Web Design / PHP, SEO, Music Recording Guy

Well, I just wasted a few hours of my life. I’m helping a buddy, Eric Conn, get his Audio Mastering website setup for better onsite search engine optimization. I spent considerable time getting messing with htaccess to setup search engine friendly URLs.

After a while, I gave up. Nothing was working. It turns out that the Earthlink hosting disables mod_rewrite. That’s right, in 2007 Earthlink has decided to disable the option of search engine friendly URLs.

I was able to get a “next best” solution. I added “index.php” in front of the custom URL / permalink setup in Wordpress.

In this particular case, I just wanted to domain.com/category/blog-title/

For the “Custom Structure”, I used: /index.php/%category%/%postname%/

Now everything is working fine, The URL isn’t perfect as every URL now has index.php/category/blog-title/ but I think it’s much better than using index.php?q=5 or whatever.

Brandon

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