Is possible to rewrite this URL:
http://wwww.mywebsite.com/number_one/
to this URL:
http://www.mywebsite.com/?n=one
in .htaccess?
I'm going to guess that you want to do this using mod_rewrite. In that case, what you need is a RewriteCond to match the query string:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^n=([^&]+)
RewriteRule ^$ number_%1?
(The ? at the end of the RewriteRule tells mod_rewrite to discard the old query string.)
Also note that, as written, this is an internal rewrite. If you want the change to be visible to the user, append the flag [R] (or [R=301] if you want a permanent redirect) to the RewriteRule.
Edit: If you want to go the other way, from site.com/number_one to site.com/?n=one as your question now reads, it's even easier:
RewriteRule ^number_([^/]+) ?n=$1
(As written, this rewrite rule will throw away anything after the first slash following the number, as well as any existing query string parameters. You can keep the original query string by adding the [QSA] flag to the rule if you want.)
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I want to redirect a URL in .htaccess, but want to keep the (dynamic) parameters from the query string at the end of the URL (e.g. ?id=1660, ?id=1661, etc.)
E.g.
https://mywebsite.example/service/viewinvoice.php?id=1660
I want to redirect it to:
https://mywebsite.example/whmcs-bridge/?ccce=viewinvoice.php?id=1660
So basically: https://mywebsite.example/service/viewinvoice.php?id=... needs to be redirected to https://mywebsite.example/whmcs-bridge/?ccce=viewinvoice.php?id=...
I tried this below, without any success
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)/service/viewinvoice.php?id= [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?$ /whmcs-bridge/?ccce=viewinvoice.php [L,R=301]
I think this is not the right solution.
Does someone has suggestions?
You need to use the QSA (Query String Append) flag on your rewrite rule. From the documentation:
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.
From your example URLs, you don't need to match the query string in a rewrite condition. You are matching the URL path which is done as the first part of the rewrite rule itself.
Your rule should be:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?service/viewinvoice\.php$ /whmcs-bridge/?ccce=viewinvoice.php [L,R=301,QSA]
Let's say I have phpbb3 forums software and I want to prettify some URLs. I put this in my htaccess:
RewriteRule ^cake viewforum.php?f=5&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
which works for domain.tld/cake and domain.tld/cake/ but it also catches domain.tld/cake-recipes and domain.tld/cake-recipes/ for instance, and so rewrites them.
How can I write this so that it only matches that exact URL, not URLs that begin with that string?
You need to add $ in order to delimit your rule pattern.
RewriteRule ^cake/?$ viewforum.php?f=5 [L,QSA]
The above rule will now only match domain.tld/cake or domain.tld/cake/.
Also, you can avoid using %{QUERY_STRING} by adding QSA flag (which does the same, but in a more elegant way)
I'm trying to come up with some mod_rewrite to translate http://example.com/?7gudznrxdnu into http://example.com/view.php?id=7gudznrxdnu
But any other page will function properly such as http://example.com/contact and so on.
I think this will work:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^[a-z0-9]+$
RewriteRule ^$ view.php?id=%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
If you want the rewrite to be shown in the browser's address field, you'll have to replace [L] with [L,R=301].
Explanation: The query-string (what's following the question mark) is not part of the URL that RewriteRule sees in its matching-pattern, therefore you can't check for question mark there. In my solution, I run the rule if and only if (RewriteCond) the query string consists solely of a-z and/or 0-9, and my rule only rewrites URLs ending with a slash (except for the query string). I redirect this to view.php?id=, and then append the query string to that.
Edit: Tested on my Apache-server, and I haven't found any bugs (yet).
You should try (in your .htaccess):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^\?([^/\.]+)?$ view.php?id=$1 [L]
I have an old url:
www.example.com/content.aspx?ID=227&ParentID=33&MicrositeID=0&Page=1
that I wish to rewrite to:
www.example.com/product/item
The only important bit is ID=227, everything after that can be stripped and is not required for the redirect. I need to not pass any querystrings to the new address, this is basically a hard rewrite from one address to another.
I have my rewrite rule:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^ID=227(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^content\.aspx$ http://www.example.com/product/item [R=301,L]
But as I'm a total noob at mod_rewrite I'm struggling - can any htaccess gurus out there help me out?
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)ID=(\d+)(&|$) [NC]
RewriteRule ^content\.aspx$ /product/item/%2? [R=301,L]
A few comments...
There's no need to add .* to match the whole string in this case. As long as you can pinpoint what you want to match, you'll be fine. (^|&) matches either the start of the string or & whereas (&|$) matches either the end of the string or &. This allows id=xxx to be anywhere in the query string, which is good practice. \d matches one digit whereas + is a repetition operator for "one or more".
Furthermore, you don't actually need to include the domain name so long as the resulting page is on the same domain. Just start the resulting string with a / to make it relative to the root level.
%2 means that you're inserting a submatch from the RewriteCond statement rather than the RewriteRule. The latter would be $1, $2, as you might know.
The trailing ? tells the rewrite engine not to append the querystring to the URL. (Don't worry, the question mark won't show up in the redirect URL)
I have a few messy old URLs like...
http://www.example.com/bunch.of/unneeded/crap?opendocument&part=1
http://www.example.com/bunch.of/unneeded/crap?opendocument&part=2
...that I want to redirect to the newer, cleaner form...
http://www.example.com/page.php/welcome
http://www.example.com/page.php/prices
I understand I can redirect one page to another with a simple redirect i.e.
Redirect 301 /bunch.of/unneeded/crap http://www.example.com/page.php
But the source page doesn't change, only it's GET vars. I can't figure out how to base the redirect on the value of these GET variables. Can anybody help pls!? I'm fairly handy with the old regexes so I can have a pop at using mod-rewrite if I have to but I'm not clear on the syntax for rewriting GET vars and I'd prefer to avoid the performance hit and use the cleaner Redirect directive. Is there a way? and if not can anyone clue me in as to the right mod-rewrite syntax pls?
Cheers,
Roger.
As the parameters in the URL query may have an arbitrary order, you need to use a either one RewriteCond directive for every parameter to check or for every possible permutiation.
Here’s an example with a RewriteCond directive for each parameter:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^([^&]&)*opendocument(&|$)
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^([^&]&)*part=1(&|$)
RewriteRule ^bunch\.of/unneeded/crap$ /page.php/welcome? [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^([^&]&)*opendocument(&|$)
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^([^&]&)*part=2(&|$)
RewriteRule ^bunch\.of/unneeded/crap$ /page.php/prices? [L,R=301]
But as you can see, this may get a mess.
So a better approach might be to use a RewriteMap. The easiest would be a plain text file with key and value pairs:
1 welcome
2 prices
To define your map, write the following directive in your server or virual host configuration (this directive is not allowed in per-directory context):
RewriteMap examplemap txt:/path/to/file/map.txt
Then you would just need one rule:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^([^&]&)*opendocument(&|$)
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^([^&]&)*part=([0-9]+)(&|$)
RewriteRule ^bunch\.of/unneeded/crap$ /page.php/%{examplemap:%2}? [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} option=com_content&task=view&id=70&Itemid=82
RewriteRule ^index.php http://www.example.com/business/banks/? [R=301,L]
The ? will prevent the url the user is sent to from having the same query string as the origin page.
In summary, you could use RedirectMatch with a regex that will match the full URL, including query string. That will let you rearrange parts of the URL, but if you have to do conversions like "opendocument&part=1" to "welcome" (where the new URL is completely different from the original one), you might need a RewriteMap - or perhaps better, just send all URLs to page.php and parse the query string in PHP.
EDIT: If it's just a few URLs you want to redirect, you could probably write out individual rules like
RedirectPermanent http://www.example.com/bunch.of/unneeded/crap?opendocument&part=1 http://www.example.com/page.php/welcome
RedirectPermanent http://www.example.com/bunch.of/unneeded/crap?opendocument&part=2 http://www.example.com/page.php/prices