I have spent time wrestling with .htaccess and no success at all.
My problem is: I'm working offline with wamp server (localhost). My website is in a folder in wamp's main library ( the base url of my website is looks like this: http://localhost/mydirectoryname, )
I'm trying to create the .htaccess file to rewrite my nasty urls, but because I'm not familiar with paths/regular expressions it works very strangely.
This is what I have to mask:
http://localhost/mydirectoryname/index.php?category=1
This is what I would like to achieve (at moment)
http://localhost/mydirectoryname/categories/1.html
At first my rewrite works properly ,but after than comes the crazyness. This is what I get (if I keep clicking on my webpage's menu (category) link (a) button more then once)
http://localhost/mydirectoryname/categories/categories/categories/categories/2.html
My .htaccess file looks like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule categories/(.*).html$ index.php?category=$1
PS: My final goal is to create this type of url:
http://localhost/mydirectoryname/categories/1/categoryname.html
Try like this:
RewriteBase /mydirectoryname/
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ /(.+)/index\.php\?category=(\d+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1/categories/%2.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^categories/(\d+)\.html$ index.php?category=$2 [L]
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I'm trying to modify the subdomain name in the URL to make it look nicer. My current URL look something like:
www.mystore.com/productInfo.php?cPath=11_11&productID=222
So, I want to make it nicer by Rewrite in .htaccess in main with this code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^productInfo/([0-9_-]+)/([0-9_-]+) productInfo.php?cPath=$1&productID=$2 [NC,L]
When I run and test it on the URL by typing www.mystore.com/productInfo/11_11/222 in the URL it works well. However, when this page is redirected by a different page or is 'refreshed' with a self redirecting a href= link(in which the link is written in php by the previous programmer), the above old link is still visible in the URL instead of the new one.
I am still a beginner while I suspect that I might need to change something in the cPanel/Apache(I think) for this but currently, I am still do not have access to the cPanel control. Is there anything that I might have missed to write in the .htaccess file or I really do need the cPanel control or any other reasons?
Any help is appreciated. Sorry that I could not find similar questions on this.
You can use the following :
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
#redirect /productInfo.php?cPath=foo&productID=bar to /productInfo/foo/bar
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /productInfo\.php\?cPath=([0-9_-]+)&productID=([0-9_-]) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ productInfo/%1/%2? [L,R=301]
#rewrite new URL to the old one
RewriteRule ^productInfo/([0-9_-]+)/([0-9_-]+) productInfo.php?cPath=$1&productID=$2 [NC,L]
Trying to ask my question again and explain it the best I can.
I am running WAMP on windows 10. Apache version 2.4.18. My project is in www folder named hoidja.ee. mod_rewrite is enabled, AllowOverrideis set to All.
Inside that folder I have .htaccess file, where I am trying to accomplish rewrite without redirect and it does not work at all. I know the .htaccess file is working, since I can rewrite index.php to /home/ for example and it is working perfectly fine.
I have a page with all the users listing. You can click on the user, and it will take you to a url:
http://localhost/Hoidja.ee/hoidja.php?user_id=94&username=John
How I would like this to show is
http://localhost/Hoidja.ee/user/John
without any redirection.
What I have tried:
#tried first with only user_id
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^user_id=([A-Za-z0-9-]+)$
RewriteRule ^hoidja\.php$ /user/%1? [L]
This gave me 404 that /user/94 doesn't exist.
RewriteRule ^user/([0-9]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ hoidja.php?user_id=$1&username=$2 [QSA]
This doesn't do anything visually. If I enter http://localhost/Hoidja.ee/user/94/John in the url manually, it goes to that page and shows the user data, but if I enter the original url it does not rewrite it. I am using <base> as well.
I have tried all the possible ways but nothing seems to work. How can I accomplish the url rewrite?
You are getting the 404 error because you are rewriting to a non-existent path /user/94 .you will need to redirect /hoidja.php?user_id= to /user/94 and then rewrite /user/94 back to the real location.
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} !200
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^user_id=([A-Za-z0-9-]+)$
RewriteRule hoidja\.php$ /hoidja.ee/user/%1? [L,R]
RewriteRule ^(?:hoidja\.ee/)?user/(.+)$ /hoidja.ee/hoidja.php?user_id=$1 [L]
I have about 100 urls which are like these:
http://example.com/en/contact-us
http://example.com/en/about-us
When the someone clicks on any of them, it should the same page but with a parameter that has been appended
for example :
http://example.com/en/contact-us?language=en
How would i go to solve this? I am tring to write something generic that will do the job for the 100 urls i have.
This is what i have got :
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /en/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}/?language=en
Internal redirection: URL in the browser doesn't change
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?([a-z]+)/([^/]+)/? $1/$2?language=$1 [L]
External redirection: URL in the browser changes to new URL
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?([a-z]+)/([^/]+)/? $1/$2?language=$1 [R=301,L]
Please try this
I think you may have forgotten to put a .php file extension at the end?
This will match any two-letter language folder followed by another directory, as long as there is no period.
RewriteRule ^/(\w\w)/([^/]+)/?$ $1/$2.php?language=$1
Be sure to test it with your URLs at regex101.
I am working locally on Windows 7 with wamp server (v2.5). I have one working rewrite rule for the main front controller in my project, like this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php/$1 [NC,L]
It successfully strips .php from the queries. From this main front controller index.php I have a link to another front controller named theme.php, where I use menu links w/o the.php file extension, like this:
theme/regions
in stead of
theme.php/regions
For that to work I need to add a second rewrite rule to add the php exension, like so:
RewriteRule ^theme($|/$) theme.php/$1 [NC,L]
The only thing I get is a 404 page though :-(.
I would be very grateful for some hints on how to go about this.
You need to put your theme rule before the general route to index.php. And you need to reference what comes after the /theme/ so something like:
RewriteRule ^theme(/?.*)$ theme.php$1 [L]
Additionally, this rule won't work if you have Multiviews turned on, but, this is actually something that's perfectly suited for Multiviews anyways, so you could just try turning that on instead of using a rule to rewrite theme:
Options +Multiviews
Your second RewriteRule works independently of the others and should be placed above the others in your question.
In addition, the format is wrong - you don't need to capture or append anything.
RewriteRule ^theme/?$ theme.php [NC,L]
I have written a rewrite rule in the .htaccess file for my website page:
RewriteRule ^nice_url/$ ?p_action=user_profile&post_author=45 [L]
The full link is: "http://www.example.co.il/nice_url/" it works perfect.
BUT, when I try to create a sitemap (e.g. with http://www.web-site-map.com/), I have an indication that the link "http://www.example.co.il/nice_url/" is broken.
Why?
The link is working fine. Why is it indicated as broken?
Thanks!
You can just add another rule to externally redirect long URL to nice URL like this:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+\?p_action=user_profile&post_author=45\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ nice_url? [R=301,L]
UPDATE: Alright I checked that sitemap generator is putting & instead of & in generated URLs.
You need to add this additional rule to handle this:
# convert & to &
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)&(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}?%1&%2 [L,R,NE]
Seems that I found the problem:
I have a main .htaccess file that redirects to 3 different folders. Each folder is for a different website (all in the same host).
One of the websites is in WP. The rewrite happens well.
BUT, when I try to generate a sitemap - the wp returns a 404 for the sitemap generator and thats why I get an error.
solution: I'll probably try to rewrite from the php and not from the htaccess.