I'm trying to get some URLs pared down and cleaned for SEO purpose on an website I'm working on. The part where the actual URL is rewritten works just fine. The issue is that it gives me a 404 error page.
I'm new to using htaccess and have managed this far piecing things together.
Here is the code that's yielding this result.
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/cat/(.*)/$ /products.php?cat=$1
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
To repeat. Changing the URL as it appears in the address bar works, it not recognizing this as the page that is the problem.
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I am very new to .htaccess files and may have done mine wrong. I have been gathering snippets of code trying to get done what I want.
This is what I have in my file so far
I read this should be in your .htaccess file
Options +MultiViews
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
This was added to force a redirect from HTTP to HTTPS
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
This was added to remove .php at the end of all the files
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]
This was added to remove the showing of /index when the home link was pressed
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*\/index?\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php?$ "/$1" [R=301,L]
I have tried a lot of ideas I found on both here and other sites from Google. I have had no luck hiding the GET request.
Currently, the URL looks like https://mysite.ca/event?id=123
What I would like it to look like is either https://mysite.ca/event/123
This is hosted on Godaddy and it is just a plain PHP site if that makes any difference.
Any ideas would be great!
First of all Options +MultiViews already removes .php extension so you don't need:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]
About your problem try this Rule:
RewriteRule ^event/([0-9]+)?$ event?id=$1 [NC]
Which changes url from example.com/event/<number> to example.com/event?id=<number>
Although, if your site makes infinite redirects then you should change it to:
RewriteRule ^events/([0-9]+)?$ event?id=$1 [NC]
This happens if you have some includes/headers that redirect back to event and creates infinite loop.
I know that there are a bunch of answers for this question already on this forum and over the internet. But everything I tried is not working for me and I have no clue why. So that's why I'm asking this question.
I'm running a website with ExpressionEngine CMS. To remove index.php from the URL there is a small .htaccess rule which mentioned below and working fine.
RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
Everything running fine with this code in the htaccess file. But now I want to force www. in the URL because some AJAX scripts are not working when the URL is without www.. So I found some threads on this forum:
.htaccess - how to force "www." in a generic way?
https://expressionengine.stackexchange.com/questions/9853/site-doesnt-work-with-www-at-the-start-of-the-address/9864#9864
https in htaccess and order of rules (using Expression Engine)
The last has the most clear solution in my opinion so I added this to my .htaccess file.
# Add www.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
My .htaccess file now looks like this:
RewriteEngine on
# Add www.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
# remove index.php
RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
This however give's me a ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS error.
I tried all other kind of methods but I keep getting this error and I don't know why. Everything I try to force www. through htaccess doesn't work or gives me this error.
What is going on? Is it possible that DNS settings have to do something with this?
You need to change it on Plesk control panel, you access the domain in question and change the non-www to www or set it to none.
The option you look for is located at subscription > Web Hosting Settings > Preferred Domain.
In case you set it to none then you can use the .htaccess rule.
I added some bad code to my .htaccess file, and then my site would not even load. So I went back to a previous version that was working, but the site will still not load, I don't know if this is something to do with caching ( I emptied it by the way ) but I would like to be able to test my site again. But current browser will not go to that site. Tried the site on different computer and it is now working.
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
rewriteengine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)$ blog.php?article=$1 [QSA,L]
is the current .htaccess.
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
rewriteengine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [NC,L]
## remove ugly part of url for blog.php
RewriteRule ^ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)$ blog.php?article=$1 [QSA,L]
this is the one that broke it
Try uploading an empty htaccess file. The site should be work properly. Then keep adding your lines 1 by 1 until you find out which of them is causing the problem.
you might also want to check if you accidentally uploaded your htaccess file in another folder.
I am taking over a site and I'm trying desperately to get our affiliate sites to stay at their rewrite paths. Instead, they all forward to the home page. I want 404s obviously to redirect and I know I am missing something here, but I've tried everything I can think of and I obviously need another pair of brains here. This is how it was written and I'm not sure how to edit it for what I need. How do I stop the affiliate pages from then forwarding to the index?? Seems like every edit I made breaks things!
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^aff/(.*)$ /index.php/aff/?aff=$1 [R,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [R=301,NC]
ErrorDocument 404 /redirect/404_redirect.php
Redirect 301 /redirect/404_redirect.php http://privatemoneyexchange.org
I have two domains, cshen.ca and cshen.net, both point to the same place.
I'm trying to accomplish the following with mod_rewrite:
cshen.net is 301 redirected to cshen.ca
www.cshen.net or www.cshen.ca are both redirected to cshen.ca
the path after the domain is preserved after being redirected, for example www.cshen.net/foo/bar/ would be redirected to cshen.ca/foo/bar/
I've tried a variety of rules, but can't seem to get it to work.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^cshen\.net$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://cshen.ca/$1 [R=301,L]
This accomplishes the first two rules, but redirects everything back to the home page, and does not preserve the rest of the URL.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^cshen\.net$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://cshen.ca/$1 [R=301,L]
Making a small change and adding a slash '/' to the RewriteRule preserves the rest of the URL, but only www.cshen.ca is being redirected. Neither cshen.net nor www.cshen.net are being redirected anywhere.
I've also tried Apache's guide and used this code:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^cshen\.ca [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://cshen.ca/$1 [L,R]
I thought this would work, since it should redirect any url that isn't cshen.ca, however, like the second piece of code, it does nothing to cshen.net or www.cshen.net.
I've just about ran out of ideas of other things to try. I would appreciate it if someone could help out!
Addendum: in case it matters, I'm using WordPress's pretty URLs, and the rewrite rules for that are:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
I've tried putting my rules before and after the WordPress rules (when I put it before I'd of course add RewriteEngine On before my rules), doesn't make any difference.
Thanks!
don't know how to edit, solved by placing the code from apache before WP's
must have forgotten to test this earlier.