Removing PHP Code from URL - making search engine friendly dynamic URL

How can I change my displayed links from:

http://www.mysite.com/links3/jump.php?id=27&url=http://www.linkedsite.com

to just: http://www.linkedsite.com ?

I've got a small open source links management program that generates the URLs displayed to visitors in the format:
http://www.mysite.com/links3/jump.php?id=27&url=http://www.linkedsite.com

That link is generated by this code:
print("<div><a href=\"jump.php?id=$rec_id&amp;url=$url\" title=\"Go to the website $name\"><strong>$name</strong></a> - $description</div>");

where jump.php is a small script that increments a counter for the number of times a link is clicked.

I'd like to change the code so that the counter still works but that the link the user (and a search engine) sees doesn't have all the extra stuff in it and is only: http://www.linkedsite.com

I've been told that one solution might be to use mod_rewrite for the URL, but I don't have a clue how to actually use that tool. Can someone please help?

Thanks,

-Danny.

 

Well if you only want to link to the URL alone, the only possibility to track the links would be implementing Javascript.

However, if you can live with something such as www.yourdomain.com/link/http://www.linkedsite.com, then you can use mod_rewrite by placing a .htaccess file in your root directory.
A quick sample code is as follows:

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteRule  ^link/http://([A-Za-z0-9\.\-]+)$ links3/jump.php?id=27&url=http://$1 [L]

Code (markup):

 

Try this. Add this to a file and name it .htaccess

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule jump(.*)-(.*)\.htm$ /links3/jump.php?id=$1&url=$2

Then, try this link and see if it worked:
mysite.com/jump27-http://www.linkedsite.com.htm

 

re: what I can live with: my objective is to clean up the link for search engine purposes, if that helps clarify what I said earlier. In that regard, is:
www.yourdomain.com/link/http://www.linkedsite.com
an acceptable format, or are they going to get confused by having the linked site preceeded by my site and subdirectory?

-Danny.

 

Search engines will follow that link and not be "confused" by it.

 

I think I know what you are talking about. You need a javascript for onclick event. So, the normal href tag is direct to the URL, but if somebody does actually click on the link, it's a onclick event tracked via the javascript, and passed via the tracking system you currently have in place. I would say look at hotscripts.com and you will find a sample code there for sure that will help you do it. If you are not able to find, pm me and I will try to find it for you.

I hope that helps.

You definitely do not need mod_rewrite for what you want to do.

 

I used the mod rewrite mentioned above, but I am getting this error: "Error 500. Internel Server Error". When I remove .htaccess file, it works. Please help.

 

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