Currently I have added the following code to the .htaccess. This code detects browser language and forwards the Spanish visitors to /es/
When users with a Spanish language visit mysite.com they are automatically send to mysite.com/es/
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^(es.*) [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(^/images/.*)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(^/es/.*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /es/$1 [L,R=301]
This works fine, but does not work with subfolders. For example if the same user visits mysite.com/page/ they are not send to mysite.com/es/page/
How can the code be change so that is works with all subfolders?
Like it is possible with www redirects
rewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !site.com
rewriteRule ^(.*)$ site.com/$1 [R=301,L]
if you visit site.com/page/test/ you will be automatically redirected to www.site.com/page/test/ Yet something like this does not seem to work with language to go from www.site.com/page/test/ to www.site.com/es/page/test/
If your layout is such that there are subfolders with content, not a web application, then you would need such a .htaccess file in each of the subfolders. The same file placed in the es directory should do the trick.
As for differentiating between Spain-Spanish and Peru-Spanish, you can try es-ES and es-PE.
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My website is located in a subfolder (gng2) of my public_html folder. The below code from the public_html/.htaccess file works fine in the sense that typing my domain loads the website properly from the subdirectory:
## redirect to subfolder containing the app.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !gng2/
RewriteRule (.*) /gng2/$1 [L]
My problem is that www.example.com/gng2/whateverpage also works. I want to rewrite/reroute these urls to www.example.com/whateverpage so that the "gng2" subfolder does not show up for example in Google Analytics results.
How should I modify the above code to achieve this?
Thanks,
W.
You can use this redirect rule in gng2/.htaccess to remove /gng2/ from all URLs:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+gng2/(\S*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1 [L,R=301,NE]
# other rules appear below this line
Please keep your htaccess file inside gng2 folder and try following rules in your htaccess rule file. Please make sure these rules are at top of your file(for applying http/HTTPS to URLs, in case you have more rules), also please do clear browser cache before testing your URLs.
RewriteEngine ON
## redirect to subfolder containing the app.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example\.com$ [NC]
##Place your RewriteRule here.....
I have a domain
http://www.example.biz/
I developed a site and put the code in a sub folder on this domain for example, the site is at
http://www.example.biz/site
now, I wanted to point my main domain to this folder so that when user visits example.biz he actually sees example.biz/site and for that, I added the below lines in .htaccess
RedirectMatch ^/$ /site/
it works perfectly however, the url user sees is
http://www.example.biz/site
I do not want that, I wanted user to only see http://www.example.biz as URL but this domain should point to the sub folder invisibly. How should I do that ?
Using mod_rewrite you can use the below rule, now when you access http://www.example.biz it will show the index file from for site/.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ /site/ [L]
Or if you want to show every file try with below,
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(/|.+)$ site/$1 [L]
I found a simpler solution,
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [NE,R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example\.biz$
RewriteRule !^site/ /site%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
I am in a situation where an user can create his blog in a subdomain.
Users will create blogs and enter the address he wants like say,
abcd.domain.com Then my php code creates a directory called abcd.
To view the blog user will type in abcd.domain.com in his browser and I want a .htaccess code which will rewrite the url and open the files inside the domain.com/abcd
But for the user the url in the browser should stay abcd.domain.com
Currently I am trying this code
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^test\.domain\.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^test/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /test/$1 [L,QSA]
But this gives me 404 even though I have a file test.html inside the test folder and trying to view that page.
Also in this situation I will have to manually make change to the .htaccess file for URL rewrite. What I want to know is if it is possible to have a wild card subdomain redirect to the respective directory.
You can use:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^test\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/test/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /test/$1 [L,QSA]
REQUEST_URI with leading /.
With wild card subdomain:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.+)\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/%1/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /%1/$1 [L,QSA]
Note that it takes more than a rewrite rule to have wildcard subdomains. Just fyi.
You need to have created a wildcard DNS record for subdomains and also tell apache to use any subdomain request by having a ServerAlias of *.domain.com in the apache config.
Then try your rule this way and see if it works for you.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^((?!www).+)\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %1::%{REQUEST_URI} !^(.*?)::/\1/?
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /%1/$1 [L,QSA]
After redirecting my client domain to my server i created rewrite rule in root folder .htaccess file to point domain to a subfolder1 (joomla website):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?myclientdomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/subfolder/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subfolder1/$1 [L]
Everything worked fine but today i found out that i can access any other subfolder in my server by entering for example: myclientdomain.com/subfolder2 and what's worse google can index that and show it in search results.
If there is any way to redirect a domain in a way that I won't be able to access any other folder on my server?
I would really appreciate help as I searched throughout google for answer, my server tech support said that they don't really support these kind of problems (they only gave me a piece of code from above) and I don't really know anything about .htaccess rules and how it works.
Try this
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?myclientdomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subfolder\/?(.*)?$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subfolder1/$1 [L]
Change above rule to:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?myclientdomain\.com$ [NC]
# if current URI is not starting with /subfolder/ then route to /subfolder/
RewriteRule ^((?!subfolder1/).*)$ subfolder1/$1 [L,NC]
I am trying to redirect users with Chineses languages to the a domain using the following code in an .htaccess file
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} (zh) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/under_c.html [L]
When I change my browser language to Chinese and test out the redirect it does go to the specified page, but it doesn't display anything it just gives me an error in the console that says "Failed to load resource: net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS". I've tried other solutions around the web but none of them seem to be able to redirect by language.
Is there a better way to redirect by language in the .htaccess file?
To prevent a rewrite loop you need to exclude under_c.html from the rule.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} (zh) [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/under_c.html [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://www.example.com/under_c.html [R=302,L]