I'm trying to redirect just one page on a site to another one using htaccess. I'm new to this, but have been reading and reading everywhere to figure out how to do this, but without success.
I would like to redirect www.example.se to www.example.se/index.php?template=<templatename>
Is that possible and how would I approach that? So sorry if I'm asking a stupid question here, but really can't find a solution and it's driving me crazy.
Try:
Redirect / /index.php?template=<templatename>
Add a 301 right after Redirect if you want it to be permanent.
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I guess, this is an easy one but anyway, I haven't figured it out yet.
After migrating my website from Joomla 3 to Joomla 4 the structure of categories and articles will change. That's why I will need some rules in .htaccess to redirect the old urls to the new ones.
The website is hosted on an Apache server.
The old URL structure looks something like that.
https://www.mydomain.de/category/subcategory/item/[articleID]-[articleAlias].html
[articleID] is a digit.
[articleAlias], e.g. „this-is-article-number-233“
This should be redirected to...
https://www.mydomain.de/newcategory/newsubcategory/[articleAlias].html
An example:
https://www.mydomain.de/category/subcategory/item/2324-this-is-my-latest-article.html
… should be redirected to...
https://www.mydomain.de/newcategory/newsubcategory/this-is-my-latest-article.html
I've played around with RedirectMatch and Rewrite Rule but haven't been successful to make it work. How do I get rid of the article id?
My latest try failed with...
RedirectMatch ^category/subcategory/item/([0-9]+)-(.*)$ /newcategory/newsubcategory/$1
Is there a simple and elegant solution to this? Thanks in advance!
UPDATE
Maybe it's more complex than I thought it was.
Main problem is that not only my categories changed but also the ids of the articles.
So, to stick with my example...
https://www.mydomain.de/category/subcategory/item/2324-this-is-my-latest-article.html
first turns into something like:
https://www.mydomain.de/newcategory/newsubcategory/1223-this-is-my-latest-article.html
Anyway, Joomla 4 is able to drop the article id automatically (guess with an internal rewrite) for seo-friendly URLs. I activated that feature to make the new URLs look like
https://www.mydomain.de/newcategory/newsubcategory/[articleAlias].html
The [articleAlias] stays the same.
A redirection according to what you actually ask should be possible like that:
RewriteEngine on
RedirectRule ^/?category/subcategory/item/[0-9]+-(.*)\.html$ /newcategory/newsubcategory/$1.html [R,L]
However I doubt that this really is what you want: this completely drops the numeric ID of the resource. Which means that it won't be available for processing when the redirected request comes back requesting the new, stripped URL. How do you want to internally rewrite that request back to the internal resource then, without that ID?
I made some more tests and it this is the final solution to my problem:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/?category/subcategory/item/[0-9]+-(.*)\.html$ /newcategory/newsubcategory/$1.html
I am a little lost. I tried searching this site and the web at large, but I couldn't seem to find exactly what I need. So please forgive me if this has been answered before, I really tried to find it.
I have … inherited a .htaccess file with quite a lot of 301 redirects in the
Redirect 301 /shorthand /actual-link/actual-file.php
syntax (with a RewriteEngine On line somewhere high up in the file). I don't know exactly much about redirects, but that seems pretty straightforward to me. It just sits there and sometimes new shorthand links get added. There is some non-www to www, and http to https kind of stuff at the top, that's it.
Now the structure of the site changes, and two similar pages that process query parameters get consolidated into one. Basically there is
Old page: /path/subpath/index.php?some=query¶meter=or&other
New page: /other-path/file.php?added=parameter&some=query¶meter=or&other
I can't predict what parameters exactly will be part of the URL, I just have to take everything starting from the ? and append it to the new URL, that already has to include an added parameter, so everything after the ? follows ?added=parameter& .
I suppose that is not exactly hard, but alas, I lack the experience. And all I could find was something like "Take this specific defined query parameter you already know and set it as a path name" or vice versa, and I couldn't get that to work for my problem.
Is there a solution compatible with the syntax used elsewhere in the file? Or does that matter at all? Can I combine Redirect 301 … lines with RewriteCond … RewriteRule … commands? Does %{QUERY_STRING} help me somehow? If so, how can I figure out the correct syntax?
I would really appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction.
Many thanks in advance!
This is really bugging me, for something that should be real simple.
Trying to 301 redirect a URL (via htaccess) - in the following manner:
https://www.example.com/forums/sub-forum/index.php
needs to be redirected to:
https://www.example.com/forums/sub-forum/
Basically want to get rid of the index.php (note: the sub-forum is a wildcard, as it can be anything, e.g. football-forum or tennis-forum etc...)
So far I've managed to work out that I need to do something along these lines:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/forums/.*/index.php /forums/<wildcard>
However, I'm not sure what to put in instead of <wildcard> part. I've tried putting .*, but that doesn't work
Any ideas on how to achieve this? Your help would be much appreciated.
Many thanks.
I need to redirect https://example.com/projects/issues/(some_text_here) to http://example.com/i/(same_text_here) in such a way that it /i/(same_text_here) shows the same page that /projects/issues/(some_text_here) shows. Is this possible? How would I do this. Please post the code I would use (along with helpful comments explaining why something goes where it does). Thanks!
EDIT: I believe I would have to use the htaccess file?
EDIT 2: By (some_text_here) I mean so random text, like a wildcard. It could be /projects/issues/34... or /projects/issues/hello. In this case first example should redirect to /i/34, and the second example should redirect to /i/hello
Try this out in your .htaccess:
Redirect /projects/issues/ http://example.com/i/
I've recently inherited a webserver whose IP previously belonged to a well known band's forums.
Problem is I'm now drowning in 404 errors!
The URLs in question look like this:
http://[server_ip]/forum/ucp.php?mode=register&coppa=0
http://[server_ip]/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=45330
http://[server_ip]/forum/index.php+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Result:+%ED%E5+%...
http://[server_ip]/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=44597&start=0
In an ideal world I would like to redirect any traffic going to /forum/ucp.php, /forum/viewtopic.php or /forum/index.php elsewhere regardless of query string.
Or anything going to /forum/.* elsewhere, if that's doable.
I've tried a number of different solutions with little success, any help appreciated.
Assuming that you want to redirect all traffic to /forum/.* to http://mysite.com/somedirectory, which you can replace with the actual URL you wish to redirect to, you can add the following to the .htaccess in the root directory of your sites domain.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
#for any request starting with forum
RewriteRule ^forum/ http://mysite.com/somedirectory? [NC,L,R=302]
Be sure to keep the ? if you want to remove the query string params from the original query. If you want to make it a permanent redirect, change the 302 to a 301.
Don't really know what you have tried so far but this site will probably help you.
http://perishablepress.com/press/2006/01/10/stupid-htaccess-tricks/#redirects