Force Language / URL rewriting tip

[ServWise.com]

For those of you who like me are a bit SEO fanatic here are a few small rewrite rules for WHMCS that allow you to use language folders for separating your different language sites allowing spiders to index all of your content in all languages.

 

These rules basically append language=[langname] to all URLs based on the language sub-folder making sure that all pages can be indexed by the spiders.

 

Don't forget to change language=English to the language you want to force (e.g. language=French or language=German etc)

 

Two examples below

 

#English
RewriteRule ^en/(.*).php?(.*)#(.*) /whmcs/$1.php?$2&language=English#$3 [NC,LP,QSA] 
RewriteRule ^en/(.*).php?(.*) /whmcs/$1.php?$2&language=English [NC,LP,QSA] 
RewriteRule ^en/(.*)#(.*) /whmcs/$1?language=English#$2 [NC,LP,QSA] 
RewriteRule ^en/(.*) /whmcs/$1?language=English [NC,LP,QSA] 

#italiano

RewriteRule ^it/(.*).php?(.*)#(.*) /whmcs/$1.php?$2&language=Italian#$3 [NC,LP,QSA] 
RewriteRule ^it/(.*)?(.*) /whmcs/$1?$2&language=Italian [NC,LP,QSA] 
RewriteRule ^it/(.*)#(.*) /whmcs/$1?language=Italian#$2 [NC,LP,QSA]
RewriteRule ^it/(.*) /whmcs/$1?language=Italian [NC,LP,QSA]

 

Maybe this can be put into the tips and tricks forum, I don't seem to have access to post to there though.

[ServWise.com]

-- Update --

 

For this to work in the default tempates you need to remove the <base> tag from the header and remove any {$smarty.server.PHP_SELF} tags.

[ServWise.com]

-- Update 2 --

 

Instead of the above action an easy way is to add the following code to the top of your header.tpl

 

(replace "whmcs" with your own folder where you have installed whmcs.)

 

{php}
$path  = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$urlarray = explode("/", $path);
$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']=str_replace("whmcs",$urlarray[1],$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
{/php}

 

Incidentally, this only works if you have your whmcs installed in a sub-folder of root.

 

If you have it installed in the root then use the following script instead (Untested)

 

{php}
$path  = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$urlarray = explode("/", $path);
$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] = "/" . $urlarray[1] . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
{/php}

[RoadStar]

ServeWise or anyone in this forum figured out a way for mod rewrite rules to work with products and services?

As it is now no matter what product page you're on title page is identical on all. Needless to say this is a disaster for SEO

Thanks

[wilmatan]

ServeWise or anyone in this forum figured out a way for mod rewrite rules to work with products and services?

As it is now no matter what product page you're on title page is identical on all. Needless to say this is a disaster for SEO

Thanks

 

I don't quite understand your question. Can you please elaborate it?

[Anders]

thx for great ide is it possible to see if it works on my own site?

[Manchester Web Hosting]

ServeWise or anyone in this forum figured out a way for mod rewrite rules to work with products and services?

As it is now no matter what product page you're on title page is identical on all. Needless to say this is a disaster for SEO

Thanks

 

Yeah, you'll be hitting duplicate content issues here. The title tags do need to be unique...

[sebsimappus]

Hello,

Would it be possible to get an update for WHMCS v7

thank you in advance