I've just setup a new subdomain 'preview', ie preview.example.com and I am setting up a replicate of the codebase of a live website (from the www. subdomain) so that I can have a duplicate environment for testing and showing my client recent changes.
I want to save myself having to copy over all the images to the preview and so the normal location under which images are saved in a WordPress site /wp-content/uploads/ is empty. I wanted to ues a simple htaccess rule to get these instead from the live subdomain where the image at the same path will exist. In other words, a request for
https://preview.example.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/test.jpg
would be redirected to the following where the image exists..
https://www.example.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/test.jpg
I've tried to set this up with the simplest of htaccess redirect rules but it just seems to be ignored and I've no idea why. Any idea how I can troubleshoot this?
RedirectMatch 301 /wp-content/uploads/(.*) http://www.example.com/wp-content/uploads/$1
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Scenario is that both subdomain and main domains are on same host but their DocumentRoot are set to different paths. OP wants to serve lot of images from subdomain but doesn't to do bulk copy.
Suggested approach without tinkering with .htaccess is to create a symbolic link of wp-content/uploads/. Only option suggested to use in .htaccess is:
Options +FollowSymLinks
Which allows use of symbolic links for serving web requests.
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Old and new site have different structure. Everything is differend.
I don't care about rankinks and SEO, but there are some backlinks that point there and I want to redirect them to the new site homepage. After some months I will delete the whole old site.
I just want a code for .htaccess that redirects any old site url to my new homepage blogger site. I repaeat: To NEW HOMEPAGE, not in related urls.
The old site is hosted as user in my companys domain.
http://users.company.com/myOLDname/
the new one is in google blogger
http://myNEWname.blogspot.com/
Note: If you can help, please put this above url's in the code to better understand.
Thank you.
You need something like that:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^users\.example\.com$
RewriteRule ^/?myOLDname(?:/|$) https://myNEWname.blogspot.com/ [R=301]
It is a good idea to start out with a 302 temporary redirection and only change that to a 301 permanent redirection later, once you are certain everything is correctly set up. That prevents caching issues while trying things out...
Obviously the rewriting module needs to be loaded inside the http server and enabled in the http host. In case you use a distributed configuration file you need to take care that it's interpretation is enabled at all in the host configuration and that it is located in the host's DOCUMENT_ROOT folder.
This implementation will work likewise in the http servers host configuration or inside a distributed configuration file (".htaccess" file).
After I have upgraded my site I see that once I go live with new version some parts of the website URLs will not be redirected for gallery, blogs and files because of new structure. And there is no way fixing it within the CMS. So my goal is to use NGINX redirects.
I wonder do any of you know any NGINX rewrite tricks to make such redirects possible?
website.com/forums/blogs/ into website.com/blogs/
website.com/forums/gallery/ into website.com/gallery/
website.com/forums/files/ into website.com/files/
I actually need the part forums dropped from the URL only and ONLY when the address is going for forums+blogs/gallery/files. Don't want to loose that google traffic.
So for example
website.com/forums/blogs/entry123/my-dog/ is redirected to
website.com/blogs/entry123/my-dog/
BUT
website.com/forums/topic/my-dog/
is left alone and working just like before because the following subfolder is neither blogs or gallery or files.
I needed that once on Apache and this one worked but on Nginx I have no idea.
RewriteRule ^forums/(blogs|gallery|files)/(.*)$ /$1/$2 [L,R=301]
You can try something like
rewrite ^/forums/(blogs|gallery|files)/(.*)$ /$1/$2;
Please note that rewrite directive accepts some flags wich meaning depends on where is it placed (is it inside a server or location block). Detailed documentation is here.
I just rebuilt my site to be responsive with Gantry 5 and Joomla. built in inmotion hosting server. moved it into a sub domain on my real sites server, www.umiultrasound.com/new. when i try to access the site to test it redirects to www.umiultrasound.com.
I have discussed this with my host, they say i have a wildcard redirect- i don't. they say to check my .htaccess file. i did but i do not see where i am redirecting / or www.mysite.com to itself.
they then recommended that i read one of your forum results. the one they sent didn't apply to me. hoping you can help
Check for any RewriteBase command in .htaccess. You could also temporarily copy the standard htaccess.txt over .htaccess to see if this makes any difference (backup .htaccess to .htaccess.old or similar first).
Also check your configuration.php file to see if the live_site parameter has been set.
Hi there on my site i link to a site that has changed the url of the site but uses the original domain to host the images. Is this possible to catch the links via htaccess but no change any of that domain with an image file detected?
So change outgoing link from www.oldsite.com to www.newsite.com but if images detected leave oldsite.com url.
I have too many links to change manually, is this even possible ?
It can't be done using .htaccess . .htaccess is directory level Apache configuration file!
After upgrading our website, many old links that people have in blogs, etc. are now going to our 404 error page.
An example is: (using h#p b/c I'm a new user and can't post links)
h#p://www.site.com/pressreleases/some_release.html
h#p://www.site.com/pressreleases/another_release.html
These items are now part of a db-driven site and would be live here:
h#p://www.site.com/pressreleases/details.php?id=1
h#p://www.site.com/pressreleases/details.php?id=2
How can I set up the 301 to redirect
h#p://www.site.com/pressreleases/some_release.html
to
h#p://www.site.com/pressreleases/details.php?id=1,
and
h#p://www.site.com/pressreleases/another_release.html
to
h#p://www.site.com/pressreleases/details.php?id=2?
Thanks
Compose a .htaccess file in the pressreleases directory and specify the following:
Redirect 301 some_release.html details.php?id=1
If you would like to redirect using regular expressions, use mod_rewrite as explained here.
There are various options listed on this page.
If you have a lot of these URLs, and assuming you have access to the Apache config, consider creating a "redirects.inc" file in /etc/apache2 (or anywhere really) and then adding "include /etc/apache2/redirects.inc" to your virtual host. That way you have one place to add/update your redirects.