I want to change my url with only the parameter. As I am passing only one parameter, so I want the sub url should be changed with my parameter name. I want change the url as the following type-
From:
http://www.xyz.com/cat.php?slag=season
to
http://www.xyz.com/season
Can anyone help me to do it. I don't know how to do it. Thanks
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /path/to/your/directory
RewriteRule ^(.*)cat/(.*)$ cat\.php?slag=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
put the above in your .htaccess file.. and that would do the magic..
Note :
RewriteBase /path/to/your/directory
(use this line only if your application is in any of subfolder the folder)
I suggest you obtain a copy of the .htaccess that WordPress uses. It's a quite powerful starting point that allows you to handle routing internally from within your Application - which you might feel more comfortable with, as it seems to me.
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I would like to ignore all query-strings in my redirect. How would I achieve this?
Basically, /project/(.*) should always redirect to /?tag=project&id=$1
/project/100?shareid=fromsomeemailprovider
should end et the ? and only redirect to Id 100.
Thank You!
I tried the following:
^/project/([^/]*)[/]?(.*)$
/?tag=project&id=$1&$2
to put the query-string behind another &, but this only works if the first URL hast a / at the end of it, which it often hasn't and the RewriteRule can't detect the ? sadly.
With your shown samples, please try following htaccess rules file.
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ^(project)/(.*)/?$ index.php?tag=$1&id=$2 [QSA,NC,L]
Please make sure:
You clear your browser cache before testing your URLs.
You make sure to keep your index.php file along with your htaccess rules file. Also add / in case both of these files are in root location in your system.
I have this rule which works perfectly
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+) /demo/index.php?category=$1&subcategory=$2
this converts my link from
/demo/index.php?category=ABC&subcategory=XYZ
to
/demo/ABC/XYZ
but at times I want to enter just the category name like this
/demo/ABC/
But unfortunately this gives error Page not found. What causes this error and how can I fix it?
Also can someone provide link to RewriteEngine resources/books/tutorials. I couldn't find anything that would help a beginner like me. Thank you.
Change your rule to:
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]*) /demo/index.php?category=$1&subcategory=$2 [L,QSA]
This making second argument optional (using * instead of + in [^/]*)
Unless /demo/ABC/ is a directory that exists on your local file system, it won't be able to find the page. Your first rule is only rewriting that parameter-filled link into that pseduo-path, it doesn't establish a virtual directory or create a solid redirect.
The best info for RewriteRule is probably going to be in the actual Apache docs.
I'm trying to redirect a series of around 400 urls using .htaccess/Apache containing a given /directory/ anywhere in the url to a specific location.
The problem here is that my site is receiving requests for an old site hosted on our servers ip. I've tried manually redirecting the urls but the volume is simply too great.
I've searched but can only find examples for redirecting query strings or files
Thanks in advance.
Ok, if all links have the same directory in there... example store/funstuff/blahblah.php
and funstuff is the directory you are looking for then you could modify your .htaccess file something linke this
Options +FollowSymlinks
Options -Multiviews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} funstuff
RewriteRule . http://www.gohere.com/
Then if you needed to pass more of the URL info you could do the last line like this:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.gohere.com/1$
That should get you started... you may need to tweak it slightly.
What language are you processing the redirects in?
You probably need to use a regular expression that searches for the given /directory/.
If I understand your question correctly and that you are using Apache; RedirectMatch should do what you want.
It accepts a regexp for matching and can then redirect to the place you choose.
I'm trying to make my dynamic URL's into static looking URL's.
This is a typical URL that I now have:
http://www.somedomain.com/design/index.php?p=about
I would like it to be: http://www.somedomain.com/about
So far, I've gotten it to look like this: http://www.somedomain.com/design/about.html
This is the Rewriterule I'm using: RewriteRule ^([a-z]+).html$ index.php?p=$1 [L]
How would I modify it so it would look like this: http://www.somedomain.com/about?
Thanks for any/all help!!!
Very much appreciated!
Using rewrite rules to give 'static' URI is NEVER a good idea.
A few other ideas you can use:
Make the 'about' page a directory (folder) with a file called index.php or index.html in it. This way the URL shows http://example.com/about/ and the information you wish can still be displayed as needed.
Use the POST method instead of GET methods. This will display as http://example.com/about.php (Note: there is no ? or other parameters behind that.)
Utilize both methods to give a 'seamless' URI on page transitions.
Rick, you're on the right track. You need to read the Apache rewrite documentation. For your docroot/.htaccess start it with:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
Then generalised version of your rule:
Rewrite Rule ^(\w+)$ index.php?p=$1 [L]
This will rewrite any requests which are for a word string to index.php. You need to be aware that the rewrite engine rescans the .htaccess file if a match has occured so you need to make sure that you don't create a loop. In this case the replacement string has a "." in it and the pattern doesn't, so this won't occur, but for more complex cases you may need to 'guard' the rules with one or more RewriteCond statements. Again, read the Apache documentation.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^mocks/site/(.*)$ 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/