I've searched and tried many tutorials and problem solutions but couldn't achieve what I want.
If user open domain.com/xxx.php he see the content of domain.com/hosting/xxx.php
This
RewriteRule ^xxx.php$ /hosting/xxx.php
Works perfectly what i want to do, but there are over 150 pages in hosting directory and writing rules for each page does not seem right? any possible way to do it dynamically?
I tried this solution it works but it try to find those pages which are currently at root domain.com/xxx.php inside domain.com/hosting/
I search slimier questions have been asked many times before but non of the answer worked for me.
You need to also take care of reuests to the shortened, rewritten URL:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?hosting/(.*)$ /$1 [END,NC,R=302]
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ /hosting/$1 [END]
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I need a few redirects in my .htaccess file, and what I've done works perfectly well in the htaccess tester, but it doesn't work at all on my server. I've spent days finding a solution, and I'm stuck. It would be wonderful if someone could help!
1) "/-" in URLs
This is a good example:
https://www.haraldjoergens.com/galleries/remembrance-sunday/2012-cenotaph/-march-past/index.php?page=40
The "2012-cenotaph/-march-past" is supposed to be "2012-cenotaph-march-past"
I had though a straightforward RewriteRule ^(.*)/-(.*)$ %1-%2 [R=301,L] would do the trick, but it seems to be completely ignored.
2) Repetition needs to be removed:
Due to making the "Replace" a 301 replace too early, the search engine bots try to access very wrong things:
https://www.haraldjoergens.com/galleries/rowing/index.php/galleries/rowing/
The second "/galleries/rowing" needs to be removed. My attempt via
RewriteRule ^(.+/index\.php)/.*$ /$1 [R,L]
works fine in htaccess tester, but seems to send the website into an endless loop.
Any suggestions would be really appreciated!
Thanks!!!
Harald
htaccess example
I dont know if this is what you really need.
One thing helps me is to change the routes for example:
$route['index.php/galleries/rowing/'] = "index.php";
until now I have always used htaccess to rewrite URLS in order to have non-SEF url to SEF urls.
Today I am facing a new challenge that honestly, beeing non confident in regular expression, I really don't know how to achieve.
I have a situation where a forum on a website of mine has been update in the following form:
previous link: www.domain.com/forum3/topic/name-of-topic/post/7548
new link: forum.domain.com/Topic-name-of-topic/
How do I intercept /post/37764 string and tell htaccess to not consider it?
And how to instruct the server to build that kind of url instead of the provious. I am very confused about it.
Any suggestion? Thank you very much. Is there any resource that I can read to help me better understand the case?
Thanks again.
EDIT
Florian answer is correct. I just added few mods to fit it better.
RewriteEngine On
#RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^forum3/topic/([^/]+)/post/[0-9]+$ http://forum.domanin.com/Topic-$1/ [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^forum3/topic/([^/]+)-[0-9]+$ http://forum.domanin.com/Topic-$1/ [L,R=301]
You can try this code :
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^forum3/topic/([^/]+)/post/[0-9]+$ /Topic-$1/ [L,R=301]
/([^/]+)/ means that we want to catch a string containing one or more characters except / preceded and followed by a /.
This link might help you to test your .htaccess files :
Test your apache htaccess files online
Here's a problem I'm always wanting to solve with htaccess. I haven't found a way yet, though it looks like it should be possible - perhaps someone can help.
Let's say I have a folder at the root of my site called /foo/. I want users to be able to access that folder at the path /bar/, but for various reasons I can't rename the folder.
So as not to create confusion I only want one path to ever be seen - that is to say, I don't want people to use the name /foo/ to access the folder; they should always use /bar/. If someone goes to example.com/foo/, their browser should redirect to example.com/bar/ - but the content returned should be the content of /foo/.
To make matters more complicated, pages in /foo/ have dependencies (images, stylesheets, links to other pages, etc) within /foo/ which are hardcoded and can't be changed. These must, of course, still work.
So, to summarise, this is what I want :
Requests for example.com/foo/ should redirect to example.com/bar/.
Requests for example.com/bar/ should return the contents of example.com/foo/.
Is this possible? It looks on the surface as if it would create an infinite redirect... but I'm pretty sure there are ways to prevent that in htaccess, aren't there?
I'd be very grateful for any help.
(PS - for a little extra background: The normal reason I want to do this is to rename the wordpress /wp-admin/ directory to something more professional and easy for customers to remember, such as /admin/. But the same system should work for masking any path in this way.)
I found a sort of workaround - by using a symlink and htaccess in combination.
First I created a symlink from /bar to /foo/.
Then I put this in htaccess :
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteRule ^foo/(.*)$ bar/$1 [R,L]
This has exactly the desired result - example.com/bar/ shows the content of the /foo/ directory, and example.com/foo/ redirects to example.com/bar/
But if anyone can come up with a pure htaccess solution I'd much prefer that!
Update :
Ok, I've finally found out how to do this. It turns out to be quite simple...
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ /foo/
RewriteRule ^foo/(.*)$ bar/$1 [R,L]
RewriteRule ^bar/(.*)$ foo/$1
The only problem is that it doesn't take account of RewriteBase, so you have to include the full path in the first line (after ^GET\).
If I understand correctly what you want is something like this inside your .htaccess file:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^foo/$ bar/
RewriteRule ^bar/$ foo/
</IfModule>
I have been able to change the 'location' of my images with RewriteRule, but I have 3 lines of code to do this because of subdirectories in the image folders
RewriteRule ^images/([^/]+).(jpg|jpeg|bmp|gif|png)$ /includes/images/$1.$2
RewriteRule ^images/([^/]+)/([^/]+).(jpg|jpeg|bmp|gif|png)$ /includes/images/$1/$2.$3
RewriteRule ^images/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+).(jpg|jpeg|bmp|gif|png)$ /includes/images/$1/$2/$3.$4
However, I would like to be able to not need to add to these if I ever add any deeper subdirectories.
I have tried many different approaches to this with no luck, and the following is what I am stuck with atm.
RewriteRule ^(images)(/?[^/])+(.jpg|.jpeg|.bmp|.gif|.png)$ /includes/$&
Does anyone have any ideas on how to get this code to work??
Also, is there any way to view the URL that is being used server-side?
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I don't see any reason that you couldn't simply do:
RewriteRule ^images/(.+)\.(jpg|jpeg|bmp|gif|png)$ /includes/images/$1.$2
I know this question has been asked a million of times here at stackoverflow, but I cant get it to work so I need someone who knows to finally resolve this problem!
I want that when this is inserted in the URL:
http://website.com/pelicula/0221889/
http://website.com/pelicula/0221889/posters/
It really goes to this:
http://website.com/index.php?ctrl=pelicula&id=0160399
http://website.com/index.php?ctrl=pelicula&id=0160399&tab=posters
This is how my .htacces file looks like:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?([^/]*)/?$ index.php?ctrl=$1&id=$2&tab=$3 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
But its not working! I just get a 'Not found' error in my web server (only when using the friendly URL, regular is still working fine). How to fix this?
I would also want to know how to be able to add anything at the end of the URL without getting any errors (like stackoverflow URLs).
Like this:
http://website.com/pelicula/0221889/any-text-i-want-to-put
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3033407/htacces-to-create-friendly-urls-help-needed
I hope someone can give me an answer, thanks!
I read all of your threads so I'm not going to reiterate what others have said or asked. I'm just throwing out ideas here but...
Sounds like rewrite is working - it's actually redirecting correctly - but it's pointing you to a page that is not found. Have you tried using RewriteBase?
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /