Url Manager for better SEO

 

Url Manager for better SEO - Getting Rid of the index.php and the ugly r=

Hey Yii developers ever wondered how you can get the index.php and the ugly  r=  from the url. Its simple
You need to do three things.

first thing

'urlManager' =>[
          'enablePrettyUrl'=>'true',
          'showScriptName'=>'false'
    ]

The urlManager is a component so add it to the components array that we have in the web.php file if you are using the basic app template.

the 'enablePrettyUrl' => 'true' removes the ugly r= from the url that is simple enough so your site index will be like ' domainname.com/index.php/site/index '

and the  'showScriptName'=>'false' tells yii that we don't want to show the index.php in our urls

second thing

but there is one more thing you need to do that is to add a .htaccess file to your document root. That means inside the web directory below are the things you need to add to the .htaccess file 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)\?*$ index.php?r=$1 [L,QSA]


third thing

Make sure you enable mod rewrite by running the below command in your terminal

a2enmod rewrite

Now you will be able to access site index with the below url

domainname.com/site/index

Thats it if you have any issues do comment 

Reference: https://m.youtube.com/user/DoingITeasyChannel