htaccess rewriterule with multi-directory string in parameter - .htaccess

I have googled for a while now, but can't seem to find a solution, so I'll tailor a question directly to my problem.
I am working on a football/soccer website, and entered all the matches. Each database row has a field with a virtual filename in it, like "2010-season/26-may-2010/hometeam-vs-awayteam.php"
I want --> /matches.php?url=2010-season/26-may-2010/hometeam-vs-awayteam.php
to look like --> /matches/2010-season/26-may-2010/hometeam-vs-awayteam.php
My first guess was that the rewriterule would look like this:
RewriteRule ^/matches/(.*)$ /matches.php?url=$1 [L]
But that only gives me a 404 error. I tried different approaches, but nothing solved my issue.
Is the problem that multiple subfolders are passed on into a single parameter?

This should work for you:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|POST)\ /matches\.php\?url=(.*)\ HTTP
RewriteRule ^ /matches/%2? [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^matches/(.*)$ /matches.php?url=$1 [L]
It will redirect /matches.php?url=2010-season/26-may-2010/hometeam-vs-awayteam.php to /matches/2010-season/26-may-2010/hometeam-vs-awayteam.php and then silently rewrite it back to /matches.php?url=2010-season/26-may-2010/hometeam-vs-awayteam.php.
In the matches.php file use $_GET['url']; to get the url parameter.

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Remove certain part of URL

I have a website where i have pages like:
domain.com/?p=settings
domain.com/?p=daily
And i am looking for rewrite that ?p= part, so it would be like
domain.com/settings
So far i have tried to add this to htaccess files:
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1?p= [NC,L]
but it did not worked.
Also I have tried look from Google but could not find any.
I have tried other RewriteRule's but they did not work either.
RewriteRule does not include query string. It is available as a separate variable enter link description here
The Pattern will initially be matched against the part of the URL after the hostname and port, and before the query string (e.g. "/app1/index.html"). This is the (%-decoded) URL-path.
So the following won't work.
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1?p= [NC,L]
You need something like
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(\w+)=(\w+)$
RewriteRule ^/ %2?
Checkout Apache Mod ReWrite Wiki and scroll down to "Making the Query String Part of the Path"
You were close with your attempt, you need to use this in your .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /?p=$1 [L]
Make sure to clear your cache before testing this.

.htaccess not working even though other rules work

I am trying to do a redirect to another site. The following rule works perfectly for all the other rules within my .htacces but the following rule does not seem to work and i can'r figure out why, after lots of try and error.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.oldexample.com$
RewriteRule ^folder3/page.php?value=(.*)$ http://newexample.com/folder1/page.php?value=$1 [L,R=301,NC]
I tried the following which redirected but without the value within (.*) added
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.oldexample.com$
RewriteRule ^folder3/page.php?(.*)$ http://newexample.com/folder1/page.php?$1 [L,R=301,NC]
Could this be an issue with the = symbbol? I tried escaping it and escaping the . also but to no avail
You can't match against the query string (everything after the ?) in a rewrite rule, you need to use a RewriteCond and match against the %{QUERY_STRING}. However, it looks like you're just trying to pass the query string along, unchanged. So you don't need to mess with any of it:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.oldexample.com$
RewriteRule ^folder3/page.php$ http://newexample.com/folder1/page.php [L,R=301,NC]
The query string will get appended automatically. You need to make sure this rule is above any routing rules as it needs to take place before any internal rewrites.

mod_rewrite so that first-level subdirectory is a GET variable

Alright, title is REALLY sloppy.
Here's my problem: I have a news site and when you go to the main page (domain.com) it redirects you to domain.com/news/top?geography=San_Francisco after it figures out your geography.
How do I use the .htaccess so that it goes from domain.com/news/top?geography=San_Francisco domain.com/San_Francisco/news/top ?
There are some similar questions, but I have not found one similar enough in that you're editing the URL as a furtherback subdirectory.
It should also be noted that I am using the Code Igniter framework for PHP and it normally has it as domain.com/index.php/news/top?geography=San_Francisco but I did a mod_rewrite already to get rid of the index.php. The code is as follows for that:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
Code I've tried:
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/news/top$ /news/top?geography=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
Before the index.php rule that you have, try adding this:
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/news/top$ /news/top?geography=$1 [L,QSA]
You'll need to make sure the links you generate are in the form of domain.com/San_Francisco/news/top though.
But to take care of the links in the wild that still look like the old way, you have to match against the actual request:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /news/top\?geography=([^&]+)
RewriteRule ^news/top$ /%1/news/top? [L,R=301]
This will 301 redirect the browser if someone goes to the link domain.com/news/top?geography=San_Francisco and make it so the browser's address bar says this: domain.com/San_Francisco/news/top. At which point the browser will send another request for the second URL, and you use the rule above to change it back into the one with a query string.

RewriteRule does not work, while the rest do

My blog's .htaccess is setup in such a way that one page is accessed through multiple URLs, and displays different content depending on which URL is visited.
http://kn3rdmeister.com/category/blog/
http://kn3rdmeister.com/2012/
http://kn3rdmeister.com/2012/07/
all are actually using http://kn3rdmeister.com/blog.php.
The .htaccess file is very handy in the sense that I only need to redirect to one page (pretty much ever) just with different query strings. After a lot messing around with 'em, all of my rules finally work, and I'm dang glad that they do. Well, almost all of them work. The last one does not.
the .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^blog\.php$ /category/blog/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^category/blog/?$ blog.php [L]
RewriteRule ^category/blog/page/?$ /category/blog/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^category/blog/page/([0-9]*)/?$ /category/blog/?pagenum=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/?$ /category/blog/?year=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/?$ /category/blog/?year=$1&month=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/?$ /category/blog/?year=$1&month=$2&day=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/(^/]+)/?$ /category/blog/?url=http://kn3rdmeister.com/$1/$2/$3/$4/ [L]
The last rule is supposed to redirect to the "permanent link" page for each blog post. Being that each URL is unique, I'm using the post URLs as the unique identifier. Essentially, it is supposed to pass the "url" query string through "blog.php". The PHP script takes over, sees that the "url" query string is set, and then loads the only post with that exact URL in it's row.
The script works, but the redirect doesn't. Going directly to
http://kn3rdmeister.com/blog.php?url=http://kn3rdmeister.com/2012/07/04/amsterdam-ave/
will load the right content. However, going to
http://kn3rdmeister.com/2012/07/04/amsterdam-ave/
doesn't.
Try adding QSA (Query String Append). Also, invert rules so that "deeper" links go on top.
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/(^/]+)/?$ /category/blog/?url=http://kn3rdmeister.com/$1/$2/$3/$4/ [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/?$ /category/blog/?year=$1&month=$2&day=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/?$ /category/blog/?year=$1&month=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/?$ /category/blog/?year=$1 [QSA,L]
But, you can't use rewritten links in other rules. So wherever you have category/blog/ replace it with blog.php.
Whilst webarto comments are good advice, your problem is a missing [:
^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/([^/]+)/?$
not
^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/(^/]+)/?$

htaccess subdomain rewrite

It is many topics here about subdomains but no one can help me...
I use htacces to set subdomain to folder
So if we put http://en.example.com/something
I use something like this..
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.example\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/%1/$1 [NC]
This works fine but adress in bar is changed to http://example.com/en/something but I want keep http://en.example.com/something
so I tried this
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.example\.com$
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)\.example\.com(.*) /$1/$2
or just
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.example\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %1/$1 [NC]
but this doesn't work. Any solution or ideas ?
One solution is use language there (http://example.com/en/something) where I rewrite it but after If I work on subdirectories I get something like http://example.com/subdirectory/en/something - terrible.
Maybe I like http://example.com/en/subdirectory/something bud how proceed this...
And also on some private servers first one case send me to "maybe" default domain, so it is not working for me. (maybe this is some server condition or settings)
I know this is a month late, but maybe this will still be useful for somebody. A few things here:
Regarding your first RewriteRule:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.example\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/%1/$1 [NC]
As it seems you already discovered, rewriting to another URL will also redirect the user's browser to that new URL, even if it's at your own domain. To keep it hidden, you have to rewrite to a file path on the server (like you do with your next two rules).
Regarding your second RewriteRule:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.example\.com$
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)\.example\.com(.*) /$1/$2
The problem there is that you can't match the domain name in the RewriteRule, only the URL path. If your URL is www.example.com/something/somethingelse, the string you're trying to match is just something/somethingelse. In other words, it excludes www.example.com/, so this RewriteRule pattern you have will never match the domain name because the pattern isn't even being tested against that part of the URL, but you included the domain name in the pattern, causing the match to fail.
Regarding your third RewriteRule:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.example\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %1/$1 [NC]
This looks like it should work, so I can't say for sure why it isn't without knowing more about how your files are organized on the server and so forth. Let's say you have all of the website's files in /home/somebody/public_html/. In order for the RewriteRule to work as it is right now, you would need to have an en subdirectory in public_html. So, if somebody went to en.example.com/something, the RewriteRule would cause Apache to serve the file at /home/somebody/public_html/en/something. My guess why it's not working for you is that you might have the subdomain pointing somewhere other than public_html (assuming you actually had the website files organized like in my example). Remember that what you're rewriting to (/$1/$2 in this case) is a file path on the server, not a URL to your website.
I hope that helps! You may have already solved this by now, but even if you have, I'm hoping other people will still find this useful.

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