I am in the process of simplifying my URLs and have come up with a problem concerning the use of Rewrite in htaccess files.
Search engines currently list my pages in the following format
www.example.com/x/x/article_a/1159/
which is currently rewritten by the following htaccess file placed in the /x/x directory
RewriteRule walk_a/(.*)/$ /x/x/article_a.php?id=$1
This has worked fine for many years.
I want to simplify the URL to
www.example.com/article-1159-introduction
I have tried the following redirects placed in the root
RewriteRule ^x/x/article_a/(.*)/$ http://www.example.com/article-$1-introduction [R=301,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^article-(.*)-introduction$ /x/x/article_a.php?id=$1
The 301 rewrite seems to have no effect although the second rewrite command works fine.
What am I doing wrong?
Inside /x/x/.htaccess directory use this rule:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^article_a/(.*)/$ /article-$1-introduction [R=301,NC,L,NE]
Then inside root .htaccess have this rule:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^article-(.+)-introduction$ /x/x/article_a.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
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I'm trying to bulk redirect my site link like this,I need to remove home from every link and redirect it to root directory as shown below.
example.com/home/hello-world.
example.com/home/tag/world.
to
example.com/hello-world
example.com/tag/world.
I'm using these code
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/home(.*)$
RewriteRule ^ %1/ [R=301,L]
Considering that your htaccess rules file have more rules apart from your shown ones, which will take care of handling pages from backend(rewrite), if this is the case then please try following htaccess rules file.
Please these rules at top of your htaccess rules file. Also make sure to clear your browser cache before testing your URLs.
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteBase /example.com/
RewriteRule ^home/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,L]
I want to rewrite multiple sub-directories to the same path. while I can remove a part from URL Apache htaccess
for example, I want
domain.com/category/computer/internet-topics
domain.com/category/computer/windows-topics
domain.com/category/science/physics-topics
domain.com/category/science/biology-topics
to be
domain.com/category/internet-topics
domain.com/category/windows-topics
domain.com/category/physics-topics
domain.com/category/biology-topics
When I use this, it works fine for the first line only (computer)
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^category/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ category/computer/$1
RewriteRule ^category/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ category/science/$1
I think you need to be specific else only first rule will be used
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^category/((internet)|(windows)-topics)$ category/computer/$1
RewriteRule ^category/((physics)|(biology)-topics)$ category/science/$1
I would like to add a 301 redirect to a whole directory and redirect every single link of this directory to a specific thread/post on the same domain.
I am using an apache server so i suppose i will have to edit the .htaccess
I want all the threads of this directory:
http://example.com/f73
To be redirected there:
http://example.com/f75/newthread-1990/#post333
I have read some different solutions and got confused :(
Some guys recommend to use the "Redirect" command and other recommend the "RedirectMatch" command...
I also read that the command should be different if the .htaccess is already edited and has some rewrite rules. Not sure if it makes sense or if i misunderstood, but at the moment i have added the following lines to the .htaccess:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ htt://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
You can use this rule in your root .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^f73 /f75/newthread-1990/#post333 [L,NC,NE,R=301]
I have looked but can't find anything that works. I have an old site that we have updated. They had everything under a folder called site under the root. Now all the customers who have this bookmarked I would like to redirect them, regardless of what is after the folder site (subfolders, files), to the main page of the new site instead of page not found on our new WordPress install. Any help appreciated.
Old URL: http://www.oldsite.com/site/.... to new URL http://www.newsite.com
I have tried this to no avail
Rewrite Rule ^site/(.*)$ http://www.newsite.com
Thanks.
try:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} oldsite.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^site/(.*)$ http://www.newsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
This redirects something like http://www.oldsite.com/site/some-page.html to http://www.newsite.com/some-page.html (the matching bit of the URI after /site/ gets carried over in the 301 redirect), but if you want to redirect everything for /site/ to the index root of newsite, replace the target in the RewriteRule to http://www.newsite.com/ (remove the $1 bit).
EDIT:
I actually write it wrong above. It is actually the same domain name. The question should read old URL mysite.com/site.... everything under this folder to just redirect to mysite.com
Then what you want is:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^site/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,L]
Or alternatively with mod_alias:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/site/(.*)$ /$1
Looks like all you need is this simple 1 liner rule:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^site/ / [R=301,L,NC]
My host will not allow me to change the default folder of my primary domain. I have managed to Rewrite http://www.mysite.com to the real folder
public_html/mysite.com/www/
with the following code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ /mysite.com/www/ [R=301,L]
This does successfully load my domain from the subfolder, but the url becomes:
http://mysite.com/mysite.com/www/
How can I continue loading requests from http://mysite.com/index.html in the correct folder shown above, without showing it in the client-side url?
Try this one:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^mysite.com/www/(.*) - [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ mysite.com/www/$1 [L]
UPD:
The line with the dash is required because after the redirect at line 3 Apache reads the .htaccess once again to process the redirected URL. The rule prevents infinite loop.
Try removing the R=301.