Creating a unique URL for a category

[onelove5683]

Thanks for the idea.

I just tried what you said but it did not work. Unless I did it wrong or put it in the wrong place. Any more ideas?

[onelove5683]

Would I have to create a new htaccess file? Where should I put the file?

Do I have to turn the "rewriting" function on in the server? Or is this always on?

[onelove5683]

Am I even remotely close to solving this problem? I looked at the SEO add-ons and it didn't seem like it would do the trick. Besides, that sure would be a lot of additional files for one simple rewrite, right?

[amanamission]

The Ultimate SEO Plugin claims to do the trick.
Good luck

[onelove5683]

The Ultimate SEO Plugin claims to do the trick.
Good luck

but the point is that there should be an easier way to accomplish this without the SEO add-ons. I don't see why it's necessary to add or modify the php files... when a simple htaccess rewrite should do the trick.

Can someone please help out? I just want to change the URL of one single category.

[onelove5683]

I installed the ultimate seo add-on and I didn't like it. But I copied the format in the included htaccess file and replaced some info with the stuff I wanted and its working!

If you want to be able to change the url of a specific category (and I imagine this can be used with any other pages as well) simply add this to your .htaccess file in the root directory:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /yoursite.com/

# From Ultimate SEO URLs
RewriteRule ^category http://yoursite.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=500

• category = the word you want to come after yoursite.com/
• http://yoursite.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=500 is the original url for the category you are changing.

Actually, this is what I did in the first place but I didn't have the ReWriteBase part. I wonder if that's why it wouldn't work.

Now I just need to get this Ultimate SEO stuff out of my admin panel!

[amanamission]

Thanks for the rewrite. There are a few things about the Ultimate SEO plug-in that I do not like either.

Is there a .htaccess rewrite will automatically make each new product and category page URL look like yoursite.com/category-name/product-name/

or do you have to specify the url and rewrite URL for each new page into the .htaccess?