I am trying to build a multilingual website with Drupal.
I like to have the following url format
http://domain/[language]/[node id]
so I added the following rule to .htaccess for testing purpose
RewriteRule ^jpn/[0-9]$ jpn.html
The problem is that the rule is overwritten by the following rule
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
How do I have multiple rewrite rules?
Your second RewriteRule has the L Flag set, which means that if the rule matches, no further rules will be processed.
If you want your first rule to also stop any further processing, add the L Flag to it as well.
RewriteRule ^jpn/[0-9]$ jpn.html [L]
Also make sure that your second rule is listed last, because it matches everything (.*) and thus, Apache will never see any other rule after it.
Edited: the L Flag URL
I'm not sure this [L] really works in each case to avoid overwrite one each other. I'm not an expert on this, but i spent a day to figure out that you just need to add 1 Atome to a RewriteRule that did worked before without beeing overwriten, and it starts to get overwriten again from the first one. It's hard for me to believe that 2 different Rules, in 1 htaccess can properly work for 2 differents files.
Both Worked 100% well
RewriteRule ([a-zA-Z_]+)/([a-zA-Z_]+)/([a-zA-Z_]+)\.htm$ display.php?$1&category=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^/?([a-zA-Z_]+)/([a-zA-Z_]+)\.htm$ news.php?$1 [L]
displ
news
Link 2 displays the result of link1 instead..., just tell me why?
RewriteRule ([a-zA-Z_]+)/([a-zA-Z_]+)/([a-zA-Z_]+)\.htm$ display.php?$1&category=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^/?([a-zA-Z_]+)/([a-zA-Z_]+)/([a-zA-Z_]+)\.htm$ news.php?$1&obj=$2&search=$3 [L]
displ
news
Related
Below is my code for .htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([0-9]+)$ /products/product-full-view.php?src=$1&id=$2
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ /products/product-full-view.php?src=$1&id=$2
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([0-9]+)$ /buy/buy-full-view.php?src=$1&id=$2
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ /buy/buy-full-view.php?src=$1&id=$2
First rule is working fine but its not taking the second rule...Unable to understand what is happening here...
Original URL's are like this
www.example.com/products/product-full-view.php?src=somevalue&id=somevalue
and for second one
www.example.com/buy/buy-full-view.php?src=somevalue&id=somevalue
Please help me to run second rule also.
Thanks in advance
You're trying to match the same pattern, give or take an optional trailing slash, four times. By the time you reach the last two rules, your URL is already rewritten to something else.
You probably want something that looks more like:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^products/([0-9]+)/?$ /products/product-full-view.php?id=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^buy/([0-9]+)/?$ /buy/buy-full-view.php?id=$1 [L]
Or:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^products/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ /products/product-full-view.php?src=$1&id=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^buy/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ /buy/buy-full-view.php?src=$1&id=$2 [L]
Or something to that order anyway.
Note the stub and the [L] each time: the products/ and buy/ avoid that the same URL refers to two different locations, and the [L] (for "Last") tells the rewrite engine to stop processing rules when it gets matched.
If a URL matches the second rule, it also matches the first rule. After applying the first rule, the resulting URL no longer matches the second rule. That's why the second rule is never applied.
My blog's .htaccess is setup in such a way that one page is accessed through multiple URLs, and displays different content depending on which URL is visited.
http://kn3rdmeister.com/category/blog/
http://kn3rdmeister.com/2012/
http://kn3rdmeister.com/2012/07/
all are actually using http://kn3rdmeister.com/blog.php.
The .htaccess file is very handy in the sense that I only need to redirect to one page (pretty much ever) just with different query strings. After a lot messing around with 'em, all of my rules finally work, and I'm dang glad that they do. Well, almost all of them work. The last one does not.
the .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^blog\.php$ /category/blog/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^category/blog/?$ blog.php [L]
RewriteRule ^category/blog/page/?$ /category/blog/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^category/blog/page/([0-9]*)/?$ /category/blog/?pagenum=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/?$ /category/blog/?year=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/?$ /category/blog/?year=$1&month=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/?$ /category/blog/?year=$1&month=$2&day=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/(^/]+)/?$ /category/blog/?url=http://kn3rdmeister.com/$1/$2/$3/$4/ [L]
The last rule is supposed to redirect to the "permanent link" page for each blog post. Being that each URL is unique, I'm using the post URLs as the unique identifier. Essentially, it is supposed to pass the "url" query string through "blog.php". The PHP script takes over, sees that the "url" query string is set, and then loads the only post with that exact URL in it's row.
The script works, but the redirect doesn't. Going directly to
http://kn3rdmeister.com/blog.php?url=http://kn3rdmeister.com/2012/07/04/amsterdam-ave/
will load the right content. However, going to
http://kn3rdmeister.com/2012/07/04/amsterdam-ave/
doesn't.
Try adding QSA (Query String Append). Also, invert rules so that "deeper" links go on top.
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/(^/]+)/?$ /category/blog/?url=http://kn3rdmeister.com/$1/$2/$3/$4/ [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/?$ /category/blog/?year=$1&month=$2&day=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/?$ /category/blog/?year=$1&month=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/?$ /category/blog/?year=$1 [QSA,L]
But, you can't use rewritten links in other rules. So wherever you have category/blog/ replace it with blog.php.
Whilst webarto comments are good advice, your problem is a missing [:
^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/([^/]+)/?$
not
^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/(^/]+)/?$
There is problem with it do not stop at first but continues to the third rules, the problem is just here.; There is several line rules and ending with rules that manage that does not fit on anything.
When I disable 3rd rules will /news not work but now, rules 1 works.
There are not any problems with the second rules.
I have gone through whether there is a loop through the query after news2.php?readmore=$1 and then on news2.php ask for news_cats.php, that is not the case.
I've also been looking at whether there is a loop in the htaccess file that is not the case.
What is problem?
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]+)/[^/]*/?$ news2.php?readmore=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^news_category/([0-9]+)/[^/]*/?$ news_cats.php?cat_id=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^news news_cats.php [L]
Ooooh I've found the error. It is a loop in the htaccess.
3 rules news will fit not only news, but it would also capture the file "news"2.php
The solution.
RewriteRule ^news(?!2\.php) news_cats.php [L]
I have the following code in the my .htaccess file and the top Rewrite works fine the bottem one does not I know why but I dont kno how to fix it.
Its seeing RewriteRule ^([^/]*).html index.php?p=order&course_id=$1 [L] as the top rewrite command becuase of the hightlighed part and i dont want to put it in a dir
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+).html
index.php?p=$1 [L]
index.php?p=about_us
RewriteRule ^([^/]+).html
index.php?p=order&course_id=$1 [L]
index.php?p=order&course_id=5
Thank you,
Can you give example urls that should match the pattern block and what you would like them to be rewritten to? That would be very helpful.
One thing I notice is that your first regexp you test if you match the pattern block with a + which means 1 or more times and the second one you check it with a * which means 0 or more so I don't think the second one will ever be called, although I am very new to regexps but it is just something I noticed.
These are very helpful resources for me:
http://www.webforgers.net/mod-rewrite/mod-rewrite-syntax.php
http://forum.modrewrite.com/
From the example of the urls you would be using, this should work:
# http://website.com/about_us/ rewrites to /index.php?p=about_us
RewriteRule ^([0-9a-z_-]+)/?$ index.php?p=$1 [NC,L]
# http://website.com/order/12/ rewrites to /index.php?p=order&course_id=12
RewriteRule ^order/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?p=order&course_id=$1 [NC,L]
The second Rewrite might be:
# http://website.com/order/12/ rewrites to /index.php?p=order&course_id=12
RewriteRule ^([0-9a-z_-]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?p=$1&course_id=$2 [NC,L]
Depending on your page structure.
Well, I am stuck again. Two days of reading and again, found some close solutions but, nothing fits and all my experiments failed.
This is a continuation of my question:
here at stackoverflow
The 4 rules below take my incoming links:
http://somedomain.com/getme.pl?dothis=display&partnum=1234567
and beatifies it.
Also allows users to use the beatified version right in address bar:
http://somedomain.com/1234567
Here are my working rules:
RewriteRule ^([\s]*)$ /getme.pl [L] ## in case there is a space or nothing.
RewriteRule ^([0-9]*)$ /getme.pl?dothis=display&partnum=$1&rewrite [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} partnum=([0-9]*)$
RewriteRule (.*) /%1? [L,R=301]
Works great but, I discovered there are some old links to the site out there:
http://somedomain.com/oldversion.php?id=123456789
And
http://somedomain.com/oldversion.php?r=86this&id=123456789
I would like to just grab the id=[0-9] and integrate it with my working rules.
I suppose, the rule would be inserted between the second and third rules above.
I tried various attempts (about 100!) like:
RewriteRule ^(oldversion\.php)?([a-z]{1})=([a-z0-9]*)&([a-z]{2})=([0-9]*)$ /$4? [L]
RewriteRule ^(oldversion\.php)?([a-z]{2})=([0-9]*)$ /$3? [L]
As you see, two days of reading and nothing is sinking in for me.
I tried several variations of the working rules I already have as well, to no avail.
Can't I just get the 123456789 off of the outdated .php urls somehow and stick it in my existing rules?
Thanks for your help and explaining down to my level co, I just might be able to understand...
Put this at the end of your .htaccess file:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=([^&]+)(&|$) [NC]
RewriteRule ^oldversion\.php$ /%1? [L,R=301,NC,NE]
For a URI of /oldversion.php?r=86this&id=123456789 it will internally redirect to /123456789
Remember RewriteRule just matches your URI and it cannot match your QUERY_STRING.