I am struggling with a .htaccess issue.
I have a url like /files/download/1234/abc/def.pdf where /1234/ is a variable value and changes for each user.
However recently we transferred all the files to /userdownload/abc/def.png
How do i skip the variable level using my .htaccess file?
I tried stuff like:
^files/downloads/(.*)/(.*)$ http://www.example.com/userdownload/$2 [R=301,L]
However this did not give the result i needed as it also removed the /abc/ from the link.
Anyone knows how i can fix this issue?
You can use:
RewriteRule ^files/downloads/(\d+)/(.*)$ http://www.example.com/userdownload/$2 [R=301,L]
If your variable is only numeric.
Or you can use:
RewriteRule ^files/downloads/([^/]+)/(.*)$ http://www.example.com/userdownload/$2 [R=301,L]
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I'm pulling my hair out trying to get a .htaccess rewrite rule to work. I'm sure this should be easy but I just can't get it right!
I need to add ?query=string to a specific URL pattern so:
www.example.com/downloads/file
Becomes:
www.example.com/downloads/file?query=string
The best I can come up with is:
RewriteRule ^downloads/(.*) downloads/$1?query=string
But it's not working. Where am I going wrong?
What you have looks OK, except you might need to include the L flag to prevent further rewritting:
RewriteRule ^downloads/(.*) downloads/$1?query=string [L]
And if this is intended to be an external redirect then you'll need to make the substitution absolute or root-relative and include the R flag:
RewriteRule ^downloads/(.*) /downloads/$1?query=string [R=302,L]
I have a webpage which has ugly urls like this
DOMAINNAME/gallery.php#filter=.filtername
I want them to look like this
DOMAINNAME/artwork/filtername/
I've tried this in my .htaccess file
RewriteRule ^artwork/([^.]+)/ gallery.php#filter=.$1 [NE]
But this doesn't do the trick. It just goes to DOMAINNAME/artwork/
If you are adding # in URL then you must do a full redirect since # part is only interpreted in browser:
RewriteRule ^artwork/([^./]+)/?$ /gallery.php#filter=.$1 [L,NE,NC,R=302]
I just tried this in my environment and it seems, Apache swallows everything after and including #, when it does an internal rewrite.This happens no matter, whether you use flag NE or not.
So the only solution seems to be using a regular query string, e.g.
RewriteRule ^artwork/([^.]+)/ gallery.php?filter=.$1 [L]
or separate the filter with a slash
RewriteRule ^artwork/([^.]+)/ gallery.php/filter=.$1 [L]
I am new in htaccess rules. I have tried to search about my question but couldn't get the answer.
I have got a url like this mysite.it/test/libro/la-missione-cristiana/1959 and I would like to rewrite to mysite.it/test/index.php?page=libro&id=1959
I have the following htaccess file in my root folder and I have added the following line:
RewriteRule ^test/libro/([^/.]+)/([^/.]+) test/index.php?page=libro&id=$2 [QSA,L]
but It doesn't work.
I would really appreciate if someone could explain me the cause.
Thank you,
your match all but slash group '([^/.]+)' appears to group all non-slash and non-any-character, thus it will not match anything as the . matches any, and the plus require at least one match.
try remove the dots
RewriteRule ^test/libro/([^/]+)/([^/]+) test/index.php?page=libro&id=$2 [QSA,L]
should work for you.
I have been reading about .htaccess files for a couple of hours now and I think I'm starting to get the idea but I still need some help. I found various answers around SO but still unsure how to do this.
As far as I understand you write a rule for each page extension you want to 'prettify', so if you have something.php , anotherpage.php, thispage.php etc and they are expecting(will receive??) arguments, each needs its own rule. Is this correct?
The site I want to change has urls like this,
maindomain.com/sue.php?r=word1%20word2
and at least one page with two arguments
maindomain.com/kevin.php?r=place%20name&c=person%20name
So what I would like to make is
maindomain.com/sue/word1-word2/
maindomain.com/kevin/place-name/person-name/
Keeping this .php page and making it look like the directory. Most of the tutorials I have read deal with how to remove the .php page to which the argument is passed. But I want to keep it.
the problem I am forseeing is that all of the .php?r=parts of the url are the same ie sue.php?r=, kevin.php?r= and the .htaccess decides which URL to change based on the filename and then omits it. If I want to keep the file name will I have to change the ?r=
so that it is individual? I hope this make sense. So far I have this, but I'm sure it won't work.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$1.php?r=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$1.php?r=$1&c=$1
And I think I have to add ([^-]*) this in some part or some way so that it detects the %20 part of the URL, but then how do I convert it to -. Also, how are my $_GET functions going to work??
I hope my question makes sense
You're missing a space somewhere in those rules, but I think you've got the right idea in making 2 separate rules. The harder problem is converting all the - to spaces. Let's start with the conversion to GET variables:
# check that the "sue.php" actually exists:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([^/]+)/?$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%1.php -f
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /$1.php?r=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%1.php -f
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /$1.php?r=$2&c=$3 [L,QSA]
Those will take a URI that looks like /sue/blah/ and:
Extract the sue part
Check that /document_root/sue.php actually exists
rewrite /sue/blah/ to /sue.php?r=blah
Same thing applies to 2 word URI's
Something like /kevin/foo/bar/:
Extract the kevin part
Check that /document_root/kevin.php actually exists
3 rewrite /kevin/foo/bar/ to /kevin.php?r=foo&c=bar
Now, to get rid of the "-" and change them to spaces:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)(c|r)=([^&]+)-(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1?%1%2=%3\ %4 [L]
This looks a little messy but the condition matches the query string, looks for a c= or r= in the query string, matches against a - in the value of a c= or r=, then rewrites the query string to replace the - with a (note that the space gets encoded as a %20). This will remove all the - instances in the values of the GET parameters c and r and replace them with a space.
I have got a problem that seems to me something simple but i'm new to htaccess and can't find the solution.
i've got the following line in my htaccess (root map)
RewriteRule ^page1/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ page1.php?name=$1
RewriteRule ^page1/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ page1.php?name=$1
When i enter the the following url it works without a problem
www.myexample.com/page1/variable
the strange thing happens when I add a / at the end. Then the page can't get the GET value out of the URL.
Thanks for your time and help!
Get rid of the ending /$ sign on the first rule
RewriteRule ^page1/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+) page1.php?name=$1
Or you can continue to capture data
RewriteRule ^page1/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/(.*)$ page1.php?name=$1
Ultimately if you want to keep capturing more data with "/" as a delimiter, I suggest doing
RewriteRule ^page1/(.*)$ page1.php?url=$1
Then use the server side script to determine what to do.