How to write htaccess rewrite rule for seo friendly url

Question

• I am just new to .htaccess.
• I need some rewrite rules for URLs.
• I Google'd some and applied but no change in URL.

I want:

demo.example.com/section.php?id=1 

Changed to:

demo.example.com/section/sample-section

i tried

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteRule ^section/(\d+)*$ ./section.php?id=$1

but no difference

Thanks.

I will appreciate your help.

Answer 1

First, make sure mod_rewrite is enabled and htaccess files allowed in your Apache configuration.

Then, put this code in your htaccess (which has to be in root folder)

Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On

# redirect "/section.php?id=xxx" to "/section/xxx"
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/section\.php\?id=([0-9]+)\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /section/%1? [R=301,L]

# internally rewrite "/section/xxx" to "/section.php?id=xxx"
RewriteRule ^section/([0-9]+)$ /section.php?id=$1 [L]