I'm converting a site over from Wordpress to a custom CMS and I'm trying to figure out how to handle all of the image paths that are within posts.
The URL structure is http://site.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/image-name.jpg
I need to get it in the form of http://site.com/uploads/image-name.jpg
This is what I've got so far:
RewriteRule ^wp-content/uploads/([0-9-])/([0-9-])/([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)/?$ uploads/$3 [R=301,L]
It doesn't seem to be working though, what am I doing wrong?
Almost. You're middle to groupings only match a single digit or -. You need a + after them:
RewriteRule ^wp-content/uploads/([0-9-]+)/([0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-_.]+)/?$ /uploads/$3 [R=301,L]
And you'll want a slash before uploads/ and you need to include a . as part of the final grouping (to match the extension).
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I've been struggling to find a solution to this very simple problem. You would think that this is the classic "please help me I need to redirect this url to newurl" type of thing but, believe me, it isn't that easy.
I have a domain example.com, this example.com has some language variants:
example.com/mx
example.com/us
example.com/ca
example.com/cl
example.com/xx
and so on, example
.com is the index to choose between countries and it exists too but has no content.
We recently moved our example.com/mx to a whole new domain (with a different system) example.com.mx so we proceeded to permanently redirect every url there to the its new url in the example.com.mx
While we were at it, we discovered that our multilingual wordpress installation on example.com was duplicating all website's content in the root file, something which shouldn't have happened.
So, we have like
example.com/us/folder
example.com/cl/folder
example.com/ca/folder
etc
AND
example.com/folder which shouldn't exist
There are tons of directories that are duplicated there, we already know where to redirect each of these directories but we just can't find the right line of code to do it.
For example, we have set up this htaccess rule to deal with all the /mx/ folder, which works well:
RewriteRule ^mx/shop/ https://www.example.com.mx/? [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^mx/home/ https://www.example.com.mx/? [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^mx/page/ https://www.example.com.mx/? [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^mx/tag/ https://www.example.com.mx/? [L,R=301]
But when trying to extend this same logic to the "/shop/" directory, it matches the same directory in EVERY country folder, something we obviously don't want.
This is what we tried, described previously:
RewriteRule ^/tag/ https://www.example.com.mx/newtagurl? [L,R=301]
This obviously also redirects example.com/ca/tag/, because the ^.
So my question is, how to properly redirect to these cases ONLY matching the beginning https://example.com/tag/ string instead of matching every /tag/ case in every country folder?
Thanks!
For my family members I was giving each person their own subdomain
(sister1.mydomain.com, sister2.mydomain.com, etc...)
I was using PHP to detect the domain, and then I'd load information related to the subdomain dynamically.
I'd like to get rid of the subdomains and use the power of .htaccess
My goal is to give the same URL:
www.mydomain.com/sister1
www.mydomain.com/sister2
www.mydomain.com/mommy
www.mydomain.com/daddyo
Obviously, I don't plan to have literal working directories for each person.
I'd pass the "sister1" portion to a process.php script that takes care of the rest.
I've figure out how to do it by manually typing each RewriteRule in my htaccess file:
Options +FollowSymLinks
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^/?sister1$ process.php?entity=sister1 [L]
RewriteRule ^/?sister2$ process.php?entity=sister2[L]
RewriteRule ^/?mommy$ process.php?entity=mommy[L]
RewriteRule ^/?daddyo$ process.php?entity=daddyo[L]
I feel this is the long way of doing it.
Is there a more universal way of extracting the text after the first "/" forwardslash, and passing it to process.php?entity=$1 ?
I tried it this way:
RewriteRule ^/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ process.php?entity=$1 [NC,L]
I'm getting the apache 404 error: "Not Found".
It is because you have a mandatory / in the beginning of your rule, i.e., you are always looking for something like /sibling in the URL. Your first examples have that first forward slash as optional due to the question mark after it.
You do not need a beginning forward slash - normally the rewrite rule picks up stuff after the domain name
www.example.com/string/mod/rewrite/gets/is.here
So just remove the starting slash and it should work.
I have an old site that is being rebuilt. Instead of using a folders structure, it is using sub-domains. The segments are different, but the redirect itself is pretty simple. I can handle it like so:
RewriteRule ^segment/blog/view$ http://blogs.site.com/segment/article [R=301,NE,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^segment/blog$ http://blogs.site.com/segment [R=301,NE,NC,L]
So if I had www.site.com/segment/blog, it will now go to blogs.site.com/segment.
If I had www.site.com/segment/blog/view/catchy_name_goes_here, currently it redirects it to blogs.site.com/segment/article/catchy_name_goes_here and I NEED it to go here: blogs.site.com/segment/article/catchy-name-goes-here.
My issue comes from a decision to change the separator in the URI. The old articles were built with underscores '_' and the new articles are built with hyphens '-'.
How can I replace the underscores in the article titles with hyphens?
Try these rules:
RewriteRule ^/segment/blog$ http://blogs.site.com/segment [R,I,L]
# replace _ by - repeatedly
RewriteRule ^(/segment/blog/view)/([^_]*)_+(.*)$ /$1/$2-$3 [I,N,U]
# all _s gone, now do a redirect
RewriteRule ^/segment/blog/view/([^_]+)$ http://blogs.site.com/segment/article/$1 [R,I,L,U]
I ended up having to use the following. I don't know how many people this might effect due to the unique settings for this site in particular, but thought I would post the answer so it could help anyone that might need it.
The full settings on this are a server running IIS with Server 2k. The site consists of several static content pages, vb script, classic ASP, dot Net, and this is all intertwined with ExpressionEngine pages. It's a mess to say the least. To top it off, Helicon Tech's ASAPI Rewrite Module version 3 is running on the server for .htaccess usage. No sub-expressions, groupings, etc. were taking or being followed/processed. The index.php rule was getting bypassed as well.
This all said, I ended up with the following which parsed everything I needed.
RewriteRule ^index.php/segment/blog/view/([^_]*)_+(.*)$ http://www.site.com/index.php/segment/blog/view/$1-$2 [R,NC]
RewriteRule ^index.php/segment/blog/view/([^_]*)$ http://blogs.site.com/segment/article/$1 [R=301,I,L,U]
RewriteRule ^segment/blog$ http://blogs.site.com/segment [R=301,NE,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^/segment/blog$ http://blogs.site.com/segment [R,I,L]
I need some help with .htaccess. I've been using URL rewrites, but not conditions, and I'm pretty sure I need them seeing as I can't get this working.
The URL structure I need is -> forum/catnamehere (which shows the page called catnamehere)
and child structure -> forum/catnamehere/fornamehere (which shows the child page of the cat)
However, somehow I fail to do this, making me believe I need conditions.
You should be able to do this with two rules.
Put your .htaccess file in the forum directory, and add the following:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)(/?)$ complexForumPath.php?catName=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)(/?)$ complexForumPath.php?catName=$1&subPage=$2 [QSA]
The first rule will grab stuff like forum/abc123_
And the second rule will grab forum/abc123_/abc123_
I've added a .htaccess file to my root folder for the purposes of rewriting dynamic URLs into static ones. This seems to have been done successfully but I am having problems with page numbers.
For example, if you were to visit a static page /widgets, the first page of the products is fine....but subsequent pages show up as /products.php?cat=27&pg=2 etc. What I want is for subsequent pages to be in the form of /widgets-pg2 or /widgets?pg=2.
Below is my rewrite rule that I used for the initial category page:-
RewriteRule ^widgets$ products.php?cat=27
If any of you experts can help with this, it would be much appreciated.
Are you expecting the cat to change as well? You'd need to account for that in your URL as well:
e.g. www.site.com/widgets/27/2 could be rewritten as:
RewriteRule ^widgets/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)$ products.php?cat=$1&pg=$2
If widgets will always be cat 27 then you can change it to:
RewriteRule ^widgets$ products.php?cat=27 [QSA]
which is query string append
Try
RewriteRule ^widgets-pg(.+)$ products.php?cat=27&pg=$1
After that, go here :)
To allow a query string after your rewritten URL use the [QSA] flag:
RewriteRule ^widgets$ products.php?cat=27 [QSA]
A link would than be:
http://example.org/widgets?pg=167&perpage=100&tralala=Hi!
I tried the following but it resulted in a '404 Not Found' error when I go to /widgets:-
RewriteRule ^widgets-pg(.+)$ products.php?cat=27&pg=$1
And I tried the following:-
RewriteRule ^widgets$ products.php?cat=27 [QSA]
This worked correctly but to go to page two of the widgets page, I need to type in the browser:-
/widgets?pg=2
But the actual 'page 2' link still leads to:-
products.php?cat=27&pg=2
So apart from a rewrite rule....maybe I need a separate redirection rule? Or maybe need to change the page number links. But since these are dynamically generated, I'm not sure how to do this.
The following is the PHP code for the page:- http://freetexthost.com/3ubiydspzm