I have a URL mydomain.com/abc/xyz
and I want to redirect it to mydomain.com/def
Now, I also want to rewrite mydomain.com/abc/xyz URL to mydomain.com/def that means if someone opens mydomain.com/def it should open the content of mydomain.com/abc/xyz
I have tried both the redirection and the rewriting and they both work individually, but not combined.
Here's the code
RewriteRule ^abc/xyz/ http://mydomain. com/def [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^/def /abc/xyz [NC,L]
In simple words lets consider URL1 = mydomain.com/abc/xyz
and URL2 = mydomain.com/def
I want URL2 as pretty URL and should open content of URL1
But if someone opens URL1, I want them to be redirected to URL2 and show the content of URL1
So, first redirect and then show content using rewrite rule.
I wonder if that rewriting rule really works separately... You say you are using a ".htaccess" file, so a distributed configuration file. When implementing rewriting rules in such location (as opposed to the central configuration of the http server) the matching pattern in rewrite rules is applied to a relative path. That actually makes a lot of sense if you think about it and it is clearly documented. That means that your matching pattern would never match ...
Here is a slightly modified version that works likewise, whether you implement those rules in a distributed or a central configuration file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?abc/xyz/ https://example.com/def [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^/?def /abc/xyz [NC,L]
And most likely you also want to be a bit more precise:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?abc/xyz/?$ https://example.com/def [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^/?def/?$ /abc/xyz [NC,L]
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I'm having an issue with some htaccess rules which I thought would be simple. I have some nice SEO friendly URL rewriting in place as below
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(index\.php|/images|/templates|/views|/ajax|/uploads|/robots\.txt|/sitemap\.xml|/favicon\.ico|/scripts|/cron|/combine.php|/js|/css)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?ref=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
This all works well and I want to keep this. I also wish to rewrite some old pages which Google WMT is reporting as 404's to the new equivalent and for that I'd like to use:
Redirect 301 /about_us http://example.com/about-us
The problem I have is that the URL that the browser is directed to is:
http://example.com/about-us?ref=about_us
The about_us is the old link and about-us is the correct link. If the htaccess redirected to example.com/about-us then the other SEO friendly rewrite rule will pick it up and show the page but eh extra ?ref= parameter is confusing it. I am guessing the two rules are conflicting to a degree but is there a way to get the two rules to work together e.g. redirect without the extra ?ref= parameter? My knowledge of htaccess is basic to say the least so I am a little stuck on this one.
Thanks in advance
Redirect and RedirectMatch are part of mod_alias, while the rewrite rules are part of mod_rewrite. The problem you're running into is when you mix the two, both modules affect the same request, thus two things happen when you only want one. In this case, you need to stick with just mod_rewrite and use this instead:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^about_us /about-us [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(index\.php|/images|/templates|/views|/ajax|/uploads|/robots\.txt|/sitemap\.xml|/favicon\.ico|/scripts|/cron|/combine.php|/js|/css)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?ref=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
Note that the rule that redirects comes before the rule that routes to index.php.
I am trying to write a htaccess redirect, but it is not working as I want it to.
My current (working) htaccess redirects all html pages with 1 character to the index file as:
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]).html$ index.php?letter=$1
So a.html gets redirected to index.php?letter=a
Now I need to redirect the page a.html?page=2 to index.php?letter=a&page=2
Basically I want to redirect the url, but leave the dynamic part intact.
All of the following return a 404:
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]).html?page=([0-9]+) index.php?letter=$1&page=$2
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]).html?page=(.*) index.php?letter=$1&page=$2
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} page=(.*)
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]).html(.*) index.php?letter=$1&page=%1
I think I'm close, but I can't seem to get there :/
could anyone give me the last push?
Your RewriteRule needs to be
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9])\.html$ index.php?letter=$1 [QSA,NC,L]
Please, note that URL parameters are not available for matching within the RewriteRule. If you simply need to append an extra URL parameter you can do so along with the [QSA] flag which would take care of appending the original URL parameters for you.
Please, note that the dot before html needs to be escaped \. as well. The [L] makes sure that rewriting stops and no further rules (if any below) are applied.
I've taken my site down for some prolonged maintenance and am using mod_rewrite to send all requests to a single page: www.mysite.com/temp/503.php
This is my .htaccess file which works fine.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/temp/503.php [NC]
RewriteRule .* /temp/503.php [R,L]
However, what I'd also like to be able to do is to hide /temp/503.php in the resulting URL from the visitor.
I know this is perhaps trivial and I'm sure fairly simple to achieve, but with my limited mod_rewrite skills I can't seem to get it to work.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Just get rid of the R flag in the rewrite rule, which tells the rule to redirect the request, thus changing the URL in the browser's location bar. So the rule would look like:
RewriteRule .* /temp/503.php [L]
which internally rewrites the requested URI instead of externally telling the browser that it's been moved to a new URL.
Could someone tell me how to rewrite this URL. I have looked at a lot of questions on stackoverflow but they seem to be missing my answer.
RewriteEngine On
That is what I have... its a bit poor.
I need to rewrite url's if they do not point to a directory.
I need to do this...
any.domain.com/pages/some-page-slug/login
To be rewritten to the correct url of...
any.domain.com/pages/login.php?page=32
Does anyone have any ideas on how this can be achieved?
1) Rewriting product.php?id=12 to product-12.html
It is a simple redirection in which .php extension is hidden from the browser’s address bar and dynamic url (containing “?” character) is converted into a static URL.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^product-([0-9]+)\.html$ product.php?id=$1
2) Rewriting product.php?id=12 to product/ipod-nano/12.html
SEO expert always suggest to display the main keyword in the URL. In the following URL rewriting technique you can display the name of the product in URL.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^product/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([0-9]+)\.html$ product.php?id=$2
3) Redirecting non www URL to www URL
If you type yahoo.com in browser it will be redirected to www.yahoo.com. If you want to do same with your website then put the following code to .htaccess file. What is benefit of this kind of redirection?? Please check the post about SEO friendly redirect (301) redirect in php and .htaccess.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^optimaxwebsolutions\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.optimaxwebsolutions.com/$1 [R=301,L]
4) Rewriting yoursite.com/user.php?username=xyz to yoursite.com/xyz
Have you checked zorpia.com.If you type http://zorpia.com/roshanbh233 in browser you can see my profile over there. If you want to do the same kind of redirection i.e http://yoursite.com/xyz to http://yoursite.com/user.php?username=xyz then you can add the following code to the .htaccess file.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ user.php?username=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ user.php?username=$1
5) Redirecting the domain to a new subfolder of inside public_html.
Suppose the you’ve redeveloped your site and all the new development reside inside the “new” folder of inside root folder.Then the new development of the website can be accessed like “test.com/new”. Now moving these files to the root folder can be a hectic process so you can create the following code inside the .htaccess file and place it under the root folder of the website. In result, www.test.com point out to the files inside “new” folder.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^test\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.test\.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/new/
RewriteRule (.*) /new/$1
TO do this you need to write a front controller.
See here, here, here, and here.
Alternatively in Apache you can rewrite this
any.domain.com/pages/32/login
or this:
any.domain.com/32/login
or even this:
any.domain.com/some-slug/32/login
to this:
any.domain.com/pages/login.php?page=32
One way or another to do this with only apache you need to supply the page id in some fashion. Keep in mind even with format any.domain.com/some-slug/32/login the content of the slug is irrelevant and won't necessarily link to the correct page. Which I imagine is undesirable and bad for SEO.
Another alternative is using RewriteMap. But this will be tricky and require reloading apache configurations whenever a page/slug is created/edit.
I understand that pages and login are static in this case and some-page-slug is changing. And you always want to redirect to static page /pages/login.php?page=32
So this is how to do it:
1) Rewrite
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^pages/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/login(.*)$ /pages/login.php?page=32
or 2) Redirect Pernament
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^pages/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/login(.*)$ /pages/login.php?page=32 [R=301,L]
or 3) Redirect Temporary
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^pages/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/login(.*)$ /pages/login.php?page=32 [R=302,L]
Here is great article about htaccess trics
http://perishablepress.com/press/2006/01/10/stupid-htaccess-tricks/
I have just finished writing a new site. It is a simple blog. The only advice I have received from my readers is that I should consider changing the www.example.com/?page=3 to something like www.example.com/1.
How should I go about writing this rewrite rule?
If your URLs have a common pattern and parts of the externally used URL can directly be mapped onto the internally used URL while retaining a uniquely identifiable URL (like your URL probably does), you can do something like this with mod_rewrite:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^[0-9]+$ /?page=$1 [L,QSA]
This will rewrite a request of /12345 internally to /?page=12345.
Otherwise, if there isn’t a pattern or the mapping is not trivial, you will probably need to specify each case like:
RewriteEngin on
RewriteRule ^foo$ /?page=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^bar$ /?page=2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^baz$ /?page=3 [L,QSA]
You could also just pass the request to your PHP file and do the mapping in there.