I have an htaccess file with several redirects, Now I want to create a pretty url for some link. I tried the following sentence and it does nothing:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/example1.html /?page_id=100 [NC]
When I type www.MyDomain.com/?page_id=100 in my browser, the site shows, but the url still looks the same as I typed it. How would I change my sentence to show example.html in the url-bar instead of ?page_id=100 ?
Thanks in advance
You have a rule that says:
When the browser requests: /example1.html
Then show them: /?page_id=100
It goes one way, it doesn't do anything if the browser requests /?page_id=100. If you want to do something about a browser requesting the query string URL, *you need a rule to tell mod_rewrite to do it*:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /(index\.php)?\?page_id=100($|\ |&)&?([^\ ]*)
RewriteRule ^ /example1.html?%3 [L,R=301]
Also, you may want to get rid of the / in the pattern of your rule:
RewriteRule ^example1.html /?page_id=100 [NC]
Leading slashes are stripped off when matching against rules in an htaccess file.
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I have about 100 urls which are like these:
http://example.com/en/contact-us
http://example.com/en/about-us
When the someone clicks on any of them, it should the same page but with a parameter that has been appended
for example :
http://example.com/en/contact-us?language=en
How would i go to solve this? I am tring to write something generic that will do the job for the 100 urls i have.
This is what i have got :
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /en/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}/?language=en
Internal redirection: URL in the browser doesn't change
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?([a-z]+)/([^/]+)/? $1/$2?language=$1 [L]
External redirection: URL in the browser changes to new URL
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?([a-z]+)/([^/]+)/? $1/$2?language=$1 [R=301,L]
Please try this
I think you may have forgotten to put a .php file extension at the end?
This will match any two-letter language folder followed by another directory, as long as there is no period.
RewriteRule ^/(\w\w)/([^/]+)/?$ $1/$2.php?language=$1
Be sure to test it with your URLs at regex101.
I am quite sure that this is the right way, but it's not working. I'm trying to rewrite this
domain.com/halloo/wp-content/uploads/image.jpg
to
domain.com/wp-content/uploads/image.jpg
using this in the .htaccess
RewriteRule ^/halloo/wp-content/(.*)$ /wp-content/$1 [R=301,L]
I can't figure out why it's not working.
The regex targets for rewrite rules in htaccess files won't start with a /, which means your rule will never match (because there's never a request that starts with /).
Also, your rule takes the request /halloo/wp-content/foo and redirects the browser to /wp-content/foo. If you want to rewrite it internally so that /halloo/wp-content/foo remains in the URL address bar, remove the R=301, part from the flags.
RewriteRule ^halloo/wp-content/(.*)$ /wp-content/$1 [L]
This means you must request domain.com/halloo/wp-content/uploads/image.jpg in the browser. If you actually wanted it the other way around, just swap the "from regex" and the "to URI":
RewriteRule ^wp-content/(.*)$ /halloo/wp-content/$1 [L]
Edit:
To get rid of the /halloo/ from the browser's address bar, you need something like this:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /+halloo/wp-content([^ \?]+)
RewriteRule ^ /wp-content$%1 [L,R]
At the moment we have one page which shows a list of links
each link has got its own ID number
each link gets opened with the file info.php?ID=X
for example:
www.mysite.com/info.php?ID=1 shows the link "weather italy"
www.mysite.com/info.php?ID=2 shows the link "weather france"
Since we have several links for "weather italy" and "weather france" we would like to rewrite new urls (weather-italy and weather-france) in .htacces
Whith the new urls we would have the folowing structure:
www.mysite.com/weather-italy/info.php?ID=1
www.mysite.com/weather-france/info.php?ID=2
With the following code we tell the server to rewrite the urls and call the original file:
RewriteRule ^weather-italy/info.php?$ info.php [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^weather-france/info.php?$ info.php [NC,L]
This works fine.
To avoid double indexing we want to redirect 301 the old link to the new link.
We have achieved that with the following code:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \?ID=1
RewriteRule ^info\.php$ http://www.touristinfo.fr/weather-italy/info\.php [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \?ID=2
RewriteRule ^info\.php$ http://www.touristinfo.fr/weather-france/info\.php [L,R=301]
This also does the job but combined with the first part of the script is produces a never ending loop.
What is wrong with our code?
Thanks a lot for your help :)
%{THE_REQUEST} is supposed to only match if the url you want to match is an external request. Your problem is that the regex you made is not specific enough.
Let's examine what happens. You go to example.com/info.php?ID=2. The first two rules don't match, but the 4th one does. You end up with a redirect to example.com/weather-france/info.php?ID=2.
This goes through your .htaccess again. The second rule matches, and internally rewrites it to info.php?ID=2. The [L] flag doesn't make a difference here, because the url will be pulled through .htaccess until it stops changing. On the second cycle through .htaccess, the url will now match the 4th rule, even though the external request contained /weather-france/info.php?ID=2. ID=2 is in the external request too, and the internal rewrite is now info.php again.
The fix is to make %{THE_REQUEST} match enough so that the rewritten url doesn't match it anymore.
On a further note: Familiar yourself with the difference between regex and strings in RewriteRules and RewriteConds. You escaped a dot in a string, while leaving a dot in a regex unescaped. The ? is "match the previous character 0 or 1 times", not a question mark literal. The query string cannot be matched in the first argument of RewriteRule.
You'll end up with:
RewriteRule ^weather-italy/info\.php$ info.php [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^weather-france/info\.php$ info.php [NC,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|POST)\ /info\.php\?ID=1
RewriteRule ^info\.php$ http://example.com/weather-italy/info.php [L,R]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|POST)\ /info\.php\?ID=2
RewriteRule ^info\.php$ http://example.com/weather-france/info.php [L,R]
I've taken my site down for some prolonged maintenance and am using mod_rewrite to send all requests to a single page: www.mysite.com/temp/503.php
This is my .htaccess file which works fine.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/temp/503.php [NC]
RewriteRule .* /temp/503.php [R,L]
However, what I'd also like to be able to do is to hide /temp/503.php in the resulting URL from the visitor.
I know this is perhaps trivial and I'm sure fairly simple to achieve, but with my limited mod_rewrite skills I can't seem to get it to work.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Just get rid of the R flag in the rewrite rule, which tells the rule to redirect the request, thus changing the URL in the browser's location bar. So the rule would look like:
RewriteRule .* /temp/503.php [L]
which internally rewrites the requested URI instead of externally telling the browser that it's been moved to a new URL.
I need to redirect
/search?keywords=somesearchterm
to
/search/somesearchterm
This seems incredibly basic but I've been pounding my head against it for an hour.
Thanks for taking the time to look at this.
You want to implement what is called a "301 Redirect" with mod_rewrite.
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ^/search\?keywords=somesearchterm$ /search/somesearchterm
adding regular expressions:
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ^/search\?keywords=(.+) /search/$1 [R=301,L]
R=301 means provide a 301 Header redirect so the user's URL changes in the browser, and L means don't process any more rewrite rules if this one matches.
If you want to do the reverse -- in other words, if someone goes to mysite.com/search/asearchterm and you want the URL to stay the same, but "behind the scenes" you want it to load a certain server script, do this:
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ^/search/(.+) /search.php\?keywords=$1 [L]
You can not match aginst Query string in RewriteRule directive. Use %{THE_REQUEST} or %{QUERY_STRING} server variables to match the Query string :
The following rule works fine for this redirection
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/search\?kewords=([^&\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /search/%1? [NE,NC,R,L]
RewriteRule ^search/([^/]+)/?$ /search?keyword=$1 [QSA,NC,L]