I have a couple of wordpress urls that I want to simplify for SEO purposes. I have
http://www.example.com/fr/product-fr/review-fr/
I would like to change that to http://www.example.com/fr/product/review/ (remove -fr) but without changing the URL internally. So the user would access http://www.example.com/fr/product/review/ but the server would serve the content of http://www.example.com/fr/product-fr/review-fr/.
I want to do this to get around a URL problem with Wordpress and WPML.
Appreciate the help
Assuming the two letter lang code is always going to be constant throughout the URL:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z]{2})/product/review$ /$1/product-$1/review-$1 [L,QSA]
should work a treat :)
P.S. the regexp takes any two-letter code (upper or lower case) so will work with other langs should you require.
Have you tried mod_rewrite and Rewrite rules?
Try:
^/([a-zA-Z]{2})/([^\/]+)/([^\/]+)/$ /$1/$2-$1/$3-$1
Haven't tested this though..
Related
I am upgrading my site which involves new scripts and a different URL
structure. There are currently a few thousand pages so I want to
basically move them in to a subdirectory so that they are not lost.
I am not very confident with htaccess so can someone please confirm that
the first part I have done is correct:
Old URL: http://www.example.com/article/another-dir/page-group/whatever.html
RewriteRule ^article/?$ http://www.example.com/archive/ [R=301,NC,L]
To achieve this: http://www.example.com/archive/another-dir/page-group/whatever.html
Search engines will see the above as a permanent move and in the address bar
it will show the new url. Is this right?
The second part is on the new script - the url's could be improved but I am
unable to change all the script so thought about using htaccess again but am
not sure if it can be achieved like this.
At the moment the url looks like this:
url: http://www.example.com/category/4/categoryname
In the htaccess the current rewrite rule for this type of url looks like this:
RewriteRule ^category/(.*)/(.*)$ category.php?id=$1&slug=$2
Is it possible to change this so that in the url address bar I end up
with this:
http://www.example.com/categoryname
Basically I don't want to see either the number or category/ in the resulting
url as it will be easier for visitors to use - is that possible??
Thanks in advance for any help.
The second question related to passing in URI components for querystring redirect and then hiding those components in the URL I don't think would be easy, if even possible, using RewriteRules.
For the first question though. Given the sample URLs you mentioned, the RewriteRule would need to include capture and backreference if you want to preserve the full URL in the redirection. For example:
RewriteRule ^article/?(.*)$ http://www.example.com/archive/$1 [R=301,NC,L]
I am working on url, I try htaccess, php, javascript and many other things but unable to figure it out.
My url is :
example/cheap-flight-to.php?country=lagos
and I want to change the url something like this :
example/cheap-flight-to.lagos
or
example/cheap-flight-to/lagos
please help me
The following should allow you to generate your urls in the format that you wish.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^example/cheap-flight-to/([a-zA-Z]+)$ /example/cheap-flight-to.php?country=$1 [NC,L]
What you want could be done using regular expressions in .htaccess, but it makes no sence, since it wouldn't be pointing to anything, unless you have a directory cheap-flight-to/lago in which you have an index.php that will show-up in the browser or return data. This means you have to setup a directory for each destination you want to go to. Is that really what you want? Usually it's been used the otherway around. The user (or a script for that matter) enters a url like "example/cheap-flight-to/lagos". Then through regular expressions in .htaccess you rewrite the url to "example/cheap-flight-to.php?country=lagos".
Have a look at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/misc/rewriteguide.html and
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html for more on rewriting rules in .htaccess.
I cannot seem to find the answer to this
I am looking for a .htaccess rewrite way to turn this url
http://www.mydomain.com/Virtuemart.html?keyword=adobe&page=shop.browse
to
http://www.mydomain.com/virtuemart.html?keyword=adobe&page=shop.browse
So basically i just want to change the capital V
There are many pages and variables after the ? so doing it one by one is almost impossible
is their an easy way to do this.
Many thanks for your time
David
Using mod_rewrite (under apache), you can stick something like this in the .htaccess file in your document root:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^Virtuemart.html /virtuemart.html [L,QSA]
The query string just gets appended to the end untouched. If you want to redirect the browser, add a R=301 flag to the end (or just R if you don't want 301). This makes it so when someone goes to http://www.mydomain.com/Virtuemart.html, they'd actually get served the page at /virtuemart.html.
This one's beyond my ability I'm afraid and after much research and breaking things I've come for help. I have a site with a URL in the format of:
example.com/7865/travel-photo/my-amazing-photo
My client has now decided he'd like to add an 's' onto photos so the URL has become:
example.com/7865/travel-photos/my-amazing-photo
All great and that alone wouldn't have been a problem only for the fact that the number '7865' changes for each URL just like the 'my-amazing-photo' does. The basic structure of the new URL needs to be:
example.com/'number variable'/travel-photos/'article name variable'
So my question how does write a beautiful htaccess mod rewrite rule for that?
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/travel-photos/(.*) $1/travel-photo/$2
I've been messing with this for the last hour... visiting about 20 different Google tuts and I can't seem make my site rewrite the url in any way. I've even just tried changing .php to .html and I'm not having any luck.
Here's one of my many fails:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule viewItem(.*)\.htm$ /viewItem.php?id=$1
For this above one, I'm just trying to change my viewItem.php page to viewItem.html
My ultimate goal is to change hxxp://mydomain.com/viewItem.php?id=900 (as one example of an id) to hxxp://mydomain.com/details/
I'm then going to append the title on the end. I can do the append in php but being a newb to .htaccess, I'm apparently missing something glaringly obvious.
Any ideas?
Thanks much.
Did you miss the 'l' of 'html'?
RewriteRule viewItem(.*)\.html?$ /viewItem.php?id=$1