I will let google answer to your question: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/dynamic-urls-vs-static-urls.html In the article: Which can Googlebot read better, static or dynamic URLs? […]While static URLs might have a slight advantage in terms of clickthrough rates because users can easily read the urls, the decision to use database-driven websites does not imply a significant disadvantage in terms … Read more
Tim Berners-Lee (the architect of the WWW) wrote a great article about this subject about 10 years ago. Your example is a bad URL — but not just because it has both an id and a “slug” (the abbreviated, hyphenated form of the page title). Putting the page title into your URL is problematic in … Read more
On my hosting I needed add first line : RewriteBase / until then I get Internal server error too.
RewriteEngine on # Prevents browser looping, which does seem # to occur in some specific scenarios. Can’t # explain the mechanics of this problem in # detail, but there we go. RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} 200 RewriteRule .* – [L] # Hard-rewrite (“[R]”) to “friendly” URL. # Needs RewriteCond to match original querystring. # Uses “?” in … Read more
If your sole reason is to get rid of the .xhtml extension, then there are various ways depending on the JSF version you’re using. Faces 4.0 Just add the following context parameter to web.xml: <context-param> <param-name>jakarta.faces.AUTOMATIC_EXTENSIONLESS_MAPPING</param-name> <param-value>true</param-value> </context-param> JSF 2.3+ JSF 2.3 offers a new API to collect all views: the ViewHandler#getViews(). Combine this with … Read more
See the URLRewriteFilter
There’s no ambiguity here: RFC3986 says no, that is, URIs cannot contain unicode characters, only ASCII. An entirely different matter is how browsers represent encoded characters when displaying a URI, for example some browsers will display a space in a URL instead of ‘%20’. This is how IDN works too: punycoded strings are encoded and … Read more
The slugs make the URL more user-friendly and you know what to expect when you click a link. Search engines such as Google, rank the pages higher if the searchword is in the URL.
There are two steps to solve this problem. First, create a new route or change the default route to accept an additional parameter: routes.MapRoute( “Default”, // Route name “{controller}/{action}/{id}/{ignoreThisBit}”, new { controller = “Home”, action = “Index”, id = “”, ignoreThisBit = “”} // Parameter defaults ) Now you can type whatever you want to … Read more
I like the php-slugs code at google code solution. But if you want a simpler one that works with UTF-8: function format_uri( $string, $separator=”-” ) { $accents_regex = ‘~&([a-z]{1,2})(?:acute|cedil|circ|grave|lig|orn|ring|slash|th|tilde|uml);~i’; $special_cases = array( ‘&’ => ‘and’, “‘” => ”); $string = mb_strtolower( trim( $string ), ‘UTF-8’ ); $string = str_replace( array_keys($special_cases), array_values( $special_cases), $string ); $string … Read more