I'm working on a website on my local machine using PHP.
In my .htaccess file, I have the following line:
RewriteRule ^project-details/([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/ project-details.php?pn=$1 [NC,L]
On the products page, I have the items containing a link like ./product-details/icecap-mouse249/...which the .htaccess file would in turn take and assign "icecap-mouse249" to the "pn" found at the end of the line: ?pn=$1 [NC,L].
When one clicks on the item, the person is then taken to the product details page. In that page, I have the following line:
$pn = $_GET['pn'];
This allows the URI to pull the 'pn' value and assign it to the variable $pn and utilize the variable to pull data from a database and display all the information of that particular product.
So, it works locally on my machine, but when I upload the files the page doesn't pull anything with $_GET[pn].
The product details page works because when I hardcode the value to $pn as in:
$pn = 'icecap-mouse249';
the page displays properly...pulling the data from the db.
I've done a phpinfo(); to see if the mod_rewrite is enabled, but the "Loaded Modules" section of the phpinfo page doesn't display. I did a CTRL+F to see if I could find the 'mod_rewrite' through the FIND tool, but nothing pops up.
The thing that trips me up is that it works locally on my machine.
I spent an hour with my host provider...and they weren't any help.
I hope I explained myself right and any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
You code is correct
Looks like you are dealing with special server configurations.
Try disabling multiview (add to .htaccess) which might been causing issues in 1and1, and also try separetly adding AllowOverride all.
Options -MultiViews
AllowOverride All
After uploading the file, when you click on your link, does the page displays any errors? Does it display anything at all?
You said, you have your links pointing to ./product-details/icecap-mouse249/. Make sure the page where you are putting your links is in the root diretory like:
http://example.com/page-with-links.php
But if the page with the links is outside the root directory it will not work.
http://example.com/xyz/page-with-links.php
This is because you are asking to look for ^project-details which means
http://localhost/project-details/any-string/
or
http://example.com/project-details/any-string/
Related
It is my first time seeing something like this.
Does anyone know, what the name/kind/type of the website is that does not have any kind of subdirectories on the web-URL page, and it always just stays as a plain domain name, and how it was made, and how it can be avoided since I need to send an API call to one of those subdirectories?
Example:
I have a website let's call it example.net. It has UI page and it has a home page, which should look like this in a browser: example.net/home, or it has a /shipment option inside of the UI page. So the URL should look like this:
example.net/shipment and it has one more subdirectory inside for example /report, and if I select it, it should look like this: example.net/shipment/report (something like this).
And open up that subdirectory, but again web-URL link on a website continues to stay just as a example.net all the time.
And for some reason whatever subdirectory I would go on a website, Web-browser URL will remain as a hello-world.net all the time without any kind of changes subdirectories on a web-browser URL.
It is an internal website, so I can not post examples of it from work here.
Does anyone knows, what the name of that kind of set?
How it can be avoided? Since I need to send an API request to one of the subdirectories?
I am not a developer, and I am new to IT, so I am not really sure, what the name of this, and how does it works.
If you are on example.net/shipment and you want to link to a subdirectory, the link needs to include that subdirectory. You have two possibilities:
Root relative links: <a href=/shipment/report>
Absolute links: <a href=https://example.com/shipment/report>
If you shipment directory has a trailing slash (example.net/shipment/), you a third possibility. (Note this only works with a shipment URL that is different than what you specified in your question.)
Document relative links: <href=report>
There is no name for websites that don't have subdirectories that I know of. Websites are often set up like this to make the URLs easy to type and remember which helps with SEO.
Totally lost on how to set up a .htaccess file, bunch of stuff and only been able to redirect and set index.
I have a site https://subdomain.domain.com/views/list.html and I want it to show up as https://subdomain.domain.comIve been able to hide the views/list.html from that main page with DirectoryIndex views/list.html but when i come back to it from within the website it still shows up as subfolder.Also is it possible for other subfolder files to not show up as subfolder but as something else? e.g. https://subdomain.domain.com/views/add.html show up as https://subdomain.domain.com/addproduct
Have you thought about trying PHP indexing? Make a folder structure and place the indexer in the correct folder. As for the subbing, it should be possible, least from what I recall.
I am not sure if this is possible, but I figure I would ask.
I have hundred of PDF's stored on my website, and they are all getting indexed directly by Google, so people are doing a search and the engine is taking them directly to the PDF. The issue here is that the PDF's are related to language learning and have audios that go with them. If a visitor goes directly to the PDF, then they never see the audios.
I have another page I have designed which opens up the PDF in an Iframe, and shows the audios right next to them so the users can use it.
So my question is, is it possible to redirect a user who opens:
www.mywebsite.com/something.pdf
And have it redirect them to:
www.mywebsite.com/page-with-audios/
The key here is that the pdf should still open in the IFrame on my domain.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
If you use routing, you could make a route which has the PDF name as parameter. The route could look something like this:
/{PDF_NAME}.pdf
This could be used to match all PDF's, like example.com/foo.pdf, example.com/bar-baz.pdf. Since you then have the name of the PDF they would like to view, you can redirect them to the /page-with-audio-files with some extra data like the name of the PDF. Then you can handle opening the iFrame.
EDIT
since I now see your question was directed at .htaccess, I think the following might work too.
add this rewrite to your .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z\-]+.pdf)$ /page-with-audio/$1 [L, R=301]
This will make the $1 variable somepdf.pdf if your request url is http://example.com/somepdf.pdf.
Then it redirects the user to http://example.com/page-with-audio/somepdf.pdf so you know which pdf was requested.
UPDATED
I didn't understand how to make this work so I hope you know because I didn't found more solutions:
I have implemented jquery cycle in wordpress with the window.location.hash to make an individual url from each slide (example here http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/perma.html)
Now I have an indez with some selected photos of differents categories that works with hashes like localhost/prueba/#men/#work61, localhost/prueba/#women/#work15, etc...the trick is that I have also the category /men/ and the photo #work61 permanetly cause the index may change but not the photo in the category indeed. So what I need is change the url without reloading from /#men/ to /men/ and if they share a link they will always go to the right photo and section (did I explain it well ?)
I have been testing many ways to arrive, with history.js and even with the aisle Pushestate but I didn't found the right solution. Lately I have made this with htaccess and it's closely what I need
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /prueba/
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ $1/#$2 [NE,R]
This changes me from localhost/prueba/men/work61 to localhost/prueba/men/#work61 but if I tried to add a hash to the first folder (#men), an also only work if somebody put the link directly
Any idea? Thanks in advance
I think you need to understand the URI specification, section 3.5 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986#section-3.5. Essentially, in the context of a web browser displaying HTML documents, the URI fragment (after the #) refers to a subset of the resource (page).
Basically if you removed the # from your URL, you will not be referring to a different subset of the same resource, but another resource entirely. So another page will be requested.
I would like to find a way for users to be able to type their username after my domain name to access their public profile page.
For example, if you type youtube.com/username it shows that user's channel page. The resulting page is the same as youtube.com/user/username.
So with my website, I have mydomain.example/users/profile.php?name=username
It's a bit more complicated, with PHP and variables and subdirectories and everything... I would like that same page to display when I type mydomain.example/username
I really have no idea where to start with this, but I suspect it would be something in the .htaccess file, which I do have access to.
Thanks for any help!
edit: sorry this is a few days old, I've been having some other troubles and I haven't been able to test it until now. Anyway, it isn't working...
Just to recap, I want mydomain.example/username
to filter to
mydomain.example/users/profile.php?name=username
Thanks..
edit2: I found this also on stackoverflow... link text i tried tweaking that, and what was mentioned here a few days ago... but it still won't work. Any ideas?
I also keep finding pages that recommend the strategy this guy used: link text but it looks like that would cause more problems than it's worth.
Any ideas?
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^user/(.*)$ profile.php?name=$1 [NC,B,QSA]