So I have photographs.php, and there are also sections where it will be rewritten as photographs.php?cat=somecategory
Question is, in .htaccess how do I get these both to work as such
/photographs
and
/photographs/somecategory
so that the $_GET['cat'] variable will be = somecategory
/photographs/(.+) will need to redirect to photographs.php?cat=$1, while /photographs/? will just redirect to photographs.php. if you want to be clever, you can combine it and do it in one line and /photograph will just go to photographs.php?cat=[blank].
First of all you must have the mod_rewrite module activated.
Here's what you need to add to your .htaccess file:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^photographs$ photographs.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^photographs/(.*)$ photographs.php?cat=$1 [NC]
Just some simple replace rules. You can find lots of info on the web about them.
Related
I want to rewrite multiple sub-directories to the same path. while I can remove a part from URL Apache htaccess
for example, I want
domain.com/category/computer/internet-topics
domain.com/category/computer/windows-topics
domain.com/category/science/physics-topics
domain.com/category/science/biology-topics
to be
domain.com/category/internet-topics
domain.com/category/windows-topics
domain.com/category/physics-topics
domain.com/category/biology-topics
When I use this, it works fine for the first line only (computer)
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^category/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ category/computer/$1
RewriteRule ^category/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ category/science/$1
I think you need to be specific else only first rule will be used
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^category/((internet)|(windows)-topics)$ category/computer/$1
RewriteRule ^category/((physics)|(biology)-topics)$ category/science/$1
Please help me in writing correct .htaccess code to get the wanted result.
I have the following pages:
www.mydomain.com/?exam=/hp-certification/
www.mydomain.com/?exam=/cisco-certification/
www.mydomain.com/?exam=/oracle-exam-prep/
www.mydomain.com/?exam=/faq/
www.mydomain.com/?exam=/support/
And there are many more pages but you can notice that the fixed part is: www.mydomain.com/?exam=
Instead of using query string links, I want the following links to work as above pages:
www.mydomain.com/hp-certification/
www.mydomain.com/cisco-certification/
www.mydomain.com/oracle-exam-prep/
www.mydomain.com/faq/
www.mydomain.com/support/
and so on.
your link should be like this www.mydomain.com/?exam=hp-certification/ and the rewrite rule would like this in .htaccess file.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)$ /?exam=$1 [L]
You can do that by using the following rules in your .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} exam=(.+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/%1? [R=301,NC,L]
So what does the above do?
First, it will take the query exam= as a condition, if this condition is met then it will grab any version of the variable using (.+).
It will then rewrite the URL using 301 redirection to show http://www.example.com/anything/. The use of %1 is to grab the variable from exam= and then we use ? to stop the original query string from appearing on the end of the newly rewritten URL.
Make sure you clear your cache before testing this.
I want to rewrite a specific file on my website to another one by using htaccess:
# General
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
Options All -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks
# Rewrite file
RewriteRule ^/file.html$ /dir/file.html [L]
This is the .htaccess code i'm using based on snippets i found on the internet.
Somehow this is not working, the server is returning a 404-Not-found error.
I can't see any difference with example's that are said to work, like in
Rewriting path for a specific file using htaccess
Edit:
If I place file.html in the root-folder, I can view it. So the rewrite definitely is not happening.
RewriteRule does not receive leading slash. Write so:
RewriteRule ^file.html$ /dir/file.html [L]
THE PROBLEM
After looking at 50+ StackOverflow posts and trying many permutations of my htaccess file, it does nothing still.
WHAT I HAVE TRIED
Using this website to generate my htaccess file: http://www.generateit.net/mod-rewrite/
Setting AllowOverride All in my httpd.conf file and restarting Apache.
MY CURRENT HTACCESS FILE
Lives in the root directory.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^find-a-local-doctor/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /find-a-local-doctor/?state=$1&city=$2 [L]
WHAT I WANT TO ACCOMPLISH
Change this URL:
http://www.md1network.com/find-a-local-doctor/?state=FL&city=Tampa
To this:
http://www.md1network.com/find-a-local-doctor/FL/Tampa
ADDITIONALLY
Since the actual file doing the work is: http://www.md1network.com/find-a-local-doctor/index.php, I need to be able to parse the query string with PHP. Hopefully, I will still be able to do this to get the state and city.
Please help.
Thanks.
Your existing rule looks alright but you will need an additional external redirection rule for reverse. Put this rule before your existing rule (just below RewriteBase /).
# external redirect from actual URL to pretty one
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+(find-a-local-doctor)/(?:index\.php)?\?state=([^&]+)&city=([^&\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1/%2/%3? [R=301,L]
This seems like exactly what you would want to do with the htaccess rewrite rules. But I can't seem to get it to work properly.
I have this page on my site: http://wireie.gocactus.com/network_extensions.php
I want to rename it to: http://wireie.gocactus.com/transparent-ethernet-solutions
So this is the line I put in my htaccess file:
RewriteRule ^transparent-ethernet-solutions network_extensions\.php [NC]
Alrighty. Now if I go to /transparent-ethernet-solutions, it works great.
The problem is that, /network_extensions.php also still works great. So I'll want to rewrite that url with this line:
RewriteRule ^network_extensions\.php*$ /transparent-ethernet-solutions [R,NC]
Now it gives me an error message about too many redirects. If I add the second line without the first line, it changes the URL on the PHP link but gives me a 'page not found' error on the pretty link redirection.
My mind is blown. Can I have the URL rewritten without forwarding and have the new URL work without redirecting from the old one? I'm not sure if there's just some parameter I'm missing in the first line, or some combination of rules necessary.
This is the code that will be needed in your .htaccess:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^transparent-ethernet-solutions/?$ network_extensions.php [NC,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+network_extensions\.php\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ transparent-ethernet-solutions [R=301,L]