I have this code for the htaccess file, and soon I'll have pages where I'd like to create a url like the bottom one
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^Index/?$ index.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^Gallery/?$ gallery.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^Showreel/?$ showreel.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^Music/?$ music.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^Gallery/Render/?$ contact.php [NC]
If I go to the contact page, it'll display a page, but it's entirely white and only contains the text. I'm guessing it's to do with the images not being linked up properly with the new url, but how would I actually go about fixing this without having to manually edit the locations of each image?
You can try adding this in your page's header:
<base href="/" />
or change all of your links to absolute URLs. This issue is most likely that your links are all relative, and when you try to request a URL like:
http://yourdomain.com/Gallery/Render
The relative URI base becomes /Gallery/ instead of / (which is what it is if you access /contact.php directly). And when the browser tries to resolve all the relative links on the page, it uses the wrong URI base.
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My .htaccess looks like this:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(?:css|js|jpe?g|gif|png)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^VIN/(.*)/(.*)/ index.php?action=vin&view=$1&vin=$2
I can go to my url (foo.com) and it works just fine. However, if I go to foo.com/VIN/vinDetails/12345, I get a 404 error.
I'm new to the URL re-write, and have looked everywhere to try and figure this out, but I keep coming up short.
You can make trailing slash optional:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(?:css|js|jpe?g|gif|png)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^VIN/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ index.php?action=vin&view=$1&vin=$2 [L,QSA,NC]
css/js loading is due to your use of relative paths. Make sure path of these files start either with http:// or a slash /.
Otherwise You can add this just below <head> section of your page's HTML: <base href="/" /> so that every relative URL is resolved from that base URL and not from the current page's URL.
I would like to change the URL structure of my site. My current URL structure is like this:
www.domain.com/events/events.php?location=san%20francisco
I want to change the URL structure to:
www.domain.com/events/san-francisco
My XMPL site map has the URLs listed like the first example. I want the search engines to index the URL like the second example. What are all the things I need to do to achieve this? The {city} in the location parameter is dynamic depending on the user's IP address. Do I need to change my XML sitemap to list new URL structure? What do I need to put in my .htaccess file. Do I need to change the actual URLs links on my website to the new structure or can I just use .htaccess?
This should work:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|POST)\ /events\.php\?location=(.*)%20(.*)\ HTTP
RewriteRule ^ /events/%2-%3\? [R=302,L]
RewriteRule ^events/(.*)$ /events.php?location=$1 [L]
Changing R=302 to R=301 when you know it redirect correctly
EDIT:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|POST)\ /(.*)/(.*)\.php\?location=(.*)%20(.*)&lid=(.*)&slid=(.*)\ HTTP
RewriteRule ^ /%3/%4-%5/%6/%7\? [R=302,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ /$1/$1.php?location=$2&lid=$3&slid=$4 [L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|POST)\ /(.*)/(.*)\.php\?location=(.*)%20(.*)\ HTTP
RewriteRule ^ /%3/%4-%5\? [R=302,L]
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)/([A-Za-z0-9]+)$ /$1/$1.php?location=$2 [L]
You have to use a .htaccess file similar to the one below. It will match fancy URL and forward the request to the right php file.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/(.*)$ /$1/$1.php?location=$2
With this, both www.domain.com/events/events.php?location=san%20francisco and www.domain.com/events/san-francisco will lead to the same page.
But if you don't change your sitemap nor the links on your site, search engines won't know that.
You have then 2 solutions :
change all your links in your site and sitemap with the new structure URL
use a redirect rule to redirect "old" pages to the "new" ones
From what I know about SEO, the first option is the best. Or even better, a combination of both solutions : change all your links, and use a redirect 301 rule so pages already indexed by search engines will not lost their ranking and to avoid duplicate content.
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/(.*).php?location=(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1/$3 [R=301]
I'd like to redirect all outside visitors to a holding page whilst allowing all internal users to see the whole site.
I have the following
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^1.1.1.1
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/holding-page/index.php$
RewriteRule .* /holding-page/index.php [R=302,L]
Which does what I want but the holding page won't pull through any styling or images.
Does anyone know who I'd achieve this?
That is due to the use of relative links on your holding page.
Insert one more rule to fix that:
RewriteRule ^holding/(.+?\.(?:jpe?g|gif|bmp|png|tiff|css|js))$ /$1 [L,NC,R=301]
If that doesn't fix the problem you can adapt these:
use absolute path in your css, js, images files rather than a relative one. Which means you have to make sure path of these files start either with http:// or a slash /.
You can add this in your page's HTML header: <base href="/" />
I managed to resolve by allowing access to the /holding-page/ directory with the following rule
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/holding-page/
I want to get rid of the www. before my website name, so I tried setting a canonical URL tag in the files, but it didn't redirect me to http://blablabla.tk when I typed www.blablabla.tk
I tried this code: <link rel="canonical" href="http://blablabla.tk" />
Do I have to change something in the .htaccess file or something?
Yes, add this to the top of the htaccess file in your document root:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.blablabla.tk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://blablabla.tk/$1 [L,R=301]
The "canonical" link that you have tells clients like search engine indexing bots which version of the page is the "preferred" version. It doesn't actually redirect anything.
I'm trying to change this URL:
domain.com/?ACT=52&id=28
to this one:
domain.com/site.html
I want to replace the last segment ?ACT=52&id=28 to site.html. There are no parameters to consider. The URL domain.com/?ACT=52&id=28 will always be the same.
Try putting this in the htaccess file in your document root:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^ACT=52&id=28$
RewriteRule ^/?$ /site.html [L]
This makes it so when someone goes to domain.com/?ACT=52&id=28, they get served the content at domain.com/site.html, but if you to change the URL that's in the browser's URL address bar, you need to REDIRECT, not internally rewrite, so add the redirect flag in the square brackets: [L,R]