How to remove a directory from URL permanently - .htaccess

I have my website under directory alpha in WWW.
so my url are like: www.mydomain.com/alpha/*
I want users to see just www.mydomain.com/*
RewriteCond $1 !^alpha/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /alpha/$1 [L]
Is working correctly for just www.mydomain.com. But beyond that when I click on any link alpha comes back in the URL.
I want to alpha to be completely hidden from users.

Changing the links is the best solution, but if you cannot do so then you need to add another rule to send requests with /alpha to the URL minus /alpha as below.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
#if request starts with alpha
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /alpha/([^\ ])* [NC]
#redirect to without alpha
RewriteRule . http://%{HTTP_HOST}/%1 [L,R=301]
RewriteCond $1 !^alpha/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /alpha/$1 [L]

Related

.htaccess redirects with multiple paramenters

I am rebuilding a real estate site and we have completely restructured how the database handles the properties and I am now trying to redirect all of the old property urls to the new ones. The problem that I am having is that the old urls used multiple parameters(including the section and the property id) for a single property and the new urls only use a slug for the property name.
Example:
OLD: https://www.example.com/listings.php?sect=1&view=92
NEW: https://www.example.com/listings/tombstone-ranch
My current .htaccess looks like the following with the last two lines being the rewrites for converting the slugs into clean urls...all of this works fine.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# remove .php; use THE_REQUEST to prevent infinite loops
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ (.*)\.php\ HTTP
RewriteRule (.*)\.php$ $1 [R=301]
# remove index
RewriteRule (.*)/index$ $1/ [R=301]
# remove slash if not directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /$
RewriteRule (.*)/ $1 [R=301]
# add .php to access file, but don't redirect
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule (.*) $1\.php [L]
RewriteRule ^listings/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /listings/index.php?s=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^listings/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/$ /listings/index.php?s=$1 [L]
The Problem that I am having is that neither of the following seems to work:
Redirect 301 /listings.php?sect=1&view=92 /listings/tombstone-ranch
and neither does this:
RewriteRule ^listings.php?sect=3&view=33 /listings/tombstone-ranch
or any other variations that I have tried.
Any thoughts? .htaccess is not my strong suit and unfortuinately I need to get these to work considering the old version of the site and it's urls have been around for almost 8 years now so there is the potential for dead links on about 75 properties.
Could you try this rule. Can't test it at the moment.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} sect=1&view=92
RewriteRule ^listings\.php$ /listings/thombstone-ranch/? [L,R=301]
Also the rule you added will not work because you must add a backslash
Wrong:
RewriteRule ^listings.php?sect=3&view=33 /listings/tombstone-ranch
Right:
RewriteRule ^listings\.php?sect=3&view=33 /listings/tombstone-ranch
Don't forget since your main URL is a query, you should use the first option that I gave to you. If that doesn't work leave a comment and I'll be glad to help you out

Implementing "friendly" URLs using .htaccess

I tried some of the other answers I could find in here, but it didn't work out. It's really simple though.
I want
/page?id=PAGENAME
to be accessible AND redirected to
/PAGENAME
Can you help me?
EDIT:
It feels like my already messed-up .htaccess file needs to be included in here. I already have basic rewriting enabled, but this feature is needed for two other "special pages". In the requested solution above, I would therefore just replace "page" with the two pagenames (it's danish names, so I thought it was easier this way).
Currently I have this. If you have any improvements to it, it's appreciated - but I just want this to work with the requested solution aswell.
# Options -Multiviews -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Always on https
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]
# remove trailing slash
#RewriteRule ^(.*)\/(\?.*)?$ $1$2 [R=301,L]
#301 Redirect everything .php to non php
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /([^.]+\.)+php?\ HTTP
RewriteRule (.+)\.php?$ http://MYURL.dk/$1 [R=301,L]
#Hide the .php from url
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php
#301 Redirect everything mistype after file extension -
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
#301 Redirect everything to current url -
RedirectMatch permanent /(.*).php/.* http://MYURL.dk/$1.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -D
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/ [L]
#301 Redirect from non www to www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.MYURL.dk [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://MYURL.dk/$1 [R=301,L]
#301 redirect index.php to /
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} index.php
RewriteRule .* http://MYURL.dk/ [R=301,L]
#Deny access to songs
RewriteCond $1 !(loadmedia)\.php
RewriteRule ^songs/(.*)$ - [L,F]
Generally the URL in address bar should be like
www.siteurl.com/pagename/ for seo purpose and then read this url from .htaccess using rule which gives this query string parameter values in your php file.
.htaccess rule can be like
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /page?id=$1 [QSA,L]
It looks like you are wanting to implement "friendly" (or "pretty") URLs, making the URLs more friendly for you users (search engines don't really mind what your URLs look like).
The first step is to change all your on-page links to use the new "friendly" URL. So, you links should all be of the form /pagename (not /page?id=PAGENAME).
Then, in .htaccess, you need to internally rewrite this "friendly" URL into the real URL that your server understands. This can be done using mod_rewrite. In the .htaccess file in your document root:
# Enable the rewrite engine
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
# Rewrite the "friendly" URL back to the real URL
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^id=
RewriteRule ^([\w-]*) /page?id=$1 [L]
If the file does not exist (!-f) and does not contain the id URL param then internally rewrite the request from /<pagename> to /page?id=<pagename>. This assumes your <pagename> consists only of the characters a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _ and -.
If this is a new site and the old URLs are not already indexed or referenced by external sites then you can stop here.
However, if you are changing an existing URL structure then you also need to externally redirect the real (ugly) URL to the "friendly" URL before the above internal rewrite. (This is actually what you are asking in your question.) In order to prevent a rewrite loop we can check against %{THE_REQUEST} (which does not change when the URL is rewritten).
# Redirect real URLs to "friendly" URLs
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \?id=([\w-]*)
RewriteRule ^page$ /%1? [R=302,L]
Change the 302 (temporary) to 301 (permanent) when you are sure this is working OK. Permanent redirects are cached by the browser so can make testing a problem.
So, in summary, with the above two parts shown together:
# Enable the rewrite engine
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
# Redirect real URLs to "friendly" URLs
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \?id=([\w-]*)
RewriteRule ^page$ /%1? [R=302,L]
# Rewrite the "friendly" URL back to the real URL
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^id=
RewriteRule ([\w-]*) /page?id=$1 [L]
The order of directives is important. External redirects should nearly always come before internal rewrites.
UPDATE#1:
I want /concept?id=NAME to go to /NAME and /studio?id=NAME to go to /NAME - there's 5-10 different "pages" from both concept and studio. [Corrected according to later comment]
Since id=NAME maps to /NAME you can achieve all 10-20 redirects with just a single rule:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=(NAME|foo|bar|baz|abc|def|ghi)
RewriteRule ^(concept|studio)$ /%1? [R,L]
This will redirect a URL such as /studio?id=foo to /foo.
As with all external redirects this should be one of the first rules in your .htaccess file.
Change R to R=301 when you have tested that it is working OK.
To make this more "dynamic", ie. match any "NAME" then change the CondPattern, for example:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([\w-]*)
UPDATE#2:
If the path part of the URL (ie. concept or studio) is required then you can modify the RewriteRule substitution like so:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([\w-]*)
RewriteRule ^(concept|studio)$ /$1/%1? [R,L]
Which will redirect /concept?id=foo to /concept/foo.
Or, to be completely "dynamic" (bearing in mind this will now capture anything):
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([\w-]*)
RewriteRule ^([\w-]+)$ /$1/%1? [R,L]

Htaccess - Rewrite engine (reverse engineering a line of code)

On a site I'm working on, if you enter the url, plus 1 directory, the htaccess adds a trailing slash.
So, this: http://www.mysite.com/shirts
Becomes this: http://www.mysite.com/shirts/
The htaccess that runs the site is quite long and complex, so it's not easy to find or test which rule is causing the rewrite. I was able to track down the issue to this line of code (I think):
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Does this rule match the behavior I'm describing above? It seems to be the cause, but it doesn't make logical sense to me. I don't unsderstand where the trailing slash is coming from.
Can someone shed some light on this for me? Thanks in advance.
Edit: MORE:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
By default apache will add the ending /, you will have to use:
DirectorySlash Off
To disable that behavior which is caused by mod_dir, you can read more about it here.
However if you're trying to remove the / to fix images not showing. That is not the right way to do it, you should instead use the HTML base tag, for example:
<BASE href="http://www.yourdomain.com/">
Read more here about it.
Your current rule as you have updated on your question:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Means:
if domain on the URL is only mysite.com
redirect current URL to domain with www.
So an example of it would be, if you access:
http://domain.com/blog/some_blog_article
It will redirect the user to:
http://www.domain.com/blog/some_blog_article
Note how it retains everything and only add the www. to the domain.
If you really want to redirect it regardless here is one way to do it:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
# check if it is a directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
# check if the ending `/` is missing and redirect with slash
RewriteRule ^(.*[^/])$ /$1/ [R=301,L]
# if file or directory does not exist
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# and we still want to append the `/` at the end
RewriteRule ^(.*[^/])$ /$1/ [R=301,L]

Expression Engine remove index.php using .htaccess not working

My client has a godaddy Virtual Dedicated Server (yes I know it sucks).... It has WHM VPS Optimized running on it .
I am trying to remove the index.php from the urls but my server still displays 404 errors I have looked at every forum in the universe and cant get an htaccess file that works. Here is what expression engine tells you to put use...
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(/index\.php|/img|/js|/css|/robots\.txt|/favicon\.ico)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
I know diddly about Apache.. please help kind sirs...
Test if the htaccess is working:
# Redirect domain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourdomain.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/google\.com" [R=301,L]
Or
# Remove the www from the URL
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
Ensure you actually have content appearing when you enter /index.php :P
Once you know your htaccess is working try "$1" instead of "%{REQUEST_URI}":
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(img|admin\.php|themes|robots\.txt|index\.php|sitemap\.xml|/favicon\.ico) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
Also try "/index.php?/$1" instead of "/index.php/$1"
Ensure you have set EE (Admin->General Configuration) so "Name of your site's index page" is blank.
Remember that once you do get EE to work without the index.php appearing, it can be used both ways (with and without), which is bad for SEO, so remove it like so (place before the above rewrite :)
# Redirect index.php Requests (prevent site showing index.php in browser address bar)
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET.*index\.php [NC]
RewriteRule (.*?)index\.php/*(.*) /$1$2 [R=301,L]

htaccess rewrite rule, old URL to new

A bit of help fellow SO people.
What I have at the moment (based on some code I used for a different type of URL).
I want the first URL to redirect to the second, with no query string included afterwards
This is what I have to so far.
RewriteRule ^(page.php?id=missionstatement+)/?$ http://example.com/why/mission-statement [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(page.php?id=ofsted+)/?$ http://example.com/how/ofsted-report [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(page.php?id=governingbody+)/?$ http://example.com/governors [R=301,L]
Here is the rule (will redirect 1 URL):
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=whatever
RewriteRule ^page\.php$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/how/somehow? [R=301,L]
This rule intended to be placed in .htaccess in website root folder. If placed elsewhere some small tweaking may be required.
I have used %{HTTP_HOST} -- this will redirect to the same domain as requested URL. If domain name has to be different, replace it by exact domain name.
The ? at the end of new URL will get rid of existing query string.
Ahoy!
Give this a whirl:
#check mod_rewrite is enabled
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
#enable mod rewrite
RewriteEngine On
#set working directory
RewriteBase /
#force trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/ [R=301,L]
#bootstrap index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^page.php\?id=(.*)$ http://www.willans.com/page.php/$1 [R=310,L]
#end mod rewrite check
</IfModule>
It's been a while since i've done any web dev, but that should be a push in the right direction at least ;)

Resources