to one of the old URLs knowledgebase.php?action=displaycat&catid=2instead of the new URL knowledgebase/2/3/Storage.php

 

Could you explain how I could use .htaccess to

301 Moved permanently (redirect) to the new page?

 

Sorry if that is not explained too well. I find it hard to explain.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Troy]

Here's a sample 301 redirect using your example URIs:

 

Redirect 301 /knowledgebase.php?action=displaycat&catid=2 http://www.domain.com/knowledgebase/2/3/Storage.php

[YoungL]

That doesnt work for me still loads knowledgebase.php...

 

I will keep looking around unless someone can help me I do appreciated the help tho thanks!

[hightekhosting]

We seem to be having trouble enabling this.

 

When we add:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^knowledgebase/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/[a-z0-9_-]+\.html$ /knowledgebase.php?action=displayarticle&catid=$1&i d=$2 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^knowledgebase/([0-9]+)/([^/]*)$ /knowledgebase.php?action=displaycat&catid=$1 [L,NC]

 

to our .htaccess file, we get an Internal Server 500 error.

 

Any ideas as to why?

 

We have other rewrites in our .htaccess for our forums, so in theory, this should work much the same but it does not.

 

Cheers,

 

Dale Evans

Manager

[Troy]

Remove this space near the end of the first RewriteRule perhaps? :

 

i d=$2

[hightekhosting]

Ahh yep, sorry. Fixed that, but now we get a 404 whenever we click on any category or article.

 

Any idea?

[BenHarris]

This works great. Only problem is the other links on the page get mucked due to the /cat/id bit which is added to the url (from the dynamic url).

 

Is is possible to just remove these? so we have like whmcsinstall/knowledgebase/Article.html

 

Im a mod rewrite newbie really.

 

Cheers,

 

Ben

[iLLuSi0nS]

My knowledgebase.tpl looks nothing like the ones you described so heres my offer.

 

I will give someone $25US via Paypal that will let me send them my knowledgebase.tpl have it modified so I have a SEO friendly KB. But with the $25 I also need to have all my other pages end with a .html instead of .php, like knowledgebase.php, support.php, contact.php announcements.php and all the others...you get my drift. If you can just explain this in very simple instructions, you can just do a few and i will do the rest. Thanks

 

 

PM me if interested.

[ServerTweak.com]

My knowledgebase.tpl looks nothing like the ones you described so heres my offer.

 

I will give someone $25US via Paypal that will let me send them my knowledgebase.tpl have it modified so I have a SEO friendly KB. But with the $25 I also need to have all my other pages end with a .html instead of .php, like knowledgebase.php, support.php, contact.php announcements.php and all the others...you get my drift. If you can just explain this in very simple instructions, you can just do a few and i will do the rest. Thanks

 

 

PM me if interested.

 

i'll 2nd this request

[ariyes]

wow thanks

[iLLuSi0nS]

Thanks what? Will you do it for us ariyes?

[victor12]

Hmm, well I did this but it gives me a 404 error any idea why?

[ServerTweak.com]

ah, got it working now... thanks

 

http://wiki.servertweak.com

[lynnette]

Hmm, well I did this but it gives me a 404 error any idea why?

 

Make sure you have mod_rewrite installed on your server.

[Antouk]

Hi

i put htaccess into www/ (is a cpanel server)

i change link into .tpl fils

All work but i've a big problem with CSS and all Customer Are

 

When i visit knowledgebase all relative link are with

knowledgebase/CAT/ID/link.php

 

example

 

without mod_rewrite i can

domain/cart.php

 

with mod_rewrite

knowledgebase/cat/id/cart.php

 

where i wrong?

 

i must change all link into .tpl ?? from (example) /ticket.php /cart.php to domain/cart.php ?

THANKSSS

[Serverweb]

I've same problem.

I've to change all link from relative to absolute?

Thanks

[iLLuSi0nS]

I have tried and tried, but cannot get this working.

 

The URL rewrite works fine, but the pages that are being rewritten are missing CSS and images.

 

I tried replacing the / with _ like minadreapta said, but when I do that, it gives me a 404 document not found.

 

Any ideas?