I want to rewrite (not redirect) all url's of my site to a sub-directory of my site. For example:
http://example.com/example
would load the following:
http://example.com/public/example
Though, requesting http://example.com/public should not load the contents from public/public but from /.
Answers I've found on SO either do the above with redirect (which I don't want) or doesn't account for the special case above.
EDIT: further clarification:
I want every request on my site to go load under the public folder, but without being visible to the visitor. So requesting http://example.com/index.php will load the file from http://example.com/public/index.php. The url in the browser remains unchanged for the user.
Try the following rule :
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^((?!public).+)$ /public/$1 [NC,L]
This will rewrite all requests from root to /public dir.
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I want to be able to do the following:
ReWrite /test -> /test.php
Also:
ReWrite /Test/test -> /Test/test.php
I want to be able to do this only for those mentioned urls. Also, I do not want direct access to .php urls. For example, if the user navigates to /Test/bla.php or any other links, he would be automatically be directed to the /index. The main reason I am doing this is that I do not want the user to know I am using .php. Here is what I tried:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^Test/test$ /Test/test.php
RewriteRule ^test$ test.php
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
This works to some extent. I can navigate to /Test/test and it redirects me to /Test/test.php without issues. Though, if I do something like /test (from the root), I see the Test folder instead. Also, 404 does not work in this .htaccess above. I can navigate to any missing url and it complains that it is not there.
I am new to web hosting. So, I am kind of confused by the .htaccess.
Thanks for your time.
What I'd like to do is when a URL like
http://localhost/sandbox/jcsearch/country/countryname
is typed by the user I would like to to point to
http://localhost/sandbox/jcsearch/index.php?country=countryname
but still retain the original clean URL in the address bar ie
http://localhost/sandbox/jcsearch/country/countryname
Is this possible? would it create any kind of redirect loop?
The rewrite would happen as follows:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^sandbox/jcsearch/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ sandbox/jcsearch/index.php?$1=$2 [L,NC]
Since, the RewriteRule directive does not have the redirection flag (R) set, it will not change the URL in your browser's addressbar. So, by visiting
http://localhost/sandbox/jcsearch/country/countryname
user will get internally redirected to:
http://localhost/sandbox/jcsearch/index.php?country=countryname
Please note: You have to put the rewrite rules in the htaccess file in your server root directory.
I am trying to make a redirect from my primary domain to an secondary domain, but only if the primary domain's request is to a sub directory.
The sub directory I want to redirect from is FTP, so if the user makes the following request:
http://www.site1.com/FTP/free/50b694124bd63/SaMple+PicTure.PnG
it would be transformed to
http://www.site2.com/FTP/free/50b694124bd63/SaMple+PicTure.PnG
but if the user makes a request that does not involve the FTP folder, the user will not be redirected. Like so:
http://www.site1.com or http://www.site1.com/somethingelse/
I am, however; a bit lost when it comes to making .htaccess files. What I have tried to do so far is:
# Redirect users
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^ftp(.*)$ http://site2.com/FTP/$1 [L,R=301]
</IfModule>
Any directions or samples would be great :)
No need to use the rewrite engine for simple redirects. I think you just want to use the Redirect directive:
Redirect /FTP http://www.site2.com/FTP
By default, this will result in a "temporary" redirect response (HTTP status 302). If you're sure the URL of the second site will never change, you can cause a "permanent" redirect response (HTTP status 301) by adding the permanent argument:
Redirect permanent /FTP http://www.site2.com/FTP
Also, note that the path of URLs is case-sensitive. If you want http://www.site1.com/ftp to also redirect, you will either need to add a rule with the lowercase path,
Redirect /ftp http://www.site2.com/FTP
or use mod_speling.
This is a strange one...
A while back I managed to write a .htaccess redirect that worked so that the URL was read like: www.website.com/mt?page=index - and what the real URL of this page was www.website.com/PageParser.php?file=index.php
The problem has been that the FTP system of my webhost hides .htaccess files even though they are allowed and do operate - and so I have checked back on local copies I have of my .htaccess files and none of them have the code as to how this works - and I've forgotten how I did it!!
Essentially, I am using wildcards so that anything after mt?page= will actually be showing PageParser.php?file= but without having the PageParser.php showing within the URL (and this is the important bit, because the index.php on my site root is actually sent through PageParser.php first so that anything which shouldn't be there is wiped out before the end user sees it) - so how can .htaccess redirect/rewrite the URL so that any link to /mt?page= show the file located at /PageParser.php?file= without changing the URL the user sees?
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)mt?page=(.*)$ $1PageParser.php?file=$2
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=([^&]+)
RewriteRule ^mt$ /PageParser.php?file=%1.php [NC,L]
This rule will rewrite (internal redirect) request for /mt?page=hello to /PageParser.php?file=hello.php without changing URL in browser.
Your source URL example (www.website.com/mt?page=index) has index while target URL (www.website.com/PageParser.php?file=index.php) has index.php. The above rule will add .php to the page name value, so if you request /mt?page=hello.php it will be rewritten to /PageParser.php?file=hello.php.php.
If there is a typo in your URL example and page value should be passed as is, then remove .php bit from rewrite rule.
The rule will work fine even if some other parameters are present (e.g. /mt?page=hello&name=Pinky) but those extra parameters will not be passed to rewritten URL. If needed -- add QSA flag to rewrite rule.
This rule is to be placed in .htaccess in website root folder. If placed elsewhere some small tweaking may be required.
P.S.
Better write no explanation (I knew it/I did it before .. but now I forgot how I did it) than having these "excuses". While it may be 100% true, it just does not sound that great.
Is it possible to set a default folder to access instead of a file like "index.html".
What I'd like to to is make it so that when a person visits my site they get redirected to a folder within the root of the domain. I am using a blogging engine and I need it to show up as the homepage but I don't want to install it in the root because I have other folders and files that need to be in the root directory. And I don't want to put them inside the blogging software's folder. I also don't want to use a 301 or 3XX redirect for SEO purposes.
If there's a way to do what I'm asking let me know. If not, let me know the best option otherwise.
Try this mod_rewrite rule:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ foo/bar [L]
This will rewrite requests to the directory where this rule is applied to to foo/bar. So if you put this rule in the .htaccess file in your document root and request http://example.com/, it will get rewritten to http://example.com/foo/bar.