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.htaccess rewrite rules for category and product – Oscommerce

i have a oscommerce site, i wan to use seo freindly urls, I got a tutorial from here

I basically wanted to change the ID number present in a URL to a URl that will contain name of product or category in it. an example of such url is

http://katanamotorsports.com/innovative-mounts-steel-mounts-prelude-replacement-mount-p-1075.html

i want to modify .htaccess file so that these seo friendly url are actually redirected to respective page with respect to category and product.

i am new bee in learning, and i am totally a new bee in .htaccess

can anybody help me?

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    You have to use a RewriteRule in your .htaccess to map the external URL (as visible by a user) to your internal version.

    What you want to do is activate the RewriteEngine, then write a RewriteRule that will drop the first part of the URI.

    RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9-]+-p-([0-9]+).html$ /product.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9-]+-c-([0-9]+).html$ /category.php?id=$1
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    Please don’t use “SEO Friendly” urls like this. They are NOT currently SEO friendly. Search engines liked them 10 years ago. In the last five years they really only hurt.

    • Google gives almost no weight to keywords in the url
    • Google gives weight to sites that it determines satisfy users

    So, don’t design urls for search engines, design them for users. Users like

    • Urls that are short (maybe they can type them or remember them)
    • Urls that are meaningful (They can see what they are about before clicking on them)
    • Urls that don’t contain repetition or numbers like ids

    It would be far better for you to have your url be:

    http://katanamotorsports.com/prelude-replacement-mount
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