Are there anyway to make a user get to download thefile by let them type:download.mywebsite.com/thefile
in the browser address while the "download.mywebsite.com/thefile" does not exist but the "www.mywebsite.com/thefile" does.
I've got nearly zero knowledge with .htaccess and mod_rewrite engine. I hope my question is clear.
IF you own mywebsite.com then yes you could, you would have to place a ServerAlias in your root httpd.conf directive then use mod_rewrite to re-write all requests for download.mywebsite.com/thefile to www.mywebsite.com/thefile but the mod_rewrite would not know if a file exists or not in advance.
Another way to do it would be implement a custom error document for a 404 handler which redirects a user to a suggested URL.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/download/(.*)$ http://download.mywebsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
You need to set up your web server to listen for sub-domains as well
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I have a website for example: https://test1.com, and a page on that website https://test1.com/show-content.
I want that page to display the content from another website, for example https://test2.com/show-different-content.
I know I can do it with PHP and file_get_contents, but I'm trying to do it with .htaccess, since I understand it can be possible. I've looked through all the SO questions I found regarding that, but I found no clear solution.
What I have tried in .htaccess is the following:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>=
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^show-content$ https://test2.com/show-different-content [P]
</IfModule>
What am I doing wrong? Or am trying to do something that is not possible?
You have two options for this if the owner of that second site actually grants permission to proxy his sites content. You can use the proxy module available for the apache http server.
Either direct:
ProxyPass /show-content/ https://test2.com/show-different-content/
ProxyPassReverse /show-content/ https://test2.com/show-different-content/
Or embedded in the rewriting module:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?show-content/(.*)$ https://test2.com/show-different-content/$1 [P]
Obviously the proxy module needs to be loaded and activated inside the http server.
I am struggling with an age old problem. I inherited a site with some pretty good SEO and one glaring problem. The entire site is hosted on the /site/ subdirectory. I have decided that I need to load the site at the root. So something like http://example.org/site/index.php will instead redirect to /index.php (<-- that counted as a link, if it is unclear I mean it to be the root of the site/index.php.)
We use joomla for our backend and there are hundreds of pages on the site at this point. I have struggled getting any of the redirects I have seen to do what I want them to do. Basically, any page our patrons visit from an old link with /site/ in it should be redirected to the exact same link, but without the star.
I am open to just loading the page from /site/ and making it look like it is from root. It is my understanding that this can be done with some advances mod-rewrite (http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/85/Using+.htaccess+rewrite+rules#gs ?) but I have not had any success yet. I run a beta site that mimics the parent site in a subdomain that I have already moved from /site/ to / so I can test a lot of .htaccess configs.
Any help is appreciated... thanks!
Just to be sure: you want http://example.org/site/foo/bar/baz.php to go to http://example.org/foo/bar/baz.php, that is, to remove (via redirect) the /site prefix if it's there, but not touch the URL otherwise, right? If so, it depends on which server you're using:
If your server is Apache, you could use something like this in .htaccess:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/site/(.*)$ http://example.com/$1
If it is nginx, add this to the server {...} session of your site's file (usually symlinked inside /etc/nginx/sites-enabled):
location ~ ^/site/(.*)$ { rewrite ^/site/(.*)$ /$1 permanent; }
Here is a good explanation on how such pattern-based redirects can be set up in both servers.
This seems to be the working answer that I will go with. Basically, this needs put into the directory that you are wanting to redirect from, in my case, that was root/site/.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{http_host} !^www.beta.example.org$ [nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://beta.example.org/$1 [r=301,nc,L]
I assume the first rule ignores www? I'd love to work around that but am not sure exactly why it would have been created anyway. this will rewrite any URL that accesses that .htaccess file (inside your subdirectory) and direct you to the same URL without the subdirectory listing. It doesn't really work with the index.php rewrite tool, but that is fine because it still reaches the correct page.
If anyone has a better option for me with use with Joomla I would be glad to hear it. But, I tihnk this is what I will go with for now because it is giving me great results.
if your server is apache2, you can configure there
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName sitio.com
ServerAlias www.sitio.com
DocumentRoot /home/user/public_html/sitio/
...
</VirtualHost>
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I've been searching the archives but I can't find anything that is making too much sense to me.
I have a site with a couple of subdomains which redirect to other sites.
E.g.
the visitor types - www.jmp.redtwenty.com.au - and is redirected to - http://creator.zoho.com/redtwenty/jmp-conversion-tracking
Is there any way to mask this redirect so that the visitor still sees jmp.redtwenty.com.au in the address bar?
I keep seeing mention of a rewrite rule in .htaccess but not sure if that is what I want.
Thanks
Mike
You can do this a few ways, but you'll need to make sure mod_proxy is enabled.
If you have control of the server config or the vhost config of the www.jmp.redtwenty.com.au/ domain, you can add this to it:
ProxyPass / http://creator.zoho.com/redtwenty/jmp-conversion-tracking/
Or in the htaccess file in the document root of http://www.jmp.redtwenty.com.au/:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://creator.zoho.com/redtwenty/jmp-conversion-tracking/$1 [L,P]
I'm quite new here so i have a problem about masking and tried other solutions using .htaccess as well but no luck, that's why im here. Thanks.
Ok here's it is:
I want my http://www.domain.com/article-tip to show in http://www.subdomain.domain.com
It means the page content is from: domain.com/article-tip
But the url above the address is: subdomain.domain.com
How would i do that using .htaccess?
It means i also tried the iframe and frames and php, but i want the .htaccess
Thanks in advance.!
you can use mod_rewrite in that case the URL will be subdomain.domain.com/article-tip but in php URL will be www.domain.com/article-tip.
I don't think you can send dynamic output to browser like what you want with .htaccess
This should work for what you need to get all files in article-tip to point to the subdomain. The subdomain should also point to the subdirectory. This is for the .htaccess of the subdirectory.
RewriteRule ^article-tip(.*)$ http://subdomain.domain.com [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^article-tip/(.*)$ http://subdomain.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
I want to redirect from:
domain1.com/photos
To:
domain2.com/photos
I want the URL in the address bar to still read:
domain1.com/photos
Is there a way to do this using only .htaccess?
Note:
My .htaccess file for domain1.com is currently completely blank.
No, there isn't a way to do this with .htaccess. Doing so would present a glaring security hole - imagine someone doing this with a bank's website!
If both are hosted on the same server, do this in your .htaccess:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain1.com$
RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.domain2.com$1 [P]
</IfModule>
If you own both domain1 and domain2, you could accomplish this through domain name forwarding. Check your domain name registrar (like godaddy.com) for the options.
No, you can not do it through htaccess file.
You could open an iframe in domain1.com/photos that shows the contents of domain2.com/photos. But then the url would never change from domain1.com/photos, even when you went to a different page in domain2.
What are you trying to do? It sounds very sketchy. Do you own both domains? Why would you want to duplicate the contents of one site at another address?
Why is this not possible? Seems like a reasonable task as long as your Apache has mod_proxy installed:
ProxyPass /photos http://domain2.com/photos/
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypass
A way around it, if the page at domain.com/photos is a server side script, do an HTTP call and serve up the response.
In ColdFusion:
<cfhttp url="another.domain.com/photos">
<cfoutput>#CFHTTP.FileContent#</cfoutput>
They'll be an extra request, but it'll get you the output you want.
its impossible using htaccess file.