[solved] Remove Artist and videoID from Url

[osa]

PHP Melody uses a SEO url format like this:

http://www.sitename.com/artist/music-title_videoID

im not using php melody for music videos, but for general videos, especialy animation and commercials related

I'm upgrading from a planaform were I I'm using simple Urls like

http://www.sitename.com/music-title

I already have several pages indexed in google, and I know I have to change the functions.php and .htaccess for this to work but I cant figure it out. Please help me.

[Paul]

VideoID is a must. If you remove this from your links, no video will be identified.

To change the format of your video links, open include/functions.php and find this:

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$return = _URL.'/'.$artist.'/'.$song.'-video_'.$id.'.html';


Change it as you wish. Then, update your .htaccess with the new format.

[osa]

wow, fast reply!

I found the functions.php line, but I keep getting a 404 error, when changing the .htaccess line. I know the line to change, but dont know what to remove.

I will keep the id

[Paul]

This is the line you have to edit in htaccess:

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RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)-video_(.*).html$ musicvideo.php?vid=$3

The first "(.*)" is for 'Artist', the second is for 'Video Title' and third is for 'VideoID'.

Just edit the first part:

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^(.*)/(.*)-video_(.*).html$

[osa]

Many thanks Paul. But its still not solved.

This is how I have it now to remove the artist from the URL:

functions.php :

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$return = _URL.'/'.$song.'-video_'.$id.'.html';

.htaccess :

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RewriteRule ^(.*)-video_(.*).html$ musicvideo.php?vid=$3


No error this time , but it keeps redirecting to the main page.

Not to abuse your patience.

[Paul]

The htaccess rule should look like this:

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RewriteRule ^(.*)-video_(.*).html$ musicvideo.php?vid=$2

[osa]

Working just great. Thanks Paul for the amazing support.

[kztixo]

Google takes as a duplicate, so penalize you if you see that you can enter the URL that had the artist and no artist now. As you would do in the htaccess to avoid having to put one by one the url changed.
Thanks

[mephisto]

Google takes as a duplicate, so penalize you if you see that you can enter the URL that had the artist and no artist now. As you would do in the htaccess to avoid having to put one by one the url changed.
Thanks

not if you give google a canonical URL in your head section. Then it will use that always.

[maniaka55]

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