I have website1.com setup so that when users visit website1.com they get redirected via a meta tag in an index.html to website1.com/directory
Then they use the website and go to links such as website1.com/directory/index.html or what ever. I am trying to hide the "directory" in the link so that users only see website1.com/index.html
I have place the htaccess which is to rewrite the url to website1.com/index.html at website1.com/directory/.htaccess
I am not doing anything else special and this should be an easy task. My current exact htaccess is as follows:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCondition %{REQUEST_URI} !^directory/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ directory/$1 [L]
Should be easy right..... All I get is a 404
In my server I have Mod_Rewrite & mod security and suspect one of them is causing this not to work but can't imagine why. Am I missing something here?
Your rule is incorrect since %{REQUEST_URI} variable has starting /
You need to place this in document root
Use this code in document root .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCondition %{REQUEST_URI} !^/directory/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /directory/$1 [L]
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Trying to ask my question again and explain it the best I can.
I am running WAMP on windows 10. Apache version 2.4.18. My project is in www folder named hoidja.ee. mod_rewrite is enabled, AllowOverrideis set to All.
Inside that folder I have .htaccess file, where I am trying to accomplish rewrite without redirect and it does not work at all. I know the .htaccess file is working, since I can rewrite index.php to /home/ for example and it is working perfectly fine.
I have a page with all the users listing. You can click on the user, and it will take you to a url:
http://localhost/Hoidja.ee/hoidja.php?user_id=94&username=John
How I would like this to show is
http://localhost/Hoidja.ee/user/John
without any redirection.
What I have tried:
#tried first with only user_id
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^user_id=([A-Za-z0-9-]+)$
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=$1 [L]
I know how to use .htaccess to forward everything in one domain to a new domain name. But in this case, I want everything from one domain to go to a specific .html page on a different domain. That's where I'm lost. I'm trying the following but it just redirects to a folder and the page in question is in that folder but obviously, I don't want people seeing the contents of that folder. Make any sense? So example.com needs to go to yyy.com/some-page.html
This is what I'm currently using:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (www\.)?5\.xxxx\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.1.yyy.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Try:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (www\.)?5\.xxxx\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://www.1.yyy.com/some-page.html [R,L]
You can also put a blank index.html page to the directory in question to mask its contents or
you can put index.php file with this code <? header ("location: http://www.1.yyy.com/some-page.html"); ?> that will redirect a user to the desired page.
$1 is a place holder for the 1st pattern match. So if you are rewriting domaina.com/someurl/, it is attempting to load domainb.com/someurl/. Swap the $1 with the actual page --- e.g. somepage.html and it should work. But unless both of these domains are pointing to the same files/directories, the rule seems a bit overcomplicated.
So how about just a simple redirect?
Try this in your .htaccess file.
redirect 301 / http://somesite.com/somepage.html
OR you can try this.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://somesite.com/somepage.html [R=301,L]
It does work and you can test my RewriteRule below.
http://htaccess.madewithlove.be/
There must be something else going on.
The wordpress site I'm working on got moved into a subdirectory therefore all the links from other sites don't work anymore. I implemented a 301 redirect with .htaccess which is great because it fixes that problem BUT the old root directory now has an index.html that has landing page my client absolutely wants to be seen.
So, how can I set up my .htaccess to redirect all traffic into the sub directory (to fix the incoming links) EXCEPT the index.html in the root directory because it has the landing page.
I don't know how htaccess works well but this is what I have right now.
Order deny,allow
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/$ [OR]
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://example.com/portal/$0 [R=301,L]
Thanks!!
Edit for clarification:
Right now EVERYTHING redirects from the root to the subdirectory. I want everything to redirect except for index.html in the root directory. If the user requests just the domain name (http://example.com) without specifying a page, I also want him/her to be served up the index.html page in the root directory.
The following code does what you are asking for: "if the request does not match either index.php or index.html or "/" (i.e. nothing) (and the match is not case sensitive) then serve up the alternate location"
Order deny,allow
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.(php|html) [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/$ {NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://example.com/portal/$0 [R=301,L]
I have tested this using the excellent online testing tool http://htaccess.madewithlove.be
Using the following test cases:
http://example.com -- no rewrite, second condition not met
http://example.com/ -- ditto
http://example.com/index.html -- first condition not met
http://example.com/index.php -- first condition not met
http://example.com/some/page.html -- rewritten as http://example.com/portal/some/page.html
EDIT You said that this still didn't work quite as expected; so I brought out the big guns. By turning on "maximum logging" of everything that the rewrite engine does with the directives
RewriteLog "/var/log/apache2/rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 9
(pick any path you want, obviously), then looking at the end of the logfile in a terminal window with
tail -f /var/log/apache2/rewrite.log
You can quickly see where things are not working quite right. A bit of fiddling led me to the following code. It says "if the requested URI is just /index.html or /index.php, or if it starts with /portal, or if it is blank, then don't redirect.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.(php|html) [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/portal.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/portal$0 [R=301,L]
The test cases worked for me - see if they work for you!
NOTE: I made these changes in the httpd.conf file, not in the .htaccess file of the root directory. You need to be careful to make it so the .htaccess file in the root directory is even read - the default Apache configuration has an Override none for that directory, so some extra work is needed. By putting this configuration change in the httpd.conf file (and issuing a sudo apachectl restart command) you avoid the difficulty. Depending on who is hosting your website, and what control you have, that may not be an option for you. There may come a point where the experts for this problem can be found on superuser.com rather than SO... but I'm hopeful this does the trick for you.
my domain name is www.hangings.com.au where as the project is hosted inside the folder named hangings so I need to enter something as www.hangings.com.au/hangings
Can anyone tell me how can I rewrite htaccess file so that it will show the content hosted in www.hangings.com.au/hangings when someone enters as www.hangings.com.au in their browser.
I tried something like the below
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !www.hangings.com.au/$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.hangings.com.au/hangings$ [L,R=301]
but I am getting a browser error "This Website has a Redirection Loop"
The redirect loop is because of www.hangings.com.au/hangings matches also the condition.
If it's enough for you, that calls to www.hangings.com.au/ are redirected to the subfolder, an nor deeper structure, the following should be enough.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/$ /hangings [R]
Could someone tell me how to rewrite this URL. I have looked at a lot of questions on stackoverflow but they seem to be missing my answer.
RewriteEngine On
That is what I have... its a bit poor.
I need to rewrite url's if they do not point to a directory.
I need to do this...
any.domain.com/pages/some-page-slug/login
To be rewritten to the correct url of...
any.domain.com/pages/login.php?page=32
Does anyone have any ideas on how this can be achieved?
1) Rewriting product.php?id=12 to product-12.html
It is a simple redirection in which .php extension is hidden from the browser’s address bar and dynamic url (containing “?” character) is converted into a static URL.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^product-([0-9]+)\.html$ product.php?id=$1
2) Rewriting product.php?id=12 to product/ipod-nano/12.html
SEO expert always suggest to display the main keyword in the URL. In the following URL rewriting technique you can display the name of the product in URL.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^product/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([0-9]+)\.html$ product.php?id=$2
3) Redirecting non www URL to www URL
If you type yahoo.com in browser it will be redirected to www.yahoo.com. If you want to do same with your website then put the following code to .htaccess file. What is benefit of this kind of redirection?? Please check the post about SEO friendly redirect (301) redirect in php and .htaccess.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^optimaxwebsolutions\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.optimaxwebsolutions.com/$1 [R=301,L]
4) Rewriting yoursite.com/user.php?username=xyz to yoursite.com/xyz
Have you checked zorpia.com.If you type http://zorpia.com/roshanbh233 in browser you can see my profile over there. If you want to do the same kind of redirection i.e http://yoursite.com/xyz to http://yoursite.com/user.php?username=xyz then you can add the following code to the .htaccess file.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ user.php?username=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ user.php?username=$1
5) Redirecting the domain to a new subfolder of inside public_html.
Suppose the you’ve redeveloped your site and all the new development reside inside the “new” folder of inside root folder.Then the new development of the website can be accessed like “test.com/new”. Now moving these files to the root folder can be a hectic process so you can create the following code inside the .htaccess file and place it under the root folder of the website. In result, www.test.com point out to the files inside “new” folder.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^test\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.test\.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/new/
RewriteRule (.*) /new/$1
TO do this you need to write a front controller.
See here, here, here, and here.
Alternatively in Apache you can rewrite this
any.domain.com/pages/32/login
or this:
any.domain.com/32/login
or even this:
any.domain.com/some-slug/32/login
to this:
any.domain.com/pages/login.php?page=32
One way or another to do this with only apache you need to supply the page id in some fashion. Keep in mind even with format any.domain.com/some-slug/32/login the content of the slug is irrelevant and won't necessarily link to the correct page. Which I imagine is undesirable and bad for SEO.
Another alternative is using RewriteMap. But this will be tricky and require reloading apache configurations whenever a page/slug is created/edit.
I understand that pages and login are static in this case and some-page-slug is changing. And you always want to redirect to static page /pages/login.php?page=32
So this is how to do it:
1) Rewrite
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^pages/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/login(.*)$ /pages/login.php?page=32
or 2) Redirect Pernament
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^pages/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/login(.*)$ /pages/login.php?page=32 [R=301,L]
or 3) Redirect Temporary
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^pages/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/login(.*)$ /pages/login.php?page=32 [R=302,L]
Here is great article about htaccess trics
http://perishablepress.com/press/2006/01/10/stupid-htaccess-tricks/