RewriteRule from subfolder path to another subfolder path - .htaccess

I'm currently creating a bunch for RewriteRules for a customer migrating their website to a new platform and having a weird issue with the following rule:
RewriteRule ^/folder/filename.cfm /another_folder/subfolder/filename.cfm?name=value
I've never had problems with the right side of the rule, which BTW the URL does work. But the left side is my first with a folder.
So what happens is I get as a 404 error. But the following rule will work just fine.
RewriteRule ^filename.cfm /another_folder/subfolder/filename.cfm?name=value
Anyone have any ideas. BTW, were this is on a Windows system using Helicon Ape Manager.

I guess you are using .htaccess file inside /folder/? Here is quote from Helicon Ape documentation Context and processing order :
Remember when RewriteRule directive is used inside .htaccess configuration files it will automatically strip the local directory prefix from the path and apply rules only to the remainder. You can use RewriteBase directive to explicitly specify a base path for the rules.

The issue I discovered after using an HTTP request sniffer is that APE will normalize the redirecting links. So a link that includes %2E will get escaped to %372E. And so the links were becoming invalid.

Related

How do I remove a folder from a URL?

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.

Why does this RewriteRule work for all extensions but .php?

This simple RewriteRule that I am using for practicing with .htaccess files works almost always:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^.*$ test.html
When I have the file flowers.html and I use http://localhost/flowers I get redirected to test.html, however when I rename flowers.html to flowers.php I get a 404 page with the message The requested URL /flowers was not found on this server. Does anyone know what causes this?
EDIT:
When I create an empty file called flowers it does redirect properly to test.html. What is going on here?
This does sound like a conflict with MultiViews, so try adding the following at the top of your .htaccess file to disable MultiViews:
Options -MultiViews
MultiViews is not enabled by default, so maybe this has been enabled in your server config?
When MultiViews (part of mod_negotiation) is enabled, a request for /flowers (no extension) will result in Apache searching for an appropriate file to return (based on mime-type) by trying various file extensions of files found in that directory. This is achieved with an internal subrequest before mod_rewrite runs.
However, it's not clear why this would be a problem in your case if you have no other directives? Since your directive simply rewrites everything to test.html (which should include any subrequests). (I was unable to reproduce this behaviour on my Apache 2.4 test server - hence my initial doubt.)

Rewrite URL with .htaccess for 2 parameters

How can I convert URL from:
http://example.com/site/delete-page.php?site=first&page=second
To:
http://example.com/site/first/delete-page/second
Thank You!
This is the normal rule for that specific task:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/site/([^/]+)/delete-page/(.+)$ /site/delete-page.php?site=$1&page=$2 [L]
To use the same rule inside a .htaccess style file you have to modify it slightly: remove the leading slash (/) from pattern and target:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^site/([^/]+)/delete-page/(.+)$ site/delete-page.php?site=$1&page=$2 [L]
This assumes that the .htaccess style file is located inside the folder holding the site folder. You can also place the file inside that site folder, then obviously you have to remove the site/ part from the rules pattern and target. Also you have to take care that the interpretation of .htaccess style files is enabled at all for that host and location.
In general you should always prefer the first version and place such rules inside your http servers host configuration. .htaccess style files are notoriously error prone, hard to debug and they really slow the server down. They are only offered as a last option for situations where you do not have access to the server configuration. For example when using a really cheap shared web hoster service...

Clean URL rewriting rule

right now my url looks like this:
http://domain.com/en/c/product%2C-product2%2C-product3/82
where last number is category numer.
And im trying to rewrite it and redirect user to url which should look this one:
http://domain.com/82/product-product2-product3
The clue is I want to hide "en/c/" part and clean url from commas and blank spaces. I'm completely green in rewriting.
Any ideas?
You can use these 2 rules in your root .htaccess for that:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^en/c/([^,\s]*)[,\s]+([^,\s]*)/(\d+)/?$ $3/$1$2 [NC,L,NE,R=302]
RewriteRule ^(en/c)/([^,\s]*)[,\s]+(.*)/(\d+)/?$ $1/$2$3/$4 [NC,L]
In order for this to work, we need to tell the server to internally redirect all requests for the URL "url1" to "url2.php". We want this to happen internally, because we don't want the URL in the browser's address bar to change.
To accomplish this, we need to first create a text document called ".htaccess" to contain our rules. It must be named exactly that (not ".htaccess.txt" or "rules.htaccess"). This would be placed in the root directory of the server (the same folder as "url2.php" in our example). There may already be an .htaccess file there, in which case we should edit that rather than overwrite it.
The .htaccess file is a configuration file for the server. If there are errors in the file, the server will display an error message (usually with an error code of "500").
If you are transferring the file to the server using FTP, you must make sure it is transferred using the ASCII mode, rather than BINARY. We use this file to perform 2 simple tasks in this instance - first, to tell Apache to turn on the rewrite engine, and second, to tell apache what rewriting rule we want it to use. We need to add the following to the file:
RewriteEngine On # Turn on the rewriting engine
RewriteRule ^url1/?$ url2.php [NC,L] # Handle requests for "url1"

ModRewrite only works for some options

My htaccess file is the following:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^blog/post/([0-9]+) /blog.php?post=$1
RewriteRule ^blog/page/([0-9]+) /blog.php?page=$1
RewriteRule ^work/([0-9]+) /work.php?ID=$1
The work.php rule is working, but the two blog rules aren't. They used to all work, but I recently moved my server. Any ideas why this would be?
Thanks in advance!
Edit:
Woah, I noticed that I had a work folder, but no blog folder, so I made one, and now this works. Any ideas why?
I just set up a (virtual) server on my local Apache 2.2 installation, running PHP 5.2 as a module. The server's document root contained only php files to (simplistically) process the examples you gave above (just echoing the parameters from $_GET). My .htaccess file at the document root contained only what you specified above, and nothing else. The document root did not contain the subdirectories /work or /blog (or /blog/post or /blog/page).
My setup did not have any problems at all rewriting the SEO-friendly URLs to the proper PHP files, which in turn echoed the parameter values I expected from $_GET.
There is something other than mod_rewrite requiring the existence of the subdirectories, and Apache is hitting (and thus requiring) it before it processes the rewrite rules. Not sure what it is, but it does not appear to be mod_rewrite, given the rules you have above.

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