Currently, more websites are created by CMS like PHPNuke, Joomla or WordPress since with the use of CMS, contents are more effectively manageable. For example, contents can be added to the website by someone else such as copywriter rather than webmaster only. Another example is that adding contents to the website can be done via a browser, which means you or your copywriter can add contents anywhere having Internet access. However, URLs of your web pages generated by CMS are initially dynamic, URLs that contain some parameters.

http://localhost/phpnuke/modules.php?name=Addon_Sample&file=index&func=one

This kind of URL is not preferred by search engines and they may not index these pages. Therefore, today I will tell people who created their websites with PHPnuke, Joomla and WordPress how to convert the dynamic URLs to static ones.

PHPnuke : For PHPnuke, I downloaded a tool call Googlifier that you can search from Google. After completing download, you have to extract the zipped file. Then, you have to upload 3 files, which are .htaccess, header.php and footer.php. However, I recommend you better backup these 3 files first and that’s it. If it is not working you may try to restart your web server. Moreover, if you still want to customize your URLs, you may use Mod Rewriteto do so.

Joomla : The version I use is 1.5.9 and what I have to do is very simple. Go to the menu ‘Site’ and select ‘Global Configuration’. In the section ‘SEO setting’, I have to check yes at the menu ‘Search Engine Friendly URL’ and ‘Use Apache mod_rewrit’. However, you have to check first if mod_rewrite module is loaded.

WordPress : With wordpress, you have the following options to convert your URLs

http://www.yourwebsite.com/blog/2009/05/14/post/

http://www.yourwebsite.com /blog/2009/05/post/
http://www.yourwebsite.com /blog/archives/123

http://www.yourwebsite.com/blog/post/

What you have to do is going to submenu ‘Permalinks’ under the menu ‘Settings’. Then, select the option you prefer your URLs to be. If you want the last option you have to select ‘Custom Structure’ and fill ‘/%postname%/’ in the field.

Alright, these are the ways to convert dynamic URL to static ones of 3 CMSs mentioned above. Moreover, if you guys know how to do this for other CMSs like Drupal, etc. Please leave your comment here and I am sure that it will be very useful for other people.

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