I'd like to create some kind of redirection script using .htaccess to map short urls (like example.com/1 to other urls). To do so, I've created this:
RedirectPermanent /1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
RedirectPermanent /2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
So far, that's working. However, it's missing a fallback. I'd like to add a 404 page that is shown whenever someone tries to navigate a URL that doesn't have any redirect (yet).
I've tried adding this:
...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/404.html$
RewriteRule .* /404.html [L,R=302]
Obviously, this isn't working, because now ALL calls are redirected to 404.html. I thought about adding the redirects as conditions, but since there might be many redirects that approach seems very bad to me.
What can I do instead?
Thanks for helping out.
I've done this now, but I'm not sure if this is the best solution.
Please comment if you have any advices.
RewriteRule ^/1$ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^/2$ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2 [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/404.html$
RewriteRule .* /404.html [L,R=302]
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This is pretty simple, but can't seem to figure this out.
I have a url /shows/index.php?id=1 that I wanted to appear in the url as /shows/1/index.php.
So I added this to my htaccess:
RewriteRule ^shows/([0-9]*)/index.php$ /shows/index.php?id=$1 [L]
This worked like a charm. I can now navigate to /shows/1/index.php no problem at all. However, I can also still navigate to /shows/index.php?id=1. I wanted that page to automatically redirect to the new url, so I wrote this:
RewriteRule ^shows/index.php?id=([0-9]*)$ /shows/$1/index.php [R=301,L]
...but it doesn't do anything. However, if I do something like:
RewriteRule ^shows/([0-9]*)/0$ /shows/$1/index.php [R=301,L]
It redirects just fine. So that makes me think there is an issue with the first part of the rewrite rule, maybe? I'm not too familiar with this sort of stuff.
Since you want to redirect and rewrite the same request, you need to match against %{THE_REQUEST} variable otherwise you will get an infinite loop error on the redirect
RewriteEngine on
# redirect /shows/index.php?id=1 to /shows/1/index.php
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /shows/index.php\?id=([^\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^shows/index.php$ /shows/%1/index.php? [NC,L,R]
#rewrite /shows/1/index.php to /shows/index.php?id=1
RewriteRule ^shows/([0-9]*)/index.php$ /shows/index.php?id=$1 [L]
Clear your browser cache before testing this.
I have a simple need to redirect:
mypage.com/myurl (which doesn't not exist; meening that returns a 404 error)
To
mypage.com/newurl/myurl (which is an exitsing page with content).
I saw a tons of forum post about this, but didn't find an awnser. I tried lot of thinks but with internal server error, infinitive loops etc.
Please note that I have a www to non www permanent redirect, like this:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mypage\.si [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mypage.si/$1 [L,R=301]
UPDATE:
I will be specific:
This URL doesn't exist: http://domodom.si/sl/nepremicnine
and needs to be redirected here: http://domodom.si/sl/nepremicnine/nepremicnine-ponudba
Hope this will offer more insights about the problem.
Thanks
assuming mod_rewrite
RedirectPermanent /myurl/ mypage.com/newurl/myurl
Add this to your .htaccess file
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ newurl/$1 [NC,L]
you may want to try implementing the answer of nwellnhof in this thread.. it worked for me..
I want this: RewriteRule ^paper$ /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 know this sounds like so many other questions here, but I can't seem to find the answer.
Say you are on:
www.domain.com/folderA/folder2/folder3/
I want that to redirect to:
www.domain.com/folderB/folder2/folder3/
So the whole structure stays the same.. it just redirects.
Now so far I have:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/folderA [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /folderB/$1 [R=301,L]
But when I use that, it'll just do
www.domain.com/folderB/folderA/folder2/folder3/
What am I doing wrong? How do I get rid of that folderA?
The pattern ^(.*)$ includes also the prefix folderA. You must specify folderA explicitly in the pattern and capture only the latter part in the RewriteRule. Then you can drop the RewriteCond
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?folderA/(.*)$ /folderB/$1 [R,L]
Never test with 301 enabled, see this answer Tips for debugging .htaccess rewrite rules for details.
Alright, title is REALLY sloppy.
Here's my problem: I have a news site and when you go to the main page (domain.com) it redirects you to domain.com/news/top?geography=San_Francisco after it figures out your geography.
How do I use the .htaccess so that it goes from domain.com/news/top?geography=San_Francisco domain.com/San_Francisco/news/top ?
There are some similar questions, but I have not found one similar enough in that you're editing the URL as a furtherback subdirectory.
It should also be noted that I am using the Code Igniter framework for PHP and it normally has it as domain.com/index.php/news/top?geography=San_Francisco but I did a mod_rewrite already to get rid of the index.php. The code is as follows for that:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
Code I've tried:
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/news/top$ /news/top?geography=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
Before the index.php rule that you have, try adding this:
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/news/top$ /news/top?geography=$1 [L,QSA]
You'll need to make sure the links you generate are in the form of domain.com/San_Francisco/news/top though.
But to take care of the links in the wild that still look like the old way, you have to match against the actual request:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /news/top\?geography=([^&]+)
RewriteRule ^news/top$ /%1/news/top? [L,R=301]
This will 301 redirect the browser if someone goes to the link domain.com/news/top?geography=San_Francisco and make it so the browser's address bar says this: domain.com/San_Francisco/news/top. At which point the browser will send another request for the second URL, and you use the rule above to change it back into the one with a query string.