Coldfusion SEO Friendly & Human Readable URLs

Question

I am looking to change a Coldfusion Dymnaic URL to a SEO Friendly / Human Readable URL.

The URL looks like this at the moment:

www.mywebsite.com/index.cfm?area=content&action=contentselect&menuid=1

I would like it to be more like www.mywebsite.com/aboutus

Not sure what is the best way to approach this. Dont really want to have duplicate pages or create static HTML versions of the dynamic page.

Would really appreciate some direction on the best way to do this.

Thanks

JR__Bob__Dobbs-qSBHQ2 · Answer

You should investigate the URL rewrite features available to your web server (IIS or Apache). The ColdFusion server is not the ideal place to URL re-writing since, in a default installation, it does not handle requests that are not associated with a ColdFusion file type (*.cfm, .*.cfc, etc.).

If you are using IIS 7, you might try the Url Rewrite Module from Microsoft

http://www.iis.net/extensions/URLRewrite

If you are using Apache, you mighty try using mod_rewrite

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/

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