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How can I replace parameter by subdirectory – SEO

Currently I have my search page hosted like below

mywebsite.com/search.html?query=cat

So I am extracting query from url parameter as you can see the query is 'cat' for now.

For some seo reasons this is not a good practice so I want to replace above format to following format:

mywebsite.com/search/cat

Is there any way to achieve such result without actually changing the current files? Right now I am hosting the website with nginx in ubuntu server. Any suggestion is hugely appreciated.

Thanks in advance

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  1. 0

    There are thousands of examples for this in SO.

    Nevertheless here is a suggestion: 

    RewriteEngine on 

RewriteRule ^/?search/(.+)/?$ /search.html?query=cat [END,QSA]

RewriteCond ${QUERY_STRING} (^|&)query=(.*)(&|$)
RewriteRule ^/?search.html$ /search/%1 [R=301]
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  2. 0

    You can simply do the following rewrite in your NGINX configuration (in server {...} block):

    rewrite ^/search/(.*)$ /search.html?query=$1 last;
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