I'm trying to redirect some files and I'm pretty stuck. There are way too many to do some of them on a "page-per-page" basis and so I need a quick way as these pages are insignificant but return 404's at the moment.
I have a page like this "/old-blog/tag/page", I previously redirected the "old-blog" to "new-blog" so I get "/new-blog/tag/page" but now I want "tag" and all pages after this to be sent to "new-blog". I hope this example makes sense, please ask if I've missed something.
I'm doing my redirects with my .htaccess file so I'd like a method I can use with this in mind.
Thanks, Dan.
You may already have rewrite rules, if there are rules that do some type of routing, then mod_rewrite and mod_alias is going to conflict (RedirectMatch is mod_alias). So try sticking with just mod_rewrite. Try adding these rules, above any other rules, in the htaccess file in your document root:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?old-blog/tag /new-blog/ [L,R=301]
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I'm having some difficulty creating an htaccess mod_rewrite rule which would take the following URL:
http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?route=product/search&filter_name=SEARCH%20CRITERIA
and make it something more along the lines of:
http://www.mydomain.com/search/SEARCH-CRITERIA
or even
http://www.mydomain.com/search?filter_name=SEARCH%20CRITERIA
Everything I've tried seems to break the SEO-friendly URLs that are auto-generated by the Opencart framework. How can this be done?
In Your .htaccess file place the rules directly behind the lines used to rewrite sitemap.xml and googlebase.xml and before the last general rule.
The rule could look like:
RewriteRule ^search\/(.*)$ index.php?route=product/search&filter_name=$1
- did not test it, it is just a guess.
Also showing us what have You tried would be highly appreciated.
I guess this was a very common and simple .htaccess rewrite rule, however I wasn't able to google a solution for it.
So, the question is in the title already, how can I rewrite the address to change it from example.com/contact.htm to example.com/contact? The rule would of course not be only for just the contact.htm but for any page in the website. No need to worry about GET variables, since I won't be using any.
[ Also, do you think this is or might be considered a good practice or not really relevant? ]
Thanks.
Try this:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^contact.htm$ /contact
This should serve contact.html when requesting example.com/contact/
You could consider using MultiViews. You'll need to load the content negotiation module and turn MultiViews on, then Apache will automatically look for a file with an extension (there's a priority list in case you have both .html and .htm files with the same name for instance).
I've been enabled mod_rewrite module and all is right.
I created simple rules for the url, but how do I disable the url navigation (rewritten) with the parameters?
example:
# rewrite rule for cleaning
RewriteRule ^bookstore/([0-9]+)?$ /bookstore/book.php?id=$1 [L]
Now, if I navigate to http://mydomine.com/bookstore/123 all is done, but the url http://mydomine.com/bookstore/book.php?id=123 is also navigable.
How can I make visible and bavigable only the first one?
Add this to the same htaccess file:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /bookstore/book\.php\?id=([0-9]*)
RewriteRule ^bookstore/book\.php$ /bookstore/%1? [L,R=301]
This will 301 redirect requests for the URI with query strings to the one without.
Not 100% sure about this, but I think that if you rewrite A to B, then both A and B will work.
I would like to ask why exactly is it a problem that http://mydomine.com/bookstore/book.php?id=123 is navigable too? What is the problem if that link is valid too, and the user can use both links... although it would take them some time and luck to discover the second option. What would they gain by doing that? What would you lose? If the answer in both cases is "nothing", then simply stop worrying. :) If you used the old links previously and now replace then with new links, then it is a good thing that your customer's old bookmarks will still work.
But assuming that you have a good reason for disabling the old URLs, how about changing them both. For example rename "book.php" to "xyz.php" and then redirect http://mydomine.com/bookstore/123 to http://mydomine.com/bookstore/xyz.php?id=123 -- and the old http://mydomine.com/bookstore/book.php?id=123 will stop working.
Ok, that is an ugly solution, but you can make it nicer if instead of renaming the files you just move them to a subdirectory, like http://mydomine.com/xyz/bookstore/book.php?id=123 . Alternatively, you could use the redirect to add a "secret" parameter and then check it in the PHP file, for example rewrite http://mydomine.com/bookstore/123 to http://mydomine.com/bookstore/book.php?id=123&secret=xyz . Sure, it's just a "security by obscurity", but again... what exactly would anyone gain by discovering your true URLs?
I have been researching redirects for a few days now and am still struggling, so I decided to post my first question here. For some reason, it is just not clicking for me.
I have redesigned and developed a client's WordPress site and need to update it's structure.
The site's current structure is:
www.domain.com/blog/postname/2011/12/26/
The new structure should be:
www.domain.com/blog/postname
I really thought this was going to be easy since all I am looking to do is drop the date, but have not been able to grasp the whole wildcard aspect and how to end what I am trying to match. Any help would be greatly appreciated. A simple answer is great, but an explanation would be even better.
I am assuming you already know how to change your WordPress permalink structure to drop the date.
To 301 redirect all of the old URLs to the new ones, add the following rules to your .htaccess file in the root of your websites domain, ahead of any existing rules that are there.
#if these 2 lines already exist, skip them and add the rest
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
# if there is a request of the form /blog/post-name/yyyy/mm/dd/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/blog/[^/]+/)[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/$ [NC]
#redirect the request to the URL without the date
RewriteRule . %1 [L,R=301]
If you want to learn more about .htaccess/rewriting you can take a look at the following urls: Indepth htaccess, Brief Introduction to Rewriting, Apache Mod_rewrite.
Let me know if this works for you and/or you have any issues.
I've been searching google for this but can't find the solution to my exact needs. Basically I've already got my URL's named how I like them i.e. "http://mysite.com/blog/page1.php"
What I'm trying to achieve (if it's possible!) is to use rewrite to alter the existing URLS to: "http://mysite.com/blog/page1"
The problem I've come across is I've found examples that will do this if the user enters "http://mysite.com/blog/page1" into the broweser which is great, however I need it to work for the existing links in google as not to loose traffic, so incoming URLS "http://mysite.com/blog/page1.php" are directed to "http://mysite.com/blog/page1".
The 1st example (Canonical URLs) at the following is pretty much what you want:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html#url
This should do the trick, rewriting requests without .php to have it, invisible to the user.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/blog/([^.]+)$ /blog/$1.php
You will need to write a rewrite rule for mapping your old url's to your new url as a permanent redirect. This will let the search engine know that the new, seo friendly url's are the ones to be used.
RewriteRule blog/page1.php blog/page1 [R=301,L]