I have been searching for a while now, I tried a bunch of things, but nothing seems to be working for me.
I have this code in .htaccess in folder www. - .com/p/:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/(.+)$ $1+$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ $1+$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule p/(.*) index.php?w=$1 [L,QSA]
As you see, I basically tried to stack the rules on each other, like if it was a passing variable. But it does seem impossible to do like that ...
For example, I could have a link ending with .../p/whatever/does/not/matter and I want to rewriterule it to .../index.php?w=whatever+does+not+matter
And it really needs to be dynamic, that is - I cannot just write a rule for every folder and be done with it. The folders might change without me knowing. But they always have to be redirected.
(Don't mind the R,L,QSA - it's probably incorrect)
I am struggling with this for a few days now, which is absurd.
Please, could you help me?
Thank you for every input.
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I have searched but can't quite find the answer to this exact situation:
My website structure is as follows
www.example.co.uk/old-folder1/old-folder2/old-page-name
I needed to redirect the whole structure to:
www.example.co.uk/new-folder1/old-folder2/old-page-name
I successfully did this with:
RewriteRule ^old-folder1/(.*)$ /new-folder1/$1 [R=302,L]
However, if possible for the moment I still want to serve images from the old structure ie.
www.example.co.uk/old-folder1/old-images-folder/old-image.jpg
At the moment the above is being rewritten as:
www.example.co.uk/new-folder1/old-images-folder/old-image.jpg
Which makes sense but this leads me to my question, is there any way of excluding some of the sub directories in 'old-folder1' from the RewriteRule above so that for example www.example.co.uk/old-folder1/old-images-folder/old-image.jpg is still accessible?
I don't have much experience with this but from research I came up with the following but it doesn't work.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/old-folder1/old-images-folder/.*$
I am beginning to think this might not even be possible with the approach I have taken with:
RewriteRule ^old-folder1/(.*)$ /new-folder1/$1 [R=302,L]
Thanks
Entire contents of the .htaccess file at the moment is:
Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/old-folder1/old-images-folder/.*$
RewriteRule ^old-folder1/(.*)$ /new-folder1/$1 [R=302,L]
Try:
RewriteRule ^old-folder1/(?!old-images-folder)(.*)$ /new-folder1/$1 [R=302,L]
HOwever, what's probably happening is that your images are linked using relative URLs, so they may be relatively linked to the "new" images folder.
You should check your links and make sure they're linked correctly to the old path.
I want this: RewriteRule ^paper$ /express/index.php?c=p [L] but it does not work. Instead, it's trying to send me to /index.php?c=p, ignoring the subdirectory express altogether. However, RewriteRule ^express/paper$ /express/index.php?c=p [L] works. This is my .htaccess code:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^paper$ /express/index.php?c=p [L]
RewriteRule ^express/paper$ /express/index.php?c=p [L]
The url I WANT is just http://site.com/paper but I have to do http://site.com/express/paper to get the rewrite rule to work.
And yes, I only use one of those rewrite rules at a time.
UPDATE
Well, I'm not really getting any responses, so I'm going to go ahead and close this browser tab. I'll check back now and then but don't be offended if it takes a little while. Thanks for any help offered.
I need to change the structure of the displayed client-side URL. I'm not too skilled using regex and coding for the .htaccess file. Basically, I have a structure that looks something like:
http://www.example.com/catalog/index.php?cat=lt&sec=lt1-1&id=nmlt10.
I would like this to be displayed in the address bar as:
http://www.example.com/catalog/lt/lt1-1/nmlt10.
This is what I came up with, but it has had no effect:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)\$ /catalog/index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [L]
I tested and removed any other rules in the .htaccess file to ensure nothing was being overwritten. I'm on a shared hosting apache server, and know that mod_rewrite is enabled, because I use it to rewrite non-www to www urls. I don't receive and 500 error messages, I just do not notice any change at all. I'm not sure where I'm going wrong here, so hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.
Finally found a solution that worked:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]
Appreciate LazyOne's response to get me on the right track; however, when using:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]
I wasn't able to following links that were already placed on the site, it treated different directories as the variables, for example, when browsing to an image or file, say:
folder/folder/image.png
It would grab "folder" - "folder" - and "image" as the variables. I can see why that was happening, if anyone has a different solution or an explanation, please let me know, I'm always willing to learn.
Since your .htaccess is in website root folder, then you should use thus rule:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^catalog/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ /catalog/index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]
If you place it in .htaccess in /catalog/ folder, then you can remove catalog from it:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]
I have tested rule before posting -- works fine for me.
This rule (same as above) will check if URL is a file or folder and will only rewrite if it is not:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]
I have seen a number of posts similar but wasn't able to achieve my actual desired feel.
So this is what I have.
I need to have all my past urls forward to the INDEX.PHP file. Which is fine and I have that so far, but I need to add an exception of a specific folder the 'images' folder so the images show up, b/c since i'm forwarding everything to the index it's not grabbing all the right images because it is blocking them.
currently I have something like this
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !images/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index.php$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http://www.exmample.com" [R=301,L]
currently my images won't load unless I do a specific call to the image ie:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !images/single/picture.jpg$
Any thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated.
Cheers
Yeah, the "!images/$" means that you're rewriting everything except for the specific request to the URI "http://www.example.com/images/". Use a regular expression in your RewriteCond:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !images/(.*)$
This means that no URI starting with "images/" will be rewritten. I guess it'd be safer to do something along the lines of "!images/(.*).jpg$" so that no URIs starting with "\images" and ending with ".jpg" are rewritten. Refine it as needed, i.e. specifying multiple extensions ( (.jpe?g)|(.gif) ).
I'm no mod_rewrite wizard, and I'm not very good at regex, but this approach worked for me.
I have a page called category.php5 that uses $_GET["category"] to fetch the right content from the database. I want to pretty it up so is looks like:
sinaesthesia.co.uk/category/psoriasis
which would equal:
sinaesthesia.co.uk/category.php5?category=psoriasis
I have successfully done this sort of rewriting before, but since I can't get it to work now, I'm worred that I might have rules in place that are somehow screwing me. Here is my entire .htaccess file - the last couple of lines are supposed to do the above rewrite:
RewriteEngine On
#remember to change this to aromaclear
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^sinaesthesia\.co.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://sinaesthesia.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]
#Translate default page to root
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ .*/index\.(php5|html)\ HTTP
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.(php5|html)$ /$1 [R=301,L]
#translate any .html ending into .php5
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ /$1\.php5
#change / for ?
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html/(.*)$ /$1\.html?$2
#strip .html from search res page
RewriteRule ^(.*)search/(.*)$ /$1search_results\.html/search=$2
#translate product details link from search res page
RewriteRule ^products/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ /product_details.php5?category=$1&title=$2&id=$3 [L]
#Translate products/psorisis/chamomile-skin-cream-P[x] to productview.php5?id=1
RewriteRule ^products/.*-P([0-9]+) /productview.php5?id=$1 [L]
#Translate /category/psoriasis to /category.php5?category=$1
RewriteRule ^category/(.*) /category.php5?category=$1 [L]
When I manually enter category.php5/category=psoriasis, it works great. When I enter category.php5/category/psoriasis, it doesn't. I'm worried that my line that changes a html/ to html? is an error, however when I take that line out, it still doesn't work. Everything else works as expected.
As a general strategy, strip down your file by commenting everything out, then re-enable things piece by piece until you find the rule that causes it to break.
Bear in mind that browsers sometimes cache redirects, so starting a fresh browser instance is a good idea. A useful service is http://web-sniffer.net/ which will give you an uncached result.
In general, looking at your set of redirects, this seems a little convoluted to me because of the chaining/sieve -type system you seem to be using. Instead, I would recommend starting with URLs that can be identified specifically, e.g. starting with
RewriteRule ^category/(.*) /category.php5?category=$1 [L]
and then leaving the rather messy .html => .php conversion stuff towards the end, if you end up needing it at all. I've done a lot of sites using redirects and have never needed generic conversions like that, so they should be avoidable.
Also bear in mind that .* means matching anything or nothing, so you probably want to use .+ instead.
Ah: because I have a document called category.php5 and I'm trying to use category/psoriasis, the server tries to resolve that as category.php5/psoriasis, which fails. Fixed it now!