Simple question here.
I need to replace all instances of a string in the URL with another string.
IE. I need to replace every instance of "test" in the URL, with .htaccess code.
For example "www.example.com/test/A/test/B/test" will become "www.example.com/REP/A/REP/B/REP".
I can produce a script that replaces "test" with "REP", when "test" is not at the end or the beginning of the script. But I cannot come up with a final script to replace "test" everywhere.
My code:
RewriteRule ^test\/(.*) REP/$1 [L,R=301]
Thanks!
I found an answer, that is all knowing and beatiful.
RewriteRule ^(.*)test(.*)$ $1FIN$2 [R=301,L]
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What I would need to do is to pass 1 variable as variable, and the rest as a rest of URL intact, so I can get them by $_GET in php later. The below does not work:
RewriteRule ^store/([a-zA-Z0-9\_\-]+).html?(.*)/?$ store.php?var1=$1&$2 [L]
Possible Links could be:
store/products.html
store/products.html?sort=asc&price=down
store/products.html?price=down&here_we_can_have_a_lot_of_different_params_in_whatever_order
Basically, just take this $var1 and the rest forward to URL? How can I do that?
P.S. I think I found a solution:
RewriteRule ^store/([a-zA-Z0-9\_\-]+).html?(.*)/?$ store.php?var1=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
The problem is your premise as to how a RewriteRule works. A RewriteRule only matches against the URI path (in apache terms the Request URI) and not against the query string. This means the (.*)/?$ at the end of your regex only works because it can reduce to just '$' (or the end of the string) and the ? before it just means the regexp will match .htm as well as .html
The simpler version of your rule is as follows:
RewriteRule ^store/([a-zA-Z0-9\_\-]+).html store.php?var1=$1 [L,QSA]
The QSA stands for Query String Append, which simply adds back any existing query string to the rewritten URL.
I have been reading about .htaccess files for a couple of hours now and I think I'm starting to get the idea but I still need some help. I found various answers around SO but still unsure how to do this.
As far as I understand you write a rule for each page extension you want to 'prettify', so if you have something.php , anotherpage.php, thispage.php etc and they are expecting(will receive??) arguments, each needs its own rule. Is this correct?
The site I want to change has urls like this,
maindomain.com/sue.php?r=word1%20word2
and at least one page with two arguments
maindomain.com/kevin.php?r=place%20name&c=person%20name
So what I would like to make is
maindomain.com/sue/word1-word2/
maindomain.com/kevin/place-name/person-name/
Keeping this .php page and making it look like the directory. Most of the tutorials I have read deal with how to remove the .php page to which the argument is passed. But I want to keep it.
the problem I am forseeing is that all of the .php?r=parts of the url are the same ie sue.php?r=, kevin.php?r= and the .htaccess decides which URL to change based on the filename and then omits it. If I want to keep the file name will I have to change the ?r=
so that it is individual? I hope this make sense. So far I have this, but I'm sure it won't work.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$1.php?r=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$1.php?r=$1&c=$1
And I think I have to add ([^-]*) this in some part or some way so that it detects the %20 part of the URL, but then how do I convert it to -. Also, how are my $_GET functions going to work??
I hope my question makes sense
You're missing a space somewhere in those rules, but I think you've got the right idea in making 2 separate rules. The harder problem is converting all the - to spaces. Let's start with the conversion to GET variables:
# check that the "sue.php" actually exists:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([^/]+)/?$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%1.php -f
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /$1.php?r=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%1.php -f
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /$1.php?r=$2&c=$3 [L,QSA]
Those will take a URI that looks like /sue/blah/ and:
Extract the sue part
Check that /document_root/sue.php actually exists
rewrite /sue/blah/ to /sue.php?r=blah
Same thing applies to 2 word URI's
Something like /kevin/foo/bar/:
Extract the kevin part
Check that /document_root/kevin.php actually exists
3 rewrite /kevin/foo/bar/ to /kevin.php?r=foo&c=bar
Now, to get rid of the "-" and change them to spaces:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)(c|r)=([^&]+)-(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1?%1%2=%3\ %4 [L]
This looks a little messy but the condition matches the query string, looks for a c= or r= in the query string, matches against a - in the value of a c= or r=, then rewrites the query string to replace the - with a (note that the space gets encoded as a %20). This will remove all the - instances in the values of the GET parameters c and r and replace them with a space.
Google is somehow indexing some phantom URL's for my website. I'm still trying to find the problem.
For example, everything in bold below is NOT supposed to be there.
http://www.mydomain.com/directory/sights?/kauai/sights/sights/kalalau_lookout
It should look like this:
http://www.mydomain.com/directory/sights
How can I strip out the ? mark in addition to everything after it and make it 301 redirect to the proper page?
Thanks,
John
From mod_rewrite
Modifying the Query String
By default, the query string is passed through unchanged.
...
When you want to erase an existing query string, end the substitution string with just a question mark.
...
You can remove all query strings with
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} .
RewriteRule .* http://www.mydomain.com$0?
I am setting up a MVC style routing system using mod rewrite within an .htaccess file (and some php parsing too.)
I need to be able to direct different URLs to different php files that will be used as controllers. (index.php, admin.php, etc...)
I have found and edited a rewrite rule that does this well by looking at the first word after the first slash:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/stats(.*)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /hello.php/$1 [L]
However, my problem is I want it to rewrite based on the 2nd word, not the first. I want the first word to be a username. So I want this:
http://www.samplesite.com/username/admin to redirect to admin.php
instead of:
http://www.samplesite.com/admin
I think I just need to edit the rewrite rule slightly with a 'anything can be here' type variable, but I'm unsure how to do that.
I guess you can prefix [^/]+/ to match and ignore that username/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/[^/]+/stats(.*)
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/(.*)$ /hello.php/$1 [L]
then http://www.samplesite.com/username/statsadmin will be redirecte to http://www.samplesite.com/hello.php/statsadmin (or so, I do not know the .htaccess file)
To answer your question, "an anything can be here type variable" would be something like a full-stop . - it means "any character". Also the asterisk * means "zero or more of the preceding character or parenthesized grouped characters".
But I don't think you need that...If your matching url will always end in "admin" then you can use the dollar sign $ to match the end of the string.
RewriteRule admin$ admin.php [R,NC,L]
Rewrites www.anything.at/all/that/ends/in/admin to www.anything.at/admin.php
I have many redirects in the .htaccess file. Now, I need to create a rewrite rule for a URL based on it's querystring value..
http://www.mydomain.com/subdir/RentalDetails.aspx?RentalId=1072
any traffic to this url should go to...
http://www.mydomain.com/subdir/RentalDirectory.aspx
I have researched and found some good posts on the subject and came up with this..
#discontinued properties
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/RentalDetails\.aspx$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^RentalId=1072$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subdir/RentalDirectory.aspx? [R=301,L]
Unfortunately, it is not working. Could someone please help me to figure out where I have gone wrong? Many thanks in advance!
I'd guess that the RewriteCond is wrong: the uri shouldn't look like
^/RentalDetails\.aspx$
[Edited -- I finally managed to get to the actual docs, and found the query string was a red herring. However, I missed the '^' at the start of the string as well, which may be causing this]
Since the ^ at the start of the expression means "the string must start here", and the $at the end means "the string ends here", your regex is too restrictive, and won't match what you need it to.
From the apache docs, the REQUEST_URI variable excludes the query string, so that's not the issue. However, you are trying to match a url of /subdir/RentalDetails.aspx with a regex that has to start with the word /RentalDetails
Try something like
# No ^ at the start, this will match RentalDetails.aspx in any location
/RentalDetails\.aspx$
Or
# This will only match in the /subdir/ directory.
^/subdir/RentalDetails\.aspx$