So currently I have URLs that looks like this:
http://localhost/?v=register
http://localhost/?v=profile&u=thatgerhard
I want the above to look like this:
http://localhost/register/ (without trailing /)
http://localhost/profile/thatgerhard/ (without trailing /)
I spent a ton of time trying to get this to work even though it seems like it should be a simple fix.
This is what I have atm:
RewriteBase /
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^((.)*)$ /?v=$1&p=$
I would ideally like this to be dynamic so that if you do ?v=foo it will automatically do /foo/ without adding "foo" to the htaccess file.
Any help or direction will be greatly appreciated. :)
You should use RewriteCond Directive and RewriteCond backreferences. The %1 backreference matches the query string parameter v, the %2 backreference matches the query string parameter u. The RewriteRule redirects the request permanently and discard the query string entirely.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^v=([^&]*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?$ /%1/? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^v=([^&]*)&u=([^&]*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?$ /%1/%2/? [R=301,L]
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I've got a buggy query string in my url so it appears in the beginning of a url:
https://website.com/?lang=en/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/image.png
How can I remove this query string so that the url redirects to https://website.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/image.png?
I've tried the following rules to no avail:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} "lang=" [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) /$1? [R=301,L]
Any help appreciated. Thank you!
The path component of your URL is empty here, so RewriteRule ^(.*) will only capture an empty string, and that means $1 will be empty as well.
The info you are looking for is in the query string - so you have to capture it from there:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} lang=(.*) [NC]
RewriteRule . /%1? [R=301,L]
%1 instead of $1, because that is a back reference not to the RewriteRule pattern, but to the Condition.
Now this might lead to unexpected results if your query string could ever contain more GET parameters after lang. In that case, you might have to be a bit more specific with your pattern (like try to match anything after lang, that is not an ampersand - lang=([^&]*))
I'm trying to do a .htaccess redirect with a parameter but it's not working. Seems like my regex are also wrong. :(
Original URL 1: http://www.example.com/?team=john-doe
Original URL 2: http://www.example.com/?team
Target URL: http://www.example.com/company/
I tried:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} team=john-doe
RewriteRule /company/ [L,R=301]
Any help would be much appreciated.
Found a generator that works perfectly:
https://donatstudios.com/RewriteRule_Generator
# 301 --- http://www.example.com/?team=john-doe => http://www.example.com/company/
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)team\=john\-doe($|&)
RewriteRule ^$ /company/? [L,R=301]
Your RewriteRule is malformed, you are missing a pattern (first argument). Try something like:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^team(?:=john-doe)?
RewriteRule ^$ /company/? [R=301,L]
The RewriteRule pattern ^$ matches requests for the domain root. The ? on the end of the RewriteRule substitution strips the query string from the redirected URL (on Apache 2.4+ you can use the QSD flag instead).
The CondPattern ^team(?:=john-doe)? matches either "team=john-doe" (URL#1) or "team" (URL#2) at the start of the query string. The (?: part just makes it non-capturing.
You will need to clear your browser cache before testing.
I want to get rid of some query string on my whole website (explicitly facebook shared/like query which usually begin with fb_action).
I thought about using .htaccess to do that.
I want this:
Link 1)
http://example.com/documents/de_desmarais_en_sirois?fb_action_ids=10151430962018298&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=timeline_og&action_object_map={%2210151430962018298%22%3A157643874359578}&action_type_map={%2210151430962018298%22%3A%22og.likes%22}&action_ref_map=[]
to look like:
Link 2)
http://example.com/documents/de_desmarais_en_sirois
In my .htaccess, I added:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} fb_action
RewriteRule ^(.*) /$1? [R=301,L]
But, when I go on the original link, I am directed to my root folder example.com/pages.php, but I want to keep the first part of the URL which is example.com/documents/de_desmarais_en_sirois. I don't want to go to my root.
What should I modify/do?
I assume you've added those rules to the htaccess file in the /documents/ directory?
You'll need to remove the leading slash in your rule's target and add a rewrite base:
RewriteBase /documents/
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} fb_action
RewriteRule ^(.*) $1? [R=301,L]
The query string match could be improved a bit though:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.*)(^|&)fb_[^&]+(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*) $1?%1%2 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.*)(^|&)action_[^&]+(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*) $1?%1%2 [R=301,L]
To remove only the facebook query string parameters, if you have other parameters that you want to preserve.
I've been trying to rewrite a URL such as
www.somesite.com/?x=372
into a url
www.somesite.com/
My current code does not seem to work
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} x=(.*)
RewriteRule http://www.somesite.com/ [R=301,L]
I've looked up countless ways of trying to do it with htaccess and still no success.
If you simply want to redirect a client to remove the query string (everything after the ? in the URL), then you can try this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} x=(.*)
RewriteRule ^ http://www.somesite.com/? [R=301,L]
You've got most of it right, it seems, but your rule needs to have a match, and your target (the http://www.somesite.com/) needs a ? at the end so that any query string before the rewrite won't get appended.
In Apache 2.4 or newer you can use the QSD query string discard flag:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} x=(.*)
RewriteRule .* http://www.somesite.com/ [R=301,L,QSD]
I have a url which ends with a certain variable string, and was erroneously generated and indexed unfortunately.
Example:
http://domain.com/anything-in-between/?var=xyz-abc-abc-abc
How can I redirect to main site (kill it), by detecting 'abc-abc-abc' using htaccess?
Why wouldn't this work and what would be the best solution:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} abc-abc-abc
RewriteRule .* index.php
You want to use the query string as claesv suggests but you need to then kill the query string
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} \bvar=.*?abc-abc-abc$
RewriteRule ^ index.php? [L]
This will do it silently (i.e. in the server as an internal redirect and not involving the browser). You can't use 301s reliably to trim query strings.
Something along the lines of:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^var=.*abc-abc-abc$
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://domain.com/ [R=301,L]