Creating a unique URL for a category

[onelove5683]

What would be the best way about creating a unique URL for a specific category.
For example:
http://www.homepage.com/category1

...and then when you go to that url you are automatically taken to category1's page.

I am guessing it would have something to do with adding a new folder called category1, right? But then what goes inside?

[onelove5683]

Anyone have any ideas?

[Kim]

All of the data in Zen Cart is stored in the database not files.

If you want names in your URL you will have to look at one of the SEO URL addons, But they are not needed to get your site spidered and ranked.

[onelove5683]

Thanks for the response.

I am not looking to do this for better page rank. It is for a sort of site within a site. I need to make it easier to access that specific category without having to go to the main page first.

I cant exactly use http://site.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=000

instead its more like www.site1.com/site2

Can I do it without the SEO URL addons? Any suggestions as to the easiest, simplest one? I don't want to do this for any other categories, just one of them.

[onelove5683]

If make a new directory called "category1"... is there a way to direct traffic from there to the category I am trying to make a new URL for?

Maybe some HTML or something to redirect from www.site.com/category1 to the actual category?

[bigbadboy]

Possibly use a rewrite rule?

In htaccess put:

RewriteRule ^site2$ /index.php?main_page=index&cPath=000

This would change this url:
http://domain.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=000

to http://domain.com/site2