How Can I Customize Magento Default URL (Product URL and Category URL)

Question

Suppose i have the following URL:

For Categories (example : apparels category): http://example/apparels.html

For Categories (example : product under apparels category): http://example/apparels/songket-batik-merah.html

I'd like to know how can i rewrite the above URLS so that for category URL it can contains '/category/' and for product URL it can contains '/product/' so the end result would become something like this :

http://example/category/apparels.html

http://example/product/songket-batik-merah.html

I know one solution for this is by doing it manually for each Category / Product via Back Office > Catalog > URL Rewrite.

Is there a better way to do this ?

Answer 1

Magento gives you the ability to add the name of categories to path for product URL’s.

If you want to remove then follow below setting.

To do this, go to System => Configuration => Catalog => Catalog => Search Engine Optimization and set Use categories path for product URL’s to no.

and for category Select no from Use Parent Category Path for Category URLs