I want to get rid of the www. before my website name, so I tried setting a canonical URL tag in the files, but it didn't redirect me to http://blablabla.tk when I typed www.blablabla.tk
I tried this code: <link rel="canonical" href="http://blablabla.tk" />
Do I have to change something in the .htaccess file or something?
Yes, add this to the top of the htaccess file in your document root:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.blablabla.tk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://blablabla.tk/$1 [L,R=301]
The "canonical" link that you have tells clients like search engine indexing bots which version of the page is the "preferred" version. It doesn't actually redirect anything.
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I would like to change the URL structure of my site. My current URL structure is like this:
www.domain.com/events/events.php?location=san%20francisco
I want to change the URL structure to:
www.domain.com/events/san-francisco
My XMPL site map has the URLs listed like the first example. I want the search engines to index the URL like the second example. What are all the things I need to do to achieve this? The {city} in the location parameter is dynamic depending on the user's IP address. Do I need to change my XML sitemap to list new URL structure? What do I need to put in my .htaccess file. Do I need to change the actual URLs links on my website to the new structure or can I just use .htaccess?
This should work:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|POST)\ /events\.php\?location=(.*)%20(.*)\ HTTP
RewriteRule ^ /events/%2-%3\? [R=302,L]
RewriteRule ^events/(.*)$ /events.php?location=$1 [L]
Changing R=302 to R=301 when you know it redirect correctly
EDIT:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|POST)\ /(.*)/(.*)\.php\?location=(.*)%20(.*)&lid=(.*)&slid=(.*)\ HTTP
RewriteRule ^ /%3/%4-%5/%6/%7\? [R=302,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ /$1/$1.php?location=$2&lid=$3&slid=$4 [L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|POST)\ /(.*)/(.*)\.php\?location=(.*)%20(.*)\ HTTP
RewriteRule ^ /%3/%4-%5\? [R=302,L]
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)/([A-Za-z0-9]+)$ /$1/$1.php?location=$2 [L]
You have to use a .htaccess file similar to the one below. It will match fancy URL and forward the request to the right php file.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/(.*)$ /$1/$1.php?location=$2
With this, both www.domain.com/events/events.php?location=san%20francisco and www.domain.com/events/san-francisco will lead to the same page.
But if you don't change your sitemap nor the links on your site, search engines won't know that.
You have then 2 solutions :
change all your links in your site and sitemap with the new structure URL
use a redirect rule to redirect "old" pages to the "new" ones
From what I know about SEO, the first option is the best. Or even better, a combination of both solutions : change all your links, and use a redirect 301 rule so pages already indexed by search engines will not lost their ranking and to avoid duplicate content.
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/(.*).php?location=(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1/$3 [R=301]
I'm having trouble redirecting Joomla's core pages via .htaccess; for instance, I need
/component/users/?view=login
to redirect to another page, but the server seems to ignore the redirect entirely. Is there something I'm missing here? Currently, I'm trying to use:
Redirect /component/users/?view=login http://www.example.com/
You can't match against the query string in a Redirect, you need to use the %{QUERY_STRING} variable and mod_rewrite. Above any other rules you may already have in the htaccess file in your document root, add:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)view=login(&|$)
RewriteRule ^component/users/$ http://www.example.com/? [L,R]
I have this code for the htaccess file, and soon I'll have pages where I'd like to create a url like the bottom one
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^Index/?$ index.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^Gallery/?$ gallery.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^Showreel/?$ showreel.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^Music/?$ music.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^Gallery/Render/?$ contact.php [NC]
If I go to the contact page, it'll display a page, but it's entirely white and only contains the text. I'm guessing it's to do with the images not being linked up properly with the new url, but how would I actually go about fixing this without having to manually edit the locations of each image?
You can try adding this in your page's header:
<base href="/" />
or change all of your links to absolute URLs. This issue is most likely that your links are all relative, and when you try to request a URL like:
http://yourdomain.com/Gallery/Render
The relative URI base becomes /Gallery/ instead of / (which is what it is if you access /contact.php directly). And when the browser tries to resolve all the relative links on the page, it uses the wrong URI base.
I'm new to this (wonderful) website!
I did search for an answear to my problem but I could not find it.
(Q: bad english. A: I'm italian, sorry.)
My goal:
I would host in a domain 2 different websites, each of them using their proper htaccess rules.
The structure:
/index.html --> empty page.
/site1/index.html
/site1/styleA.css
/site1/logo.png
/site2/index.html
/site2/styleB.css
/site2/logo.png
The problem:
/site1/index.html gets the stylesheet file using absolute path:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/style.css" />
this way it try to get the "style.css" file in the root directory (404).
Same problem with site2 and every other file that use absolute path.
More info:
Sites are stored in folders only to test them, they will be moved to different domains once ready so I would not edit every absolute path.
I'm not using Wordpress, Drupal or similar. They're all my creations.
The Question:
Is it possible to solve the 'absolute path' problems using only .htaccess file(s)?
If not, what would you suggest me to do?
I suppose you can check the referer:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} /site1/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/site1/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /site1/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} /site2/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/site2/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /site2/$1 [L]
This doesn't redirect the browser, so there's a possibility that the browser will cache a "/style.css" and the two sites get mixed, so you may want to redirect the browser instead by changing the flags from [L] to [L,R].
Could someone tell me how to rewrite this URL. I have looked at a lot of questions on stackoverflow but they seem to be missing my answer.
RewriteEngine On
That is what I have... its a bit poor.
I need to rewrite url's if they do not point to a directory.
I need to do this...
any.domain.com/pages/some-page-slug/login
To be rewritten to the correct url of...
any.domain.com/pages/login.php?page=32
Does anyone have any ideas on how this can be achieved?
1) Rewriting product.php?id=12 to product-12.html
It is a simple redirection in which .php extension is hidden from the browser’s address bar and dynamic url (containing “?” character) is converted into a static URL.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^product-([0-9]+)\.html$ product.php?id=$1
2) Rewriting product.php?id=12 to product/ipod-nano/12.html
SEO expert always suggest to display the main keyword in the URL. In the following URL rewriting technique you can display the name of the product in URL.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^product/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([0-9]+)\.html$ product.php?id=$2
3) Redirecting non www URL to www URL
If you type yahoo.com in browser it will be redirected to www.yahoo.com. If you want to do same with your website then put the following code to .htaccess file. What is benefit of this kind of redirection?? Please check the post about SEO friendly redirect (301) redirect in php and .htaccess.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^optimaxwebsolutions\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.optimaxwebsolutions.com/$1 [R=301,L]
4) Rewriting yoursite.com/user.php?username=xyz to yoursite.com/xyz
Have you checked zorpia.com.If you type http://zorpia.com/roshanbh233 in browser you can see my profile over there. If you want to do the same kind of redirection i.e http://yoursite.com/xyz to http://yoursite.com/user.php?username=xyz then you can add the following code to the .htaccess file.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ user.php?username=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ user.php?username=$1
5) Redirecting the domain to a new subfolder of inside public_html.
Suppose the you’ve redeveloped your site and all the new development reside inside the “new” folder of inside root folder.Then the new development of the website can be accessed like “test.com/new”. Now moving these files to the root folder can be a hectic process so you can create the following code inside the .htaccess file and place it under the root folder of the website. In result, www.test.com point out to the files inside “new” folder.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^test\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.test\.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/new/
RewriteRule (.*) /new/$1
TO do this you need to write a front controller.
See here, here, here, and here.
Alternatively in Apache you can rewrite this
any.domain.com/pages/32/login
or this:
any.domain.com/32/login
or even this:
any.domain.com/some-slug/32/login
to this:
any.domain.com/pages/login.php?page=32
One way or another to do this with only apache you need to supply the page id in some fashion. Keep in mind even with format any.domain.com/some-slug/32/login the content of the slug is irrelevant and won't necessarily link to the correct page. Which I imagine is undesirable and bad for SEO.
Another alternative is using RewriteMap. But this will be tricky and require reloading apache configurations whenever a page/slug is created/edit.
I understand that pages and login are static in this case and some-page-slug is changing. And you always want to redirect to static page /pages/login.php?page=32
So this is how to do it:
1) Rewrite
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^pages/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/login(.*)$ /pages/login.php?page=32
or 2) Redirect Pernament
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^pages/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/login(.*)$ /pages/login.php?page=32 [R=301,L]
or 3) Redirect Temporary
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^pages/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/login(.*)$ /pages/login.php?page=32 [R=302,L]
Here is great article about htaccess trics
http://perishablepress.com/press/2006/01/10/stupid-htaccess-tricks/