looking for a rather unconventional htaccess solutions but can't quite figure it out
we're rebuilding our web presence entirely and one issue we're trying to tackle is a simple re-direct htaccess.
the planned flow will be; user visits any site such as:
xx.foo.com where xx is country code. a globally implanted htaccess georedirect sends the user to the correct place.
Our checkout system is on foo.com so the user will be send there regardless but.. they need to be sent to their local subdomain first to get the relevant currency & locale data to submit to the checkout.
I can't find a ruleset that allows me to redirect all traffic from foo.com to xx.foo.com except any traffic that came from xx.foo.com or xy.foo.com etc.
Thanks for all the suggestions!
The solution we chose was indeed to adapt some of the destination locale values by GEO instead
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Is there a way of forcing Google Analytics to combine variations of the same domain so it treats all subsequent visits from one user to any of these URLs as the same user? Here's an example:
http://www.example.com/mypage.php
https://www.example.com/mypage.php
http://example.com/mypage.php
https://example.com/mypage.php
What I hope to achieve is a setup where if a single user clicked each of these links, the results would appear in Analytics as:
http://www.example.com/mypage.php - Pageviews: 4 Users: 1
This question expands on this one from earlier
As I understand it, if I were to add a global 301 redirect to my .htaccess file, the user would be automatically redirected to whatever domain I specify. Is this the best solution?
The answer you linked to is outdated (if it was ever right). If you use Universal Analytics and set the cookie domain parameer to auto (which is the default) the cookie will be set for the domain and all subdomains:
Automatic Cookie Domain Configuration simplifies cross domain tracking
implementations by automatically writing cookies to the highest level
domain possible when the auto parameter is used. When used on the
domain www.example.co.uk, it will try to write cookies in the
following order:
co.uk
example.co.uk
www.example.co.uk
(see documentation). So you will have a cookie for example.co.uk on both domain and www subdomain which is valid for both.
Having said that, you should still use the 301 for SEO reasons (to avoid duplicate content, plus Google announced last year that ssl is a ranking factor now so you might want to use your https pages only).
I have a website ranking well in Google, my current website has dashes in and looks like so...
this-is-mine.com
Ive just also bought
thisismine.com
I'd like to point the latter to my first site, but I dont want it to be classed as duplicate content.
I'm unsure if I just do this through 123-reg but will this affect my Google rankings, or is there a correct way of doing this without penalising myself?
According to the link below, my thoughts are confirmed.
A 301 is fine as it forwards everything including page rank to the "new" site. In your case this-is-mine.com.
A 302 could/would be a problem for SEO.
http://seo-hacker.com/301-302-redirect-affect-seo/
If your current website is ranking well then don't disturb it. There is no benefits in pointing multiple domains on one website. You can also make a single page website on the new domain and optimize it for Google and link with your old one.
If you still want to do this then do a 301 redirect but make sure that the domain is new and has no spammy back links pointing to it.
I've read lots about what can be done with mod_rewrite but I haven't found one to solve my problem. Maybe it can't be done?
I have a sub-domain on my primary domain that I have a customer direct user to to use one of my programs. The customer doesn't want his customers to see that that are on my domain and he doesn't want to use an iframe.
So, is it possible for the user to only see www.subdomain/program.php instead of www.subdomain.mydomain.com/program.php?
If you want the browser to show www.subdomain/program.php in its location bar, you need to register the www.subdomain domain name. There is no way to remove bits of the domain name using anything in the htaccess file. For example, if you've registered example.com and you have a server at foo.example.com, and you want to be able to go to http://foo/some/path/index.html, you're out of luck because the browser is going to attempt to do a DNS lookup of foo and it will most likely fail unless there happens to be a "foo" server under the DNS search domain. Browsers put a great deal of effort to prevent spoofing of the domain name, since it would be really bad if I was able to spoof my website to show the domain of a bank in a browser's location bar while actually visiting an entirely different website.
i am a user, and i type: www.japsomething.com, that url doesn't exist however there is a folder called "something" and i want this url to point to that folder?
do i need to purchase the domain name for this to work or i can use .htaccess?
i still would like to preserve the url. so this means, even though i am coming from
www.japsomething.com the url should still say www.japsomething.com and when i click anything on the site it should say www.japsomething.com/anything/
another question is, how can i detect based on the users ip that i want to show them a spanish site, or an english site?
thanks for your responses.
do i need to purchase the domain name for this to work or i can use .htaccess?
You need to purchase the domain name, because otherwise when someone types: www.japsomething.com, their DNS is going to try to look that name up, and if you don't own that domain, the request is never going to reach your server, thus, your htaccess file is never even used. Because you don't own every domain that starts with "jap" and ends with ".com", you can't use htaccess to do this.
i still would like to preserve the url. so this means, even though i am coming from www.japsomething.com the url should still say www.japsomething.com and when i click anything on the site it should say www.japsomething.com/anything/
If you own the "japsomething.com" domain, you simply point it to the server and directory that contains all the content, and then be done with it. No htaccess trickery is involved here. If you went out and bought the "japsomethingelse.com" domain, simply point it to the directory that serves that.
another question is, how can i detect based on the users ip that i want to show them a spanish site, or an english site?
See mod_geoip2 for downloads and examples.
I am developing a site on Codeigniter 2.0.2 . Its a site where companies/users can signup and create their own profile page, have their own custom url(like http://facebook.com/demouser), have their own feedback system, display their services.
This said, I have been successful in display the profile page in the following format
http://mainwebsite.com/company/profile/samplecompany
This displays the home page for the company samplecompany , where company is the controller and profile is the method.
Now I have few questions,
I guess it is possible to create to have/get http://mainwebsite.com/samplecompany using htaccess and a default controller. If anybody can help with the htaccess rule , that would be awesome. I am already using htacess to remove index.php from CI but could not get this working.
There will be few other pages for the given user/company such as feedback, contact us, services etc. So the implementation links that come to my mind is of the form
`
http://mainwebsite.com/company/profile/samplecompany/feedback or
http://mainwebsite.com/samplecompany/feedback
http://mainwebsite.com/company/profile/samplecompany/services or
http://mainwebsite.com/samplecompany/services
http://mainwebsite.com/company/profile/samplecompany/contactus or
http://mainwebsite.com/samplecompany/contactus
wheresamplecompany` is the dynamic part
Is it possible to create site links in the format?
I understand using A record for a given domain, I can point a domain say, http://www.samplecompany.com to http://mainwebsite.com/company/profile/samplecompany so typing http://www.samplecompany.com he should be taken to http://mainwebsite.com/company/profile/samplecompany . If this is successfully implemented, will
http://www.samplecompany.com/feedback
http://www.samplecompany.com/services
http://www.samplecompany.com/contactus
work correctly?
I guess it is possible to create to have/get http://mainwebsite.com/samplecompany using htaccess and a default controller. If anybody can help with the htaccess rule , that would be awesome. I am already using htacess to remove index.php from CI but could not get this working.
There will be few other pages for the given user/company such as feedback, contact us, services etc. So the implementation links that come to my mind is of the form ` http://mainwebsite.com/company/profile/samplecompany/feedback or http://mainwebsite.com/samplecompany/feedback
You can accomplish this using routes. For example, in your /config/routes.php file, put this:
$route['samplecompany'] = "company/profile/samplecompany";
$route['samplecompany/(:any)'] = "company/profiles/samplecompany/$1";
The first rule tells CodeIgniter that when someone accesses http://mainwebsite.com/samplecompany that it should process it as if the URL were "company/profile/samplecompany". The second rule captures anything that comes in the URI string after "samplecompany" and appends it onto the end.
However, if you have multiple companies(not just samplecompany), you're probably going to want to extend CI's router to suppor this unless you want to manually edit the config file each time a new company is added.
OK, you're definitely going to want to handle dynamic company names(as per your comment). This is a little trickier. I can't give you the full code, but I can point you in the right direction.
You'll want to extend CI's router and on an incoming request query the DB for the list of company names. If the URI segment matches a company name, you'll want to serve it up using your company/profile method. If it does not, you will ignore it and let CI handle it normally. Check out this post on this topic for more information: forum link.
Here's a great guide on how to achieve what you need: Codeigniter Vanity URL's.