Hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction as htaccess is driving me crazy at the moment.
What i am trying to achieve is an automatic redirect for certain images
Currently I use jquery to replace the image src.
The reason for this is the new resized images are in a different directory.
The problem with this method is every time we refresh we have to wait for the dom to fully load.
And I see this is possible with htaccess.
Redirect /my-domain.com/images/image1.png /my-domain.com/images/resized/image1.png
Currently this works, but for over 100 images I really need to find a dynamic solution for this
I tried the following which obviously failed.
RewriteRule ^/my-domain.com/images/(.*) /my-domain.com/images/resized/(.*) [R=301,L]
the resized directory has several directory's so the rule needs to apply to all child directories.
Although it's not a big problem to list all the directories as long as I don't list all images.
hopefully I am missing something simple here, also I wanted to make sure the redirect will not effect SEO?
maybe there is an alternative solution with htaccess?
This is a bit of a messy way to handle images - across multiple folders - but, if that's how you want to manage it, fair enough.
From the above, I understand that:
There are some images within the /images/resized/ folder
There are also some images within subfolders of the same
You want to be able to call a URL within the /images/ folder and have it transcribed to the /images/resize/ folder (with the same end)
In the webroot's .htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/images/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/images/resized/
RewriteRule ^images/(.+)$ /images/resized/$1
Tested OK with this htaccess tester.
"I wanted to make sure the redirect will not effect SEO?"
Filenames are not as important for SEO as alt tags and titles. There should be no change to the SEO stance of your site as a result of this change.
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So, I'm trying to make my URL's a bit more pretty and sharable. I have a website with some items that users can currently access with example.com/?i=itemName. However, I'd like users to be able to write example.com/itemName instead.
This means I'd have to do some redirection with htaccess. I want to redirect all URL's to example.com itself, but keep the URL the same. To clarify, an example:
User types example.com/niceItem. The server shows the content of example.com, but keeps the URL as example.com/niceItem (alternatively, it can change the URL to example.com/?i=niceItem, then I can simply read the URL with javascript and change it back to example.com/niceItem in the adress bar).
So far, this is the best I could do:
RewriteRule ^/([^\/]+)$ /index.php?i=$1 [NC,L]
The idea is to capture the requests that don't have slashes after the first one (like example.com/niceItem), and then read the file at example.com/index.php?i=niceItem. The problem is, when I load a page like example.com/niceItem, the page displays what the value of i is with php; it should be niceItem, as the link is supposed to be example.com/?i=niceItem, but the value of i is actually the string index.php. Not quite what I wanted. Also, I'd expect the following to work
RewriteRule ^/([^\/]+)$ /?i=$1 [NC,L]
but this actually causes an internal server error.
So, the question is, why do those not work, and how would I be able to achieve what I'm trying to achieve?
PS. Actually, this website I'm talking about is a subdomain of example.com. So, I have sub.example.com which maps to example.com/sub/, and I need the URL's to be prettyfied like sub.example.com/itemName or example.com/sub/itemName. As I mentioned, the format of the URL isn't that big of a deal as long as the itemName part is in there. I'll be able to read the URL with javascript and change it to whatever I want once the page has loaded.
Use RewriteCond
If i is the only query argument that will be passed then
RewriteCond "%{QUERY_STRING}" "(\?i=)(.*)$"
RewriteRule "(.*)/?$" "$1/%2"
If you need to extract i only but keep other query args
RewriteCond "%{QUERY_STRING}" "(.*(?:^|&))i=([^&]*)&?(.*)&?$"
RewriteRule "(.*)/?$" "$1/%2?%1%3"
Most every framework provides this sort functionality. It is best not to reinvent the wheel when possible. This is a fragile setup, and it will probably cause you headaches in the future.
I have a rather large website that I need to move to a different directory. Right now, the website has a normal structure.
www.technology.com
The company wants the entire website moved so the new main URL will be:
www.technology.com/structure
So, the current page structure which is:
www.technology.com
www.technology.com/about
www.technology.com/services
www.technolgy.com/products
needs to become:
www.technology.com/structure
www.technology.com/structure/about
www.technology.com/structure/services
www.technolgy.com/structure/products
This is an older website that isn't inside of a CMS. Would the easiest way to do this be to actually just create a directory in the root called structure and copy everything into it?
What would I do as far as catching any people that might have links bookmarked? So, if someone were to come to www.technology.com, I would want them to automatically be redirected to > www.technology.com/structure and vice-versa with everything else. I'm assuming this could be accomplished with the .htaccess file.
Any help would be appreciated.
Yes this is right just move your complete website to www.technology.com/structure and put this in to your .htaccess file in www.technology.com/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?structure(/.*)?$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ /structure/$1 [R=301,L]
One remark: The whole thing would only work if on your apache server mod_rewrite is enabled and you are allowed to use htaccess files (with mod_rewrite), this is not always the case by default.
I am sorry to ask this question, because the answer seemingly is so easy. However, after three hours of trial and error I am without a clue.
I have several pages on a website using parameters in the url. I would like to change that, to a more regular url. Example:
domain.com/pag.php?id=1-awesome-page should become domain.com/awesome-page
So far so good, but so far I have three problems.
1. The old page still is accessible, Google will index it as duplicated content. When I try to redirect it, I am getting infinite loop errors.
2. For whatever reason, sometimes SOME images (straight from the content) get stripped off on the newly named page. I tried playing with a base-url and renaming the images and urls, but nothing so far.
3. Also the redirect doesn't care if i'd enter id=1-awesome-page or id=2-worthless-page. It all redirects to the first one.
Among the things i've tried.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=1-awesome-page
RewriteRule ^pag\.php$ /awesome-page? [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^awesome-page?$ pag\.php?id=1 [NC]
What you want to do cannot really be done with mod_rewrite, unless you want to make a rule for every page, which will probably slow your site down quite a lot. This is, because you can't summon the 1 in 1-awesome-page out of thin air, and your pag.php page doesn't seem to be able to load the page only based on it's seo name. If you need to use that number, you need to have that number somewhere in your url.
As for your questions:
The error you mention cannot be reproduced with the current iteration of your .htaccess. You likely had an infinite loop previously, and since you use R=301 to test, the browser will cache this redirect and only request the second resource afterwards when you request the first resource. You should test with [R,L] and only change to [R=301,L] when everything works as expected. Not doing so will cause weird behaviour, and behaviour you do not expect with your .htaccess.
When you have an url a and an url b, and want to redirect a to b, and want to internally rewrite b to a, you need to make sure that any given time not both rules can be matched. You can either use the %{THE_REQUEST} trick or use the END flag. Both are outlined in this answer.
If you have a problem with resources on a page not loading after making a fancy url, you likely used relative url's. This question outlines the possibilities on how to resolve this. You can either make the url's absolute or relative to the root of your site, or use <base href="/">.
The following would work for /pag.php?id=123-news-page and /news/123/news-page.
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} pag\.php\?.*id=([^-]+)-([^&\s]+)
RewriteRule ^pag\.php$ /news/%1/%2? [L,R]
RewriteRule ^news/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ pag.php?id=$1-$2 [L]
I want to create functionality similar to the site downforeveryoneorjustme.com. They use a pretty URL to take in the URL of any given site. I sure they use htaccess to do this, however the method i'm using is encountering problems.
This is my .htaccess file that I'm using to send the site URL to a file.php:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)?$ /file.php?var=$1
However when I type in something like
mysite.com/http://google.com the variable it sends the file is http:/google.com (missing a slash). I can't figure out why this is occurring.
Also, when I type in something like mysite.com/existingfolder, where existingfolder is a folder on my site, it always works incorrectly. The variable it passes to the file is missing.html instead of existingfolder. In this case, the file doesn't display images. The image can't be found, and i'm assuming its because it's searching for the image in an incorrect folder on the site. That it might think it's in existingfolder and not in the normal folder it should be in.
Does anyone know why I'm getting these problems? I'm knew to htaccess, and I'm assuming it has something to do with that.
Thanks for any help.
I sure they use htaccess to do this
I'm not. I'm not even sure they're using Apache.
mod_rewrite is not always the answer to all URL-processing problems. It's certainly prone to some of the quirks of path-based URL handling, including the removal of double-slashes.
I suggest reading the Apache-specific REQUEST_URI variable from your script, rather than relying on rewrites to get a parameter. This will give you the path requested by the browser without any processing.
We simply have to move every page inside of a directory called "Music" to a directory called "Information"... That's the only change. There's lots of links to pages music and we don't want to break them all. I'm not great at rewrite conditions....
Basically, all I want to do is when a user types in music/index.php, for example, or music/life/mypage.php, to simply redirect it to information/index.php or information/life/mypage.php... just change from music to information. And I do want the correct URL (information) to show in the URL box.
...I'm pretty exasperated. I've been trying to get this thing all darn afternoon!
Use backreferences for this one:
RewriteRule ^foo/(.*)$ bar/$1
RedirectMatch ^/foo/bar/(.*) http://www.wherever.org/a/foo/bar/$1