First stage is to add the the new rule to .htaccess; enclose within a "not exists" check to ensure that the rule doesn't conflict with other files or directories on your site. This is easy to do - in your .htaccess add the following at the very end:
Next, wherever links to categories are created or hardcoded, the /category/ section can be removed. Within the category index, categories.php, this would be a case of changing line 20 from:
Hi Mally,
First stage is to add the the new rule to .htaccess; enclose within a "not exists" check to ensure that the rule doesn't conflict with other files or directories on your site. This is easy to do - in your .htaccess add the following at the very end:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-fRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ search.php?q=category:$1:&rewrite=1%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*).html$ search.php?q=category:$1:&page=$2&rewrite=1%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
Next, wherever links to categories are created or hardcoded, the /category/ section can be removed. Within the category index, categories.php, this would be a case of changing line 20 from:
$item["href"] = tapestry_hyphenate($product["category"])."/";to:
$item["href"] = $config_baseHREF.tapestry_hyphenate($product["category"])."/";(using $config_baseHREF has the effect of removing /category/ from the URL)
Line 41 of your sidebar script (re: your recent email) would need to be changed from
$href = $config_baseHREF."category/".tapestry_hyphenate($row["category"])."/";to:
$href = $config_baseHREF.tapestry_hyphenate($row["category"])."/";Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.