absolute noob here. I have dynamic website with the following query string:
https://example.com/?color=blue
My goal is to mask and convert this query string after ?color= into a path based on the parameter like so:
https://example.com/blue
So if I type into browser https://example.com/blue then content of https://example.com/?color=blue will be displayed while URL remains https://example.com/blue
I am not looking for redirect. I think I need internal rewrite but I am not really sure if this is correct term.
I already tried many solutions from stackoverflow and I spent hours on google but none of those solutions fits my site as I don't have any index.php file which everyone is using in htaccess file.
Sounds pretty straight forward:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?(\w+)$ /?color=$1 [END]
Or something like that:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule ^/?(\w+)$ /?color=$1 [L]
However since you write that you "tried many solutions" (which you did not share with us) and "spent hours on google" (instead of looking into the documentation of the tool you use) but that still "none of those solutions fits your site" (which you told us nothing about) I have to assume that your actual issue is something else. I cannot answer to that however, since you did not tell us what your actual issue is ...
(note: i am not trying to mock you here, I only try to point out why it is impossible to give a better answer to your vague question ...)
One specific question: if your site does not have an index.php router (or something similar), then how should the final, rewritten URL /?color=blue get processed?
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I have a website which has dynamic URLs and they're not currently prettified. I have re-worked the site and included pretty URLs, but the real dynamic folder structure/filename has also changed.
To better explain, the current dynamic URLs look like
http://example.com/liveguide/year.php?year=2017
The new dynamic url for the same page is
http://example.com/shows/show-list.php?year=2017
I use the following:
RewriteRule ^shows/(199[5-9]|200[0-9]|20[0-1][0-7])/?$ /shows/show-list.php?year=$1 [L]
To enable the use of pretty URLS like
http://example.com/shows/2017
So what I'm trying to do is if anyone followed a link of the original dynamic URL, they'll end up on the new clean URL. So far I've just got
RewriteRule ^liveguide/year.php /shows/show-list.php [R=301,L]
Which redirects to the correct page, but you're left with the ugly URL in the address bar. How could I do it so that the new, pretty URL is in the address bar?
Ie someone visits
http://example.com/liveguide/year.php?year=2017
They end up on, and see in their address bar
http://example.com/shows/2017
You just need to match the query string, which is in a separate variable, and used in a RewriteCond, which capture to %1, %2 etc. Like this:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^year=(\d{4})$
RewriteRule ^liveguide/year\.php$ /shows/%1? [R=301,L]
While we are here, do you really need to only match just those exact years? Would it matter if /shows/1234 also got rewritten? Probably not, you can just return a 404 from your PHP, so a simpler rule would be ok, like the above just saying any four numbers. It will also work for future years without changing it.
RewriteRule ^shows/(\d{4})/?$ /shows/show-list.php?year=$1 [L]
The goal is usually not to match exactly what you want, and only that, but rather to ensure nothing else (other parts of the site) will be matched that shouldn't be. Simpler rules are easier to maintain and review later. Your script must already be able to handle bad data anyway, so just let it handle the detailed checking without duplicating it unnecessarily.
Hope this helps.
I have a client that has several files whose name is (for example) car.php, car_edit.php, car_review.php. These each come with query strings - so car.php?id=1234 or car_review.php?id=321. They would like the file names to be truck*.php rather than car*.php.
I'm hoping there's a way using htaccess to convert the url string to be truck*.php and use the current car*.php files. Also if possible I'd like to forward any page asking for car*.php to truck*.php.
I've done quite a bit of searching and haven't found an answer to doing this particular thing. Does anyone know how I might do this? Thanks.
You need rewrite rules. Try something like:
RewriteRule ^truck(.*).php$ /car.php?id=$1 [NC,L]
Note: This is untested, so may require tweaking.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^truck(.*)\.php$ /car$1.php [NC]
ought to do it. It should automatically transfer any URL query string like id=xxx over to the car*.php rewritten URL.
I used to have a WP site that I converted to a standard html site. Problem is I found doing a google search that instead of http://www.genealogyinc.com it was returning http://www.genealogyinc.com/?page_id=21, I dont know how many pages are like this but am trying to find a htaccess workaround, all the ones I found online give me 500 server errors.
Need a rewrite for any ?page_id= cause I dont know how many other numbers are out there.
Thanks
Off the top of my head, without testing, it would be something like this.
The first line looks for the page_id querystring parameter, and if it meets it, it should pass on to the second line. The rewrite rule I have below may need some tweaking, but I hope this helps you.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} page_id=(.*)$
RewriteRule $ /? [R=301,L]
I'm kind of noob in the world of web so my apologies... I tried many things found on SO and elsewhere, but I didn't manage to do what I want. And the Apache documentation is... well too much complete.
Basically what I want to do is redirect my domain to a subfolder. I found easy solutions for this (many different actually).
http://www.foo.com/
http://foo.com/
should redirect to /bar and appear as http://foo.com/
Using the following I got the expected result :
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.foo.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/foo.com" [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^((?!bar/).*)$ bar/$1 [NC,L]
But I also want the subfolder as well as filenames not to appear when explicitly entered, i.e :
http://www.foo.com/index.html
http://foo.com/index.html
http://wwww.foo.com/bar
http://foo.com/bar
http://wwww.foo.com/bar/index.html
http://foo.com/bar/index.html
Should all appear as
http://foo.com/
Is this possible ?
Obviously using .htaccess, since I'm on a virtual host.
Thanks
As Felipe says, it's not really possible, because you lose information when you do that R=301 redirect: a hard redirect like this starts a whole new request, with no memory of the previous request.
Of course, there are ways to do similar things. The easiest is to put the original request in the query string (here's a good rundown on how mod_rewrite works with query strings). Sure, the query string does show up in the URL, but most modern browsers hide the query string in the address bar, so if your goal is aesthethics, then this method would be workable.
If you really don't want to show any of the original query in the URL, you might use cookies by employing the CO flag (here are some very good examples about cookie manipulation). At any rate, the information about the original request must somehow be passed in the hard redirect.
But anyhow, and most importantly, why would you want to do something like this? It's bound to confuse humans and robots alike. Great many pages behaved like this back when frames were fashionable, and it was pretty terrible (no bookmarking, no easy linking to content, Google results with the snippet "your browser cannot handle frames", no reloading, erratic back button, oh boy, those were the days).
Speaking of which, if your content is html, you may just use a plain old iframe to achieve the effect (but I'd sincerely advise against it).
I just noticed that sometimes (even when given a wrong url) load perfectly fine. How do they accomplish this? What I mean is, suppose you click on a link that seems good like www.foo.com but it contains in the end a space character which would appear on the address bar as www.foo.com%20 some sites manage to redirect this to their correct url while others just break. How can this be achieved? I'm guessing it's something to do with the .htaccess but I have no idea what to do or where to do it.
The URL I'd like to redirect looks like this actually: http://foo.com/%C2%A0
I get the following error message:
The requested URL /%C2%A0 was not found on this server.
How can I make this redirection?
So far I came up with:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\ /[^%?\ ]*\%
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.foo.com/ [R=301,L]
but it's not working at all
URL Rewrite would be the IIS version that may exist in other forms if you want to look at re-writing the URL assuming you mean this kind of case.
Don't forget that browsers may make certain guesses about what someone enters so that if someone types in "foo.com " that the browser may trim white space by default rather than URL encode the text. If "http://foo.com" fails then it may try "http://www.foo.com" for another idea as these could be seen as simple interpretations to take on what someone types in. If both fail then it may just Google the text believing that the address bar should be treated like a search box.