Hi there on my site i link to a site that has changed the url of the site but uses the original domain to host the images. Is this possible to catch the links via htaccess but no change any of that domain with an image file detected?
So change outgoing link from www.oldsite.com to www.newsite.com but if images detected leave oldsite.com url.
I have too many links to change manually, is this even possible ?
It can't be done using .htaccess . .htaccess is directory level Apache configuration file!
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Let me see if I can explain this.
I used to have mydomain.com as my default page. The login page would be mydomain.com/login and every content created would become mydomain.com/topic1, mydomain.com/topic2 etc.
But I have created a subdirectory, so it's now mydomain.com/sub/login and mydomain.com/sub/topic1 etc.
I then set mydomain.com to redirect to mydomain.com/sub/login via my host's panel (Hostinger).
If a user accesses the website from one of the old links, I would like it to change the URL to include the new subdirectory automatically, without affecting the redirect I have created.
How can I do so? Is it possible?
Thanks, folks!
I've just setup a new subdomain 'preview', ie preview.example.com and I am setting up a replicate of the codebase of a live website (from the www. subdomain) so that I can have a duplicate environment for testing and showing my client recent changes.
I want to save myself having to copy over all the images to the preview and so the normal location under which images are saved in a WordPress site /wp-content/uploads/ is empty. I wanted to ues a simple htaccess rule to get these instead from the live subdomain where the image at the same path will exist. In other words, a request for
https://preview.example.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/test.jpg
would be redirected to the following where the image exists..
https://www.example.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/test.jpg
I've tried to set this up with the simplest of htaccess redirect rules but it just seems to be ignored and I've no idea why. Any idea how I can troubleshoot this?
RedirectMatch 301 /wp-content/uploads/(.*) http://www.example.com/wp-content/uploads/$1
Converting my comment to answer so that solution is easy to find for future visitors.
Scenario is that both subdomain and main domains are on same host but their DocumentRoot are set to different paths. OP wants to serve lot of images from subdomain but doesn't to do bulk copy.
Suggested approach without tinkering with .htaccess is to create a symbolic link of wp-content/uploads/. Only option suggested to use in .htaccess is:
Options +FollowSymLinks
Which allows use of symbolic links for serving web requests.
I just rebuilt my site to be responsive with Gantry 5 and Joomla. built in inmotion hosting server. moved it into a sub domain on my real sites server, www.umiultrasound.com/new. when i try to access the site to test it redirects to www.umiultrasound.com.
I have discussed this with my host, they say i have a wildcard redirect- i don't. they say to check my .htaccess file. i did but i do not see where i am redirecting / or www.mysite.com to itself.
they then recommended that i read one of your forum results. the one they sent didn't apply to me. hoping you can help
Check for any RewriteBase command in .htaccess. You could also temporarily copy the standard htaccess.txt over .htaccess to see if this makes any difference (backup .htaccess to .htaccess.old or similar first).
Also check your configuration.php file to see if the live_site parameter has been set.
Hopefully a simple question although one I have found impossible to answer myself using the Googles!
I have a website on IIS with the URL http://www.contoso.com/ which points to C:\www\public\
There has been a forced directory restructure so now all of the data (Default.aspx, Product.aspx, etc.) that originally resided in C:\www\public\ now resides in C:\www\public\en\ie\ - however, the IIS website document root is still C:\www\public\
So, essentially, I have a lot of inbound links to http://www.contoso.com/Product.aspx?id=1 (etc.) which are now returning 404 errors - the correct link is now http://www.contoso.com/en/ie/Product.aspx?id=1
Please consider that I can make no changes to the directory structure or the IIS document root... so I must solve this issue using URL rewriting.
Is it possible to capture all requests to contoso.com/* and rewrite them to contoso.com/en/ie/* ??
As Ivo suggests, using url rewriting you can set up inbound rules that match the old url pattern and redirect to the new pattern
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/460/using-url-rewrite-module/
Change the root directory of your website from C:\www\public\ to C:\www\public\en\ie\ and everything should be fine.
If you cannot do this for any reason, make a custom 404 page and rewrite to url in there and redirect with a 301
See: http://searchengineland.com/url-rewriting-custom-error-pages-in-aspnet-20-12234
After upgrading our website, many old links that people have in blogs, etc. are now going to our 404 error page.
An example is: (using h#p b/c I'm a new user and can't post links)
h#p://www.site.com/pressreleases/some_release.html
h#p://www.site.com/pressreleases/another_release.html
These items are now part of a db-driven site and would be live here:
h#p://www.site.com/pressreleases/details.php?id=1
h#p://www.site.com/pressreleases/details.php?id=2
How can I set up the 301 to redirect
h#p://www.site.com/pressreleases/some_release.html
to
h#p://www.site.com/pressreleases/details.php?id=1,
and
h#p://www.site.com/pressreleases/another_release.html
to
h#p://www.site.com/pressreleases/details.php?id=2?
Thanks
Compose a .htaccess file in the pressreleases directory and specify the following:
Redirect 301 some_release.html details.php?id=1
If you would like to redirect using regular expressions, use mod_rewrite as explained here.
There are various options listed on this page.
If you have a lot of these URLs, and assuming you have access to the Apache config, consider creating a "redirects.inc" file in /etc/apache2 (or anywhere really) and then adding "include /etc/apache2/redirects.inc" to your virtual host. That way you have one place to add/update your redirects.