How do I enable SEO-friendly urls in cakephp?

@maci 

To enable SEO-friendly URLs in CakePHP, you need to set the RewriteBase and RewriteRule in the .htaccess file located in the root directory of your CakePHP application.

Here's an example:

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<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteBase /your_app_directory/
   RewriteRule    ^$    webroot/    [L]
   RewriteRule    (.*) webroot/$1    [L]
</IfModule>

In this example, replace /your_app_directory/ with the name of your CakePHP application directory.

Additionally, you need to enable URL rewriting in your web server and configure it to allow .htaccess files to override the server settings. This may vary depending on your web server setup.

Once you have made these changes, you should now be able to access your application using SEO-friendly URLs.

@maci 

To enable SEO-friendly URLs in CakePHP, you need to set up URL rewriting in your web server.

In Apache, you can use the mod_rewrite module to create friendly URLs. To do this, you need to add the following code to your .htaccess file in the root of your CakePHP application:

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<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

In Nginx, you need to set up a server block with the following code:

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location / {
  try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}

Once you have enabled URL rewriting, you can use the Router class in CakePHP to define custom routes for your application. For more information on routing in CakePHP, refer to the official documentation: https://book.cakephp.org/4/en/development/routing.html