The URL structure for Joomla 1.5 changed in version 2.5.
Before it was:
http://example.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=587&Itemid=73
Now it's:
http://example.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=587&Itemid=114
*Note the id and itemid numbers change based on page and while all pages have an id not all have the Itemid in the url.
While we updated all links in the database lots of people still have the old link structure so we want to edit the htaccess file so if someone enters the old structure it will forward to the right structure.
Simply put any URL entered at example.com with task=view in the url should be replaced with view=article.
Does anyone know a simply way to do this in htaccess, maybe with replace query string method and 301 redirect?
You can match against the query string using mod_rewrite's RewriteCond and the %{QUERY_STRING} variable. Then use the % backreferences in a RewriteRule
Try something like this:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)&task=view&(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1?%1&view=article&%2 [R=301,L]
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Please help me in writing correct .htaccess code to get the wanted result.
I have the following pages:
www.mydomain.com/?exam=/hp-certification/
www.mydomain.com/?exam=/cisco-certification/
www.mydomain.com/?exam=/oracle-exam-prep/
www.mydomain.com/?exam=/faq/
www.mydomain.com/?exam=/support/
And there are many more pages but you can notice that the fixed part is: www.mydomain.com/?exam=
Instead of using query string links, I want the following links to work as above pages:
www.mydomain.com/hp-certification/
www.mydomain.com/cisco-certification/
www.mydomain.com/oracle-exam-prep/
www.mydomain.com/faq/
www.mydomain.com/support/
and so on.
your link should be like this www.mydomain.com/?exam=hp-certification/ and the rewrite rule would like this in .htaccess file.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)$ /?exam=$1 [L]
You can do that by using the following rules in your .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} exam=(.+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/%1? [R=301,NC,L]
So what does the above do?
First, it will take the query exam= as a condition, if this condition is met then it will grab any version of the variable using (.+).
It will then rewrite the URL using 301 redirection to show http://www.example.com/anything/. The use of %1 is to grab the variable from exam= and then we use ? to stop the original query string from appearing on the end of the newly rewritten URL.
Make sure you clear your cache before testing this.
I have a situation where I want to actually see the url variable even though the rest of my htaccess site uses readable URLS.
The issue is that it is simply showing up as a page not found...
This works...
RewriteRule ^files/(.+)/from_all_files/$ pages/file.php?slug=$1&from=all-files
This does not work
RewriteRule ^files/(.+)?from=all-files$ pages/file.php?slug=$1&from=all-files
Im looking for the second one to work.
You cannot check the query string in a RewriteRule, which can only see the REQUEST_URI. You need to use the following instead:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^from=all-files$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^files/(.+)$ pages/file.php?slug=$1 [QSA,L]
When you request http://example.com/files/some-file?from=all-files, the request will be internally rewritten to pages/file.php?slug=some-file&from=all-files. The Query String Append flag (QSA) will append the current query string to the one you're rewriting to.
I am currently in the final stages of redeveloping a website however having some trouble redirecting the old blog links to the new format.
We have inbound links to the old blog in the form of:
Index Page
http://www.domain_name.co.uk/blog-page/
Needs to become
http://www.domain_name.co.uk/news/
This is easy enough and has been done by using
RewriteRule ^blog-page$ /news/ [R=301,L]
Profile page
http://www.domain_name.co.uk/blog-page/index.php?/archives/1541-title-of-the-blog.html
The above needs to link to
http://www.domain_name.co.uk/news/1541-title-of-the-blog
However the '?' in the middle of the URL structure appears to break my rewriterule. I have read online about QUERYSTRING however I do not believe this solves my issue as there are no actual parameters passed through in the URL
The below code works but passes through the '/?/archives/' info also.
RewriteRule ^blog-page/index.php(.*)$ /news/$1 [R=301,L]
Any help would be massively appreciated. There are several other sections of the previous site build which for some reason use the same URL structure.
You will need an additional rule for matching query string. Have your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^/archives/(.+?)\.html$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^blog-page/index\.php$ /news/%1? [R=301,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^blog-page$ /news/ [R=301,L,NC]
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/$3 [R=301]
We are moving up from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 3.0 and had a discontinued Podcast module.
I wrote my own version (it's tested and working), but now I need to redirect the old podcast URL to the new one.
I tried putting this line in the .htaccess, but it doesn't work. Why?
Redirect 301 http://oar2.org/index.php?option=com_podcast&view=feed&format=raw&Itemid=100 http://oar2.org/rss.php
Assuming that you've got the correct from URL and to URL in your Redirect statement (Redirect <from> <to>), then something important that you've missed is that you can't match against the query string using the Redirect directive (query string is everything starting with the ?). You need to use mod_rewrite's %{QUERY_STRING} variable:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^option=com_podcast&view=feed&format=raw&Itemid=100$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /rss.php? [L,R=301]