John Davidson

Message:

I am using this URL rewriting with PHP The Folder structure for rewriting the URLs. I am done it is working fine but after rewrite the URLs then ok now i have two URLs one is simple URL like /~admin/product-category.php?cat_id=2 and second rewrites URL /~admin/product-category/men-items so how to redirect the first URL to second URL? or just the first URL should not work because of duplicates content issues.

My Project Links:

First link: http://199.192.21.232/~admin/product-category.php?cat_id=2
Rewrites link: http://199.192.21.232/~admin/product-category/men-items

Script

define( 'INCLUDE_DIR', dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/' );



$rules = array( 

    'picture'   => "/picture/(?'text'[^/]+)/(?'id'\d+)",    // '/picture/some-text/51'

    'album'     => "/album/(?'album'[\w\-]+)",              // '/album/album-slug'

    'category'  => "/product-category/(?'product_category'[\w\-]+)",        // '/category/category-slug'

    'page'      => "/page/(?'page'about|contact)",          // '/page/about', '/page/contact'

    'post'      => "/(?'post'[\w\-]+)",                     // '/post-slug'

    'home'      => "/"                                      // '/'

);



$uri = rtrim( dirname($_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"]), '/' );

$uri = '/' . trim( str_replace( $uri, '', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ), '/' );

$uri = urldecode( $uri );



foreach ( $rules as $action => $rule ) {

    if ( preg_match( '~^'.$rule.'$~i', $uri, $params ) ) {

        include( INCLUDE_DIR . $action . '.php' );

        exit();

    }

}



include( INCLUDE_DIR . '404.php' );

.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]

</IfModule>

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My Answer:
> You can use a 301 redirect in your .htaccess file to redirect the old URL to the new rewritten URL. Here is an example of how you can do this:

apache
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} cat_id=2
RewriteRule ^product-category.php$ /~admin/product-category/men-items? [L,R=301]


This code will redirect any URL that contains "cat_id=2" in the query string to the new rewritten URL. This will help prevent duplicate content issues and ensure that only the rewritten URL is accessible.