I am trying to redirect a bunch of old blog article URLs using the .htaccess file:
RedirectMatch ^/index\.php/global/article/(.*)$ http://www.mywebsite.com/blog/article/$1
This doesn't really work, however, because my CMS seems to get confused by the index.php bit and keeps adding ?symphony-page= to all the URLs.
It's probably this part that is responsible:
### FRONTEND REWRITE - Will ignore files and folders
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*\/?)$ index.php?symphony-page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
Can anybody help?
Please try the following (comments included to explain):
RewriteEngine On
# First, redirect the old URIs to the new ones via a 301 redirect.
# This will allow the CMS to take over using the rules that follow.
RewriteRule ^index.php/global/article/(.+)$ /blog/article/$1 [L,R=301]
# Frontend Rewrites - for the CMS
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*\/?)$ index.php?symphony-page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
Try this:
#-- Input URL >> http://www.mywebsite.com/index.php/global/article/abc
### FRONTEND REWRITE - Will ignore files and folders
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*\/?)$ index.php?symphony-page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/index\.php/global/article/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^.*$ blog/article/%1 [R=301, L]
#--Output URL >> http://www.mywebsite.com/blog/article/abc
I've tested the above with this htaccess.madewithlove and it seems like it will work just fine, hopefully it will work for you too
Screenshot:
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Site Structure
/articles/Employment/Companies.php
/articles/Employment/Companies/.htaccess
/articles/Employment/Companies/index.php
.htaccess file reads
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ index.php [L]
So when you go to
/articles/Employment/Companies/[company type]
It is displaying the index.php page.
The Problem
I'm trying to link to
/articles/Employment/Companies.php
without the .php being displayed, however if I link to
/articles/Employment/Companies
it is going to
/articles/Employment/Companies/
What i'm Ideally Looking For
Understand why I my site is adding the / when linking to folder/hello
to strip out all .php so if you go to /hello it'll display /hello.php apart from in certain directories such as my current .htaccess file is located where /this or /that will display /index.php.
Please try with below, use from rewritecond with your existing rule what I am doing if the request is actually for php file which is not index.php then serve the extension less code.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule !index.php$ $1.php [L]
I'm trying to use the Url rewrite using "RewriteRule".
I would use this link to show a new article in my blog:
https://www.example.com/article/how-to-visit-italy-in-winter
The original script (including vars) is
https://www.example.com/post.php?idpost=how-to-visit-italy-in-winter
This is my .htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^article/$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .$ https://www.example.com/post.php?idpost=$1 [L]
but it doesn't work, the browser redirect to:
https://www.example.com/post.php?idpost=
I'm trying to resolve about 2 days witout success :(
Thank you.
You rule looks fine except for two things . Your $1 back reference is undefined and empty as you are not capturing any URI. To capture parts of the uri you need to use Regex capture-groups (.*) .
2) You need to use an absolute path instead of the full url as your RewriteRule`s destination if you want to silently redirect the url.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^article/$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule article/(.+) /post.php?idpost=$1 [L]
I am working on a site where I have many short URLs which is redirected to a bigger version of URL. The idea is that the short URLs are distributed offline and users generally remembers them and types in the browser address bar. As example:
http://www.example.com/abc should redirect to http://www.example.com/higher_education/companion/politics/abc.html
Also there are some external links as well. like: http://www.example.com/google will redirect user to https://www.google.com
EDIT -
There is another scenario where http://www.example.com/elementary/def.html will be redirected to http://www.example.com/elementary/xyz.html
However, we now want to achieve this with RewriteMap. The code that we've written for that is as below:
<IfModule rewrite_module>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteMap custommap txt:/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/map.txt
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php$
RewriteRule "^(.*)$" "${custommap:$0}" [R,L,NC]
</IfModule>
The map.txt contains:
abc http://www.example.com/higher_education/companion/politics/abc.html
google https://www.google.com
The problem is .htaccss file contains also some RewriteRule.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)\.html$ /index.php?sid=$1&ssid=$2 [L,NC,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ /index.php?sid=$1 [L,NC,QSA]
So any request comes with .html will be served by index.php as standard CMS feature. However, now the code goes into redirect loop.
If someone shares some light in order to mitigate this issue then that would be great. The Apache version is 2.2 so I can't use any IF-ELSE in that.
Regards,
Aneek
You should put some restrictions on the rule serving URLs from RewriteMap:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond ${custommap:$0} !^$
RewriteRule ^[^.]+$ ${custommap:$0} [R=301,L,NE]
This will ensure only non-files and non-directories with no DOT in URI will be handled by custommap.
More importantly it will also check existence of a mapping in custommap before redirecting.
Make sure you clear your browser cache before testing this change.
In general, I am trying to understand how .htaccess works. I would highly appreciate it if anyone points me in the right direction. I have been trying to make the following url (with optional parameters) pretty.
mysite/v1.0/foldername
mysite/v1.0/foldername/param1/
mysite/v1.0/foldername/param1/param2/etc
I tried the following:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$ foldername.php [QSA,L]
the problem is that when I get it to pass the parameters it can no longer get the resources. It seems to have changed directory.
.htaccess is in foldername
Also, I would like to know what site i can go to to learn about REQUEST_URI, REQUEST_FILENAME, etc. A site that is not too technical as it's the apache site.
You are incorrectly rewriting the rules correct rule according to your need would be like,
RewriteEngine On
# rule for removing extension
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^([\w-]+)/?$ $1.php [QSA,L]
# below cond means incoming url is nor a file neither a directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# actual rules
RewriteRule ^([\w-]+)/([\w-]+)/?$ $1.php?param1=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([\w-]+)/([\w-]+)/([\w-]+)/?$ $1.php?param1=$2¶m2=$3 [L]
Refrences
Reference: mod_rewrite, URL rewriting and "pretty links" explained
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html
i have a strange apache mod_rewrite problem. I need to hide a sub-directory from the user, but redirect every request to that sub-directory. I found several quite similar issues on stackoverflow, but nothing really fits, so i decided to post a new question.
My .htaccess looks like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^(.*)?$ foo/$1 [QSA,L]
The document-root only contains the following folder/files:
/foo/bar/index.html
I would now expect that example.com/bar and example.com/bar/ would just show me the contents of index.html.
Instead example.com/bar/ show me the content as expected but example.com/bar redirects me with a 301 to example.com/bar/foo/ an then shows the contents. I really don't get why there is a 301 redirect in this case.
When i put something this
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^[^.]*/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^[^.]*\.html$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^[^.]*\.php$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/ [QSA,L]
on top of that rule it seems to work, but that would require me to list every used file extension...
Is there any other way i can omit the redirect, the folder "bar" should never be seen by an outside user.
Thanks in advance!
1st rewrite rule is redirect from /foo/(.) to ($1) and second - from (.) to $1.
just idea, this has not been tested.
Better late than never...
Got it working with a simple RewriteRule which append a / to every url that doesn't have on.
# only directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# exclude there directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/excluded-dirs
# exclude these extensions
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.excluded-extension$
# exclude request that already have a /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1/ [R=301,L]