I am trying to remove "index.php" from the url of my website. However it worked with my secondary website but not with my primary.
After renaming htaccess.txt to .htaccess i entered following code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
After activating URL-Rewrite in the Joomla-Backend the "index.php" is gone but the sites takes about 20 seconds to load. Clearing the .htaccess makes the site load properly again (about 1 second) but the "index.php" is obviously there again.
It is really important for me to change the URL and maybe someone can help me out :)
Which version of Joomla you are using. If it is 3.x series then there is no need to write your customized code for URL rewriting since it is already present in htaccess. please check for the duplication of code or try to replace with original Joomla htaccess.
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I have created a subfolder to access my HTML website. But the problem is, it is not running on the subdirectory URL but with the index.html aliases.
e.g. https://example.com/my-html-site/index.html (the website running the whole page).
But I want a simple redirection to run the website under the subdirectory like this below,
https://example.com/my-html-site/ (when I hit this URL then it shows a blank page).
Is there any way to redirect the https://example.com/my-html-site/index.html to https://example.com/my-html-site/ via htaccess file rules?
Thanks in advance,
Based on your shown samples could you please try following. Please make sure you clear your browser cache before testing your URLs.
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$ $1/index.html [L]
I'm configuring Expression Engine on Windows using IIS and have ISAPI v3 Rewrite installed.
It's partly working. The main site and subpages work but needs to be modified because some web page assets are stored in similarly named directories.
The recommended Rewrite provided by Ellislabs is this and I've modified it a little to work with our Win 2012 IIS 8 server:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Removes index.php from ExpressionEngine URLs
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET.*index\.php [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/system/.* [NC]
RewriteRule (.*?)index\.php/*(.*) abc/$1$2 [R=301,NE,L]
# Directs all EE web requests through the site index file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ abc/index.php?/$1 [L]
For example, the URL http://oursite.example.com/abc works.
Subpages are mostly working and I suspect this applies to any page really but I'm noticing it on subpages. It removes index.php and mostly loads, such as http://oursite.example.com/abc/subdept/page/
However our developer has some assets kept in a server directory named /uploads/abc/ so if a page refers to this directory, it fails to load those assets because it contains the same name, "abc".
Thus, what is the best way to handle this?
I'm guessing I can either tell it to ignore "uploads/cls" or correct the current Rewrite so that it only looks at the first "abc". I'd like for the solution to cover most similar issues that would arise so I don't have to keep modifying it. We have 12 sites and I'll have to apply the solution to each one.
Everything I've tried hasn't worked.
Also, I thought !-f and !-d would tell it to ignore it if the file or directory existed and that doesn't seem to be working as I'd expect here because these images in /uploads/abc/ do exists.
Thanks!
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Additionally just trying to get it to work at all, I tried adding a htaccess file with "RewriteEngine Off" in the /uploads/abc/ directory and that failed to fix it.
I also tried to add this after each comment and it fails to fix it:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/excluded-folder/.*$
Seeing how both of the above attempts fail to fix it, I'm wondering if there could be something else going on. Any ideas?
My rewrite was fine. The problem turned out to be code within an Expression Engine template that the in house developer created. They updated the code and the images are loading fine now.
Need your help. Just spend many ours on this htaccess problem and still don't have a clue how to manage this.
I have many http://www.example.com/menu-alias/foo links on my company's website which should get redirected to http://www.example.com/foo.
This alone shouldn't be the hard part but listen up... the tricky part follows.
I don't manage to get the site (Joomla 1.5) working without the 'menu-alias' this means that all http://www.example.com/foo should get internally mapped to http://www.example.com/menu-alias/foo. So that the user still has http://www.example.com/foo in his browser's address bar.
To make it even more complicated i have to 301 redirect the old menu-alias/foo links to /foo.
Can some htaccess guru help me out? Is this even possible?
You can try adding these rules in the htaccess file in your document root (or vhost config):
RewriteEngine On
# externally redirect requests that have "menu-alias"
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /menu-alias/([^\ \?]+)
RewriteRule ^ /%1 [L,R=301]
# internally rewrite requests back to menu-alias
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/menu-alias/
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ /menu-alias/$1 [L]
Couple of potential problems:
Joomla may be looking for the original un-rewritten request in $_SERVER, if so, the rewrite won't work.
The rule to add the /menu-alias/ back into the URI does so blindly rewrites all requests that don't point to an existing resource. This means "virtual" paths that Joomla may handle will get a "menu-alias" appended to the front.
I'm hosted on mediatemple DV 4.0 server and use the following lines in my htaccess file (rewrite rules for the CMS)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule /?([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/?$ index.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]
it works well but when I'm trying to do a 301 redirect to point the old page to a new address it adds some unnecessary stuff into the url, for instance:
?id=locations-maryland
How do I modify the rewrite rule to keep the same functionality but remove the last part which basically makes the 301 redirect pointless as the CMS couldn't not find any page with this spammy url.
It happens only on mediatemple I heard something about adding/removing an additional question mark somewhere but have not enough knowledge to resolve it by myself.
Add a ? to the end of the redirect target. Example:
Redirect /something/ /something/else/?
or if you're using mod_rewrite:
RewriteRule ^/?something/(.*)$ /something/else/$1? [L,R=301]
I need to change the structure of the displayed client-side URL. I'm not too skilled using regex and coding for the .htaccess file. Basically, I have a structure that looks something like:
http://www.example.com/catalog/index.php?cat=lt&sec=lt1-1&id=nmlt10.
I would like this to be displayed in the address bar as:
http://www.example.com/catalog/lt/lt1-1/nmlt10.
This is what I came up with, but it has had no effect:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)\$ /catalog/index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [L]
I tested and removed any other rules in the .htaccess file to ensure nothing was being overwritten. I'm on a shared hosting apache server, and know that mod_rewrite is enabled, because I use it to rewrite non-www to www urls. I don't receive and 500 error messages, I just do not notice any change at all. I'm not sure where I'm going wrong here, so hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.
Finally found a solution that worked:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]
Appreciate LazyOne's response to get me on the right track; however, when using:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]
I wasn't able to following links that were already placed on the site, it treated different directories as the variables, for example, when browsing to an image or file, say:
folder/folder/image.png
It would grab "folder" - "folder" - and "image" as the variables. I can see why that was happening, if anyone has a different solution or an explanation, please let me know, I'm always willing to learn.
Since your .htaccess is in website root folder, then you should use thus rule:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^catalog/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ /catalog/index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]
If you place it in .htaccess in /catalog/ folder, then you can remove catalog from it:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]
I have tested rule before posting -- works fine for me.
This rule (same as above) will check if URL is a file or folder and will only rewrite if it is not:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]