For my test I have two html pages, TEST.HTML and TEST2.HTML
TEST.HTML has a link to go to TEST2.HTML:
the link is test2.html/city/state/category
This works fine, but when the TEST2.HTML page is loaded it is showing the URL as:
test2.html?var1=city&var2=state&var3=category
I'd like the URL to be clean, and just show:
test2.html/city/state/category, and not the full URL. (does this make sense??!)
Can anyone give me some pointers on where to start? I've tried numerous different things, but it's not working.
Please let me know if you need any further info.
Here's my .htaccess file:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^test2.html/([^/.]+)/([^/.]+)/([^/.]+)?$ http:/www.mydomain.com/test2.html?var1=$1&var2=$2&var3=$3
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By including the domain in your rewrite destination, you are effectively instructing a redirect, and not a rewrite.
If you remove it, it will pass the arguments to the file instead, which is what you want:
RewriteRule ^test2.html/([^/.]+)/([^/.]+)/([^/.]+)?$ test2.html?var1=$1&var2=$2&var3=$3 [L]
I've also included the L flag, which stops rewriting if that particular rewrite has been found.
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I'm a beginner.
What I want
the request URL .../activity/1415/abcdefgh/ to be rewritten to .../activity/gallery.php?k=abcdefgh
but still display the URL to the visitor as .../activity/1415/abcdefgh/.
But when I try, the URL .../activity/1415/abcdefgh/ turned to .../activity/1415/abcdefgh/?k=abcdefgh.
The page displays fine, but I want to hide the query.
Basically what happened
Link says: http://localhost/activity/1516/iolfpqwx
Clicked link
Address bar says: http://localhost/activity/1516/iolfpqwx/?key=iolfpqwx, which I don't want.
My entire .htaccess in the activity/ directory:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(\d{4})/(\w{8,})(?:/([\w\s]+)?)?$ gallery.php?key=$2 [L,QSA,NC]
My Specs:
XAMPP on Windows with Apache
What I know
I have not setup any redirect rules on my testing server, so I don't believe I have any [R] flags.
I have a similar .htaccess in an adjacent directory with the code RewriteRule ^settings/([^/]+)/*$ index.php?p=settings&s=$1 [L,QSA,NC] and it didn't show me query strings.
I've Googled my issue, but cannot find a solution. Please help.
I have a page showing the products with the hyperlink for it as
www.domainname.com/productname
now my client needs to add store and needs the URL to show as
www.domainname.com/store/productname
I have done it via code and now when I click on it for a detail page, its still redirecting to
www.domainname.com/productname
but need to be
www.domainname.com/store/productname
tried with this:
RewriteRule ^store/?$ domianname.com/?$ [NC,L]
in .htaccess file, not sure whether I'm on page
Can any one tell me how to do it via .htaccess file.
Your RewriteRule is backwards: you need the path you're matching first, then the path you're redirecting to. Try this:
RewriteRule !^/store/(.*) /store/$1 [NC,L]
Also, you don't actually need mod_rewrite to do this. You could try mod_redirect, which is simpler and easier to understand:
RedirectMatch !^/store/ /store/
(N.B. I haven't tried either of these, so I'm not 100% certain they do what you want.)
Just building a site using php. I would like to know how to create pages without having to make ".php" links for every page. For example I want to build the site to be as follows: www.mysite.com/products instead of www.mysite.com/products.php. (Further example www.mysite.com/products/headphones )
An example of what I am looking for is as follows: http://www.starbucks.ca/store-locator
Any idea how starbucks is doing this? It isn't making a separate folder and index for every page is it?
Thanks in advance!
Jason
You can use URL rewriting to do this. You can create a .htaccess file, place it in the root directory of your website with the following content (as an example):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^tutorial/([0-9]+)/$ index.php?tutorial=$1
RewriteRule ^page/store-locator/$ index.php?page=store-locator
RewriteRule ^$ index.php
These are some basic rules that tell the web server to rewrite a URL without .php to a URL that does have .php.
In the above example, when you are visiting example.com/tutorial/3/, it will actually visit example.com/index.php?tutorial=3 and then your index.php will display the contents. It's similar for the store-locator page.
This is a strange one...
A while back I managed to write a .htaccess redirect that worked so that the URL was read like: www.website.com/mt?page=index - and what the real URL of this page was www.website.com/PageParser.php?file=index.php
The problem has been that the FTP system of my webhost hides .htaccess files even though they are allowed and do operate - and so I have checked back on local copies I have of my .htaccess files and none of them have the code as to how this works - and I've forgotten how I did it!!
Essentially, I am using wildcards so that anything after mt?page= will actually be showing PageParser.php?file= but without having the PageParser.php showing within the URL (and this is the important bit, because the index.php on my site root is actually sent through PageParser.php first so that anything which shouldn't be there is wiped out before the end user sees it) - so how can .htaccess redirect/rewrite the URL so that any link to /mt?page= show the file located at /PageParser.php?file= without changing the URL the user sees?
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)mt?page=(.*)$ $1PageParser.php?file=$2
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=([^&]+)
RewriteRule ^mt$ /PageParser.php?file=%1.php [NC,L]
This rule will rewrite (internal redirect) request for /mt?page=hello to /PageParser.php?file=hello.php without changing URL in browser.
Your source URL example (www.website.com/mt?page=index) has index while target URL (www.website.com/PageParser.php?file=index.php) has index.php. The above rule will add .php to the page name value, so if you request /mt?page=hello.php it will be rewritten to /PageParser.php?file=hello.php.php.
If there is a typo in your URL example and page value should be passed as is, then remove .php bit from rewrite rule.
The rule will work fine even if some other parameters are present (e.g. /mt?page=hello&name=Pinky) but those extra parameters will not be passed to rewritten URL. If needed -- add QSA flag to rewrite rule.
This rule is to be placed in .htaccess in website root folder. If placed elsewhere some small tweaking may be required.
P.S.
Better write no explanation (I knew it/I did it before .. but now I forgot how I did it) than having these "excuses". While it may be 100% true, it just does not sound that great.
I've added a .htaccess file to my root folder for the purposes of rewriting dynamic URLs into static ones. This seems to have been done successfully but I am having problems with page numbers.
For example, if you were to visit a static page /widgets, the first page of the products is fine....but subsequent pages show up as /products.php?cat=27&pg=2 etc. What I want is for subsequent pages to be in the form of /widgets-pg2 or /widgets?pg=2.
Below is my rewrite rule that I used for the initial category page:-
RewriteRule ^widgets$ products.php?cat=27
If any of you experts can help with this, it would be much appreciated.
Are you expecting the cat to change as well? You'd need to account for that in your URL as well:
e.g. www.site.com/widgets/27/2 could be rewritten as:
RewriteRule ^widgets/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)$ products.php?cat=$1&pg=$2
If widgets will always be cat 27 then you can change it to:
RewriteRule ^widgets$ products.php?cat=27 [QSA]
which is query string append
Try
RewriteRule ^widgets-pg(.+)$ products.php?cat=27&pg=$1
After that, go here :)
To allow a query string after your rewritten URL use the [QSA] flag:
RewriteRule ^widgets$ products.php?cat=27 [QSA]
A link would than be:
http://example.org/widgets?pg=167&perpage=100&tralala=Hi!
I tried the following but it resulted in a '404 Not Found' error when I go to /widgets:-
RewriteRule ^widgets-pg(.+)$ products.php?cat=27&pg=$1
And I tried the following:-
RewriteRule ^widgets$ products.php?cat=27 [QSA]
This worked correctly but to go to page two of the widgets page, I need to type in the browser:-
/widgets?pg=2
But the actual 'page 2' link still leads to:-
products.php?cat=27&pg=2
So apart from a rewrite rule....maybe I need a separate redirection rule? Or maybe need to change the page number links. But since these are dynamically generated, I'm not sure how to do this.
The following is the PHP code for the page:- http://freetexthost.com/3ubiydspzm