Quick question about url rewriting.

[mr_c]

I have it turned on and my category urls turn out like this

www.mysite.com/5-generic-name/

but when i look at a product inside that category, the product comes up as

www.mysite.com/generic-name/product.html

but then, if i type www.mysite.com/generic-name in the browser, it doesnt work, i have to include the "5-" first.

Is it possible to make the url rewriting of category url's not include the ID? I think it looks more tidy and professional as www.mysite.com/generic-name, as opposed to 5-generic-name. And also, in case a customer is looking at a product and then instead of pressing back or whatever button, he/she deletes the product.html, expecting to be able to browse the category, finds that it doesn't work.

Any input about the subject that i do not know about? and any way to do this?

Thanks

[CYTechnologies]

You would need to change the way the system looks up categories when using the SEO friendly urls. Its not impossible at all. If I get some free time I will check the code to see what you would need to do.

[Radu]

I think i won't be easy because of how presta uses rewrites in htaccess. It doesn't use a bootstrap like wordpress for instance rewriting everything to index.php and from there looking up the proper page.

But it will be a good improvement for future versions.

[Shenit]

I found 1 more problem with URL rewrite. For example my category page is www.mysite.com/1-cellphone, however if i type www.mysite.com/1- or www.mysite.com/1-abcdef or whatever behind the 1- it will still redirect to the category page instead of the page not found page. Somehow google had crawled my pages with different URL and causes page duplication. Does this effect SEO? as google webmaster shows us that it is a problem. Please advice Thank you

[Radu]

indeed this is a real problem and needs to be solved asap.

I'll take a look when I have some time

[rocky]

See this post for a solution from the Prestashop team.