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I am currently trying to rewrite urls as follows:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ article.php?title=$1 [NC,L]
This will take a url such as www.mydomain.com/lemons and rewrite to www.mydomain.com/article.php?title=lemons
That's all good and what I want.
The actual article on lemons is then pulled from a database and displayed at that url.
Within the article I then have some tags. For example, the lemons article might have the tags: fruit, yellow
The url for each tag would look like this:
www.example.com/tag/fruit
www.example.com/tag/yellow
I have added the following to my htaccess file:
RewriteRule ^tag/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ tag.php?tag=$1 [NC,L]
So, now when I click on the tag of fruit I am taken to: www.mydomain.com/tag/fruit
This will then pull a list of all articles from the database with the tag of fruit
Any urls within this page are displayed as http://www.example.com/tag/newarticle
e.g. http://www.example.com/tag/apple
However, I need http://www.example.com/apple
Many thanks
I feel so stupid!
I just needed to add a / to the beginning of the article link.
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Is there the opportunity to get content on one url from another url? like this:
test.com/dir1 shows content from query test.com/getinfo/index.php?q=dir1
or
test.com/dir2 shows content from query test.com/getinfo.php?q=dir2
I need that because i must do 50 urls like test.com/dir1 ../dir50 which has the same template but with some different content based on query and one virtual url with query is better than 50 real directories.
I tried do but couldnt! Thanks in advance!
If it is all on the same host, then have a look at mod_rewrite, which can do amazing things. Just make sure you read the manual through, as there are a lot of details to take in.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/dir1$ /getinfo/index.php?q=dir1 [L]
or more generically:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/dir(.*)$ /getinfo/index.php?q=dir$1 [L]
Can anybody advise how I can rewrite the following URL:
www.mydomain.com/products.php?product=product-name
At the moment, it works fine (I use $_GET to grab the unique product name and use it on my page) but I would like to be able to use the following URL format to get the same outcome:
www.mydomain.com/products/product-name
I've seen a few similar examples on here but cannot get them to work with my situation.
This is how your .htaccess will look like,
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^products/([A-Za-z0-9-]+) /products.php?product=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteEngine On this is used to turn on the rewrite engine.
^products/([A-Za-z0-9-]+) matches the URL like (www.mydomain.com/products.php?product=product-name) where product name can be one or more of any combination of letters, numbers and hyphens.
And use that combination of letters in /products.php?product=$1 where $1 denotes the Product name.
I am upgrading my site which involves new scripts and a different URL
structure. There are currently a few thousand pages so I want to
basically move them in to a subdirectory so that they are not lost.
I am not very confident with htaccess so can someone please confirm that
the first part I have done is correct:
Old URL: http://www.example.com/article/another-dir/page-group/whatever.html
RewriteRule ^article/?$ http://www.example.com/archive/ [R=301,NC,L]
To achieve this: http://www.example.com/archive/another-dir/page-group/whatever.html
Search engines will see the above as a permanent move and in the address bar
it will show the new url. Is this right?
The second part is on the new script - the url's could be improved but I am
unable to change all the script so thought about using htaccess again but am
not sure if it can be achieved like this.
At the moment the url looks like this:
url: http://www.example.com/category/4/categoryname
In the htaccess the current rewrite rule for this type of url looks like this:
RewriteRule ^category/(.*)/(.*)$ category.php?id=$1&slug=$2
Is it possible to change this so that in the url address bar I end up
with this:
http://www.example.com/categoryname
Basically I don't want to see either the number or category/ in the resulting
url as it will be easier for visitors to use - is that possible??
Thanks in advance for any help.
The second question related to passing in URI components for querystring redirect and then hiding those components in the URL I don't think would be easy, if even possible, using RewriteRules.
For the first question though. Given the sample URLs you mentioned, the RewriteRule would need to include capture and backreference if you want to preserve the full URL in the redirection. For example:
RewriteRule ^article/?(.*)$ http://www.example.com/archive/$1 [R=301,NC,L]
I am really new to .htaccess. I was wondering how to create a complex seo friendly urls for the search string and selected filters.
I'm using following code currently for the search.
ReWriteRule ^search/(.*)/(.*) ?module=search&q=$1&page=$2 [L]
ReWriteRule ^search/(.*) ?module=search&q=$1 [L]
When it comes to adding filter options it starts to be a nightmare. Consider following filters;
Short by: none, name, date + ASC, DESC.
Category: none, category ID.
Search In: All, title, Message, Author.
When all filters are selected our address would be;
Raw :
www.site.com/?module=search&q=test&shortBy=name_ASC&catID=1&searchIn=title
Seo Friendly : www.site.com/search/test/name_ASC/1/title/
Now that's not complex at all but I just want to understand the how things work.
Do I have to apply all the filters to URL even if they are not selected? This would create longer URLs for no reason so I believe there must be another approach to this.
How do I define the rule in .htaccess? As in my example, I am writing at least 2 rules in my .htaccess file (2nd one is for pagination).
All I could think right now to do something like this ^search/(.*)/(.*) ?module=search&$1=$2 [L] but this doesn't look elegant.
I will be glad if you could help me out with this problem. I will be grateful if you could also share some of your experiences to a .htaccess newbie like I am.
Put the rules below at the top of your .htaccess file (in the root directory of your site) and then select one of the options below, modify it to your needs and place in after in your .htaccess file.
The first option will match the most urls and is not recommended. The second will only match urls with 5 directories, but requires all the paramters, so I recommend the 3rd.
Though the pattern below may not look elegant, it is a featured solution in The Definitive Guide to Apache mod_rewrite
For more details look at the apache docs or some examples or this post
In all cases, I am assuming that the requests go to index.php, so you should modify this to match the actual page.
This section should go at top of .htaccess file for all 3 options
#for all 3 options these 2 lines should be at the top of the .htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
Option1
#1 if all parameters are optional, and you page (index.php) can handle blank parameters use
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/?([^/]*)/?([^/]*)/?([^/]*)/?([^/]*)/$ index.php?module=$1&q=$2&shortBy=$3&catID=$4&searchIn=$5 [L]
Option2
#2 if all parameters are required use
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)?([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ index.php?module=$1&q=$2&shortBy=$3&catID=$4&searchIn=$5 [L]
Option3
#3 if the module is required and other parameters are optional, then this is better
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(search|produce_detail|other_modules_here)/
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/?([^/]*)/?([^/]*)/?([^/]*)/$ index.php?module=%1&q=$1&shortBy=$2&catID=$3&searchIn=$4 [L]
I have a slight problem with .htaccess redirect.
I have a dynamic site with 2 levels of variables - content="type -(alpha)" and ID="number" but this is very not seo friendly what I really would like to create is a rewrite rule that generates a "friendly" url for serach engines & users alike. Very much like WordPress does.
Each ID is already unique (obviously) and on creation is creating a unique "permalink" field so for example ID=1 has a "permalink field" as "2009/10/27/page title" and ID=100 would be "2010/10/27 page title".
I would like folder/wall.php?content=type&ID=number to redirect to folder/permalink.php/html/htm (don't mind a non dynamic extension)
Any clues? - this is not right (I know) but it also "breaks" my css file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule wall/content/(.*)/ID/(.*)/ wall.php?content=$1&ID=$2
RewriteRule wall/content/(.*)/ID/(.*) wall.php?content=$1&ID=$2
You need to make sure you have a URL convention that won't conflict with other files on the server. For example, if your page is displaying "Products" and you don't have an actual folder in the root of your server called /products/, you could do this
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^products/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ wall.php?content=$1&id=$2 [L,NC,QSA]
Replace "products" in this example with whatever name is most appropriate for what your wall.php page does.
This would equate to the following URL
www.yoursite.com/products/title/29/
Which would rewrite to
www.yoursite.com/wall.php?content=title&id=29