Hi I have a basic .htaccess file in a subdirectory folder called 'support' which looks like this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^knowledgebase/([^/]*) knowledgebase.php?article=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^knowledgebase/category/([^/]*) knowledgebase.php?category=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]
I have changed the links in my files and removed the .php extension. When I click on a link to the rewritten url to my knowledgebase file everything works fine however I then have further links to the same file with query strings in the url eg:
$link = 'knowledgebase/category/'.$article['catid'];
The problem is once I am on the knowledgebase page links appear as:
http://www.example.com/support/knowledgebase/knowledgebase/category/2
I am pretty sure I need to use a RewriteCond to stop it rewriting but I can't figure out exactly what is required.
Any help would be appreciated.
If I understand correctly, I think this is not a mod_rewrite problem, since mod_rewrite has nothing to do with what links display on the page. Rather, this looks like an issue with the hrefs that are actually in your link definitions (i.e., <a> tags).
The quickest fix might be to add something like:
<base href="http://www.example.com/support/" />
within the <head> section of your pages. That way, if "knowledgebase" is specified within the links, it won't show up twice in the URL for that link.
Let me know if I have this completely wrong.
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I'm trying to modify the subdomain name in the URL to make it look nicer. My current URL look something like:
www.mystore.com/productInfo.php?cPath=11_11&productID=222
So, I want to make it nicer by Rewrite in .htaccess in main with this code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^productInfo/([0-9_-]+)/([0-9_-]+) productInfo.php?cPath=$1&productID=$2 [NC,L]
When I run and test it on the URL by typing www.mystore.com/productInfo/11_11/222 in the URL it works well. However, when this page is redirected by a different page or is 'refreshed' with a self redirecting a href= link(in which the link is written in php by the previous programmer), the above old link is still visible in the URL instead of the new one.
I am still a beginner while I suspect that I might need to change something in the cPanel/Apache(I think) for this but currently, I am still do not have access to the cPanel control. Is there anything that I might have missed to write in the .htaccess file or I really do need the cPanel control or any other reasons?
Any help is appreciated. Sorry that I could not find similar questions on this.
You can use the following :
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
#redirect /productInfo.php?cPath=foo&productID=bar to /productInfo/foo/bar
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /productInfo\.php\?cPath=([0-9_-]+)&productID=([0-9_-]) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ productInfo/%1/%2? [L,R=301]
#rewrite new URL to the old one
RewriteRule ^productInfo/([0-9_-]+)/([0-9_-]+) productInfo.php?cPath=$1&productID=$2 [NC,L]
I've had a good look through all the other htaccess url rewrite questions, but all of them deal with the reverse of my problem.
The site I am working on takes content from child pages in WordPress and presents them as anchored sections on the parent page. The problem for the site now is that if Google (or the built in search, though that can probably be done in the templates) links to one of the child pages it will direct users to the single page rather than the correct section of the parent page.
I was hoping to come up with a URL rewrite pattern which would reformat the URL to what I need, but it doesn't seem to work... and I know that's because I have done it wrong!
The URL which needs to be rewritten is something like:
website.com/parent-page/child-page/
I need this to be rewritten to:
website.com/parent-page/?subpage=child-page
My initial stab at it looks like this, but I know I've misunderstood something about how to format the pattern.
RewriteRule ^/$1?subpage=$2 ^/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/$
Can anyone help format this correctly or point out where I'm going wrong?
You can use:
RewriteEngine on
# If the request is not for a valid file/directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /$1/?subpage=$2 [QSA,L]
No initial / in htaccess RewriteRule first uri
And optional final /
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ /$1/?subpage=$2 [L]
The htaccess rewrites didn't seem to work, so I've created a PHP redirect instead by taking the page slug, page parent permalink and mashing the two together.
Not the most elegant solution, I expect, but it works.
(This seems like it should be one of the mostly commonly and easiest addressed questions on the web, since most websites have "pretty" or "clean" urls. But in all my searches, it's proven to be one of the most complex.)
In the simplest form, I would like be able to enter example.com/about into the url bar and have the server return the file example.com/about.php. As it is, I have to enter or link to example.com/about.php, which is not SEO or user friendly. This isn't about complex strings--the file could just as easily be example.com/about.html.
I have some code I'm attempting to use with an .htaccess file, but it seems to do nothing:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)/$ /$1.php
I know that the .htaccess file is working, because the 404 redirect I have set up (which appears in the .htacces doc below the code I've included here) is functioning properly, especially when I'm trying access example.com/about and I get my 404 page.
Thanks for your help!
Your last rule is designed to match http://example.com/about/ . I think what you want is
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)$ $1.php
Please help me to redirect using .htaccess like below.
http://info.domainname.com/blog/?Tag=somedynamictag
to
http://domainname.com/tag/somedynamictag
Thanks!
First of all I don't understand the purpose of rewriting http://info.domainname.com/blog/?Tag=somedynamictag to http://domainname.com/tag/somedynamictag when it had to be the other way round. People rewrite URLs to clean them (ie. remove characters like ?,&,=, etc.) but you are adding all these and making the URLs cumbersome.
I think you didn't properly understand the concept of URL rewriting. Let me explain a little.
When any URL is accessed on your website, the URL that the USER types or clicks (in your case http://domainname.com/tag/somedynamictag) is rewritten. But your question tells me that you think the other way. Your understanding is that the visitor clicks http://info.domainname.com/blog/?Tag=somedynamictag and will be rewritten to http://domainname.com/tag/somedynamictag. THIS IS WRONG!!. If you set up your website this way, each and every URL at http://domain.com/ must exist as a separate file or directory which a dynamic website like you seem to be developing is not expected to have. So I assume you have understood that you have either misformed the question or you have you have misunderstood the concept of URL rewriting. Following is the .htaccess code to redirect http://domainname.com/tag/somedynamictag to http://info.domainname.com/blog/?Tag=somedynamictag.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domainname.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/(.*)$ http://info.domainname.com/blog/?$1=$2 [L,R=301]
If you think you have correctly typed the question and understood url-rewriting right and are sure what you are trying to do is right, then here's the htaccess code (if you want to redirect http://info.domainname.com/blog/?Tag=somedynamictag to http://domainname.com/tag/somedynamictag).
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} info.domainname.com
RewriteRule ^blog\/\?([A-Za-z0-9]+)=(.*)$ http://domainname.com/$1/$2 [L,R=301]
If that doesn't work, in index.php at http://info.domainname.com/blog/, place the following code:
<?php
header("HTTP/1.1 301 moved permanently");
header("Location:http://domainname.com/blog/tag/".$_GET['Tag']);
?>
And thank you for asking this question. While answering it, I learned many things.
Hope that answers your question,
Peace...
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]