I have a http server (apache HTTPD v2.4) where directory listing is enabled. I configured it to use the 'fancy-index' from https://github.com/Vestride/fancy-index, and works great. However, its searching function didn't give what I was looking for.
I'd like to configure the webserver such that if I goto http://mywebserver.com/someDir/*?list, it will return a list of all the files in someDir in a "file, filesize" format.
Or, if I goto http://mywebserver.com/someDir/essay2020*.txt?list , I'll get a custom list of all essay2020*.txt files. Or some form of a simple regex: say "essay2020[0-2]*.txt".
I can write a php/perl/python script that can read a directory and return the 'file, filesize' list. But how do I configure the .htaccess to call this script? Do I have to muck around with 'RewriteRule'? or something special?
As an added note, I'm not limited to modifying .htaccess only. If I can do all of this by modifying the httpd.conf, I'm open to that suggestion too.
Thanks.
The answer in Comments by CBroe did it. By just modifying the apache2.conf file to add:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^list$
RewriteRule .* /search.php?path=%{REQUEST_URI}
within my <VirtualHost>, I'm now able to forward everything to search.php, where there I can parse and do what needs to be done. All w/o revealing search.php's existence. Thanks.
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I currently have urls that look like: something.com/index.php?page=pagename
we would like to have it just be something.com/pagename
But still be able to access sub folders like something.com/admin/
Thanks in advance.
If you're using Apache, which I presume you are, you need to use the ReWrite Engine:
If you don't have one already, create or add to the .htaccess file stored in the root directory you're rewriting. So you if you want something.com/index.php?* to rewrite, then use put it in the folder where something.com is stored.
There, you need something like:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /index.php?topic=$1 [QSA,L]
This regex takes the beginning of the input after "/", and uses that input as the variable $1.
Source: http://www.generateit.net/mod-rewrite/
You then change all your links to point to "/pagename"
You may also have to turn on the RewriteEngine module by uncommenting it in your httpd.conf file by finding the line like:
#LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so
and deleting the leading #
More info: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html
I want to create a bunch of files without an extension showing at the end. The easiest way to do that was to do this:
/usa/index.php
/usa/alaska/index.php
/usa/alabama/index.php
/usa/california/index.php
What I want to do is this
/usa/alaska.php
/usa/alabama.php
/usa/california.php
and have it show up as:
/usa/alaska
/usa/alabama
/usa/california
However, I have one more level I want to add to this, the cities
/usa/alaska/adak.php
/usa/alaska/anchorage.php
/usa/california/los-angles.php
I don't want the ".php" showing up, but then each state exists as both a file and a directory. What I want is an htaccess rule that serves up the file version of the file, not the directory which is the default. I also want to strip the .php off of the end of the files so the final result looks like
/usa
/usa/alaska (alaska.php)
/usa/alaska/adak (adak.php)
I know I can get close to this by creating all the directories and using index.php for each directory, but then I will have thousands of directories each with one file in it and updating is a pain in the butt. I would much rather have one directory with 1000 files in it, than 1000 directories with 1 file in it.
Please, can someone point me in the right direction and know that I am doing this for all 50 states.
Jim
I would also suggest using a single php (e.g. index.php) file and redirecting all urls starting with usa to it, instead of separating them in different directories and files. The you'd need a couple of rewrite rules like the following
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^usa/([^/.]+)$ index.php?state=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^usa/([^/]+)/([^/.]+)$ index.php?state=$1&city=$2 [L]
So then in your index.php you'd only need to check the $_GET parameters.
Update:
If you don't feel comfortable enough to use a database and pull the needed data from there you could always use the parameters to dynamically include/require the needed files. Something like this
<?php
$source = ''; //or the 'ROOT' directory
if(isset($_GET['state'])) $source .= $_GET['state'].'/';
if(isset($_GET['city'])) $source .= $_GET['city'].'.php';
include($source); // here $source would be something like 'alaska/adak.php'
// and is assumed that the dir 'alaska' is on the same
// level as 'index.php'
?>
But to answer your original question nevertheless you could use the following .htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^usa/([^/.]+)$ usa/$1.php [L]
RewriteRule ^usa/([^/]+)/([^/.]+)$ usa/$1/$2.php [L]
what about creating just one single file:
/usa/index.php
With
$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]
you can read the current URI.
Well, now if a user enters "http://domain.foo/usa/alaska" for example, he will get an 404 error of course.
But to call your index.php instead, you could write this line to the .htaccess:
ErrorDocument 404 /usa/index.php
Now the index.php receives everything what is written to the URI and you can match the result and include files or handle errors.
But maybe there is a better solution with .htaccess only, don't know. :)
I've got a directory called fb and a script inside called like.php. I'd like to have the get-id passed to the like-file using mod_rewrite.
mypage.com/fb/like.php?id=5 would be mypage.com/fb/like/5
My (not working) htaccess looks like this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule /fb/like/([0-9]+) /fb/like.php?id=$1
Does anyone see what's wrong here?
Try removing the slash at the beginning of your match and replace patterns like so:
RewriteRule fb/like/([0-9]+) fb/like.php?id=$1
mypage.com/ is the domain name, so the string that gets matched is fb/like/5
Also consider using the carat at the start of your match string so that it will match fb but not fffb:
RewriteRule ^fb/like/([0-9]+) fb/like.php?id=$1
Here's a short guide to mod_rewrite I've found helpful.
Edit for your follow-up question:
To match mypage.com/something/fb/like/5, you can do this:
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/fb/like/([0-9]+) $1/fb/like.php?id=$2
This saves the first directory as $1. [^/]+ means match one or more characters that are not a slash. Put this .htaccess file in the root directory of your domain.
Alternatively, you can use the second-to-last rule and put that .htaccess file in the "something" subdirectory. Hope that makes sense.
Or you can write a rule to match simply like.php/([0-9]+) so that it'll work no matter what the directory path looks like. You can go even more generic and make this apply to any PHP file, not just like.php. It really depends on how you want your site to work.
I am using direct paths for downloading files from my site. the link is something like this
http://www.site.com/download.php?dir1/dir/dir3/file.doc
i want to wrap it with mod rewite rules so that only below link should be appeared
http://www.site.com/download
file, dir and dir3 are variable.
what i'hv to do in my .htaccess file?? Any Idea??
A simple redirect would be:
RewriteRule ^http://www.site.com/download/(.*)/?$ http://www.site.com/download.php?dir1/dir/dir3/$1 [NC,L]
This will take any request for something in the 'artificial' download directory and route it to the real location.
You can add more complex rules stripping out filetypes etc depending on your needs, or redirecting a 'name' to a filename etc etc..
e.g:
RewriteRule ^http://www.site.com/download/pdf/(.*)/?$ http://www.site.com/download.php?dir1/dir/dir3/$1.pdf [L,NC]
This would have an artificial PDF folder containing a filename ex the extension, routing to a .pdf doc....you can shape the redirect any way you like really...depends on the format you prefer
Not specific question. What is dir1/dir/dir3/file.doc means? If you want to get http://www.site.com/download.php?dir1/dir/dir3/file.doc, when you go to http://www.site.com/download do the next things in your .htaccess file.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^download/(.*)/?$ download.php?dir1/dir/dir3/file.doc [L]
How do I write a rewrite rule for the following condition.
I have my directory setup as
/root/projectname/trunk/www/
I've setup site.local in hosts file to point to /root/
How do I make this request
http://site.local/projectname to grab data from /root/project_name/trunk/www/ instead of from /root/projectname/ ?
Right now I have it as RewriteRule ^projectname/*$ projectname/trunk/www/ [L]
That works for just http://site.local/projectname, but others like http://site.local/projectname/images/image1.jpg doesn't work.
Please enlight.
Thank you,
Tee
I think you should write you rule like following
RewriteRule ^projectname/(*)$ projectname/trunk/www/$1 [L]
but not tested
Ah I figured out what's cracking.
Since the mapping and mapped path both contains projectname, it just keeps on rewriting.
So I got to change the name to something else and it works.
Thanks,
Tee