So here is my question..
This is the url I have:
/category.php?cat=8
this is the url im trying to achieve:
/parties-events/kitchen/
Within the database the category has a id, main, sub, main_slug and sub_slug
This: /main_slug/sub_slug/
I had this
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)\/?$ $1.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)\/([0-9]+)\/?$ category.php?param=$1¶m2=$2 [NC]
Which outputs and works fine: /category/8/
BUT.. It only works with numbers, nothing else. I get a not found page if I use and letters.
But I'm lost as to the htaccess regex to just use the main and sub slugs and not only numbers.
Any help would be appreciated.
In this rule:
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)\/([0-9]+)\/?$ category.php?param=$1¶m2=$2 [NC]
The ([a-z]+) bit means "one or more letters between a and z"
The ([0-9]+) bit means "one or more numbers between 0 and 9"
It appears that what you are asking will be accomplished by replacing the [0-9] with another [a-z]. However, if you want to accept any character, and not just a-z and/or 0-9, replace both of them with just ([^/]+) which means "one or more not-slash characters".
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To achieve this URL pattern www.example.com/abc-xyz/mno-pqr/123.html
I am using following in htaccess:
rewriterule ^(.*)/(.*)/(.*).html$ index.php?lyrics_id=$3&singer=$1&song=$2 [L]
Below are example URL which are causing duplicate title error for my site.
www.example.com/abc-xyz/WHATEVER/ANOTHER_WHATEVER/mno-pqr/283.html
www.example.com/abc-xyz/I_DONT_WANT_THIS_PART/mno-pqr/283.html
www.example.com/abc-xyz/HELP_ME/REMOVE/mno-pqr/283.html
www.example.com/abc-xyz/HELP/REMOVE/THIS/PART/mno-pqr/283.html
I want to get only first part before slash in singer part.
I want exactly this,
www.example.com/abc-xyz/mno-pqr/123.html
but not other letters or between abc-xyz and mno-pqr.
Help me writing htaccess.
It seems that you only want to match the url if it consists of exactly 3 parts. You can do this, by matching everything but the delimiter in each part. The delimiter here is /.
Also please note that . matches EVERY CHARACTER. If you want to match the period character instead, you have to escape it (\.).
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)\.html$ /index.php?lyrics_id=$3&singer=$1&song=$2 [L]
That works for my 3 parameters rule but how to add 301 redirect to all
those URL which have more than 3 parts?
If the extra parts are always between the first part and the 2nd part of the url, like you showed above, you have to redirect the user with a 301 header:
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/.*/([^/]*)/([^/]*)\.html$ /$1/$2/$3.html [R=301,L]
I am only just starting to learn how to rewrite urls with the .htaccess file.
How would I change:
http://www.url.net/games/game_one.php
into this:
http://www.url.net/games/game-one/
This is what I have been trying
RewriteRule ^/games/game-one.php ^/games/game-one/ [NC,L]
If you want people to use /games/game-one/ explicitly, you have to rewrite so that it requests /game/game-one.php. So the opposite way around than you have it in your question.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^games/game-one/$ /games/game-one.php
If you want to rewrite other URL's too, then you'd need to use a technique similar to the prior answer.
Try this:
RewriteRule ^(/games/game-one)\.php $1/
What that says is match anything starting with /games/game-one and remember the first part of that match, then replace it with the first part (capturing group in regex speak), and a slash character. Note that to match a period character you must precede it with a \ since . is a special character that means "any character" (at least if you care to avoid matching any character).
I am setting up a MVC style routing system using mod rewrite within an .htaccess file (and some php parsing too.)
I need to be able to direct different URLs to different php files that will be used as controllers. (index.php, admin.php, etc...)
I have found and edited a rewrite rule that does this well by looking at the first word after the first slash:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/stats(.*)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /hello.php/$1 [L]
However, my problem is I want it to rewrite based on the 2nd word, not the first. I want the first word to be a username. So I want this:
http://www.samplesite.com/username/admin to redirect to admin.php
instead of:
http://www.samplesite.com/admin
I think I just need to edit the rewrite rule slightly with a 'anything can be here' type variable, but I'm unsure how to do that.
I guess you can prefix [^/]+/ to match and ignore that username/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/[^/]+/stats(.*)
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/(.*)$ /hello.php/$1 [L]
then http://www.samplesite.com/username/statsadmin will be redirecte to http://www.samplesite.com/hello.php/statsadmin (or so, I do not know the .htaccess file)
To answer your question, "an anything can be here type variable" would be something like a full-stop . - it means "any character". Also the asterisk * means "zero or more of the preceding character or parenthesized grouped characters".
But I don't think you need that...If your matching url will always end in "admin" then you can use the dollar sign $ to match the end of the string.
RewriteRule admin$ admin.php [R,NC,L]
Rewrites www.anything.at/all/that/ends/in/admin to www.anything.at/admin.php
I have a php page which creates URL like:
vendors/London City/cat-DJ & Entertainment/keywords
which my .htaccess redirects as shown below
RewriteRule vendors/(.+)/cat-(.+)/(.+)$ vendors.php?location=$1&category=$2&freetext=$3 [L]
RewriteRule vendors/(.+)/cat-(.+)/(.+)/$ vendors.php?location=$1&category=$2&freetext=$3 [L]
problem 1 is : in the vendors.php file, I am getting only "DJ ; Entertainment" as category. The ampersand is missing.
Problem 2 is : My complete .htaccess file is shown below... 6 rules are defined.
RewriteRule vendors/(.+)/(.+)/$ vendors.php?location=$1&freetext=$2 [L]
RewriteRule vendors/(.+)/(.+)$ vendors.php?location=$1&freetext=$2 [L]
RewriteRule vendors/(.+)/cat-(.+)/$ vendors.php?location=$1&category=$2 [L]
RewriteRule vendors/(.+)/cat-(.+)$ vendors.php?location=$1&category=$2 [L]
RewriteRule vendors/(.+)/cat-(.+)/(.+)$ vendors.php?location=$1&category=$2&freetext=$3[L]
RewriteRule vendors/(.+)/cat-(.+)/(.+)/$ vendors.php?location=$1&category=$2&freetext=$3[L]
Why the URL vendors/London City/cat-DJ & Entertainment/keywords is matching with rule 3 or 4 and redirecting to vendors.php?location=$1&category=$2 ?
Does .htaccess Process the rules from top to beginning one by one?
I had solved the problem by putting the rules 5 and 6 at the top of other rules. Did I make the correct fix?
1. I don't really like the idea of having spaces and other special characters in the URLs. I don't know if it's possible with your site, but instead of this kind of URL
vendors/London City/cat-DJ & Entertainment/keywords
you should have this one:
vendors/london-city/cat-dj-and-entertainment/keywords
For that, of course, you will have to perform some additional transformations / lookups in your database to convert london-city back to London City and dj-and-entertainment back to DJ & Entertainment. This can be done by storing these "from-to" pairs in database.
2. In any case -- order of rules matters. Therefore you should start with more specific rules and end up with more generic rules.
Also -- the (.+) pattern is a way too broad as it can match hello as well as hello/pink/kitten. To ensure that you always grab only one section (part of URL between /) use ([^/]+) pattern instead -- this will address one of the aspects of your "prob #2".
Therefore, try these optimized rules (each rule will match the URL with and without trailing slash):
RewriteRule ^vendors/([^/]+)/cat-([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ vendors.php?location=$1&category=$2&freetext=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^vendors/([^/]+)/cat-([^/]+)/?$ vendors.php?location=$1&category=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^vendors/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ vendors.php?location=$1&freetext=$2 [L]
Also I'm not getting the value of 'category' with the Ampersand as
given in the url. I am getting only semi-colon. What can be the
reason?
I do not have Apache box currently running next to me, so cannot check it right now, but try adding B or NE flag next to the L flag (e.g. [L,B]) -- one of them should help:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/flags.html#flag_b
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/flags.html#flag_ne
From the docs:
The order in which these rules are defined is important - this is the order in which they will be applied at run-time.
I have url's like games/xbox/2
2 being the page number I need the url rewritten. This is what I'm using:
RewriteRule games/(.*?)/$ games/consoles.php?console=$1
RewriteRule games/(.+?)/(.+?)/$ games/consoles.php?console=$1&page=$2
The first rule works fine but the second is returning consoles.php as $1 instead of xbox
RewriteRule games/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/?$ games/consoles.php?console=$1
RewriteRule games/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ games/consoles.php?console=$1&page=$2
Using (.*?) would match even the / character so xbox/2 is treated as a whole
Try something like:
RewriteRule games/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ games/consoles.php?console=$1&page=$2 [L]
RewriteRule games/([^/]+)/?$ games/consoles.php?console=$1 [L]
I first put your most specific rule first - that way you don't do a general match, then a later more specific match mangles that general rewrite.
I also specified the [L] flag to signify that you want the engine to stop looking for more matches at this point. Re-ordering the rules is redundant in this case because of the [L] flag, but it's a good practice to get into.
I also changed the expressions slightly. Rather than using ([A-Za-z0-9]+) like the previous poster said, I changed it to ([^/]+) because that will match everything but a slash, so you can have weird console or game names. If you want to make it more specific feel free to, but this way provides the most general use-case.