So I'm having this website which is stored inside public_html/www/. Some other domains are stored in -for example- public_html/test/. In public_html I have a .htaccess file with a LOT of redirects in it, which all apply to this website inside /www/ folder. Inside the /www/ folder I have another .htaccess (I don't really know why, my colleague did this and he left me with this without information). Since I have no idea how .htaccess exactly works, I have no idea what to do and in which file.
What I need to do is to redirect domain.nl to https://www.domain.nl (some folders should be excluded, like you can see in the code below - emailtemplates, paymentupdate, autocode, nieuwsbrieven, etc.) But domain.nl is stored inside public_html/www/ folder, so it also needs a redirect to the subfolder (which should not be visible in web browser).
At this moment, in the root .htaccess file is the following:
# Use HTTPS
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.nl [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/emailtemplates
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/paymentupdate_ideal
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/autocode
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/nieuwsbrieven
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/bevestig-aanmelding-nieuwsbrief
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/bevestig-afspraak
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/images/personal
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/uploadify
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
# Link to subfolder
# RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?www.domain.nl$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/www/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /www/$1
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?www.domain.nl$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ www/index.php?page=home [L]
# Non-www to www
#activate rewrite engine
#RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain.nl
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
Probably half of this code isn't even necessary, but I have absolutely no clue. The other .htaccess file, within the subfolder /www/, has the following text which I don't really understand (it contains more, but nothing relevant):
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.nl/$1/ [L,R=301]
I'm sorry if I sound stupid. I've tried many things copied from internet, but unfortunately everything has its concequences, which results in other problems with our website (links that don't work anymore, such as). I think the reason it doesn't work all the time, is because it's stored in the subfolder and I don't know how to combine all those lines in one like it would work.
Can anybody help me explain how to fix this and what is going wrong at this moment? Because the website is now not redirecting to www. It's just redirecting to https which gives me a security error at this moment (because the SSL is stored on www.). SUPER thanks in advance!
My problem was wrong order of the checks. First, I redirected to https://, but when I did not use www., it did not redirect to https://www OR it redirected to https://www.www. I fixed my problem by re-ordering my rules, like below:
# Non-www to www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
# Permanent redirect to https://
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/excluded_folder1/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/excluded_folder2/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/excluded_folder3/
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
# Use subfolder for domain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?www.domain.nl$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/www/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /www/$1
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?www.domain.nl$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ www/index.php?page=home [L]
I have a codeigniter installation at example.com/ci.
I have a subdomain foo.example.com. The document root for the foo subdomain is set to be home/public_html/ci.
I'm using the following rule in .htaccess to send requests for foo.example.com to example.com/ci/city/foo.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www)\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/ci/city/%1/$1 [L]
It all works like I want it to except that the address bar url changes from foo.example.com to example.com/ci/city/foo. I would like it to remain foo.example.com. There is no R=301 in the RewriteRule (used to be but I removed it). The .htaccess file is in the ci/ folder and the rule is above all the codeigniter stuff.
The redirect works perfectly and the url remains foo.example.com with (Jon Lin's answer)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www)\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/city/
RewriteRule (.*) /city/%1/$1 [L]
but the codeigniter default controller is called instead of the foo method in the city controller.
Any help is appreciated.
When your rewrite rule's target has an http://example.com in it, a 302 redirect is implicit regardless of whether an R flag is used or not. You need to provide the URI path based on the subdomain's document root, so I'm assuming you want something like:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www)\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/city/
RewriteRule (.*) /city/%1/$1 [L]
If the subdomain's document root is in the /ci/ directory.
The other option is to use the P flag to reverse proxy the request:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www)\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/ci/city/%1/$1 [L,P]
Your mileage may vary with this (might need to finesse it to fit your server and conditions), but doing some testing on my Mac, here's what I had mild success with:
Directory Structure
public_html/
ci/
application/
system/
.htaccess
index.php
I'm assuming that you have other stuff in your root public_html directory. So I'm letting the .htaccess focus on the CodeIgniter-related stuff by leaving it in the ci dir.
.htaccess
DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.ciwildsub\.dev [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php/city/%1/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]
It's fairly self explanatory, but the first block is your subdomain check. I didn't bother excluding www but you may want to (as I said, your mileage may vary). The second block is a standard CodeIgniter index.php removal.
These rules will only apply to sub.example.com or example.com/ci/ URLs, since as I said, I assume your root has stuff that shouldn't be disturbed by rewrites.
CodeIgniter Config
$config['uri_protocol'] = 'PATH_INFO';
Because of the way Apache handles a URL like example.com/index.php/controller/method, it bypasses the index.php and handles it like any other directory segment. Also, mod_rewrite doesn't necessarily stop at the [L] tag -- it stops processing the .htaccess at that point, passes through the RewriteRule, and then runs that URL through the .htaccess. Setting PATH_INFO helps make sure CodeIgniter pulls the current URI correctly, and our .htaccess doesn't get stuck in a validation loop.
I will note, though, that I'm not entirely happy with what I see in my RewriteLog output -- there has to be a way to optimize this further, I'm just not sure of it yet (I'm done tinkering with this for today!). Sorry if any of the explanation here is a little out of whack - I'm not a server admin or mod_rewrite expert, I've just had fun tinkering with this. If I manage to find a better solution, I'll be sure to update this.
Looks like the END flag would be perfect for situations like this (to prevent [L] loops), but it's only available in Apache 2.3.9+. The search continues.
I got it to work correctly using the following rewrite rule
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www)\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/city/
RewriteRule (.*) /city/%1/$1 [L]
and by setting
$config['uri_protocol'] = 'ORIG_PATH_INFO';
in the codeigniter config file. Thanks for all the help.
This worked for me
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /file_path/to/subdomain
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^application.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>
I'm having an issue with .htaccess where I have managed to successfully rewrite the URLs but the content is no longer loading.
The following is my htaccess file.
I'm aiming for all my .html pages (the site is made of .html static pages) to have their extensions removed. However, I require the .html URLs to 301 redirect to the new URL's so that my SEO does not take a hit from these changes.
Example:
Original: www.example.co.uk/page.html
Desired: www.example.co.uk/page/
It is important that the original URL redirects the new URL's though.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
# REDIRECT yourdomain.com TO www.yourdomain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example.co.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule (.+)\.html?$ http://www.example.co.uk/$1/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule ^(([^/]*/)*[^/.]+)$ $1.html [L]
I have tried the htaccess above and I've also tried the variation below, but neither has worked as desired. Any help would be much appreciated.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
# REDIRECT yourdomain.com TO www.yourdomain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example.co.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule (.+)\.html?$ http://www.example.co.uk/$1/ [R=301,L]
You need to change 2 things.
Add this right after your redirect to prevent a redirect loop:
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} 200
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
change the last rule to this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(.*?)/?$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%1\.html -f
RewriteRule ^ /%1.html [L]
I have the following HTAccess file:
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?name=404
RewriteEngine on
# Add www. to any link without it
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.co.uk$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]
# Set homepage
DirectoryIndex index.php
# Rewrite content pages
RewriteRule ^sub1/([A-Za-z0-9_-]*)/$ index.php?sub1=1&name=$1
RewriteRule ^sub2/([A-Za-z0-9_-]*)/$ index.php?sub2=1&name=$1
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/404/
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_-]*)/$ index.php?name=$1
# Make the pages without .php work
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/$ $1.php
# Forces a trailing slash to be added
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$
RewriteRule (.*)$ /$1/ [R=301,L]
This has gradually had bits and bobs tacked onto it and I now have a really small change to make, but can't work out how to do it.
The rules are basically there to ensure that all page have www and end in a /.
Most pages are in the form www.mydomain.co.uk/page/ which actually goes to mydomain.co.uk/index.php?name=page. There are two subdomains which pass an extra get param to the index.php.
The problem is that the homepage can be accessed from either www.mydomain.co.uk/ or www.mydomain.co.uk/index/.
How can I modify these rules so that if the user enters www.mydomain.co.uk it redirects to www.mydomain.co.uk/index/?
Try making the modification below to your .htaccess
### Existing Rules
# Add www. to any link without it
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.co.uk$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]
##New Rules
#if request for www.mydomain.co.uk
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain\.co\.uk$
#and it is for the home page, then redirect to index
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.mydomain.co.uk/index/ [L,R=301]
##Other Existing rules go here
Trying to get
www.example.com
to go directly to
www.example.com/store
I have tried multiple bits of code and none work.
What I've tried:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.+)\www.example\.com$
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /samle/%1/$1 [L]
What am I doing wrong?
You can use a rewrite rule that uses ^$ to represent the root and rewrite that to your /store directory, like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ /store [L]
I was surprised that nobody mentioned this:
RedirectMatch ^/$ /store/
Basically, it redirects the root and only the root URL.
The answer originated from this link
Try this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^$ store [L]
If you want an external redirect (which cause the visiting browser to show the redirected URL), set the R flag there as well:
RewriteRule ^$ /store [L,R=301]
Here is what I used to redirect to a subdirectory. This did it invisibly and still allows through requests that match an existing file or whatever.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?site.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subdir/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subdir/$1
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?site.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ subdir/index.php [L]
Change out site.com and subdir with your values.
To set an invisible redirect from root to subfolder, You can use the following RewriteRule in /root/.htaccess :
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subfolder
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subfolder/$1 [NC,L]
The rule above will internally redirect the browser from :
http://example.com/
to
http://example.com/subfolder
And
http://example.com/foo
to
http://example.com/subfolder/foo
while the browser will stay on the root folder.
Another alternative if you want to rewrite the URL and hide the original URL:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /store/$1 [L]
With this, if you for example type http://www.example.com/product.php?id=4, it will transparently open the file at http://www.example.com/store/product.php?id=4 but without showing to the user the full url.
This seemed the simplest solution:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/store [R=301,L]
I was getting redirect loops with some of the other solutions.
Most of the above solutions are correct but they are all missing the transparency of the redirection.
In my case, when visiting www.example.com I wanted to get redirected to the subdirectory /store but without updating the URL to www.example.com/store. (all I want is to get the page code form that directory). If that is your case the solution below works perfectly.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} example\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /store/$1 [L]
source: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Transparently_redirect_your_root_directory_to_a_subdirectory
I don't understand your question...
If you want to redirect every request to a subfolder:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ shop/$1 [L,QSA]
http://www.example.com/* -> wwwroot/store/*
If you want to redirect to a subfolder which has the domain name
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ([^\.]+\.[^\.]+)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %1/$1 [L,QSA]
http://www.example.com/* -> wwwroot/example.com/*
I have found that in order to avoid circular redirection, it is important to limit the scope of redirection to root directory.
I would have used:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/store [R=301,L]
Formerly I use the following code which is work correctly to redirect root URL of each of my domains/subdomains to their correspondence subdirectories which are named exactly as the sub/domain it self as below:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub1.domain1.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !subs/sub1.domain1.com/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ subs/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub2.domain1.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !subs/sub1.domain2.com/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ subs/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub1.domain2.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !subs/sub1.domain2.com/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ subs/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub2.domain2.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !subs/sub2.domain2.com/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ subs/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,QSA]
However when I want to add another subs or domains then it will need to be added in the above code. It should be much more convenient to simplify it to work like wildcard (*) as below:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/subs/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ subs/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,QSA]
So whenever another subdomains/domains is added as long as the subdomain name has a prefix of sub (like: sub3.domain1.com, sub1.domain3.com etc.) the code will remain valid.
Two ways out of possible solutions to achieve this are:
1. Create a .htaccess file in root folder as under (just replace example.com and my_dir with your corresponding values):
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?example.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/my_dir/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /my_dir/$1
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?example.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ my_dir/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
Use RedirectMatch to only redirect the root URL “/” to another folder or URL,
RedirectMatch ^/$ http://www.example.com/my_dir
I think the main problems with the code you posted are:
the first line matches on a host beginning with strictly sample.com, so www.sample.com doesn't match.
the second line wants at least one character, followed by www.sample.com which also doesn't match (why did you escape the first w?)
none of the included rules redirect to the url you specified in your goal (plus, sample is misspelled as samle, but that's irrelevant).
For reference, here's the code you currently have:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sample.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.sample.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.+)\www.sample\.com$
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /samle/%1/$1 [L]
One can use Redirect too for this purpose
Redirect 301 / www.example.com/store
Or Alias for mapping
Alias / /store
Edit: mod_alias is only applicable in httpd.conf.
Refrences
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_alias.html
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/rewrite/avoid.html
A little googling, gives me these results:
RewriteEngine On RewriteBase
/ RewriteRule ^index.(.*)?$
http://domain.com/subfolder/
[r=301]
This will redirect any attempt to
access a file named index.something to
your subfolder, whether the file
exists or not.
Or try this:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}
!^www.sample.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$
%{HTTP_HOST}/samlse/$1 [R=301,L]
I haven't done much redirect in the .htaccess file, so I'm not sure if this will work.
try to use below lines in htaccess
Note: you may need to check what is the name of the default.html
default.html is the file that load by default in the root folder.
RewriteEngine
Redirect /default.html http://example.com/store/
you just add this code into your .htaccess file
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /folder/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
This will try the subdir if the file doesn't exist in the root. Needed this as I moved a basic .html website that expects to be ran at the root level and pushed it to a subdir. Only works if all files are flat (no .htaccess trickery in the subdir possible). Useful for linked things like css and js files.
# Internal Redirect to subdir if file is found there.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_URI} !-s
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/subdir/%{REQUEST_URI} -s
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subdir/$1 [L]
I'll answer the original question not by pointing out another possible syntax (there are many amongst the other answers) but by pointing out something I have once had to deal with, that took me a while to figure out:
What am I doing wrong?
There is a possibility that %{HTTP_HOST} is not being populated properly, or at all. Although, I've only seen that occur in only one machine on a shared host, with some custom patched apache 2.2, it's a possibility nonetheless.