I'm basically just trying to have a master syntax for predictable URLs. Simple URL is no problem
RewriteEngine on
# RewriteRule ^friendlyUrl/content/?$ /index.php?app=main&module=content
Which to my understanding looks for the url structure and allows 1 or 0 trailing "/"'s
But some parts of the website have a /urlPrefix/ to access, eg. mysite.com/membersArea/
and /membersArea/ will be apart of every query there. I'm having trouble accomodating for trailing ?s and &s in URLs like these.
RewriteRule ^secureUrl/\?(.*)$ /index.php?app=admin&$1
This is my attempt to handle everything from mysite.com/secureUrl/ to mysite.com/secureUrl/?var1=foo&var2=bar and after many server errors and a search, I find myself here.
This is the most complex line I have and between you and me, I couldn't tell you exactly what's happening other than it looks for /friendlyUrl/10DIGITKEY/(possible task)/?possiblevars=foo&var2=bar
RewriteRule ^friendlyUrl/([a-zA-Z0-9]{10})/?([a-z]*)/?\??(.*)$ /index.php?app=main&module=web&id=$1&$2&$3
Htaccess has always been my weakest subject, and as a webmaster I pay the price constantly, any help would be appreciated.
Need to input the same request to the PHP file (plus ANY query with or without ? or &) whether its just /friendlyUrl/ or /friendyUrl/?var=1, /friendlyUrl/&var=1, /friendlyUrl/var=1
You're looking to keep the query string of your request URI to remain as is, or to be included in the rewritten URL after the rewrite process is done.
For this purpose, you use the QSA flag in your RewriteRule directive. So, to rewrite /friendlyUrl/10DIGITKEY/(possible task)/?possiblevars=foo&var2=bar, you'd have:
RewriteRule ^friendlyUrl/([a-z\d]{10})/([^/]*)/?$ /index.php?app=main&module=web&id=$1&task=$2 [QSA]
Notice the QSA flag at the end. Also, keep in mind that I'm passing the second match (the possible task of your URL) as another variable (named task). This variable will be empty if nothing was found.
QSA|qsappend
When the replacement URI contains a query string, the default behavior
of RewriteRule is to discard the existing query string, and replace it
with the newly generated one. Using the [QSA] flag causes the
query strings to be combined.
Related
I have changed the path of some of my urls, and I'd like to redirect them to some new urls with an extra query string ?industry=
Old url: e.g. https://domain.ext/skills/keywords/list.php?q=account+manager
https://domain.ext/skills/keywords/list.php?q=assistant
New url: e.g.
https://domain.ext/skills/keywords/list.php?industry=human-resources&q=account+manager
https://domain.ext/skills/keywords/list.php?industry=banking&q=account+manager
https://domain.ext/skills/keywords/list.php?industry=banking&q=assistant
As you can see the new URls contains a new query parameter industry= which can have different industries.
So how can I check if a new url exist with the query ?q=account+manager for example and then redirect the old url to one of the new url that match &q=account+manager?
I've looked into RewriteRule with .htaccess, but I haven't been able to find the right redirection yet. If someone could share some thoughts. Thanks.
Not sure what you wish to do, but I will take this question as a request for a simple example of a Rewrite Rule. Depending on what you are trying to achieve, several approaches may be used.
The code in the .htaccess file could be like this:
# essential
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
# Here a simple rule, the link ending with assitant will be sent to list.php as the q parameter
RewriteRule ^skills/keywords/assistant$ list.php?q=assistant
# You may use variables and Regex, such as $1, $2, $3 in this case to receive the values
# in the parentheses for the three parameters
RewriteRule ^(en/fr/es)/(keywords)/([\/\.\w_-]{3,})$ list.php?lang=$1§ion=$2&q=$3 [L,R=301,NC]
Flags are these ones:
NC = No Case
R=301 = returns a 301 (permanent redirection) code rather than a
302 (temporary) for SEO purposes
L = Last ruel to be executed,
next ones are ignored.
I haven't check if this code works, when testing this on your server, you will encounter a blank page if something is wrong. Also, if you use flags, make sure there is no whitespace after the comma.
This page explains all this very well: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/en/rewrite/intro.html
I'm trying to build a website that may be called from the URL bar with any one of the following examples:
domainname.com/en
domainname.com/zh-cn/
domainname.com/fr/page1
domainname.com/ru/dir1/page2
domainname.com/jp/dir1/page2/
domainname.com/es-mx/dir1/dir2/page3.html
These page requests need to hit my .htaccess template and ultimately be converted into this php call:
/index.php?lng=???&tpl=???
I've been trying to make RewriteCond and RewriteRule code that will safely deal with the dynamic nature of the URLs I'm trying to take in but totally defeated. I've read close to 50 different websites and been working on this for almost a week now but I have no idea what I'm doing. I don't even know if I should be using a RewriteCond. Here is my last attempt at making a RewriteRule myself:
RewriteRule ^(([a-z]{2})(-[a-z]{2})?)([a-z0-9-\./]*) /index.php?lng=$1&tpl=$4 [QSA,L,NC]
Thanks for any help,
Vince
What's causing your loop is that your regex pattern matching /index.php. Why? Let's take a look:
First, the prefix is stripped because these are rules in an htaccess file, so the URI after the first rewrite is: index.php (query string is separate)
The beginning of your regex: ^(([a-z]{2})(-[a-z]{2})?), matches in in the URI
The next bit of your regex: ([a-z0-9-\./]*) matches dex.php. Thus the rule matches and gets applied again, and will continue to get applied until you've reached the internal recursion limit.
Your URL structure:
domainname.com/en
domainname.com/zh-cn/
domainname.com/fr/page1
domainname.com/ru/dir1/page2
domainname.com/jp/dir1/page2/
domainname.com/es-mx/dir1/dir2/page3.html
Either has a / after the country code or nothing at all, so you need to account for that:
# here -------------------v
^(([a-z]{2})(-[a-z]{2})?)(/([a-z0-9-\./]*))?$
# and an ending match here ------------^
You shouldn't need to change anything else:
RewriteRule ^(([a-z]{2})(-[a-z]{2})?)(/([a-z0-9-\./]*))?$ /index.php?lng=$1&tpl=$4 [QSA,L,NC]
Im trying to perform a mod rewriting to my web site. And I used to do this rewriting for quite some time. Of course I am very much upto the task until I met new requirement to create a rewritten URL with query strings after .html
Example - http://kypseli/admin/catagory.html?parent_id=1
I have used this this regex.
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-/_]+).([html])/?$ index.php?rt=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}
But the query string value (parent_id) not passing.
This is working with out the .html part for perfection.
http://kypseli/admin/catagory/?parent_id=1
But I want it with .html part, as I have found lots and lots of same technique usage every where in WWW. here is one example
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/video_audio/559158.html?genre=46
Can someone please help.
If you want to get all query string elements from the first query to be appended on your rewritten query you need to add the [QSA] flag to the rewriteRule, or [qsappend] if you prefer long and descriptive tags.
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-/_]+)/?$ index.php?rt=$1 [qsappend]
Now I do not understand fully what you mean about '.html', but I hope this will be enough.
EDIT
your problem is maybe the dot, it should be escaped \. and it should be in the optionnal part if it is optionall so :
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-/_]+)/?$ index.php?rt=$1 [qsappend]
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-/_]+)\.html?$ index.php?rt=$1 [qsappend]
Or if you want only one rule, this should work (untested)
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-/_]+)([\.html|/])?$ index.php?rt=$1 [qsappend]
And it's unsure you really need the ? in your rewriteRule, you may want to apply it even without query strings.
I'm creating a frontpage for my website with a single form and input text, Google-style. It's working fine, however, I want to generate a pretty URL based on the input. Let's say, my input is called "id", and using the GET method of form, and the action defined to "/go/", on submission, the URL will be:
site.com/go/?id=whateverIType
and I want to change it to
site.com/go/whateverIType
I was thinking on Mod Rewrite, but if the user put something in the URL, like:
site.com/go/?dontwant=this&id=whateverIType&somemore=trash
I want to ignore the other variables but "id", and rewrite the rule.
What's the better way of get this done? Thanks in advance!
PS: I'm using CodeIgniter, maybe there's something I can use for it as well. I already have a controller for "go".
I'm not familiar with CodeIgniter, but you can try the following RewriteRule
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/go\/
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=([^&]*)
RewriteRule (.*) /go/%1? [L,R]
The %1 references the regex group from the previous RewriteCond, and the trailing ? will strip the querystring from the redirected URL.
Hope this helps.
Mod_rewrite supports conditions and rules with RegEx, so you could have a rule that matched the ?id=XXXX, that would extract it from the URL (keeping the other parameters), and rewrote the URL accordingly.
However... I don't think you want to do this, because if you rewrite the URL to be /go/Some+Search+Query, you won't be able to pick it up with say, PHP, without parsing the URL out manually.
It's really tough to have custom, SEO-friendly URLs with user input, but it is technically possible. You're better off leaving in the ?id=XXX part, and instead, using mod_rewrite in the opposite approach... take all URLs that match the pattern /go/My+Search+Terms and translate that back into something like ?id=My+Search+Terms, that way you'll be able to easily parse out the value using the URL's GET parameters. This isn't an uncommon practice - Google actually still uses URL parameters for user input (example URL: http://www.google.com/search?q=test).
Just keep in mind that mod_rewrite rewrites the URL before anything else (even PHP), so anything you do to the URL you need to handle. Think of mod_rewrite as a regular expression-based, global "Find and Replace" for URLs, every time a page is called on the server. For example, if you remove the query string, you need to make sure your website/application/whatever accounts for that.
In application/config/routes.php
$route['go/(:any)'] = "go/index/$1";
Where go is your controller and index is the index action.
http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/routing.html
You can use something like this in your .htaccess if you aren't already:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|css|js|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
I using it and use RewriteEngine
and i saw recently some text in the right side of RewriteEngine
like that
[L,QSA]
what this mean
and [L]
can eny one give me full list of them and usage for each one
They're documented at the mod_rewrite docs page:
'last|L' (last rule)
Stop the rewriting process here and don't apply any more rewrite rules. This corresponds to the Perl last command or the break command in C. Use this flag to prevent the currently rewritten URL from being rewritten further by following rules. Remember, however, that if the RewriteRule generates an internal redirect (which frequently occurs when rewriting in a per-directory context), this will reinject the request and will cause processing to be repeated starting from the first RewriteRule.
'qsappend|QSA' (query string append)
This flag forces the rewrite engine to append a query string part of the substitution string to the existing string, instead of replacing it. Use this when you want to add more data to the query string via a rewrite rule.
There is also a good cheat sheet here which I've found helpful.