I am a newbie here. I am trying to clean up my links. I made an attempt looking at some of the answers here. I am sure I am not even close....!Can you please help me with this?
Currently my link structure is this...
xyz.com/viewgallery.php?cname=Colorado-Fall&pcaption=Touched-By-Light
But I would like the viewer to see this link xyz.com/viewgallery/Colorado-Fall/Touched-By-Light ( This means redirect?)
Then rewrite back to my link. ( ?? This is how I understand it)...
So I wrote...
check if the actual request if for "this1"
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /viewgallery.php\?cname=(.*)&pcaption=(.+)
# redirect to "this2"
RewriteRule ^viewgallery\.php /%1/%2/?%3 [R=301,L]
# now rewrite "this2" back to "this1"
RewriteRule ^(.*?)/(.+)$ /viewgallery.php?cname=$1&pcaption=$2 [L,QSA]
Is this correct? I am sure it looks like gibberish ..sorry about that!...
Thanks for your help..
Enable mod_rewrite and .htaccess through httpd.conf and then put this code in your .htaccess under DOCUMENT_ROOT directory:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# externally redirect /viewgallery.php?cname=Colorado-Fall&pcaption=Touched-By-Light to
# /viewgallery/Colorado-Fall/Touched-By-Light to
# RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+(viewgallery)\.php\?cname=([^&]+)&pcaption=([^&\s]+) [NC]
# RewriteRule ^ /%1/%2/%3? [L,R=301,NE]
# internally forward /viewgallery/Colorado-Fall/Touched-By-Light to
# /viewgallery.php?cname=Colorado-Fall&pcaption=Touched-By-Light
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1.php -f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /$1.php?cname=$2&pcaption=$3 [L,QSA]
Explanation:
Rule 1 is for external redirect to make your URL pretty
It captures "viewgallery" and parameter cname and pcaption's values in %1, %2, %3
Thereafter these captured variables are used to create pretty URL /viewgallery/%2/%3
Rule 2 is for internal forward
From URL: /viewgallery/Colorado-Fall/Touched-By-Light it captures 3 variables: "viewgallery", "Colorado-Fall" and "Touched-By-Light" into $1, $2, $3
Captured variables are used to construct real URL: /viewgallery.php?cname=$2&pcaption=$3
UPDATE:
# /viewgallery.php?cname=Colorado-Fall&pcaption=Poked to /photos/Colorado-Fall/Poked.jpg
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+viewgallery\.php\?cname=([^&])+&pcaption=([^&\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /photos/%1/%2.jpg? [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^photos/([^/]+)/([^.]+)\.jpg$ /viewgallery.php?cname=$1&pcaption=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
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I tried some of the other answers I could find in here, but it didn't work out. It's really simple though.
I want
/page?id=PAGENAME
to be accessible AND redirected to
/PAGENAME
Can you help me?
EDIT:
It feels like my already messed-up .htaccess file needs to be included in here. I already have basic rewriting enabled, but this feature is needed for two other "special pages". In the requested solution above, I would therefore just replace "page" with the two pagenames (it's danish names, so I thought it was easier this way).
Currently I have this. If you have any improvements to it, it's appreciated - but I just want this to work with the requested solution aswell.
# Options -Multiviews -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Always on https
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]
# remove trailing slash
#RewriteRule ^(.*)\/(\?.*)?$ $1$2 [R=301,L]
#301 Redirect everything .php to non php
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /([^.]+\.)+php?\ HTTP
RewriteRule (.+)\.php?$ http://MYURL.dk/$1 [R=301,L]
#Hide the .php from url
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php
#301 Redirect everything mistype after file extension -
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
#301 Redirect everything to current url -
RedirectMatch permanent /(.*).php/.* http://MYURL.dk/$1.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -D
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/ [L]
#301 Redirect from non www to www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.MYURL.dk [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://MYURL.dk/$1 [R=301,L]
#301 redirect index.php to /
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} index.php
RewriteRule .* http://MYURL.dk/ [R=301,L]
#Deny access to songs
RewriteCond $1 !(loadmedia)\.php
RewriteRule ^songs/(.*)$ - [L,F]
Generally the URL in address bar should be like
www.siteurl.com/pagename/ for seo purpose and then read this url from .htaccess using rule which gives this query string parameter values in your php file.
.htaccess rule can be like
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /page?id=$1 [QSA,L]
It looks like you are wanting to implement "friendly" (or "pretty") URLs, making the URLs more friendly for you users (search engines don't really mind what your URLs look like).
The first step is to change all your on-page links to use the new "friendly" URL. So, you links should all be of the form /pagename (not /page?id=PAGENAME).
Then, in .htaccess, you need to internally rewrite this "friendly" URL into the real URL that your server understands. This can be done using mod_rewrite. In the .htaccess file in your document root:
# Enable the rewrite engine
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
# Rewrite the "friendly" URL back to the real URL
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^id=
RewriteRule ^([\w-]*) /page?id=$1 [L]
If the file does not exist (!-f) and does not contain the id URL param then internally rewrite the request from /<pagename> to /page?id=<pagename>. This assumes your <pagename> consists only of the characters a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _ and -.
If this is a new site and the old URLs are not already indexed or referenced by external sites then you can stop here.
However, if you are changing an existing URL structure then you also need to externally redirect the real (ugly) URL to the "friendly" URL before the above internal rewrite. (This is actually what you are asking in your question.) In order to prevent a rewrite loop we can check against %{THE_REQUEST} (which does not change when the URL is rewritten).
# Redirect real URLs to "friendly" URLs
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \?id=([\w-]*)
RewriteRule ^page$ /%1? [R=302,L]
Change the 302 (temporary) to 301 (permanent) when you are sure this is working OK. Permanent redirects are cached by the browser so can make testing a problem.
So, in summary, with the above two parts shown together:
# Enable the rewrite engine
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
# Redirect real URLs to "friendly" URLs
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \?id=([\w-]*)
RewriteRule ^page$ /%1? [R=302,L]
# Rewrite the "friendly" URL back to the real URL
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^id=
RewriteRule ([\w-]*) /page?id=$1 [L]
The order of directives is important. External redirects should nearly always come before internal rewrites.
UPDATE#1:
I want /concept?id=NAME to go to /NAME and /studio?id=NAME to go to /NAME - there's 5-10 different "pages" from both concept and studio. [Corrected according to later comment]
Since id=NAME maps to /NAME you can achieve all 10-20 redirects with just a single rule:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=(NAME|foo|bar|baz|abc|def|ghi)
RewriteRule ^(concept|studio)$ /%1? [R,L]
This will redirect a URL such as /studio?id=foo to /foo.
As with all external redirects this should be one of the first rules in your .htaccess file.
Change R to R=301 when you have tested that it is working OK.
To make this more "dynamic", ie. match any "NAME" then change the CondPattern, for example:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([\w-]*)
UPDATE#2:
If the path part of the URL (ie. concept or studio) is required then you can modify the RewriteRule substitution like so:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([\w-]*)
RewriteRule ^(concept|studio)$ /$1/%1? [R,L]
Which will redirect /concept?id=foo to /concept/foo.
Or, to be completely "dynamic" (bearing in mind this will now capture anything):
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([\w-]*)
RewriteRule ^([\w-]+)$ /$1/%1? [R,L]
I have my htaccess file setup, so that the pages remove extensions. Now, I am trying to make the pages that transfer variables, into SEO friendly urls ... so, for example...
http://www.example.com/art-gallery?page=2 ... which is actually "art-gallery.php?page=2", would turn into... http://www.example.com/art-gallery/page/2
Or... http://www.example.com/art-piece?id=3 ...would go to... http://www.example.com/art-piece/id/3
... and so on ...
I have alot in my htaccess file, and am not sure how to do the above (there are plenty of tutorials on going from www.example.com/index.php?page=2 to www.example.com/page/2/ but none that do exactly what I need). Ideally, I'd like to be able to do this for all similar pages...
# enable the rewrite engine
RewriteEngine On
# Set your root directory
RewriteBase /
# Force www:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]
# Remove the .php extension
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ (.*)\.php\ HTTP
RewriteRule (.*)\.php$ $1 [R=301]
# Remove index and reference the directory
RewriteRule (.*)/index$ $1/ [R=301]
# Remove trailing slash if not a directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /$
RewriteRule (.*)/ $1 [R=301]
# Forward request to html file, **but don't redirect (bot friendly)**
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule (.*) $1\.php [L]
# Disable Directory Browsing
Options -Indexes
# Disable Hotlinking of Images
# with forbidden or custom image option
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?example.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?google.com [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ – [NC,F,L]
# Protect htaccess File
<files ~ "^.*\.([Hh][Tt][Aa])">
order allow,deny
deny from all
satisfy all
</files>
You can transfer parameters with the variable QUERY_STRING.
Consider the following rule:
RewriteRule ^index.html index.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&m=main&a=index
This rule would transform
index.html?something=value
into
index.php?something=value&m=main&a=index
You should use the RewriteEngine.
You could also use a 301 redirect either alone or in conjunction with the RewriteEngine to redirect SEs.
Generally, though redirecting SEs to a different page than what users will see is not a good practice, and may result in your pagerank decreasing. Instead, try migrating all your pages to the second URL format, and consider using 301 redirects to help the transition.
Generally: Use 301 redirects for SE-friendly page changes. See this SO for additional reference.
You can insert this rule just before Forward request to html file rule:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/])/([^/])/([^/])/?$ $1.php?$2=$3 [L,QSA]
This is quite old but why not do the following:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^?]*) index.php?route=$1 [L,QSA]
Then in your index.php you can handle it like such;
if (isset($_GET['route'])) {
$route = explode('/', $_GET['route']);
if (iconv_strlen((end($parts)), 'UTF-8') == 0) {
array_pop($parts);
}
}
From here your main level would be handled with $route[0], second level $route[1]
For example;
http://example.com/art-gallery/2
$route[0] would equal 'art-gallery'
$route[1] would equal '2'
Been looking all over for an answer but no response found could solve my problem.
I'm using the following .htaccess file to redirect users from a site to its https version :
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
# This checks to make sure the connection is not already HTTPS
# RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/api-vop/
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L]
# This rule will redirect users from their original location, to the same location but using HTTPS.
# i.e. http://www.example.com/foo/ to https://www.example.com/foo/
# The leading slash is made optional so that this will work either in httpd.conf
# or .htaccess context
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
I have first a rule to redirect to HTTPS then a rewrite rule for classic url rewriting to replace urls like myfile.php to /my-file
Thing is I need to let one url which is http://my-server.com/api-vop go through without being redirected to https, as seen by this line :
# RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/api-vop/
Thing is I cannot get it to work, at best I'm trhown back to the index.php page.
Any solution anyone ?
Thanks in advance !
Keep your first rule as:
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
# This checks to make sure the connection is not already HTTPS
# RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !\s/+api-vop/
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L,NE]
THE_REQUEST variable represents original request received by Apache from your browser and it doesn't get overwritten after execution of some rewrite rules. Example value of this variable is GET /index.php?id=123 HTTP/1.1
I want to change my url
http://www.abc.com/search_result.php?id=110
to
http://www.abc.com/110
Here is the code which i am using.
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+search_result\.php\?id=([^\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://abc.com/%1? [R=301,L]
But the problem is, url changed to http://www.abc.com/110 , but page remain same.
Please anybody help !
One thing more i want to ask . Suppose i want to add more parameter in original url:
Say,
http://www.abc.com/search_result.php?id=110&name=amit
then what i should do to get the result.
http://www.abc.com/i-am-amit
Thanks !
You need an internal rewrite rule also for showing actual content from search_result.php"
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+search_result\.php\?id=([^&\s]+)\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://abc.com/%1? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ search_result.php?id=$1 [NC,L,QSA]
Also for http://www.abc.com/search_result.php?id=110&name=amit how do you want pretty URL to be? Keep in mind that you will need both id & name in pretty URL such as:
http://www.abc.com/110/amit
Is that how you want?
I'm having trouble with some URL rewriting.
All of the stuff below works fine, but I need to add a rule which removes querystrings from URLS.
site.com/page?a=b
will become
site.com/page
Can someone help out? I have done some reading on .htaccess but I find it terribly complex. Also, will need to know where in the file my new directives should appear.
Thanks.
# EE 404 page for missing pages
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php/404/index
# Simple 404 for missing files
ErrorDocument 404 "File Not Found"
# Rewriting will likely already be on, uncomment if it isnt
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Block access to "hidden" directories whose names begin with a period. This
# includes directories used by version control systems such as Subversion or Git.
RewriteRule "(^|/)\." - [F]
# remove the www - Uncomment to activate
#
# RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
# RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
#
# Remove the trailing slash to paths without an extension
# Uncomment to activate
#
# RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [R=301,L]
#
# Remove index.php
# Uses the "include method"
# http://expressionengine.com/wiki/Remove_index.php_From_URLs/#Include_List_Method
#
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^(ACT=.*)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5})$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(home|inc|publishers|sidebars|about|include-template|testing|advertisers|products|sitemap|style|ad-choices|social-bar|search|404||members|P[0-9]{2,8}) [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) /index.php/$1 [L]
This would remove query string from url
RewriteRule ^(.*) /index.php/$1? [L] #remove query string
Hope it helps
I'm a little late for an answer, but since i was searching for a similar behaviour, i thought i should share it: you can also add a flag to a rewrite rule to remove the query string; the flag is [QSD], and it helps avoiding workarounds like the ? at the end ;-)
Here you can find more about this flag. I feel like pointing out that "This flag is available in [Apache] version 2.4.0 and later"