I have an existing .htaccess file that looks like this:
Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^posts/(.*)/(.*).html$ index.php?content=blog&postid=$1&kwd=$2
RewriteRule ^aposts/(.*)/(.*).html$ index.php?content=autopost&postid=$1&kwd=$2
RewriteRule ^category/(.*)/(.*).html$ index.php?content=category&cat=$1&otext=$2
RewriteRule ^content/(.*).html$ index.php?content=$1
RewriteRule ^searching/(.*).html$ index.php?content=search&k=$1
RewriteRule ^related/(.*).html$ index.php?content=related&k=$1
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)/(.*).html$ index.php?content=blog&postid=$1&kwd=$2
RewriteRule ^posts$ index.php?content=blog
RewriteRule ^sitemap\.xml$ sitemap.php [L]
RewriteRule ^robots\.txt$ robots.php [L]
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
This works how it was initailly intended for root domain address visitors.
What I want now is to add the functionality of accepting directories too, for example:
example.com/directory1
or
example.com/dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4
but I want it to keep the same functionality as it currently does.
I hope that makes sense, but feel free to ask for clarification.
Thanks for anyhelp with this.
RewriteRule ^posts/(.*)/(.*).html$ index.php?content=blog&postid=$1&kwd=$2
This rule of yours always only matches when the URI starts with "posts".
To allow one or more subdirectories before such a rule, you want to look for one or more characters followed by a / before "posts":
(.+/)? this selects "one or more of any characters, followed by a /", zero or one times. Since "any character" also includes a slash this counts for any amount of subdirectories, as long as after the last slash the "posts" appears.
Since an extra set of parentheses is introduced, you will need to access $2 and $3 now.
So your rule becomes:
RewriteRule ^(.+/)?posts/(.*)/(.*).html$ index.php?content=blog&postid=$2&kwd=$3
You can apply this to each of your rules.
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We currently have a .htaccess RewriteRule that's incorrectly (or correctly as the rule is incorrect) redirecting a URL.
The Rule
RewriteRule ^holiday-ecards/?.*$ /appindex.php [L]
The desired redirects for this are:
http://domain.com/holiday-ecards/
http://domain.com/holiday-ecards/1/
http://domain.com/holiday-ecards/1/2
http://domain.com/holiday-ecards/1/2/3
However, it seems to also be redirecting the following, which is undesired:
http://domain.com/holiday-ecards-business/
EDIT
/appindex.php
This is taking care of the app routing and works as intended.
A number of ways you could do it, one would be setting a rewrite condition to not touch URI's that have holiday-ecards plus hyphen, like so:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/holiday-ecards-.*$
RewriteRule ^holiday-ecards/?.*$ /appindex.php [L]
Not sure how many variations you have of URI's with holiday-ecards in them.
RewriteRule ^holiday-ecards/?.*$ /appindex.php [L]
(Note that this is an internal rewrite, not a redirect.)
The above RewriteRule pattern makes the slash after holiday-ecards optional (so it will also match holiday-ecards-business). However, in the example URLs that should be rewritten, the slash is mandatory. So, it would appear that you just need to make it mandatory (?), for example:
RewriteRule ^holiday-ecards/ /appindex.php [L]
The trailing pattern .*$ is superfluous.
The following is my directory structure
Root (example.com)/
index.htm
contact.htm
privacy.htm
disclaimer.htm
cat/
play/
fun.htm
rest/
sleep.htm
I managed to remove the file extension and add a trailing slash with:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$
RewriteRule (.*)$ /$1/ [R,L]
But I also want to make it in such a way that when people go to www.example.com/fun/ they're able to access www.example.com/cat/play/fun.htm without redirecting, which means, in the address bar it still shows www.example.com/fun/.
I know I can use the direct approach like:
RewriteRule ^fun/$ /cat/play/fun.htm [L]
RewriteRule ^sleep/$ /cat/rest/sleep.htm [L]
But I'll be adding more files to these 2 subdirectories (/cat/play/ and /cat/rest/), so I was wondering if there's a single rewrite rule to perform the rewrites for these files instead of having to enter 100 rewrite rules for 100 files under those 2 subdirectories. Please enlighten.
Appreciate your help.
Put these lines in .htaccess
RewriteRule ^fun/?$ play/fun.htm [L]
RewriteRule ^sleep/?$ rest/sleep.htm [L]
They cannot be moved to one rule, so they should be used with separate rules for each URL.
I have a couple web pages located at these locations:
Home Page / Index : www.codeliger.com/index.php?page=home
Education : www.codeliger.com/index.php?page=home&filter=1
Skills: www.codeliger.com/index.php?page=home&filter=2
Projects: www.codeliger.com/index.php?page=home&filter=3
Work Experience: www.codeliger.com/index.php?page=home&filter=4
Contact : www.codeliger.com/index.php?page=contact
I am trying to rewrite them to prettier urls:
codeliger.com/home
codeliger.com/education
codeliger.com/skills
codeliger.com/projects
codeliger.com/experience
codeliger.com/contact
I have confirmed that my htaccess file works and mod-rewrite works to google, but I cannot get my syntax working that was specified in multiple tutorials online.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule /home /index.php?page=home
RewriteRule /([a-Z]+) /index.php?page=$1
RewriteRule /education /index.php?page=home&filter=1
RewriteRule /skills /index.php?page=home&filter=2
RewriteRule /projects /index.php?page=home&filter=3
RewriteRule /experience /index.php?page=home&filter=4
How can I fix my syntax to rewrite these pages to prettier urls?
The first thing you should probably do is fix your regex. You cannot have a range like [a-Z], you can just do [a-z] and use the [NC] (no case) flag. Also, you want this rule at the very end since it'll match requests for /projects which will make it so the rule further down will never get applied. Then, you want to get rid of all your leading slashes. Lastly, you want a boundary for your regex, otherwise it'll match index.php and cause another error.
So:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^home /index.php?page=home
RewriteRule ^education /index.php?page=home&filter=1
RewriteRule ^skills /index.php?page=home&filter=2
RewriteRule ^projects /index.php?page=home&filter=3
RewriteRule ^experience /index.php?page=home&filter=4
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)$ /index.php?page=$1 [NC]
I currently have this .htaccess rule the works fine:
RewriteRule ^instructor/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)$ instructor.php?username=$1 [NC,L]
However, when I attempt to add a period into the mix a lot of the rules on the site break so I am assuming the character isn't escaped correctly:
RewriteRule ^instructor/([A-Za-z0-9-\.]+)$ instructor.php?username=$1 [NC,L]
Anyone point me in the right direction please?
Update
It appears to be something to do with the directory structure.
Another selection of rules that apply to this site are the following:
## Registration
RewriteRule ^instructor/register/?$ instructor-form/index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^instructor/register/stage([1-5]+)$ instructor-form/stage$1.php [L]
These work fine (the directory here is instructor-form/
However, there is also a directory called instructor/ which these rules point to:
RewriteRule ^instructor/dashboard/?$ instructor/index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^instructor/account-details/?$ instructor/account-details.php [L]
RewriteRule ^instructor/change-password/?$ instructor/change-password.php [L]
These are the rules that are affected when adding the . into the first rule. The rules are all in order and work fine without the . in the [A-Za-z0-9-] char block. When added the physical instructor/ folder seems inaccessible.
You wrote so much text in your question but forgot to mention important details: what is actually broken? Because I do not have clear answer for that I will be speculating here based on the information you have provided so far.
RewriteRule ^instructor/([A-Za-z0-9-\.]+)$ instructor.php?username=$1 [NC,L]
The problem with this rule is that it will also rewrite already rewritten php files: instructor/index.php, instructor/account-details.php, instructor/change-password.php etc.
I think you are relaying on [L] flag too much .. or do not really know how mod_rewrite and [L] flag work. And that is why you are having this issue -- your rule with a dot in pattern rewrites already rewritten URLs.
Useful link: RewriteRule Last [L] flag not working?
You need to add some condition (global rule or condition specific to this rule only) to prevent rewriting already rewritten URLs or existing files.
1. Global rule -- place it somewhere on the top before other rules. Keep in mind that this may not work as intended depending on your website structure and rewrite logic (e.g. when you need to actually rewrite requests to already existing files or folders):
# do not do anything for already existing files
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule .+ - [L]
2. Condition specific to that rule only:
a) do not rewrite if requested URI is physical file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^instructor/([A-Za-z0-9-\.]+)$ instructor.php?username=$1 [NC,L]
OR
b) do not rewrite .php files
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.+\.php$
RewriteRule ^instructor/([A-Za-z0-9-\.]+)$ instructor.php?username=$1 [NC,L]
Well lets say I have this follow code in my htaccess file,
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,NC,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ $1.php
RewriteRule ^forums/([0-9]+) forums.php?category=$1 [NC]
I was wondering how would I, with the above code, redirect certain extensions in a url to my websites 404 page.
For instance, if this link mywebsite.com/forums has any extension at the end of it such as .asp, .php, .html, and so forth it then would get redirected to my 404 page.
And on a quick side note how can I limit the last RewriteRule to only a certain forward slash where mywebsite.com/forums/2 would show the page fine and anything after that certain limit such as mywebsite.com/forums/2/so on... would be redirected to my 404 page.
Anyone have any ideas?
If I understand the question properly, then you need to firm up the regular expressions to only match the patterns you really want - at the moment, they're a bit too lenient for your needs.
For example:
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ $1.php
This will match anything without a trailing slash, whereas if you wanted to restrict it to only match, say, things without a trailing slash and consisting of alphanumeric characters, then you might do this:
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ $1.php
(You could achieve the same effect for certain extensions only by using a lookahead assertion, but that complicates your regular expression. I feel it's probably saner (and easier on the mind) to think about the patterns you really want matched, and then express those up-front.)
Likewise, your latter example:
RewriteRule ^forums/([0-9]+) forums.php?category=$1 [NC]
will match anything which starts with the string forums/, followed by one or more digits, whether or not there's anything after that. Adding an end anchor ($) as you have above
RewriteRule ^forums/([0-9]+)$ ...
will assert that the string ends after the digits.
This relies on the fact that if mod_rewrite can't find a match, it won't attempt any rewrites, and will (in the absence of any explicit resource at that path) fall through to Apache's 404 handling, which is then up to you to override.