This is a page on my domain: www.mydomain.com/en/stats.php
I want it to look like this: www.mydomain.com/en/statistics/players
This is pretty simple to accomplish, but for some reason the htaccess code below doesn't work.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/statistics/players stats.php [R=301,L,QSA]
I get a 404 error when I try to open the SEO-friendly version. The page opens fine when I use the regular URL. What am I doing wrong?
The URL might not have a leading slash. Try without or optional slash. Additionally, you must check for the leading en, when you anchor your pattern at the beginning
RewriteRule ^/?en/statistics/players /en/stats.php
What worked in the end is the following:
RewriteRule en/statistics/players en/stats.php [NC,L]
I think it needs to be:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^en/statistics/players en/stats.php [QSA]
The R=301 means it will perform a redirect instead of a rewrite and try to redirect to /stats.php which doesnt exists I guess.
The L flag means that this is the last rewrite rule that will be processed for this request, which in this case I doubt is what you want. If there are rewrite rules further down for /en/stats.php they wont be processed.
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Is it possible to prefix a htaccess rewrite rule
for example can a variable be used as a prefix to a url
website.com/$variable-for-sale/
/cupcakes-for-sale/
/pies-for-sale/
/flans-for-sale/
The idea is to then use that variable to display all the cupcakes/pies/flans for sale
How would this be written as a rewrite rule? Is it even possible?
Thanks
The first rule will take care of redirecting your ugly URL to Friendly like one.
The second rule will internally redirect it back so the browser URL remains the friendly URL while service the content of your page.
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Redirect /?cake=anything to /anything-for-sale/
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+\?cake=([^&\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1-for-sale/? [R=302,L]
# Internally forward /anything-for-sale/ to /?cake=anything
RewriteRule ^([^-]+)-for-sale/?$ /?cake=$1 [NC,L]
Keep in mind I am using R=302 its always better to use 302 which means temporary redirect while testing a new rule before making it permanent as the permanent will cache the information to your browser. Once the rule is confirmed to be working as expected change R=302 to R=301.
To extract variable, you need to use regex parentheses in the correct pattern, then you can use $1 to fetch the group:
RewriteRule ^([^-]+)-for-sale/$ /target.php?variable=$1 [L]
The "target" part is the script you use to display the "variable". Since your question doesn't mention what that is, you have to figure it out.
I'm new to redirects and have researched how to do this but am just getting more and more confused.
What I'm wanting to do is create a rule to redirect:
From: http://www.example.com/wordpress/?p=1250
To: http://www.otherexample.com/blog
Where I'm running into issues is with the question mark. I've read somewhere that I'm not sure I'm doing this correctly, but here's what I have so far:
**Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^p=1297$
RewriteRule ^wordpress$ linktoothersite [R=301, QSA, L, NC]**
I'm failing somewhere, any of you see what I'm doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated. I could only post two links, so link to other site would be the link.
If it's a single link you want to change you don't need a htaccess rule for that you can just do a redirect.
redirect 301 /wordpress/?p=250 http://www.othersite.com/blog
If the URL parameter changes you can use this rule.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^wordpress/(.*) http://www.othersite.com/blog [R=301,QSA,NC,L]
Note that when you use the QSA flag it will append the URL with the query parameter so if that's what you want the resulting URL will be.
http://www.othersite.com/blog?p=250
Otherwise if you remove the QSA flag, then it will just redirect to this
http://www.othersite.com/blog
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 have problems getting an URL to work WITHOUT entering trailing slash.
It's:
www.domain.com/shop/buy/products/show/range/
.htaccess Rewrite Rule is:
RewriteRule ^shop/buy/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/show/([A-Za-z0-9\-\,]+)/?$ _shop/products.php?trg=${productmap:$1}&range=$2 [L]
It works with trailing slash (which I don't want in the URL) but not without. I should also add that if I was to remove '/show/' from the URL (which I can't do though), it works without trailing slash, or if 'range' contains a dash '-', as in 'new-product', it also works.
However, this URL works with or without trailing slash:
www.domain.com/shop/buy/products/show/range/color
.htaccess Rewrite Rule for this URL is:
RewriteRule ^shop/buy/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/show/([A-Za-z0-9\-\,]+)/([A-Za-z0-9\-\,]+)/?$ _shop/products.php?trg=${productmap:$1}&range=$2&color=$3 [L]
How can I get the first URL to work without trailing slash? This might be something really obvious as I'm a recent newbie to using .htaccess but I have now spent hours staring at the code and reading forum posts about rewrites but not been able to resolve this. Thank you!
T'm not so sure, but have You try to put /? in braces: (/)?, I think this will work:
RewriteRule ^shop/buy/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/show/([A-Za-z0-9\-\,]+)([/]?)$ _shop/products.php?trg=${productmap:$1}&range=$2 [L]
You Can Test This Code
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^shop/buy/(.*?)/show/(.*)/(.*)$ _shop/products.php?trg=$1&range=$2&color=$3 [S,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^shop/buy/(.*?)/show/(.*)$ _shop/products.php?trg=$1&range=$2 [S,L,QSA]
sample:
www.domain.com/shop/buy/products/show/range/
www.domain.com/shop/buy/products/show/range
redirect to:
www.domain.com/_shop/products.php?trg=products&range=range
and:
www.domain.com/shop/buy/products/show/range/color
www.domain.com/shop/buy/products/show/range/color/
redirect to:
www.domain.com/_shop/products.php?trg=products&range=range&color=color
one Another way is you Can Use Only This code
RewriteRule ^shop/buy/(.*?)/show/(.*)$ _shop/products.php?trg=$1&range=$2 [L,QSA]
after That split range in php By
list($range,$coler)=explode("/",$_GET['range']);
It is work too.
I'm working in an old CMS that uses htaccess to rewrite URIs with GET variables into something more user friendly.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^animals/(.*)/ secondary.php?page=$1
RewriteRule ^animals/(.*) secondary.php?page=$1
which results (correctly) in
http://www.example.com/animals/duck
The problem is I now need to redirect some of those pages to new pages. I've tried:
Redirect 301 /animals/goose http://www.example.com/animals/fowl
The redirect almost works, but it adds "?page=goose" to the end of the rewritten URI:
http://www.example.com/animals/fowl?page=goose
I've tried using RewriteRule as well as RewriteCond, but unfortunatley I'm having no luck. Any help would be immensely appreciated.
Try placing this before the other rules instead of the Redirect statement. R=301 is for the redirect and L signals that the rule in question is the last rule to be processed.
RewriteRule ^animals/goose /animals/fowl [R=301,L]
Also you can easily make the slash (just like any other character) optional with a question mark, instead of having two rules.
RewriteRule ^animals/(.*)/?$ secondary.php?page=$1