# Friendly URL's

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/friendly-urls/317447>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [December 21, 2010, 1:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/friendly-urls/317447 "2010-12-21T01:00:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![redViper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3d9bf3/32.png) [@redViper](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/redViper)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 1:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/friendly-urls/317447/1 "2010-12-21T01:00:36Z")

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I’m trying to figure out how to do this by hand. Not using a backend program. I’ve searched but I just don’t know the “name” it would be under.

All of my hand coded sites not using wordpress are basically set up as [www.site.com/page1.php](http://www.site.com/page1.php) [site.com/page2.php](http://site.com/page2.php) etc;.

I want to have a site where its set up like [site.com/portfolio/bob](http://site.com/portfolio/bob) and [site.com/aboutus/contact](http://site.com/aboutus/contact) sort of thing.

I know this can be done with php includes but anytime I do this things just get messy with broken links… not linking to proper directories etc;.

is there a “simpler” way of doing this?