Lets say I want users to be able to type this url in:
www.website.com/blog/2453/I-gained-0.1%-more-scripting-knowledge-!
I'm trying to include title information in the url for seo benefits.
I also want to include an id for my query. Effectively I want to pick up the id and ignore the title stuff that comes after, bearing in mind its user generated text so could contain any special characters in it.
How can I write a .htaccess rewrite rule so that the server reads it as the following with the appropriate GET data:
www.website.com/blog.php?id=2453
This is what I have tried but frankly I am way out of my depth here:
RewriteRule ^blog/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ blog.php?id=$1 [NC,L]
The rewrite rule you are using should work except for the ., %, and ! characters that are in your URL. The % characters is not safe to use in URLs because it has a special meaning in the URL syntax. I wouldn't use exclamation points either.
If the ID is always going to be numeric, use ([0-9]+) instead of ([A-Za-z0-9-]+).
Try this URL:
www.website.com/blog/2453/I-gained-0.1-more-scripting-knowledge
With this rule:
RewriteRule ^blog/([0-9]+)/[A-Za-z0-9\-\.]+/?$ blog.php?id=$1 [NC,L]
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Can anybody advise how I can rewrite the following URL:
www.mydomain.com/products.php?product=product-name
At the moment, it works fine (I use $_GET to grab the unique product name and use it on my page) but I would like to be able to use the following URL format to get the same outcome:
www.mydomain.com/products/product-name
I've seen a few similar examples on here but cannot get them to work with my situation.
This is how your .htaccess will look like,
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^products/([A-Za-z0-9-]+) /products.php?product=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteEngine On this is used to turn on the rewrite engine.
^products/([A-Za-z0-9-]+) matches the URL like (www.mydomain.com/products.php?product=product-name) where product name can be one or more of any combination of letters, numbers and hyphens.
And use that combination of letters in /products.php?product=$1 where $1 denotes the Product name.
I'm basically just trying to have a master syntax for predictable URLs. Simple URL is no problem
RewriteEngine on
# RewriteRule ^friendlyUrl/content/?$ /index.php?app=main&module=content
Which to my understanding looks for the url structure and allows 1 or 0 trailing "/"'s
But some parts of the website have a /urlPrefix/ to access, eg. mysite.com/membersArea/
and /membersArea/ will be apart of every query there. I'm having trouble accomodating for trailing ?s and &s in URLs like these.
RewriteRule ^secureUrl/\?(.*)$ /index.php?app=admin&$1
This is my attempt to handle everything from mysite.com/secureUrl/ to mysite.com/secureUrl/?var1=foo&var2=bar and after many server errors and a search, I find myself here.
This is the most complex line I have and between you and me, I couldn't tell you exactly what's happening other than it looks for /friendlyUrl/10DIGITKEY/(possible task)/?possiblevars=foo&var2=bar
RewriteRule ^friendlyUrl/([a-zA-Z0-9]{10})/?([a-z]*)/?\??(.*)$ /index.php?app=main&module=web&id=$1&$2&$3
Htaccess has always been my weakest subject, and as a webmaster I pay the price constantly, any help would be appreciated.
Need to input the same request to the PHP file (plus ANY query with or without ? or &) whether its just /friendlyUrl/ or /friendyUrl/?var=1, /friendlyUrl/&var=1, /friendlyUrl/var=1
You're looking to keep the query string of your request URI to remain as is, or to be included in the rewritten URL after the rewrite process is done.
For this purpose, you use the QSA flag in your RewriteRule directive. So, to rewrite /friendlyUrl/10DIGITKEY/(possible task)/?possiblevars=foo&var2=bar, you'd have:
RewriteRule ^friendlyUrl/([a-z\d]{10})/([^/]*)/?$ /index.php?app=main&module=web&id=$1&task=$2 [QSA]
Notice the QSA flag at the end. Also, keep in mind that I'm passing the second match (the possible task of your URL) as another variable (named task). This variable will be empty if nothing was found.
QSA|qsappend
When the replacement URI contains a query string, the default behavior
of RewriteRule is to discard the existing query string, and replace it
with the newly generated one. Using the [QSA] flag causes the
query strings to be combined.
I am designing a News Website using joomla 2.5
I want rewrite this url:
http://domain.com/categoryname/?format=feed&type=rss
to:
http://domain.com/rss/categoryname
Note: I'm using mode_rewrite .htaccess for joomla.
please help me quickly.
thanks to every body in this site.
Apache's mod_rewrite allows you to transform a url to a different url utilizing regex patterns.
The pattern applies to the path and allows you to do your in your example write a regex pattern like /rss/(.+) which will match anything beginning with /rss/ and has at least one character after. The parenthesis are called a capturing group and you can reference that in the second parameter in the RewriteRule directive.
The second part /$1/?format=feed&type=rss, references the first captured group in the pattern and places it in the new url.
Finally you want to signify that it is the last rule to be processed with an [L] flag.
This gives you a rule of:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule /rss/(.+) /$1/?format=feed&type=rss [L]
If you intend to pass query strings to this new url, you will need to add an additional flag QSA which will result in [L,QSA] in place of [L].
I'm trying to build a website that may be called from the URL bar with any one of the following examples:
domainname.com/en
domainname.com/zh-cn/
domainname.com/fr/page1
domainname.com/ru/dir1/page2
domainname.com/jp/dir1/page2/
domainname.com/es-mx/dir1/dir2/page3.html
These page requests need to hit my .htaccess template and ultimately be converted into this php call:
/index.php?lng=???&tpl=???
I've been trying to make RewriteCond and RewriteRule code that will safely deal with the dynamic nature of the URLs I'm trying to take in but totally defeated. I've read close to 50 different websites and been working on this for almost a week now but I have no idea what I'm doing. I don't even know if I should be using a RewriteCond. Here is my last attempt at making a RewriteRule myself:
RewriteRule ^(([a-z]{2})(-[a-z]{2})?)([a-z0-9-\./]*) /index.php?lng=$1&tpl=$4 [QSA,L,NC]
Thanks for any help,
Vince
What's causing your loop is that your regex pattern matching /index.php. Why? Let's take a look:
First, the prefix is stripped because these are rules in an htaccess file, so the URI after the first rewrite is: index.php (query string is separate)
The beginning of your regex: ^(([a-z]{2})(-[a-z]{2})?), matches in in the URI
The next bit of your regex: ([a-z0-9-\./]*) matches dex.php. Thus the rule matches and gets applied again, and will continue to get applied until you've reached the internal recursion limit.
Your URL structure:
domainname.com/en
domainname.com/zh-cn/
domainname.com/fr/page1
domainname.com/ru/dir1/page2
domainname.com/jp/dir1/page2/
domainname.com/es-mx/dir1/dir2/page3.html
Either has a / after the country code or nothing at all, so you need to account for that:
# here -------------------v
^(([a-z]{2})(-[a-z]{2})?)(/([a-z0-9-\./]*))?$
# and an ending match here ------------^
You shouldn't need to change anything else:
RewriteRule ^(([a-z]{2})(-[a-z]{2})?)(/([a-z0-9-\./]*))?$ /index.php?lng=$1&tpl=$4 [QSA,L,NC]
Is there any way to hide part of a Url via mod_rewrite. I am currently using part of the url, .htm, to split the page that is being requested and the query string.
Example
http://www.example.com/page/article/single.htm/articleid=8
This would let me know that the page requested is:
http://www.example.com/page/article/single
And the quest string is:
article=8
Ideally i would like the have this to work the same url without the .htm visible
http://www.example.com/page/article/single/articleid=8
The number of variables in the query sting varies as does the number of levels before the .htm so the rule would need to be dynamic
Thanks
To also do multiple querystring parameters, how do you want it to look? I started with this, which keeps this simple, then got trickier below.
http://www.example.com/page/article/single/articleid=8&anothervar=abc
Try this rule:
RewriteRule ^([^=]+)/(.+)$ $1.htm?$2 [NC,L]
This handles one or more querystring parameters, but does require at least one. This looks for anything without an = up to a slash, then everything else. Basically, it uses the = as the indicator of the path vs. the querystring portions; but actually splits it on the slash. (The NC is a habit of mine; not needed in this case, but when I leave it out I forget it when it's needed.)
To let querystrings be optional, so it could handle just
http://www.example.com/page/article/single
I found it easiest with two rules, instead of trying to mingle this into one rule:
RewriteRule ^([^=]+)$ $1.htm [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^([^=]+)/(.+)$ $1.htm?$2 [NC,L]
You can do something even prettier, using slashes for everything including multiple querystring parameters, like this:
http://www.example.com/page/article/single/articleid=8/anothervar=abc
It's a little hairy, but I think this works (couldn't let it go...)
Another rule handles replacing the slashes with ampersands, then doing the rewrite as above. This was easier to keep straight - maybe there's a way to do it all at once, but this was tricky enough for me:
RewriteRule ^([^=]+)$ $1.htm [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^([^=]+)/([^=]+=[^/]+)/([^=]+=.+)$ $1/$2&$3 [NC,LP]
RewriteRule ^/([^=]+)/(.+)$ /$1.htm?$2 [NC,L]
The first rule is as above, handling no querystrings at all. That just gets it out of the way.
The second rule is a loop LP, which is what I tend to find in examples whenever you have an unknown number of replacements. In this case, it's replacing the last querystring-slash with an ampersand, and looping until there's only one left (leaving that for the question mark in the third rule).
It's looking for the last one of these articleid=8/anothervar=abc where there are two parameters left. It replaces the slash with an ampersand like articleid=8&anothervar=abc
In words, it's looking for (and capturing in parentheses):
(not-equalsign) slash (not-equalsign equalsign not-slash) slash (not-equalsign equalsign anything)
This lines up as:
(not-equalsign) /page/article/single
slash /
(not-equalsign equalsign not-slash) articleid = 8
slash /
(not-equalsign equalsign anything) anothervar = abc
It replaces the last slash with an ampersand, and after looping, turns it into the first draft above: http://www.example.com/page/article/single/articleid=8&anothervar=abc . The third rule handles this as described above.
A note: These also assume all your urls will look like this, since they're going to tack on .htm to everything. If you want still allow explicit /something/page.htm then these rules would need to not-match on .htm if it's already there - something like that. Or maybe an initial rule up front that looks for .htm and just stops rewriting there. Or maybe only do this for the /page paths.