I am new to using htaccess and rewite rules.
I need to write a rewrite rule which "disregards" any directory starting with a certain prefix.
For example, any directory starting with _prefix_should be disregarded so that
http://www.myserver.com/mydir/_prefix_12n3n4n/subdir/file
should be redirected to
http://www.myserver.com/mydir/subdir/file
Can anyone tell me how this would be done?
I think I figured it out...
RewriteRule "(.*)([^\/]*)(_prefix_[^\/]*[\/])" "$1$4"
seems to work
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I have the following situation in my .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^laravel/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,L]
This is specifically made to not allow people to visit my laravel directory.
However, I want to be able to load a specific file from laravel directory into other files, like this:
<script src="/laravel/public/js/app.js" defer></script>
The problem is the following:
The generated URL will have 'laravel' removed from it as per the rule. If I comment that rule, then that line of code that includes app.js will work.
I have tried several things with my .htaccess and searched for a solution, but alas, I am failing to understand, it seems, how .htaccess code really does the things.
Can anyone help with a rule to allow specifically that URL?
Or, if possible, to allow access to the /laravel/public/js/ directory without removing the word 'laravel' from the URL.
Thank you very much!
Instead of doing complex things with checking negated patterns in a RewriteCond or similar, you could just put a rule before this that matches that URL specifically, does no rewriting at all (- in place of substitution URL), and then uses the L flag to indicate that none of the following rules should be evaluated any more.
RewriteRule ^laravel/public/js/app\.js$ - [L]
In my root directory I have files but I want the rewrite to work only if there is a slash.
I have urls at the moment as www.mysite.com/index.php?id=10&id1=234. I want instead to have urls like www.mysite.com/234 that rewrite to passthrough.php?id=234.
I will use php to redirect. The important point is the rewrite should only happen if there is a slash so it does not conflict with other stuff.
Thanks in advance!
I have sorted this out now thanks by simply looking at the rewrite template and all works fine. It can be a bit confusing when you first use such things!
We moved a part of our site from one sub folder to another. I want to put permanent redirects (301) into htaccess for the files in this folder (some have changed their filename as well, so I can't just setup one rule for the whole folder). Here's what I'm trying
RewriteRule ^search/tutorial-search.html$ db/tutorial.php [R=301]
This doesn't work though, I get a 404 response when now entering the old URL. I find this curious as I had a rule in place for ages that does work, which looks like this:
RewriteRule ^search/tutorial-search.html$ search/tutorial-search.php
I really don't see the big difference. I also tried the following (among others) but it doesn't work either
RewriteRule ^search/tutorial-search.html$ db/tutorial.php
What exactly is causing this to fail? Just to make sure I put all of these at the exact same line of the htaccess file. Is it because I'm rewriting to another folder? Thanks :)
Try adding a leading slash to your rewrite targets, because when redirecting, apache could be mistaking a URL-path with a file-path.
RewriteRule ^search/tutorial-search.html$ /db/tutorial.php [R=301]
I have the following rule in .htaccess file:
RewriteRule ^cat-([0-9]+)\.html$ ad_list_cat.php?category_no=$1
the ad_list_cat.php file is in a sub folder /contents/. I also tried
RewriteRule ^cat-([0-9]+)\.html$ /contents/ad_list_cat.php?category_no=$1
when I enter the url 'http://localhost/cat-1.html' it gives error 404.
I think the problem with sub-folder.
whats wrong in my rule?
Regards:
Because it is looking for your ad_list_cat.php in your root dir.
Please read a little about re-write rules BEFORE you start asking questions.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^mocks/site/(.*)$ http://thelivewebsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
That is my htaccess file's contents.
The htaccess file is in the root directory of the hosting account and I just want to redirect the directory mocks/site/ to the new domain (with or without any extra directories).
eg: if someone goes to http://mywebsite.com/mocks/site then it needs to redirect to http://thelivewebsite.com. If they go to http://mywebsite.com/mocks/site/another/directory then it needs to redirect to http://thelivewebsite.com/another/directory. I hope that makes sense.
So the problem I have is that the htaccess code above seems to work pretty well when there is something after mocks/site/ however when there isn't something after that then the $1 in the redirect seems to reference the whole REQUEST_URI (eg: mocks/site/ rather than nothing - as there is nothing after it).
I don't know how to stop this. I thought about using a RewriteCond, but I'm not sure what to use there. I can't find anything that helps me to determine if there is anything after mocks/site/ or not.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Thank you.
That's very strange behaviour -- never seen anything like that. Therefore I think it could be something else (another rule somewhere -- on old or even new site). I recommend enabling rewrite debugging (RewriteLogLevel 9) and check the rewrite log (that's if you can edit Apache's config file / virtual host definition).
In any case, try this combination:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^mocks/site/$ http://thelivewebsite.com/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^mocks/site/(.+)$ http://thelivewebsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
It will do matching/redirecting in 2 steps: first rule is for exact directory match (so no $1 involved at all) and 2nd will work if there is at least 1 character after the /mocks/site/.
Alternatively (Apache docs even recommending this one) use Redirect directive (no need for mod_rewrite at all for such simple redirects):
Redirect 301 /mocks/site/ http://thelivewebsite.com/