Have looked through various articles both here and elsewhere but
could do with confirmation regards the way I have set up htaccess.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} orange [NC,OR]
RewriteRule .* blocked.php [L]
Can someone please confirm that given the code above that it will
block any domain, subdomain or page with the word orange in it?
It looks to be working but I need to ensure that I have covered all
bases and that I am blocking any link from or any image hotlinked from
my site where there is orange anywhere in the domain.
BTW I thought that if I have only one condition that I can leave out
the ,OR but when I removed it then it did not work in the test I was
doing??? Anyone know why this would not work without the ,OR ??
Many thanks in advance!
Can someone please confirm that given the code above that it will block any domain, subdomain or page with the word orange in it?
Yes, it will rewrite all requests to the /blocked.php script as long as "orange" is in the referer. The "Referer" header is what browsers typically include in a request letting the webserver know what page/site they were just at that linked to the resource that they're requesting. That means if there's a site called "orange.com" that has a page that links to one of your pages, and someone clicks on it, the referer will contain that orange.com page and the rules you have will block them.
You don't need the OR flag. Leaving it out works for me when the referer contains the word "orange". Just keep in mind that referers can be spoofed and it isn't a guarantee.
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I am sorry to ask this question, because the answer seemingly is so easy. However, after three hours of trial and error I am without a clue.
I have several pages on a website using parameters in the url. I would like to change that, to a more regular url. Example:
domain.com/pag.php?id=1-awesome-page should become domain.com/awesome-page
So far so good, but so far I have three problems.
1. The old page still is accessible, Google will index it as duplicated content. When I try to redirect it, I am getting infinite loop errors.
2. For whatever reason, sometimes SOME images (straight from the content) get stripped off on the newly named page. I tried playing with a base-url and renaming the images and urls, but nothing so far.
3. Also the redirect doesn't care if i'd enter id=1-awesome-page or id=2-worthless-page. It all redirects to the first one.
Among the things i've tried.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=1-awesome-page
RewriteRule ^pag\.php$ /awesome-page? [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^awesome-page?$ pag\.php?id=1 [NC]
What you want to do cannot really be done with mod_rewrite, unless you want to make a rule for every page, which will probably slow your site down quite a lot. This is, because you can't summon the 1 in 1-awesome-page out of thin air, and your pag.php page doesn't seem to be able to load the page only based on it's seo name. If you need to use that number, you need to have that number somewhere in your url.
As for your questions:
The error you mention cannot be reproduced with the current iteration of your .htaccess. You likely had an infinite loop previously, and since you use R=301 to test, the browser will cache this redirect and only request the second resource afterwards when you request the first resource. You should test with [R,L] and only change to [R=301,L] when everything works as expected. Not doing so will cause weird behaviour, and behaviour you do not expect with your .htaccess.
When you have an url a and an url b, and want to redirect a to b, and want to internally rewrite b to a, you need to make sure that any given time not both rules can be matched. You can either use the %{THE_REQUEST} trick or use the END flag. Both are outlined in this answer.
If you have a problem with resources on a page not loading after making a fancy url, you likely used relative url's. This question outlines the possibilities on how to resolve this. You can either make the url's absolute or relative to the root of your site, or use <base href="/">.
The following would work for /pag.php?id=123-news-page and /news/123/news-page.
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} pag\.php\?.*id=([^-]+)-([^&\s]+)
RewriteRule ^pag\.php$ /news/%1/%2? [L,R]
RewriteRule ^news/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ pag.php?id=$1-$2 [L]
I need to modify all requests bearing the form
http://example.com/dw2/dokuwiki/doku.php/page to
http://example.com/dw2/dokuwiki/doku.php/page?do=export_xhtml
The page bit is variable - it corresponds to each paage in the wiki. I should mention that given the way dokuwiki syntax works page could contain one or more colons. e.g. glossary:archive.
The intent here is to extract the bare page content (shorn of the header, sidebar etc) of the wiki for distribution via a CDN. This does not give a complete solution since dokuwiki still leaves in a lot of unrequired verbiage in the exported markup file but gets me most of the way there. I'd much appreciate any help with this.
Place this rule as your very first rule in /dw2/dokuwiki/.htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /dw2/dokuwiki/
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule ^(doku\.php/[^/]+)/?$ $1?do=export_xhtml [L,NC,QSA,R,NE]
I used to have a WP site that I converted to a standard html site. Problem is I found doing a google search that instead of http://www.genealogyinc.com it was returning http://www.genealogyinc.com/?page_id=21, I dont know how many pages are like this but am trying to find a htaccess workaround, all the ones I found online give me 500 server errors.
Need a rewrite for any ?page_id= cause I dont know how many other numbers are out there.
Thanks
Off the top of my head, without testing, it would be something like this.
The first line looks for the page_id querystring parameter, and if it meets it, it should pass on to the second line. The rewrite rule I have below may need some tweaking, but I hope this helps you.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} page_id=(.*)$
RewriteRule $ /? [R=301,L]
I've recently inherited a webserver whose IP previously belonged to a well known band's forums.
Problem is I'm now drowning in 404 errors!
The URLs in question look like this:
http://[server_ip]/forum/ucp.php?mode=register&coppa=0
http://[server_ip]/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=45330
http://[server_ip]/forum/index.php+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Result:+%ED%E5+%...
http://[server_ip]/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=44597&start=0
In an ideal world I would like to redirect any traffic going to /forum/ucp.php, /forum/viewtopic.php or /forum/index.php elsewhere regardless of query string.
Or anything going to /forum/.* elsewhere, if that's doable.
I've tried a number of different solutions with little success, any help appreciated.
Assuming that you want to redirect all traffic to /forum/.* to http://mysite.com/somedirectory, which you can replace with the actual URL you wish to redirect to, you can add the following to the .htaccess in the root directory of your sites domain.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
#for any request starting with forum
RewriteRule ^forum/ http://mysite.com/somedirectory? [NC,L,R=302]
Be sure to keep the ? if you want to remove the query string params from the original query. If you want to make it a permanent redirect, change the 302 to a 301.
Don't really know what you have tried so far but this site will probably help you.
http://perishablepress.com/press/2006/01/10/stupid-htaccess-tricks/#redirects
I need to redirect incoming requests for a page to a subdirectory whilst keeping the URL displayed as originally typed.
This is to manage language pages easier.
For example, I want Spanish pages to be under www.mydomain.com/es. I want the URL displayed to remain www.mydomain.com/es.
But the actual page is held here - www.mydomain.com/international/es
This means I can keep my root folder tidy and have all the language pages in one directory. But I want it to be easy for language specific visitors to find thier page.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? I've had a go but to be honest I always manage to produce server errors and get in a mess.
Many thanks
TT
Provided you are on an apache server look up mod_rewrite.
Example for your .htaccess:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^es/([0-9a-zA-Z\/]*)$ /international/es/$1 [L]