(This seems like it should be one of the mostly commonly and easiest addressed questions on the web, since most websites have "pretty" or "clean" urls. But in all my searches, it's proven to be one of the most complex.)
In the simplest form, I would like be able to enter example.com/about into the url bar and have the server return the file example.com/about.php. As it is, I have to enter or link to example.com/about.php, which is not SEO or user friendly. This isn't about complex strings--the file could just as easily be example.com/about.html.
I have some code I'm attempting to use with an .htaccess file, but it seems to do nothing:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)/$ /$1.php
I know that the .htaccess file is working, because the 404 redirect I have set up (which appears in the .htacces doc below the code I've included here) is functioning properly, especially when I'm trying access example.com/about and I get my 404 page.
Thanks for your help!
Your last rule is designed to match http://example.com/about/ . I think what you want is
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)$ $1.php
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A while ago I made my first website using only HTMl code and some basic inline CSS.
I don't have the experience and the intuitive knowledge of how things work in this world that is why even the most basic errors I have to solve or tweaks I have to make gives me headache.
My website looks like it's duplicated because when you enter the www or the non www version, then both work and for the search engines it looks like there are two identical websites, which is not good for me.
One tool showed me an error saying: "https://domain.lv and https://www.domain.lv should resolve to the same URL, but currently do not."
I've tried different methods to solve this by editing my .htaccess file, but nothing works. I'm sure there is some dumb mistake I am making because I don't know how should even basic things look like when they are right.
This here is my .htaccess file now (for this I used the word domain as a placeholder for my real domain name):
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.lv [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://domain.lv/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html [NC,L]
ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
Do you see what is wrong here and how I get it right?
And maybe someone could give me a sample file of how .htaccess file should look like for websites built from scratch?
I will appreciate any help.
Cheers!
I did a lot of searching on this, and just couldn't quite find the right answer. A lot of things got me close, but nothing worked like I wanted it to.
I'm working on a site where, because of an external JQuery add-on library, I need to force certain pages to be HTTP. Certain other pages (for shopping, etc) need to be HTTPS.
So far in my .HTACCESS file I have:
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^80$
RewriteRule ^(index|event)\.php$ http://www.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
This works perfectly when the user goes to
https://www.example.com/index.php
But doesn't redirect when they go to
https://www.example.com/
Any suggestions on how to catch that last instance?
Thank you in advance!
To match landing page tweak your regex to match empty URI also like this:
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^80$
RewriteRule ^((index|event)\.php)?$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L,NC,NE]
I am having an issue where Google Webmaster Tools is reporting a ton of 404 links to my site which are coming from ask.com.
I have tried to get ask.com to fix their side but of course they are not, so now I am stuck with over 11k of bad links to my site which I am suspecting is effecting my ranks right now.
Anyways I have a possible way to 301 them, but not sure how to do it with .htaccess.
Here is the bad link pointing to my site
http://www.freescrabbledictionary.com/sentence-examples/fere-film/feverous/about.php
It should be
http://www.freescrabbledictionary.com/sentence-examples/fere-film/feverous/
Besides the about.php there are other variations of endings as well, I basically need to be able to remove the ending.
Problem is that the URL after /sentence-examples/ can change. The beginning is always:
http://www.freescrabbledictionary.com/sentence-examples/
So basically:
http://www.freescrabbledictionary.com/sentence-examples/<-keep but can change->/<-keep but can change->/<-remove this->
This .htaccess should be placed on the folder before sentence-examples:
RewriteEngine on
# Redirect /sentence-examples/anything/anything/remove to /sentence-examples/anything/anything/
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+(sentence-examples/[^/]+/[^/]+)/.* [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1/? [R=302,PT,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/(.*)$ /sentence-examples/examplesentence.php?havethis=$1&word=$2 [L]
Change 302 to 301 once you confirm it's working as expected.
If you have a CMS installed you might need a different rule to work along with it without conflicting.
Keep in mind that if you had previously tried different redirects using 301 aka permanent redirect its recommended that you use a different browser to test this rule to avoid the caching.
This is possibly quick and dirty but I've done a simple test on localhost and here just to make sure it works.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^sentence-examples/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)\.php http://www.freescrabbledictionary.com/sentence-examples/$1/$2/ [R=301,L]
You can see that I've added wildcard groups (.*) to the RewriteRule so that we can pick up the elements of the URL that we need to aid in proper redirection i.e. $1 and $2. You can also use the third one ($3) to get which destinations are being targeted alot for your SEO needs.
NB: The rule above assumes that that the redirected URL will always be from a .php target and to ensure that you can redirect regardless of whatever comes after the 3rd URL segment replace the RewriteRule with this
RewriteRule ^sentence-examples/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ http://www.freescrabbledictionary.com/sentence-examples/$1/$2/ [R=301,L]
Please help me to redirect using .htaccess like below.
http://info.domainname.com/blog/?Tag=somedynamictag
to
http://domainname.com/tag/somedynamictag
Thanks!
First of all I don't understand the purpose of rewriting http://info.domainname.com/blog/?Tag=somedynamictag to http://domainname.com/tag/somedynamictag when it had to be the other way round. People rewrite URLs to clean them (ie. remove characters like ?,&,=, etc.) but you are adding all these and making the URLs cumbersome.
I think you didn't properly understand the concept of URL rewriting. Let me explain a little.
When any URL is accessed on your website, the URL that the USER types or clicks (in your case http://domainname.com/tag/somedynamictag) is rewritten. But your question tells me that you think the other way. Your understanding is that the visitor clicks http://info.domainname.com/blog/?Tag=somedynamictag and will be rewritten to http://domainname.com/tag/somedynamictag. THIS IS WRONG!!. If you set up your website this way, each and every URL at http://domain.com/ must exist as a separate file or directory which a dynamic website like you seem to be developing is not expected to have. So I assume you have understood that you have either misformed the question or you have you have misunderstood the concept of URL rewriting. Following is the .htaccess code to redirect http://domainname.com/tag/somedynamictag to http://info.domainname.com/blog/?Tag=somedynamictag.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domainname.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/(.*)$ http://info.domainname.com/blog/?$1=$2 [L,R=301]
If you think you have correctly typed the question and understood url-rewriting right and are sure what you are trying to do is right, then here's the htaccess code (if you want to redirect http://info.domainname.com/blog/?Tag=somedynamictag to http://domainname.com/tag/somedynamictag).
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} info.domainname.com
RewriteRule ^blog\/\?([A-Za-z0-9]+)=(.*)$ http://domainname.com/$1/$2 [L,R=301]
If that doesn't work, in index.php at http://info.domainname.com/blog/, place the following code:
<?php
header("HTTP/1.1 301 moved permanently");
header("Location:http://domainname.com/blog/tag/".$_GET['Tag']);
?>
And thank you for asking this question. While answering it, I learned many things.
Hope that answers your question,
Peace...
I need to change the structure of the displayed client-side URL. I'm not too skilled using regex and coding for the .htaccess file. Basically, I have a structure that looks something like:
http://www.example.com/catalog/index.php?cat=lt&sec=lt1-1&id=nmlt10.
I would like this to be displayed in the address bar as:
http://www.example.com/catalog/lt/lt1-1/nmlt10.
This is what I came up with, but it has had no effect:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)\$ /catalog/index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [L]
I tested and removed any other rules in the .htaccess file to ensure nothing was being overwritten. I'm on a shared hosting apache server, and know that mod_rewrite is enabled, because I use it to rewrite non-www to www urls. I don't receive and 500 error messages, I just do not notice any change at all. I'm not sure where I'm going wrong here, so hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.
Finally found a solution that worked:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]
Appreciate LazyOne's response to get me on the right track; however, when using:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]
I wasn't able to following links that were already placed on the site, it treated different directories as the variables, for example, when browsing to an image or file, say:
folder/folder/image.png
It would grab "folder" - "folder" - and "image" as the variables. I can see why that was happening, if anyone has a different solution or an explanation, please let me know, I'm always willing to learn.
Since your .htaccess is in website root folder, then you should use thus rule:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^catalog/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ /catalog/index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]
If you place it in .htaccess in /catalog/ folder, then you can remove catalog from it:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]
I have tested rule before posting -- works fine for me.
This rule (same as above) will check if URL is a file or folder and will only rewrite if it is not:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]