I need to change the structure of the displayed client-side URL. I'm not too skilled using regex and coding for the .htaccess file. Basically, I have a structure that looks something like:
http://www.example.com/catalog/index.php?cat=lt&sec=lt1-1&id=nmlt10.
I would like this to be displayed in the address bar as:
http://www.example.com/catalog/lt/lt1-1/nmlt10.
This is what I came up with, but it has had no effect:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)\$ /catalog/index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [L]
I tested and removed any other rules in the .htaccess file to ensure nothing was being overwritten. I'm on a shared hosting apache server, and know that mod_rewrite is enabled, because I use it to rewrite non-www to www urls. I don't receive and 500 error messages, I just do not notice any change at all. I'm not sure where I'm going wrong here, so hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.
Finally found a solution that worked:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]
Appreciate LazyOne's response to get me on the right track; however, when using:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]
I wasn't able to following links that were already placed on the site, it treated different directories as the variables, for example, when browsing to an image or file, say:
folder/folder/image.png
It would grab "folder" - "folder" - and "image" as the variables. I can see why that was happening, if anyone has a different solution or an explanation, please let me know, I'm always willing to learn.
Since your .htaccess is in website root folder, then you should use thus rule:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^catalog/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ /catalog/index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]
If you place it in .htaccess in /catalog/ folder, then you can remove catalog from it:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]
I have tested rule before posting -- works fine for me.
This rule (same as above) will check if URL is a file or folder and will only rewrite if it is not:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ index.php?cat=$1&sec=$2&id=$3 [QSA,L]
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I am working locally on Windows 7 with wamp server (v2.5). I have one working rewrite rule for the main front controller in my project, like this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php/$1 [NC,L]
It successfully strips .php from the queries. From this main front controller index.php I have a link to another front controller named theme.php, where I use menu links w/o the.php file extension, like this:
theme/regions
in stead of
theme.php/regions
For that to work I need to add a second rewrite rule to add the php exension, like so:
RewriteRule ^theme($|/$) theme.php/$1 [NC,L]
The only thing I get is a 404 page though :-(.
I would be very grateful for some hints on how to go about this.
You need to put your theme rule before the general route to index.php. And you need to reference what comes after the /theme/ so something like:
RewriteRule ^theme(/?.*)$ theme.php$1 [L]
Additionally, this rule won't work if you have Multiviews turned on, but, this is actually something that's perfectly suited for Multiviews anyways, so you could just try turning that on instead of using a rule to rewrite theme:
Options +Multiviews
Your second RewriteRule works independently of the others and should be placed above the others in your question.
In addition, the format is wrong - you don't need to capture or append anything.
RewriteRule ^theme/?$ theme.php [NC,L]
I am starting to use htaccess in my project and learned basics such as removing extensions . I am trying to remove a file name in php and replace it with a value being passed in url for eg
example.com/eg/check_folder.php?folder=folder-ck
to
example.com/eg/folder=folder-ck
but i am not able achieve this i made the following code. Please guide me with where i am wrong .
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^/http://example.com/eg/(\d+)/?$ /http://example.com/eg/check_folder.php?folder=$1 [NC,L,QSA]
First verify whether your .htaccess is enabled or not, by putting same garbage text on top of your .htaccess and see if it generates 500 (internal server) error or not.
Once you make sure it is enabled make sure mod_rewrite is also enabled.
Finally use this code in /eg/.htaccess:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /eg/
RewriteRule ^(folder=.+)$ check_folder.php?$1 [L,QSA,NC]
I got this working by using the following code inside my eg folder
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ check_folder.php?folder=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ check_folder.php?folder=$1
<h1>' . $name. '</h1>
The above is the reference which points to my profile1.php file. This file is called index.php . It currently displays the urls as this:
http://www.domain.com/interact/profile1.php?id=36
I have tried implementing the .htaccess file to rewrite the url. I tried many combinations and most of them gave a 500 error and some did not rewrite the url.
This is the .htaccess file which I use, it does not make the url to change.
I want the url to look like http://www.domain.com/interact/profile/36
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ profile1.php/$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
I know this is a very basic question but I seem to stuck in it and have read basic tutorials but am not able to implement it properly.
The files index.php ,profile1.php and .htaccess are in folder named interact.
Tell me any changes required in php or .htaccess files.
It currently displays the urls as this: http://www.domain.com/interact/profile1.php?id=36
...
I want the url to look like http://www.domain.com/interact/profile/36
Step 1:
Change your content to have links like this:
<h1>' . $name. '</h1>
This way, when you click on a link the URL that will appear in the URL address bar is will look like: http://www.domain.com/interact/profile/36
Step 2:
Then you need to use these rules to internally change it back:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /interact/
RewriteRule ^profile/([0-9]*) profile1.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
In order to point any external links, like google index bots to the new URLs, you'll need to add these as well:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|HEAD)\ /interact/profile1\.php\?id=([0-9]*)
RewriteRule ^ http://www.domain.com/interact/profile/%2 [L,R=301]
try this
RewriteRule ^interact/profile1.php/(.*)$ interact/profile1.php?id=$1 [L]
i don't know what make QSA modifiers does so i remove it. If you know what, use it)
I'm hoping someone might be able to help with a problem I'm having due to my lack of experience and knowledge with htaccess.
What we're doing is running IP Boards forum software and wordpress both in the root directory. The IPB has the index.php file (because of having indexed url's) and the new Wordpress's index.php file has been renamed to blog.php.
At the very top of the htaccess file we've added: DirectoryIndex blog.php index.php - so the new wordpress opens first.
The problem I'm having is trying to have 2 rewriterules in the htaccess file for the friendly urls from the forum software and also the permalinks for the new wordpress.
I can only seem to have one or the other.
Please could anyone tell me, or point me in the right direction to get both working.
This is what I'm doing so far but sadly no joy, but works fine if we remove one of the condition and rewrites.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog.php [L]
</IfModule>
Many thanks in advance.
Not sure if you still want an answer. Either way, if you are trying to go to two different pages you need some way of distinguishing them.
DirectoryIndex basically tells the default file (and order) when entering a directory. So http://host.com/ with both blog.php and index.php in the directory will serve up blog.php because it is first in the list you gave the server. If there is only index.php, it will serve that. If neither (and you don't have anything else in the list) it will throw a 404 because no default file is found.
EDIT: it will try to list contents if not found. My bad. If you don't allow directory listing, then it will probably show an error code. To turn off directory listing look in options: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#options
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_dir.html
Your rewrite rules seem to kind of want do the same thing in a different order. If you request http://host.com/a and a is not a file or directory (according to the conditions) it will go to index.php.. if index.php doesn't exist, then it will loop until the server catches it, because you don't check that. So, that means the second set of conditions don't do anything, because either index.php exists or it doesn't and the next set probably won't really be reached unless it does.
You need to decide how to differentiate the two (/blog/ for the blog.php and / for index.php or something) and make one of them the default. If you want to randomize it, I would suggest doing that through PHP.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html
.. to redirect from root to /forums/ through htaccess try this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forums/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /forums/$1 [L]
I've searched but haven't found a solution to this exact problem.
I have a website domain 'mainwebsite.com' and several other top-level-domains managed in the htaccess. The issue I'm having is with 'alternatedomain.com' and subdirectories.
#alternatedomains
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} alternatedomain.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/alternatedomain/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ alternatedomain/$1 [L]
This works fine, alternatedomain.com happily serves up mainwebsite.com/alternatedomain .
The problem is when I have access any folder like
alternatedomain.com/folder
, the URL in the title bar changes to
alternatedomain.com/alternatedomain/folder/
and it's driving me crazy. Can't figure out what I'm doing wrong!
EDIT: It only happens when I try access alternate.com/folder, and not when there is a suffix /, so alternate.com/folder/ works fine, without the redundant folder name
Your help is most appreciated!
This is because mod_dir (that adds the /) does not know the url is rewritten.
You could just disable DirectorySlash with
DirectorySlash Off
This will however make requests to alternatedomain.com/folder result in a 404 not found. You can fix this with some rewriterule though. So the complete solution would be something like:
DirectorySlash Off
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$0 -d
RewriteRule ^alternatedomain/(.+[^/])$ /$1/ [R,L]