Sorry to bother you perhaps again, but I can't get it working after trying at least 30 answers already given on this subject!!
I use a somewhat deep directory structure and the I would like to rewrite the address browser bar of all subdirectories been replaced by one: simply (www.)example.com/subdirname. Even if I redirect from within the subdirectories to a higher level.
In other words:
So I have: http://www.example.com/subdirname ----> this what I would like to show every time. Here is also my main index.html located.
Then the structure beneath is e.g. www.example.com/subname/text/image/magazine/xxx.html
I have tried all the REWRITE CODES available (well, practically). But nothing works.
Can and will someone please give me the ultimate answer how to code this in htaccess? Please don't forget to tell me please, in which directory I should place this htaccess (allthough I tried all).
By the way, I don't care about SEO - the (sub-)pages don't have to be 'searchable'.
By the way, this is a site which I like to protect a little against theft, since it concerns my living of bookselling.
Thanks a lot beforehand!
Rokus
There is one way to do this, a frame redirect.
That'll always show the same URL in the address bar - but it's trivial to find the actual URL for anyone with the slightest bit of technical knowledge.
Users will also be unable to link to a specific page or magazine.
If you have intellectual property you want to protect, it might be worth looking into other, more suitable ways to do so.
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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.
This is for bit of a knowledge gainer for me really, everyday is school day and I like to know what is possible, and not try to have a go at something is impossible.
I have with help here (.htaccess to hide 2 folder paths) shortened the full path so people access the website don't know the full directory.
My problem is now that I would like the short URL if typed in not too resolve, but only can be navigated through, I want the URL just be purely for display I suppose, and if it was to be entered it wouldn't work. Is this possible?
You can't do this with .htaccess rewrite rules — if the URL works in a link, then it also works if typed in.
(OK, technically you could make your rewrite rules conditional on the presence of an appropriate HTTP Referer (sic) header, but that's not something you really should rely on.)
What you could do is fake the URL shown in the browser's address bar using the JavaScript History API, like this:
history.replaceState({}, "", "/whatever")
(Try running that in your browser's JS console!)
Of course, that's a purely cosmetic change; you'd still need to use the real URL of the page in your links, and it would be trivial for anyone with a basic understanding of how web browsers work to figure out the real URL. It also has the annoying side effect that reloading the page will cause the browser to try to load the fake URL, likely breaking the page. But that's pretty much inevitable; there's effectively no difference between reloading a page and typing its URL into the address bar. But if you're OK with all that, it could be one way to go.
Honestly, though, I suspect that what you really should do is to stop trying to do this, and instead take a step back and try to find an alternative solution to your real problem, whatever it may be.
I'm trying to create friendly url for my site but with no success :(( and i have two questions
The first is:
How to change the url from domain.com/page/something.php to domain.com/something
And the second is:
Will the changes make duplicate content and if how to fix the problem.
Thank you for your time,
Have a nice day
Check out the official URL Rewriting guide: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html
You'll be using the simplest use case, Canonical URLs. Assuming you have no other pages that you need to worry about, you can use a rule like this: (note: untested, your usage may vary)
RewriteRule ^/(.*)([^/]+)$ /$1$2.php
While that example might not exactly work for your use case, hopefully reading the guide and my example will help you get you on your way.
I have a networking site that has member data organised into subfolders. To access the data, a user would need to go to something like:-
www.domain.com/members/so/me/on/esfolder
My question is, can I use a function in the .htaccess file to allow users to visit the same page by just typing:-
www.domain.com/members/someonesfolder
I have read up on the Rewrite syntax but struggling to understand how to do this. It is simply a case of removing the forward slashes after a particular point.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
I've figured it out myself after a non-stop mess around lasting several hours... For those who might want to know, here is the code I used...
RewriteRule ^members/([A-Za-z0-9]{1,2})([A-Za-z0-9]{1,2})([A-Za-z0-9]{1,}) members/$1/$2/$3/ [L]
In the above, there is just three sub-folder drill downs (which is what I have decided to do rather than the four in my original question).
Hope this helps someone else!
I would like to find a way for users to be able to type their username after my domain name to access their public profile page.
For example, if you type youtube.com/username it shows that user's channel page. The resulting page is the same as youtube.com/user/username.
So with my website, I have mydomain.example/users/profile.php?name=username
It's a bit more complicated, with PHP and variables and subdirectories and everything... I would like that same page to display when I type mydomain.example/username
I really have no idea where to start with this, but I suspect it would be something in the .htaccess file, which I do have access to.
Thanks for any help!
edit: sorry this is a few days old, I've been having some other troubles and I haven't been able to test it until now. Anyway, it isn't working...
Just to recap, I want mydomain.example/username
to filter to
mydomain.example/users/profile.php?name=username
Thanks..
edit2: I found this also on stackoverflow... link text i tried tweaking that, and what was mentioned here a few days ago... but it still won't work. Any ideas?
I also keep finding pages that recommend the strategy this guy used: link text but it looks like that would cause more problems than it's worth.
Any ideas?
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^user/(.*)$ profile.php?name=$1 [NC,B,QSA]