I'm just going to explain my problem here :
http://mysite.com/movie/20000
should be rewritten to
http://mysite.com/movie.php?id=20000
my htaccess file :
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^movie/([0-9]+)$ movie.php?id=$1
On my localhost WAMP installation this works fine, but when I put it online on my linux host it doesn't completely work. It does go to the movie.php page, but it seems it gives no GET parameter id.
Edit :
if I use
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^movie([0-9]+)$ movie.php?id=$1
then
http://mysite.com/movie20000
Goes to the correct page, but I would like /movie/20000 and not just /movie20000
It also seems that my host automatically rewrites a visit to mysite.com/movie to mysite.com/movie.php
After searching for a long time, and pulling some of my lovely hair out I found the solution.
I just added
Options -MultiViews
to my htaccess file and that fixed it.
Why? Because .php was being added to urls without an extension, which I really did not need.
This should work.
RewriteRule ^movie/([0-9]+)$ http://mysite.com/movie.php?id=$1 [NC,L]
Don't forget the [NC, L] it means Case insensitive, last rule... If you don't, it will continue to process through your htaccess rules, maybe triggering other ones.
Still, the stuff below is good advice.... :)
Check to see if the Rewrite module is loading with apache. Look for this line in the httpd.conf file:
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
Check to see if your apache config allows for .htaccess files for your system or in the virtual host definition.
Also, test with a simpler rewrite catch all and test that alone to see if it's working at all like this (get rid of everything else in your htaccess file to limit the test):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.google.com [L,R=301]
Any request to your site should go to google if the configuration for apache is correctly set.
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First of all, this question has been asked a few times on stack, however, none of the answers seem to work for me.
I have a website which has a "pages" folder in the root, I want to store all of my website pages in there.
Here's my structure
/pages/folder/folder2/index.php
I want to make it so the link displays:
https://wwww.website.com/folder/folder2/index.php
Removing the "/pages/" part of the URL, when I try all of the answers suggested previously, I get a 404 error.
Here is the htaccess I'm using
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^pages(/.*|)$ $1 [L,NC]
</IfModule>
and i also tried:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^pages/(.*)$ /$1 [L,R=301]
This htaccess is in the root. I can't seem to get it working, can anyone offer any suggestions? Thank you!
Your second attempt looks fine, though it can be imporoved a bit:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?pages/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301]
That rule should work inside the http servers host configuration or in some dynamic configuration file (".htaccess" style file) if the http server's rewriting module is loaded. You definitely should prefer the first option, but if you really need to use a dynamic configuration file then take care that the interpretation of such files is configured at all and that the file is placed in your hosts's DOCUMENT_ROOT folder and is readable for the http server process.
If that does not work then you need to start debugging. In this case you will start by monitoring your http server's error log file while making test requests. If no hint appears in there you need to enable rewrite logging which allows you to learn what exactly is going on inside the rewriting engine. See the official dpcumentation for the apache rewriting module for that. As typcial for OpenSource software it is of excellent quality and comes with great examples.
Say I have a set of URLs
Http://www.example.com/some/thing/*
Call the bit in the star, $id
And I want it to simply return the file at http://www.example.com/some/thing.html?src=$id without telling the client its a new URL.
After some research I have been told to set up a .htaccess file, however, Ubuntu suggests that is a bad idea and that I should do it through the main configuration. I dont mind doing it either way. However, its worth noting, that for so e reason I don't have a default.conf file in my /etc/apache2/sites-available
Enable .htaccess if it is not already enabled and then you can use this code in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file:
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^some/thing/(.+)$ some/thing.html?src=$1 [L,NC,QSA]
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^mocks/site/(.*)$ http://thelivewebsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
That is my htaccess file's contents.
The htaccess file is in the root directory of the hosting account and I just want to redirect the directory mocks/site/ to the new domain (with or without any extra directories).
eg: if someone goes to http://mywebsite.com/mocks/site then it needs to redirect to http://thelivewebsite.com. If they go to http://mywebsite.com/mocks/site/another/directory then it needs to redirect to http://thelivewebsite.com/another/directory. I hope that makes sense.
So the problem I have is that the htaccess code above seems to work pretty well when there is something after mocks/site/ however when there isn't something after that then the $1 in the redirect seems to reference the whole REQUEST_URI (eg: mocks/site/ rather than nothing - as there is nothing after it).
I don't know how to stop this. I thought about using a RewriteCond, but I'm not sure what to use there. I can't find anything that helps me to determine if there is anything after mocks/site/ or not.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Thank you.
That's very strange behaviour -- never seen anything like that. Therefore I think it could be something else (another rule somewhere -- on old or even new site). I recommend enabling rewrite debugging (RewriteLogLevel 9) and check the rewrite log (that's if you can edit Apache's config file / virtual host definition).
In any case, try this combination:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^mocks/site/$ http://thelivewebsite.com/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^mocks/site/(.+)$ http://thelivewebsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
It will do matching/redirecting in 2 steps: first rule is for exact directory match (so no $1 involved at all) and 2nd will work if there is at least 1 character after the /mocks/site/.
Alternatively (Apache docs even recommending this one) use Redirect directive (no need for mod_rewrite at all for such simple redirects):
Redirect 301 /mocks/site/ http://thelivewebsite.com/
I'm working on my project and now I want to transfer it from my localhost to server. Everything seems to work fine, but .htaccess doesn't work.
The server should be suporting mod_rewrite and print_r(apache_get_modules()); shows mod_rewrite running.
But still, when I type myaddress.com/contact, it shows error 404.
Here is the .htaccess file, but it should be fine, since it runs on my localhost:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^adminator/?$ adminator/login.php [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1&detail=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [L]
Do you have any idea?
Thanks, Mike.
Does the server allow .htaccess? It doesn't really have to.
Try other directives, ask your hosting provider, or check the configuration yourself if possible.
I tried testing your rules they should be fine on urls such as: http://myhost.com/test1 and http://myhost.com/test1/test2 result in requesting url: index.php?page=test1 and index.php?page=test1&detail=test2
So the problem is not your rules, it is your server setup somewhere. As Mewp said check your Apache config file, look for AllowOverride which should be enabled for .htaccess files to overriding default settings.
Ok, fixed it .. deep in the hostings settings, there was an option to activate it .. but I found it after 4 hours of looking around .. :P
I have a couple of rewrite rules in htaccess. They work on one server but not another. My script is as follows (I've commented out how the urls look):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/images/
#example.com/regions/fife/
RewriteRule ^regions/([A-Za-z0-9\-\+\']+)/?$ /regions.php?region=$1 [L]
#example.com/regions/fife/dunfermline
RewriteRule ^regions/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ /regions.php?region=$1&town=$2 [L]
It returns two variables (region & town) I can manipulate in PHP, and throw up the appropriate content. I have a Rackspace server, and the script works perfectly, but on another server (Freedom2surf) it only works so far. It doesn't return the variables. I get a blank $_GET array...
Any ideas? F2S aren't giving me any clues, just that I should check my code. But if it works on another server, then what gives? Is it an Apache setting that is different?
I think you may be after the 'QSA' flag, which will append the query string from the original request to the redirected request, e.g:
#example.com/regions/fife/
RewriteRule ^regions/([A-Za-z0-9\-\+\']+)/?$ /regions.php?region=$1 [L,QSA]
This sounds like you have a mod_negotiation conflict here and you need to turn Multiviews off. Sometimes apache default configurations have Multiviews turned on by default. What that does is it will look at a request, say, /regions/1234 and mod_negotiation will notice that there is a file /regions.php and assume that the request is actually for that php file. It'll thus serve /regions.php/1234 and completely bypass mod_rewrite. You can use Options to turn it off. Just add this to the top of your htaccess file:
Options -Multiviews