For example visititors type or open some url, like www.domain.com/some-url
I have one php file, that provides conent for all urls. For example, file name is show_content.php
In show_content.phpi get url, using $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] or $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], then get necessary data from mysql.
To do all above in .htaccess i use RewriteRule ^([\w=/-]+)$ show_content.php?$1 [QSA]
So far all is ok. But problem is when i want to redirect from non existent url to another url.
I use Redirect 301 /non-existent-url /another-url.
Want to see url like www.domain.com/another-url, but i see www.domain.com/another-url?non-existent-url.
Understand that it is because of ? in show_content.php?$1, but if i remove ?, then get 404 Not Found.
How to change RewriteRule, to redirect correctly?
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I'm trying to passthrough (not redirect!) an empty old page to its new location using an htaccess RewriteRule.
I essentially want the user to browse to mysite.com/page-old and to see that url in their browser but be delivered the content from mysite.com/page-new. The user should not be aware that the location changed.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^page-old/?$ /page-new [PT]
The actual result is that they are redirected to page-new instead.
I found the below on apache.org which seems to validate my code some, but this is giving me a 404 error.
Description:
Assume we have recently renamed the page foo.html to bar.html and now want to provide the old URL for backward compatibility. However, we want that users of the old URL even not recognize that the pages was renamed - that is, we don't want the address to change in their browser
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/rewrite/remapping.html
RewriteRule "^/foo\.html$" "/bar.html" [PT]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^example/my-stuff/$ /example/home/ [L,R=301]
check this answer as well
How to redirect a specific page using htaccess
I am currently building a new website. The old website has different url's than the new one. Now i want to redirect, using htaccess.
Before going live, i want to test my rules locally.
The old website uses url's of this format:
www.domain.de/?content=whatevercontent
The new website uses url's of this format:
www.domain.de/index.php?content=differentcontentname
Which are rewritten (in the htaccess file, using several RewriteRules) to this format:
www.domain.de/nicecontentname
I tried Redirects like this:
Redirect http://domainfolder/?content=whatevercontent http://10.3.10.69/domainfolder/nicecontentname
This does not work.
After going live it should work like this:
Redirect http://www.domain.de/?content=whatevercontent http://www.domain.de/index.php?content=differentcontentname
..and then be rewritten to the nice url.
My Redirect-Rules just won't apply, i tried it in all combinations i could think of, with or without http, with or without the containing folder, using the already rewritten url or the actual one, etc..
Any ideas on this issue?
You can not use Redirect directive to manipulte querystrings. Here is a mod-rewrite example that works for QueryStrings :
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/\?content=this
RewriteRule ^$ /index.php?content=that [L,R]
This will temporary redirect /?content=this to /index.php?content=that
To make the redirect permanent (browser cacheable) change R to R=301.
I want to redirect users who enter this website URL:
http://www.myWebsite.com/bananas
to:
http://www.myWebsite.com/fruits/bananas
I cant test it because I'm sending this to somebody.
I have these but I don't know for sure which one works:
RedirectMatch 301 http://www.myWebsite.com/bananas(.*) http://www.myWebsite.com/food/bananas $1
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewriterule ^bananas(.*)$ http://www.myWebsite.com/food/bananas $1 [r=301,nc]
Please specify if you want to redirect or rewrite. The rules you are using serve different purposes and you used both in your example.
Redirect: Actually load a different site when entering the url (end up at url and content of /fruits/bananas)
Rewrite: Url stays the same but server provides rewritten content (url stays at /bananas, but show /fruits/bananas content)
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html
Also it is not clear if you only want one single directory to be redirected or all files that are contained in that directory.
Checkout this as a guide: http://www.htaccessredirect.net/
I believe you are looking for
Redirect 301 /bananas http://www.myWebsite.com/fruits/bananas
The HTTP 301 stands for Moved Permanently.
I haven't tested it, though.
I am having some issues trying to prettify some URL's. Basically I need to make this URL http://domain.com/actualfolder/fakepath/this-is-the-article.php to display content from this page http://domain.com/actualfolder/articlemanager.php.
The articlemanager.php is setup to receive a GET url variable in the way of the "this-is-the-article" and search for it in the database. If found, it will display content specific to that result. This part works.
The part that i can't make it to work is the htaccess rule.
This is my rule but it returns 404 not found or 500 if i don't use the initial slashes.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^fakepath/([^/.]+).php$ articlemanager.php?permalink=$1 [L]
I could really use some help, so any suggestion is welcome.
EDIT: the htaccess file lies in the domain.com/actualfolder/ location
I have a RewriteRule setup to change
http://kn3rdmeister.com/blog/post.php?y=2012&m=07&d=04&id=4
into
http://kn3rdmeister.com/blog/2012/07/04/4.php
but that actually redirects where the browser is getting the page from. I want to still display
/blog/post.php?y=xxxx&m=xx&d=xx&id=xx
but have the browser show the simpler URL like
/blog/post/year/month/day/id.php
I read something somewhere about using ProxyPass, but I don't quite know what I'm doing :P
I want people to be able to visit either the post.php URL with the query strings, OR the clean URL with fancy shmancy subdirectories for the dates and get the same content — all while displaying the clean URL in the end.
You want something like this:
# First if someone actually requests a /blog/post.php URL, redirect them
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|POST|HEAD)\ /blog/post\.php\?y=([0-9]{4})&m=([0-9]{2})&d=([0-9]{2})&id=([0-9]*)\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^blog/post\.php$ /blog/%2/%3/%4/%5.php [R=301,L]
This will redirect the browser to the /blog/##/##/##/##.php URI, that will show up in their address bar. Once they get redirected, the browser will then send a request for /blog/##/##/##/##.php and your server then needs to internally rewrite it back:
# We got pretty URLs, but need to rewrite back to the php request
RewriteRule ^blog/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/([^\.]+)\.php$ /blog/post.php?y=$1&m=$2&d=$3&id=$4 [L]
This changes everything back internally so that the file /blog/post.php can handle the request.