I am looking and looking and coming up with all different patterns, but no such luck. I require a rewrite rule to handle the a replacement of a string xyzlisting with xyz-listing. It may be anywhere in the url. Is there a straightforward way to write this rule?
I am not so experienced with IIS. However, I can suggest something:
In Apache mod_rewrite, you can use this rule:
RewriteRule (.*)(/\w+)(listing)(.*)$ $1$2-$3$4
This rule will split whatever string in the format anything followed by 'listing' that comes after mydomain.com/ with a '-'. Which results in 'anything-listing', wherever in the URL.
This will only change the last occurrence of this type of string. It will not replace more than one occurrence.
You can import this URl rewrite rule from Apache to IIS using this IIS extension:
IIS Extenson page for url rewrite module
Hope this helps :)
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I am a real noob in IIS URL rewrite module.
I want to rewrite all requests of
127.0.0.1/Content/[anything may come here]
to
127.0.0.1:7078/Content/[anything may come here]
I am very bad in regular expressions and I do not know how to do this
I tried using the wildcard feature in URL Rewrite module and did this:
Requested URL matches the pattern using wildcards
127.0.0.1/Scripts/*
then rewrite to
127.0.0.1:7078/Scripts/*
(Action Type is Rewrite)
I am attached a screenshot. I am not sure I am doing this the right way, because it is not working.
1/ You don't need the host part in the Match URL Pattern : /Scripts/* should work.
2/ If you want to match the wildcard in the Match URL Pattern to the Rewrite URL, you'll have to use something like {R:0} in the Rewrite URL. For example 127.0.0.1:7078/Scripts/{R:0}.
3/ I'm not sure you can rewrite to a different port. If rewrites does not work, try Redirect as Action Type instead.
If you want to hide port 7078, you might need to use Application Request Routing (Reverse Proxy).
Sources : http://www.iis.net/learn/extensions/url-rewrite-module/creating-rewrite-rules-for-the-url-rewrite-module & http://forums.iis.net/t/1165389.aspx?URL+Rewrite+to+specific+port
Is it possible to rewrite/redirect a url such as this:
http://example.com?id=123&id=123
To instead be:
http://example.com?id=123
The actual reason for doing this is a bug in code, but a URL rewrite/redirect would be a quick workaround.
Didn't realize it was possible to add a condition for {QUERY_STRING} that matches the pattern id=(.*)&id=.* and then just redirect to http://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:0}?id={C:1}
I have found that there are some people with bad syntax links to our articles.
For example, we have an article with URL
http://www.oursite.com/demo/article-179.html
The issue is that lot of people have linked back to this article with bad syntax such as
http://www.oursite.com/demo/article-179.html%5Cohttp:/www.oursite.com/demo/glossary.php
Now, I added the following ReWrite Rule in the .htaccess file to take care of such links.
RewriteRule article-179\.html(.*)$ "http\:\/\/www\.oursite\.com\/demo\/article-179\.html [301,L]
But this has resulted in a Redirect Loop message. How can we fix this issue via htaccess rewrite rule. Basically, we need something in our rewrite rule that works only when there is one or more characters after the .html. If not, then it should not redirect.
Any help would be highly appreciated!
With best regards!
Use + instead of *. * matches zero or more, which causes the pattern to match for the redirected path too, + instead matches one or more.
Also you should make the pattern as precise as possible, ie don't just check whether it ends with article-179.html, better check for the full path. And if this all happens on the same domain, then there's no need to use the absolute URL for the redirect.
There's also no need for escaping the substitution parameter like you did, it's treated as a simple string except for:
back-references ($N) to the RewriteRule pattern
back-references (%N) to the last matched RewriteCond pattern
server-variables as in rule condition test-strings (%{VARNAME})
mapping-function calls (${mapname:key|default})
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule
Long story short, theoretically this should do it:
RewriteRule ^demo/article-179\.html(.+)$ /demo/article-179.html [R=301,L]
or this if you really need the absolute URL:
RewriteRule ^demo/article-179\.html(.+)$ http://www.oursite.com/demo/article-179.html [R=301,L]
I am trying to figure out how to use the ampersand symbol in an url.
Having seen it here: http://www.indeed.co.uk/B&Q-jobs I wish to do something similar.
Not exactly sure what the server is going to call when the url is accessed.
Is there a way to grab a request like this with .htaccess and rewrite to a specific file?
Thanks for you help!
Ampersands are commonly used in a query string. Query strings are one or more variables at the end of the URL that the page uses to render content, track information, etc. Query strings typically look something like this:
http://www.website.com/index.php?variable=1&variable=2
Notice how the first special character in the URL after the file extension is a ?. This designates the start of the query string.
In your example, there is no ?, so no query string is started. According to RFC 1738, ampersands are not valid URL characters except for their designated purposes (to link variables in a query string together), so the link you provided is technically invalid.
The way around that invalidity, and what is likely happening, is a rewrite. A rewrite informs the server to show a specific file based on a pattern or match. For example, an .htaccess rewrite rule that may work with your example could be:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?B&Q-(.*)$ /scripts/b-q.php?variable=$1 [NC,L]
This rule would find any URL's starting with http://www.indeed.co.uk/B&Q- and show the content of http://www.indeed.co.uk/scripts/b-q.php?variable=jobs instead.
For more information about Apache rewrite rules, check out their official documentation.
Lastly, I would recommend against using ampersands in URLs, even when doing rewrites, unless they are part of the query string. The purpose of an ampersand in a URL is to string variables together in a query string. Using it out of that purpose is not correct and may cause confusion in the future.
A URI like /B&Q-jobs gets sent to the server encoded like this: /B%26Q-jobs. However, when it gets sent through the rewrite engine, the URI has already been decoded so you want to actually match against the & character:
Rewrite ^/?B&Q-jobs$ /a/specific/file.html [L]
This makes it so when someone requests /B&Q-jobs, they actually get served the content at /a/specific/file.html.
I need ur help for given subject.
I am playing with htaccess rules first time in life.
here is the scene -
i want to redirect the urls -
http://www.abc.com/var1
http://www.abc.com/var2
to follwing urls -
http://www.abc.com/index.php?u=var1
http://www.abc.com/index.php?u=var2
In this case the values var1 & var2 can be anything (i.e. string which will contain only alphanumeric characters.)
One more thing -
I want to skip this rule if the url is -
http://www.abc.com/SKIPME
Please help me to write this rule!
Regards,
Shahu!
You would be better off defining a URI schema that tells you when something WILL be rewritten. For example...
http://www.abc.com/site/var1
http://www.abc.com/site/var2
That way, you can ensure you only ever apply the rule if the psuedo "site/" directory is browsed and not affect any other URI. This is the rewrite rule based on the above schema.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^site/([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?u=$1 [L,NC,QSA]
Any other address, other than "/site/.../" would be unaffected by this rule, which means you don't need to worry about setting some addresses to be avoided. This keeps things as simple as possible.
You don't have to use "site" - you can use whatever name fits your purpose.