I have a URL in the form of
motors.com/project?id=1&title=british-car-auctions
And wish to change it to
motors.com/project/1/british-car-auctions
I have used solutions from URL rewriting with PHP and Rewritting URL by htaccess with no luck. As for the title section of the URL, I am calling this exact text with dashes from the database, which shouldn't be an issue. Any possible solutions to this problem?
# mode_rewrite starts here
RewriteEngine on
# does apply existing directories, meaning that if the foilder exists
RewriteCond %{REQUESTED_FILENAME} !-d
# check for file in directory with .hmtl extension
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
# here we actually show the page that has the .html extension
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [NC,L]
#-----------------------------------------------------
RewriteCond %{REQUESTED_FILENAME} !-d
# check for file in directory with .hmtl extension
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
# here we actually show the page that has the .html extension
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html [NC,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]+)(/?)$/([0-9a-zA-Z\s_]+) news/article.php?id=$1&title=$2 [NC,L]
Ended up finding a solution. The url rename wasn't the same as the .php file name.
So instead of:
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]+)/([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+) article.php?id=$1&title=$2 [NC,L]
changing the php to this solved the problem:
RewriteRule ^article/([0-9]+)/([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+) article.php?id=$1&title=$2 [NC,L]
Also, the php code in my html had to be re-written in the same format as what I wrote on my .htaccess file
Same again, instead of:
<a class="brand-text" href="article?id=<?php echo $pizza['id']?>&title=<?php echo ($pizza['slug'])?>">
I changed it to
<a class="brand-text" href="article/<?php echo $pizza['id']?>/<?php echo ($pizza['slug'])?>">
Hope this helps someone in the future
Related
Site Structure
/articles/Employment/Companies.php
/articles/Employment/Companies/.htaccess
/articles/Employment/Companies/index.php
.htaccess file reads
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ index.php [L]
So when you go to
/articles/Employment/Companies/[company type]
It is displaying the index.php page.
The Problem
I'm trying to link to
/articles/Employment/Companies.php
without the .php being displayed, however if I link to
/articles/Employment/Companies
it is going to
/articles/Employment/Companies/
What i'm Ideally Looking For
Understand why I my site is adding the / when linking to folder/hello
to strip out all .php so if you go to /hello it'll display /hello.php apart from in certain directories such as my current .htaccess file is located where /this or /that will display /index.php.
Please try with below, use from rewritecond with your existing rule what I am doing if the request is actually for php file which is not index.php then serve the extension less code.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule !index.php$ $1.php [L]
I have a website of PHP files that I'm hosting on SiteGround.com and want the links to look like "example.com/about" instead of "example.com/about.php". I also want my index.php to be loaded when I visit "example.com" instead of "example.com/index"
So I did some searching and this is what I want:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php
But the webserver already has a default .htaccess file which has this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
Okay...so I tried to piece together what it is doing. Based on my understanding, it enables the RewriteEngine, then sets RewriteBase to be /. It then sets a rule looking for index.php and if it finds it, it doesn't check any other rule.
Otherwise, it falls through and checks if a string is not a file and not a directory and contains a .php extension, it redirects the root to index.php and stops.
So, I tried adding my three lines to the end of block right before the closing </IfModule> tag and it didn't quite work. Can anyone help me out?
EDIT
I modified my .htaccess file:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php
</IfModule>
In my HTML, I have:
<a href="about" .... ></a> <!-- link to about.php -->
<a href="/" ....></a> <!-- link to index.php -->
Is that right? It doesn't seem to work for me.
First of all, the line:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
Is not part of the original .htaccess file. It can't be, it makes no sense where it is, perhaps you added it yourself while experimenting.
The .htaccess file you have there, other than that line, is a standard method of putting everything through index.php. Probably for WordPress. So you need to decide what you want to do. Do you want to put everything through index.php, or do you want to use separate .php files with the extension added on the server side? Or do you want to do both? (in which case a combined approach needs writing) Are you still using WordPress? Perhaps you can just remove those rules.
Let me know and I can update the answer if you need more info.
Update
Your rules can be modified to:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.php$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L,NE]
That should fix it, I think the \. on the REQUEST_FILENAME line was breaking it, the rest are improvements.
If that's not working then perhaps mod_rewrite isn't enabled, or .htaccess files are not enabled. You can test it by putting some garbage on a line and see if you get a 500 error.
If the root doesn't serve index.php then you just need to add a DirectoryIndex.
I have 2 questions.
I am currently using wamp server to serve my website.
The homepage is 'localhost/prefix/index.php'
Question 1:
a. I would like it so my home page is:
'localhost/prefix/'
instead of
'localhost/prefix/index.php
b. I would like it so:
'localhost/prefix/admin/profile.php'
is
'localhost/prefix/admin/profile'
How do I go about doing this (I have googled and I am very confused by the syntax)?
Question 2
If I have a url like
'localhost/prefix/games?title=hi'
how can I make it so the url is like this:
'localhost/prefix/games/hi'
Thanks in advance!!
I really have got lost.
EDITED::///
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [R]
Is what I have so far.. It does nothing... But everyone says it should! (the htaccess file is doing something because if I do something random, it throws up errors).
EDITED::///
This seems to remove .php and index.php from the url:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /prefix/
# remove .php; use THE_REQUEST to prevent infinite loops
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ (.*)\.php\ HTTP
RewriteRule (.*)\.php$ $1 [R=301]
# remove index
RewriteRule (.*)/index$ $1/ [R=301]
# remove slash if not directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /$
RewriteRule (.*)/ $1 [R=301]
# add .php to access file, but don't redirect
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule (.*) $1\.php [L]
Problem now is that my prefix base is not working so it ends up going to
localhost/something/something
rather than
localhost/prefix/something/something
Any ideas?
EDITED::///
I have sussed out that the above code actually works perfectly if the page i'm directing to is in a sub folder. so for example.. this will work:
localhost/prefix/admin/dashboard
But this (because the file is in the root directory, doesn't)
localhost/prefix/login.php
it redirects me to
localhost/login
Any ideas?
EDIT::///
If you are having problems getting it to work. close your browser down and restart... I had caching issues.
This code above will remove .php and also remove index.php.
here is my configuration:
http://domain.com (obviously fictitious name...) hosted on a server running Apache with mod_rewrite enabled
folder named "foo": (located at http://domain.com/foo/ and in which I want to put my .htaccess file) containing only 3 types of files .php, .htm, .html
.php files (for the sake of the example I will refer to one of them: phpfile.php)
.htm files (for the sake of the example I will refer to one of them: htmfile.htm)
.html files (for the sake of the example I will refer to one of them: htmlfile.html)
within the foo folder, no file has an equivalent with another extension or without extension (ie eg neither phpfile.htm nor phpfile.html nor phpfile exist in foo, only php.file.php does exist)
Here is what I am trying to achieve:
when entering http://domain.com/foo/phpfile.php or http://domain.com/foo/htmfile.htm or http://domain.com/foo/htmlfile.html in my browser's address bar and hitting "Enter":
I get redirected with a 301 to http://domain.com/foo/phpfile or http://domain.com/foo/htmfile or http://domain.com/foo/htmlfile (depending on the file I've chosen), that is to say that those latters are the URLs now displayed in the address bar
when entering http://domain.com/foo/phpfile or http://domain.com/foo/htmfile or http://domain.com/foo/htmlfile in my browser's address bar and hitting "Enter":
I don't get redirected, nothing changes in the address bar but instead the server just serves me the phpfile.php or the htmfile.htm or the htmlfile.html, depending on which one I requested
I have been trying hard on this, and sofar I've came with this content for my .htaccess file (located in the "foo" folder), which is unfortunately only working in the last of the two cases, in which I am interested (ie serving "phpfile.php" when I request "phpfile", serving "htmfile.htm" when I request "htmfile" or serving "htmlfile.html" when I request "htmlfile"), and which is ignoring the 301 redirections:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /foo
# Redirect permanently the requests for existing .php files
# to extensionless files (non present on the server)
# so that phpfile.php gets redirected to phpfile
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.php$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule (.*)\.php$ $1 [R=301,NC]
# Redirect permanently the requests for existing .htm(l) files
# to extensionless files (non present on the server)
# so that htmfile.htm gets redirected to htmfile
# so that htmlfile.html gets redirected to htmlfile
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.html?$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html? -f
RewriteRule (.*)\.html?$ $1 [R=301,NC]
# Matching requests for non existing extensionless files
# with their existing equivalent on the server
# so that domain.com/foo/phpfile will display
# the contents of domain.com/foo/phpfile.php,
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule (.*)$ $1.php [L]
# so that domain.com/foo/htmlfile will display
# the contents of domain.com/foo/htmlfile.html,
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule (.*)$ $1.html [L]
# so that domain.com/foo/htmfile will display
# the contents of domain.com/foo/htmfile.htm,
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.htm -f
RewriteRule (.*)$ $1.htm [L]
Thank you in advance for any help/ advice.
There's a logic flaw in the first two rules in that it's the php or html file that exists. The URI check is also in effect a duplicate of the rewrite rule pattern and !f implies !-d. You can also fold these into a single rule:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^(.*?)\.(php|html?)$ $1 [R=301,NC]
The last two are OK, but I'd swap the order if html requests are more common than php
Why MultiViews doesn't help
Options +MultiViews implements a concept known as content negotiation, and in doing this Apache invokes a subquery to parse the filename root name. One of the things that it does is to scan the directory for known filename.extension combinations so in this case if xxx.php exists and your request is for xxx then it will substitute xxx.php and do an internal redirection, which then causes your first rule to fire, removing the .php extension and this causes the error that you see.
So (i) you need to disable multiviews, and (ii) ditto subqueries; (iii) detect and prevent retry loops. This is one solution which will do what you want:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /foo
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_END} =1
RewriteRule ^ - [L,NS]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^(.*?)\.(php|html?)$ $1 [R=301,NC,NS]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule (.*)$ $1.html [L,E=END:1,NS]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.htm -f
RewriteRule (.*)$ $1.htm [L,E=END:1,NS]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule (.*)$ $1.php [L,E=END:1,NS]
I would like thank Everybody for this post as it really helped me a lot and I used something like the one below and works for me ...
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_END} =1
RewriteRule ^ - [L,NS]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^(.*?)\.(php|html?)$ $1 [R=301,NC,NS]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule (.*)$ $1.html [L,E=END:1,NS]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.htm -f
RewriteRule (.*)$ $1.htm [L,E=END:1,NS]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule (.*)$ $1.php [L,E=END:1,NS]
This version works for me.
Thank you.
Cheers!
This is my htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
# Stop if it's a request to an existing file.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [L]
# Redirect all requests to the index page
RewriteRule ^([^/]) /index.php [L]
Now this forwards everything to my index.php script! It dosen't stop if a script exists. Anyone have any idea why this isn't working? I've looked everywhere, but I don't really understand mod_rewrite (as much as I thought!).
The problem has come about because I've put in <script> tags which point to .js files in my web directory which are then forwarded to the index.php script. The web developer toolbar tells me this. :) And clicking links to the js files in firefox's view source window also shows the index.php output.
thank you.
This is because after processing a rewrite rule the whole process restarts with the new url. The processing of an url can go thru the rules over and over again each time with the changed URL, until there is no more change (no applying rules found).
You need this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) /index.php [L]
Don't think of the rules as a program, they are rules which can overlap and must be as specific as possible with each one.
I guess you should add [OR] after the first condition like this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule (.*) $1 [QSA,L]