I have a requirement where in I want to give users of my site their personal url.
Something like "http://abc.example.com" and when any user types this url in browser it should open this link "http://www.example.com/index/sub-domain?username=abc"
So I tried writing and trying many codes and finally was successful with below code but problem is it redirects. I want an internal redirection. URL address window should remain as "http://abc.example.com".
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z]+)\.example.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/index/sub-domain?username=%1
</IfModule>
I am not sure if It is possible or not ? Any advice or help will be of great help. Also can anyone suggest me some .htaccess tutorial.
If you do not specificy the R flag on your RewriteRule, mod_rewrite normally performs an internal rewrite. However, since you are using an absolute URL as your rewrite target, it has to be the exact same host, otherwise an external redirect will be issued.
If you really wish to internally redirect to another host, you should check out mod_proxy.
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I have a website that has been built at say montypython.netlify.app
The client has their main website at holygrail.com and they want holygrail.com/resources to show the contents of montypython.netlify.app but keep the URL the same. Which means that it should continue to show holygrail.com/resources in the search bar.
This also means that any pages from montypython.netlify.app should appear are subdirectories of holygrail.com/resources
Example:
montypython.netlify.app/about should appear as holygrail.com/resources/about
I am guessing this has to do with editing the .htaccess at holygrail.com but what rewrite/redirect rules can I reference? There are a lot of URLs so is there a wildcard approach I can use?
This is what I've tried:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^holygrail\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^resources/(.*)$ https://montypython.netlify.app/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>
You can use the [P] proxy flag of mod_rewrite.
Using [P] flag instructs mod_rewrite to handle the request via mod_proxy. Therefore, you must enable mod_proxy to use flag.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^holygrail\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^resources/(.*)$ https://montypython.netlify.app/$1 [P]
</IfModule>
with this code snippet, all pages to be a subdirectory resources will be served from https://montypython.netlify.app/ without a 301 redirection.
Maybe your issue is with the line:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^holygrail\.com$ [NC]
Maybe you need to try to do something like
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/$
RewriteRule ^resources/(.*)$ https://montypython.netlify.app/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>
I have worked on projects in the past with similar objectives. I don't believe you can accomplish this with redirects. The suggestion about using a reverse proxy would be the most well aligned with your requirements, but there is another option that may also be useful. Some DNS providers offer "DNS Cloaking" or "Stealth Redirects". This can be configured so that requests for holygrail.com will display a frame containing the content for montypython.netlify.app. Could you use the same approach for the /resources sub-directory, so that holygrail.com/resources delivers a frame that loads montypython.netlify.app?
The drawback to this is the address bar will not change as you navigate inside the frame, e.g. navigating to montypython.netlify.app/resources/about will still show holygrail.com/resources in the address bar, because it is displaying the address of the frame.
I have a file at example.com/DesktopModules/SubscriptionSignup/Tools/IPNHandler.aspx that needs to be rewritten so that it actually runs example.com/paypal-ipn-handler.php.
All other traffic, though, should be redirected to another-example.com.
I'm using this in my .htaccess file:
# Rewrite IPNHandler.aspx to paypal-ipn-handler.php
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/Tools/IPNHandler.aspx [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ https://www.example.com/paypal-ipn-handler.php [P]
</IfModule>
#Redirect all other traffic to new domain.
RewriteRule ^ https://www.another-example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
However, that's redirected everything including the URL that should stay at this domain, but get re-written to the PHP file.
For example, with the above in place, I would expect that traffic to example.com/DesktopModules/SubscriptionSignup/Tools/IPNHandler.aspx would remain at example.com, but run the PHP script instead. This is not happening, though. It's getting redirected to another-example.com/..../IPNHandler.aspx and gives me a 404, of course.
Any information about how I can adjust this so that my rewrite works and stays on the original domain, but all other traffic gets redirected would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
EDIT
Actually, I commented out the redirect to see if my rewrite was working, and it's actually giving me a 404, but when I hit the paypal-ipn-handler.php directly I get the output I expect.
So it seems I need more help than I thought, please, and thanks!
You may use these rules in your site soot .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule Tools/IPNHandler\.aspx$ /paypal-ipn-handler.php [L,NC]
#Redirect all other traffic to new domain.
RewriteRule !^paypal-ipn-handler\.php$ https://www.another-example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NC,NE,R=301]
There is no need to use P flag here as you just want an internal rewrite.
Condition !^paypal-ipn-handler\.php$ will redirect everything except /paypal-ipn-handler.php.
Make sure to use a new browser to test or test after you completely clear browser cache.
I am attempting to redirect a development site that has been indexed by search engines to a specific category in the new live site.
The development site URL was:
http://staging.mydomain.com.au/
There are multiple page url's after the domain so I'd like to redirect all of these to the same new URL.
E.g.
http://staging.mydomain.com.au/essential_grid/
http://staging.mydomain.com.au/feed/
The new url is, where "/portfolio/" is where I need the old URLs redirected to:
http:www.mydomain.com.au/portfolio/
While I'm not receiving any error messages, staging.mydomain.com.au is
not redirecting to www.mydomain.com.au/portfolio/
This is a snippet of what I have in my .htaccess file at present:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^staging.mydomain.com.au$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com.au/portfolio [R=301,L]
</IfModule>
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
UPDATE: It seems (from comments) that staging. no longer exists - that's the problem! staging. needs to exist (ie. the DNS must resolve) so that the request gets to your server in order to do the redirect. If staging. does not exist then the initial request will simply fail (the browser will fail to lookup the domain and you'll get a DNS error).
You need to recreate the staging subdomain (even with no files) and then implement the redirect below.
Your RewriteRule actually looks OK - assuming you are wanting to redirect all those URLs to the single /portfolio URL. However, the order should perhaps be changed to have the redirect before the internal rewrite. RewriteEngine only needs to be included once and you don't need RewriteBase in the code you have posted. So, this should be rewritten as:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^staging\.mydomain\.com\.au$
RewriteRule ^ http://www.mydomain.com.au/portfolio [R=301,L]
^(.*)$ is reduced to simply ^ since you don't need to capture the URL for a backreference in the substitution.
I've also removed the other RewriteRule as it doesn't appear to be doing anything?
Also note that 301 redirects are cached by the browser, so make sure that you clear your browser cache between failed attempts. It can be easier to test with 302 temporary redirects for this reason.
I've taken my site down for some prolonged maintenance and am using mod_rewrite to send all requests to a single page: www.mysite.com/temp/503.php
This is my .htaccess file which works fine.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/temp/503.php [NC]
RewriteRule .* /temp/503.php [R,L]
However, what I'd also like to be able to do is to hide /temp/503.php in the resulting URL from the visitor.
I know this is perhaps trivial and I'm sure fairly simple to achieve, but with my limited mod_rewrite skills I can't seem to get it to work.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Just get rid of the R flag in the rewrite rule, which tells the rule to redirect the request, thus changing the URL in the browser's location bar. So the rule would look like:
RewriteRule .* /temp/503.php [L]
which internally rewrites the requested URI instead of externally telling the browser that it's been moved to a new URL.
I have hosting setup with a master domain (mapped to the web root) and then a number of addon domains (each with their own folder within the web root). At the moment you can visit www.masterdomain.com/addondomainsubdir and reach the same page as you would if you visited www.addondomain.com (which maps to /public_html/addondomainsubdir). I want to prevent this so if you visit www.masterdomain.com/addondomainsubdir then it will do a 301 redirect to www.addondomain.com. The new addondomain.com site is a single page site so it does not have to map any additional pages.
Adding rules to the htaccess file in the web root does notaffect anything as the subdir exists which is wierd as i thought the htaccess command should work even if there is a matching subdir (i've tried the following which works when there's no matching subdir):
RewriteRule ^addondomainsubdir?$ http://www.addondomain.com [NC,R=301,L]
Logically given it's reaching this directory I figure i need to add a command within the htaccess file in the addondomainsubdir directory however nothing appears to have any effect (i've got various other rules setup and they work fine).
I would be massively grateful if anyone explain the best way to rectify this?
Thanks so much for your help,
Dave
I know this is an old post, but it has never been successfully answered. So for all of you finding this via search, this should do what the OP is asking.
Add this line to your .htaccess file:
redirect permanent /addondomainsubdir/ http://www.addondomain.com
Try these rules in your .htaccess:
Options +FollowSymlinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
# for http
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?masterdomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} =80
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ http://www.$1.com/ [R=301,L]
# for https
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?masterdomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} =443
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ https://www.$1.com/ [R=301,L]
Instead of putting a rule in your main .htaccess, I would make make a .htaccess for each add-on domain, putting each one in the respective subdirectory.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} masterdomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^addondomainsubdir(.*)$ http://www.addondomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]