I have had to change the name of a page on my wordpress site. In the url structure the page has many sub pages which are illustrated as follows:
www.mysite.com/folder1/plus whatever else may come here
Basically I want to do a wildcard redirect where any URL matching the folder1 part of the URL gets caught and redirected to the following:
www.mysite.com/newfolder1/folder2/
The following redirect works for the above situation
RewriteRule ^folder1/?(.*) http://www.mysite.com/newfolder1/$1 [R=301,L]
But fails and give a 404 for the following
www.mysite.com/folder1/folder2/folder3
It will not redirect beyond the folder2 depth. Why is this?
Following up on the comments:
The problem sounds like the .htaccess file (or the rules you're talking about) is in the wrong location.
As far as my understanding goes, Apache reads all the .htaccess files (and other server configs that do redirects) from the "top" down - i.e., .htaccess files in subfolders are processed after .htaccess files in the root folder.
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I'm writing a program that creates custom friendly urls for websites in .htaccess file. The problem is that I want to create redirect from absolute friendly url to another absolute "real" url, because .htaccess file is placed in root directory and websites are placed in many different child directories.
If the pages were placed in the same folder, I could do something like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule site site.php
RewriteRule site-two site-two.php
but the pages are placed in different child folders, so the above code doesn't work.
I tried to do something like this but it doesn't work:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule http://www.randomdomain.com/sites-dir/site/ http://www.randomdomain.com/content/sites-dir/site.php
RewriteRule http://www.randomdomain.com/sites-dir/site-two/ http://www.randomdomain.com/content/sites-dir-two/site-two.php
I would not like the solution to be similar to 301 redirect because with it, .htaccess refers to another page, but does not save the friendly address in the url bar.
I also want linking pages using a friendly url to be possible.
Does anyone know the solution to this problem?
Thank you in advance for your answer.
I wanted to add a subdirectory to my url so it would become easier to read:
Example of what i'd like:
localhost/testwebsite/users.php?firstname=john
should become
localhost/testwebsite/users/john
I tried using the .htaccess mod_rewrite rules and came up with this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /testwebsite/
RewriteRule ^users/(.*)$ users.php?firstname=$1
What happens why I use that code: it redirects the page successfully, it shows the html of the correct user and it processes the argument correctly. However, all stylesheets, images, scripts, anything with a relative path, could not be found and respond with a 404 message, because of the extra subdirectory added in the new url, I reckon.
Am I doing something wrong? Is there another technique I should be using? Or should I simply make all paths in my project absolute with regards to the root?
You're doing it right. The browser doesn't know that the actual path of the file is different. Use absolute paths or make paths relative to the easier to read URL.
Ok, I'm clueless here...
I need to rewrite a directory structure and all sub-directories within it to a directory within the same server, but a root that is before the directory.
For example:
http://www.mydomain.com/Themes/default/css/folder
and all directories called upon after folder. Such as folder/sub_folder or folder/afolder/anotherfolder, it needs to include ALL sub-directories within the folder directory.
should be redirected to this:
http://www.mydomain.com
How do I do this via a .htaccess file within the folder path http://www.mydomain.com/Themes/default/css/folder?
Please someone help.
Thanks guys :)
The files within the directory structure still need to be accessible for that structure when called via PHP, but I don't want people being able to browse to http://www.mydomain.com/Themes/default/css/folder and be shown all subdirectories within that folderpath and/or all files. Same thing for all sub-directories that follow that folder path.
I'd like to be able to place the .htaccess file within the http://www.mydomain.com/Themes/default/css/folder directory on the server, but don't know exactly what code to use for this.
ALSO, even more challenging... The domain name can change, so I'd rather not use the domain name within the .htaccess file, instead perhaps use .. or . to go up a directory or a different method of grabbing the domain name within the .htaccess file.
Create a .htaccess file in /Themes/default/css/folder and place these lines there (it requires mod_rewrite):
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/ [R=301,L]
It will redirect (301 Permanent Redirect) all requests to a folder to a homepage. If file is requested, it will allow it.
If you want to have it working for folders as well as files then remove the RewriteCond line -- it will redirect ALL requests (even for non-existing URLs) to a homepage.
If you will see "500 Internal Server Error" after creating such file, then it is your server configuration: mod_rewrite may not be enabled or it's directives (RewriteRule, RewriteCond, RewriteEngine) are not allowed to be placed in .htaccess. In any case -- check Apache's error log for exact error message (it will give you the exact reason).
http://www.besthostratings.com/articles/prevent-directory-listing.html
IndexIgnore *
I have 2 .htaccess files - one in root directory, another in subdirectory:
accordingly docroot/ and /subdirectory/docroot (this one works like a separate account).
The problem is that there are different rewrite rules in both files. Basicly, the problem is that the .htaccess in subdirectory doesn't work and/or is ignored.
What I am trying to achieve is to have one set of rewrite rules for docroot and other set of rewrite rules for subdirectory/docroot
edit:
the .htaccess file in subdirectory/docroot basicly strips index.php from url, and it actually works, but when i go to subdirectory/user it redirects to subdirectory/user/login (instead of subdirectory/index.php/user/login -- this parts is ok) but the website shows the root page (not subdirectory, but domain root)
Any ideas?
I just had to set RewriteBase to that particular subdirectory to make things work.
Is it possible to set a default folder to access instead of a file like "index.html".
What I'd like to to is make it so that when a person visits my site they get redirected to a folder within the root of the domain. I am using a blogging engine and I need it to show up as the homepage but I don't want to install it in the root because I have other folders and files that need to be in the root directory. And I don't want to put them inside the blogging software's folder. I also don't want to use a 301 or 3XX redirect for SEO purposes.
If there's a way to do what I'm asking let me know. If not, let me know the best option otherwise.
Try this mod_rewrite rule:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ foo/bar [L]
This will rewrite requests to the directory where this rule is applied to to foo/bar. So if you put this rule in the .htaccess file in your document root and request http://example.com/, it will get rewritten to http://example.com/foo/bar.