Here is the rules:
#RULE REDIRECTQUESTIONSURL9
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !^POST$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^scid=9
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} questions.php
RewriteRule ^questions\.php$ /general-knowledge_questions-answers_national-famous-day-0 [R,L,QSD]
These types of links are not working
> http://www.example.com/questions.php?scid=6
> http://www.example.com/questions.php?scid=8
There are two issues that immediately come to mind when looking at your rewrite rules.
scid=9 is looking for the static value 9. Neither of shown URLs have that value.
!^POST$ the URL you're showing is making a GET request.
Give this a try:
#RULE REDIRECTQUESTIONSURL9
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !^GET$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^scid=\d+
RewriteRule ^questions\.php$ /general-knowledge_questions-answers_national-famous-day-0 [R,L,QSD]
Also do you care about the parameter coming from the query string? If not you could just take that requirement off. If so you should capture it and append it to the rewritten URL.
You should change your links to
action="general-knowledge_questions-answers_national-famous-day-<?php echo $id;?>"
or
href="general-knowledge_questions-answers_national-famous-day-<?php echo $id;?>"
then have your htaccess work the opposite way. The rewrite rewrites the request on the backend; the frontend URL stays the same.
So
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !^GET$
RewriteRule ^general-knowledge_questions-answers_national-famous-day-(\d+) questions.php?scid=$1
Related
I have the following URL
https://example.com/expert-profile?id=john-doe&locale=en
I want it to be redirected to
https://example.com/expert/john-doe
I tried the following
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(([^&]*&)*)id=([^&]+)&?(.*)?$
RewriteRule ^expert-profile$ https://example.com/expert/%3?%1%4 [L,R=301]
And a couple of other solutions, nothing is working here. Can someone help me to go in the right direction?
Update:
This is my current .htaccess file
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule . /index.html [L]
</IfModule>
Redirect 301 "/en/download-app" "/download-app"
Please keep your htaccess file in your root and have it in following way.
Please clear your browser cache before testing your URLs.
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([^&]*)&locale=(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^([^-]*)-.*/?$ $1/%1-%2 [R=301,L]
OR in case you don't have Rules to handle non-existing files/directories then use following Rules set. Please make sure either use above OR following Rules set one at a time only.
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([^&]*)&locale=(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^([^-]*)-.*/?$ $1/%1-%2 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(?:expert)/([^-]*)-(.*)$ $1-profile?id=$1&locale=$2 [NC,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^ /index.html [L]
I have following URL
https://example.com/expert-profile?id=john-doe&locale=en
I want it to be redirected to
https://example.com/expert/john-doe
You would need to do something like the following at the top of your .htaccess file, before your existing directives (order is important):
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (?:^|&)id=([^&]+)
RewriteRule ^expert-profile$ /expert/%1 [QSD,R=301,L]
This captures the value of the id URL parameter (in the %1 backreference) regardless of where it appears in the query string and discards all other URL parameters. I'm assuming you don't specifically need to match locale=en?
Note that the regex subpattern ([^&]+) (the id value) only matches something, not nothing. If the URL parameter is empty (ie. id=&locale=en) then no redirect occurs.
The QSD flag is necessary to discard the original query string.
Test first with a 302 (temporary) redirect to avoid potential caching issues. And clear your browser cache before testing. Only use a 301 (permanent) redirect if this really is intended to be permanent.
To redirect the specific URL /expert-profile?id=<name>&locale=en to /expert/<name>, ie. the id parameter is at the start of the query string and is followed by locale=en only then you can (and should) be more specific in the condition. For example:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([^&]+)&locale=en$
RewriteRule ^expert-profile$ /expert/%1 [QSD,R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(([^&]*&)*)id=([^&]+)&?(.*)?$
RewriteRule ^expert-profile$ https://example.com/expert/%3?%1%4 [L,R=301]
This is close (providing you placed the rule at the top of the file), however, this tries to preserve the other URL parameters, ie. locale=en and whatever else, to create another query string - which you've not stated in your requirements.
Aside: The existing answers are assuming you are wanting to internally rewrite (URL rewrite) the request in the other direction, ie. from /expert/john-doe to /expert-profile?id=john-doe&locale=en. This is probably due to how questions of this nature are notoriously miswritten and this is often the real underlying intention. However, you've made no mention of this here and a URL of the form /expert-profile is not a valid endpoint - so it wouldn't really make sense to "rewrite" the URL in that direction. (?)
If you want it rewritten, capture the name (.+) and insert it into the target $1
RewriteRule ^expert/(.+)$ /expert-profile?id=$1&locale=en [L]
And don't use flag R|redirect here, unless you really want a redirect.---
To redirect from expert-profile?id=john-doe to expert/john-doe, capture the id (.+?) from the query string and insert it in the substitution URL %1
RewriteCond &%{QUERY_STRING}& &id=(.+?)&
RewriteRule ^expert-profile$ /expert/%1 [R,L]
When everything works as it should, you may replace R with R=301 (permanent redirect).
Don't use both rules together. If you do, it will result in an endless redirect loop and finally give a "500 Internal Server Error".
Unrelated, but never test with R=301!
Ok so my website has a dynamic url like this web.com/?city=London I want to change it to web.com/London
While I found the code for rewrite i'm struggling to find one that changes and immediatly redirects people to url in that format.
Well, you could do this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (?:(.*)&)city=([^&]+)(.*)
RewriteRule ^(index.php)?$ %2?%1%3 [R,L]
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(js|css|jpe?g?|png|gif)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^index.php
RewriteRule ([^/]+) index.php?city=$1 [L,QSA]
The first part is responsible for rewriting the original URLs to the "pretty" format and redirect the browser to it
Note that the first part only actually rewrites empty uri and "index.php" (assuming thats your directory index file).
The second part, rewrites the request "back" to index.php?city=London, and then serves the newly created request by a sub-request (hiding the real url from the browser).
However, note that this results in an unnecessary redirects of the browser, so instead of relying heavily on part 1 of this scenario, you should consider reconstructing the urls within the server-side application, so they will appear in the "correct" form to begin with.
I would like to rewrite the English names of php files to their Dutch equivalents.
For example: someurl.com/news.php?readmore=4#comments should become someurl.com/nieuws.php?leesmeer=4#kommentaar. The code from news.php should be executed but nieuws.php should be in the url the arguments should function as well.
I tried several htaccess examples but I can't get it to work.
Any help would be appreciated.
Edit: Working progress from answers below and final solution.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^readmore=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^news.php$ nieuws.php?leesmeer=%1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^norewrite[\w\W]*$
RewriteRule ^news.php$ nieuws.php [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^nieuws.php$ news.php?norewrite [QSA]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^norewrite[\w\W]*$
RewriteRule ^search.php$ zoeken.php [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^zoeken.php$ search.php?norewrite [QSA]
# make sure rewrite is activ
RewriteEngine On
# Rewrite a request for nieuws.php to news.php
RewriteRule ^nieuws.php$ news.php
Should do the trick.
Instad you could send all requests to an index.php and parse them there:
## Redirect everything to http://hostname/?path=requested/path
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([\w\W]*)$ index.php?path=$1 [QSA]
[QSA] makes sure you get the original get arguments too.
Now you have to parse the request in $_GET['path'] in you index.php and include the requested page.
eg:
if ($_GET['path'] == 'nieuws.php') {
include 'news.php';
} else if (empty($_GET['path'])) {
echo "HOME";
}
if you want to make make the user always sees nieuws.php in its address bar, even if he requested news.php, you could try the following:
RewriteEngine On
# Redirect news.php to nieuws.php if and only if the request comes from the client
# (suppose the client didn't set ?norewrite.)
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^norewrite[\w\W]*$
RewriteRule ^news.php$ nieuws.php [R=301,L]
# Send news.php if nieuws.php was requested and prevent news.php from being redirected
# to back to nieuws.php by the rule above.
RewriteRule ^nieuws.php$ news.php?norewrite [L,QSA]
(R=301 means send a "moved permanently" redirect to the client, L means stop rewriting after this rule matched)
The hole thing with norewrite (you could use something else instead) is only needed to avoid an endles loop of rewriting between news and nieuws.
To translate the GET arguments, you can try the following code before the first line of the above code:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^readmore=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^news.php$ nieuws.php?lesseer=%1 [R=301,L]
Things after a the # in an url can't be changed in .htaccess, since they aren't send to the server at all. The only chance to change them is using JavaScript. (See lots of question here on manipulating them within JavaScript)
Try:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /news\.php
RewriteRule ^ /nieuws.php [L,R=301,QSA]
RewriteRule ^nieuws\.php$ /news.php [L,QSA]
I am currently using htaccess to rewrite a single querystring to it's page name using the following and it's working fine...
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
# Rewrites urls in the form of /parent/child/
# but only rewrites if the requested URL is not a file or directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /index.php?page=$1 [QSA]
My issue is that I am now trying to implement additional querystrings on top of the original. I can successfully access the page as /property-listing&property=12-Langworthy-Royston-Grove
However I would like to be able to rewrite the &property= to just be a forward slash, so essentially remove the additional querystring parameter, while maintaining the normal rewriting rules if no additional querystring parameters are passed.
Thanks for any help,
Matt.
Try adding this rule before last:
RewriteRule ^(.+)&property=(.*)$ /index.php?page=$1/$2 [L,QSA]
However note, that this will only work if &property= is part of URI (in the example you shown it is), because it is only the URI which is the subject of rewriting rule, not query-string.
This is my current .htaccess file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/$ index.php?p1=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ index.php?p1=$1&p2=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ index.php?p1=$1&p2=$2&p3=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ index.php?p1=$1&p2=$2&p3=$3&p4=$4 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ index.php?p1=$1&p2=$2&p3=$3&p4=$4&p5=$5 [L]
Basically, it takes up to five "Friendly url folders" and assign the value to varibles and then, send those to my index.php page
IE: http://www.example.com/ford/focus/grey/
$p1 = 'ford';
$p2 = 'focus';
$p3 = 'grey';
$p3 = 'grey';
So far, so good.
Now, I need to integrate a 301 instruction (RegExp?) in that same .htaccess because initially, I had GET parameters like this :
IE: http://www.example.com/ford/focus/grey/?lang=fr
I need to get rid of all GET variables because Google sees it as duplicate content (even if I'm using the nofollow attribute on my languages links)
IE: http://i.want.to.keep/my/url/?AND_DUMP_GET_VARIABLES
http://www.example.com/ford/focus/grey/?lang=fr
http://www.example.com/ford/focus/grey/?lang=en
http://www.example.com/ford/focus/grey/?lang=sp
==> http://www.example.com/ford/focus/grey/
Logically, the instruction should be interpreted between the first and the second block but I just don't know where to start. Any hints?
THANKS!
As I understand you want to get rid of the QUERY STRING and redirect (301 Permanent Redirect) to the same URL but without QUERY STRING.
The rule below will redirect EVERY request that has query string:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^$
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1? [R=301,L]
1. The ? will do the magic -- will strip query string
2. You desperately need this line: RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$. The problem is that it may not work on your Apache setup and I cannot give you what exactly you need to make it work (it works fine on my vanilla Apache v2.2.17 on Windows).
After rewrite (internal redirect) occurred, it goes to next iteration and Apache starts matching all rules from the top again but for already rewritten URL. If we not add the above line, then mod_rewrite will apply the above rule to rewritten URL form and you will end up with all URLs get rewritten to /index.php with no parameters at all.
If the above will not work, then try the code below:
# do not do anything for already existing files and folders
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule .+ - [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1? [R=301,L]
With help of # do not do anything for already existing files and folders rule, mod_rewrite will stop rewriting after URL will be rewritten to /index.php?p1=... format.
In case the above will not work at all (better -- in addition to the above -- I would suggest adding this anyway) use <link rel="canonical" href="FULL_PROPER_RUL"/> in your page:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394