I'm a little stuck with with my .htaccess redirect.
It was working find while I was with PHP4 but the recent move to a new host with PHP5 have changed things for which I've no clue.
I'm working on a URL shortening service. Here, for a URL like http://example.com/e72b0f, it gives me http://example.com/forward.php?e72b0f
Earlier with my .htaccess file, the "forward.php?" was masked (hidden). How can I bring back this behavior. Here is the .htaccess for your reference.
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/([0-9a-z]{6})$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://example.com/forward.php?%1 [L]
Btw, I also do not rule out the issue being in the PHP Script. The developer that did it for me is too busy to look at it.
If you rewrite to an http:// URL that the server doesn't think is in the site, mod_rewrite will do a redirect instead of just a rewrite. In order to see if this is happening, make a page that has nothing in it but
<?php echo $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']; ?>
and see if says it's going to "nsfw.in".
Either way, you should be able to strip off the http:// nsfw.in from the beginning of the URL and just rewrite it to /forward.php?%1. You may need to add a PT flag in order for it to be interpreted as a URL and not a FS path.
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I have a url which is
www.domain.com/index.php?route=ticketsystem/generatetickets
I want people who type in the url www.domain.com/contact to be redirected to the page index.php?route=ticketsystem/generatetickets however have the url bar still show /contact is that possible via htaccess and if so how? I tried the below
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule contact /index.php?route=ticketsystem/generatetickets [L,QSA]
For your shown attempts, please try following .htaccess rules file. Make sure your index.php and .htaccess files are present in same directory/folder. Also better to use & rather than using / for query string.
Make sure to clear your browser cache before testing your URLs.
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ^contact/?$ index.php?route=ticketsystem&generatetickets [QSA,NC,L]
I've read many things about this, but none seems ok at the moment.
I've to redirect:
http://mysite.it/255-dir-name/
to:
http://mysite.it/forum/255-dir-name/
Also, everything which is in this directory must be redirected to the new path.
I've tried with this, but doesn't work:
RewriteRule ^255-dir-name/(.*)$ /forum/255-dir-name/$1 [R=301,NC,L]
Try adding this to the .htaccess file in your web document root folder (often public_html or htdocs):
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^255-dir-name(.*) http://example.it/forum/255-dir-name/$1 [R,L]
Once you are satisfied that the redirect works, you can change the R to R=301 to make it permanent.
Warning! When you test the rewrite, do so in a NEW browser, or fully clear its cache. That is because your previous 301 redirect has been cached by your browser, so your browser does not even request the page from your server anymore. Instead, it requests the previous rewrite directly.
You can redirect the first url to the second url with the following directives in your .htaccess:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+-[^/]+/?)$ forum/$1 [R,L]
This will redirect any url that starts with one or more numbers, a dash, and then one or more non-slash characters to the forum-url.
I've taken my site down for some prolonged maintenance and am using mod_rewrite to send all requests to a single page: www.mysite.com/temp/503.php
This is my .htaccess file which works fine.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/temp/503.php [NC]
RewriteRule .* /temp/503.php [R,L]
However, what I'd also like to be able to do is to hide /temp/503.php in the resulting URL from the visitor.
I know this is perhaps trivial and I'm sure fairly simple to achieve, but with my limited mod_rewrite skills I can't seem to get it to work.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Just get rid of the R flag in the rewrite rule, which tells the rule to redirect the request, thus changing the URL in the browser's location bar. So the rule would look like:
RewriteRule .* /temp/503.php [L]
which internally rewrites the requested URI instead of externally telling the browser that it's been moved to a new URL.
Could someone tell me how to rewrite this URL. I have looked at a lot of questions on stackoverflow but they seem to be missing my answer.
RewriteEngine On
That is what I have... its a bit poor.
I need to rewrite url's if they do not point to a directory.
I need to do this...
any.domain.com/pages/some-page-slug/login
To be rewritten to the correct url of...
any.domain.com/pages/login.php?page=32
Does anyone have any ideas on how this can be achieved?
1) Rewriting product.php?id=12 to product-12.html
It is a simple redirection in which .php extension is hidden from the browser’s address bar and dynamic url (containing “?” character) is converted into a static URL.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^product-([0-9]+)\.html$ product.php?id=$1
2) Rewriting product.php?id=12 to product/ipod-nano/12.html
SEO expert always suggest to display the main keyword in the URL. In the following URL rewriting technique you can display the name of the product in URL.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^product/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([0-9]+)\.html$ product.php?id=$2
3) Redirecting non www URL to www URL
If you type yahoo.com in browser it will be redirected to www.yahoo.com. If you want to do same with your website then put the following code to .htaccess file. What is benefit of this kind of redirection?? Please check the post about SEO friendly redirect (301) redirect in php and .htaccess.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^optimaxwebsolutions\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.optimaxwebsolutions.com/$1 [R=301,L]
4) Rewriting yoursite.com/user.php?username=xyz to yoursite.com/xyz
Have you checked zorpia.com.If you type http://zorpia.com/roshanbh233 in browser you can see my profile over there. If you want to do the same kind of redirection i.e http://yoursite.com/xyz to http://yoursite.com/user.php?username=xyz then you can add the following code to the .htaccess file.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ user.php?username=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ user.php?username=$1
5) Redirecting the domain to a new subfolder of inside public_html.
Suppose the you’ve redeveloped your site and all the new development reside inside the “new” folder of inside root folder.Then the new development of the website can be accessed like “test.com/new”. Now moving these files to the root folder can be a hectic process so you can create the following code inside the .htaccess file and place it under the root folder of the website. In result, www.test.com point out to the files inside “new” folder.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^test\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.test\.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/new/
RewriteRule (.*) /new/$1
TO do this you need to write a front controller.
See here, here, here, and here.
Alternatively in Apache you can rewrite this
any.domain.com/pages/32/login
or this:
any.domain.com/32/login
or even this:
any.domain.com/some-slug/32/login
to this:
any.domain.com/pages/login.php?page=32
One way or another to do this with only apache you need to supply the page id in some fashion. Keep in mind even with format any.domain.com/some-slug/32/login the content of the slug is irrelevant and won't necessarily link to the correct page. Which I imagine is undesirable and bad for SEO.
Another alternative is using RewriteMap. But this will be tricky and require reloading apache configurations whenever a page/slug is created/edit.
I understand that pages and login are static in this case and some-page-slug is changing. And you always want to redirect to static page /pages/login.php?page=32
So this is how to do it:
1) Rewrite
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^pages/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/login(.*)$ /pages/login.php?page=32
or 2) Redirect Pernament
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^pages/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/login(.*)$ /pages/login.php?page=32 [R=301,L]
or 3) Redirect Temporary
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^pages/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/login(.*)$ /pages/login.php?page=32 [R=302,L]
Here is great article about htaccess trics
http://perishablepress.com/press/2006/01/10/stupid-htaccess-tricks/
The actually URL which my app uses is:
http://site.com/search.php?search=iPhone
but I would like it to be possible to achieve the same with
http://site.com/iPhone
I have no experience of rewrite rules, how can I set this up?
The solution has worked but the new URL is displayed in the address bar. I thought it would have been possible to set this up so that it appears as though the page location is
http://site.com/iPhone
without changing to display
http://site.com/search.php?search=iPhone
Is this possible? Thanks.
Create a file called .htaccess in the root of your website and put this in it.
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*) search.php?search=$1 [R]
Should do the trick.
I would suggest however that you make it a bit more specific, so maybe require the user of a search directory in your url. eg instead of mysite.com/IPhone use mysite.com/search/IPhone which would work like
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^search/(.*) search.php?search=$1 [R]
This makes it easier to have normal pages that arnt redirected, such as about us or a basic homepage.
As Chris says, this is not PHP but Apache that does this, and whether it works can depend on your hosting setup.
You need to specify something like this in your .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule /(.*) /search.php?search=$1
Check also:
mod_rewrite: A Beginner's Guide to URL Rewriting
Module mod_rewrite, URL Rewriting Engine
Rewrite rules aren't part of PHP as far as I'm aware, but Apache (specifically mod_rewrite) or whatever server you're using. For Apache, you need on the server to have a file called .htaccess, and in it put something like:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(\w+)/?$ /index.php?search=$1
^(\w+)/?$ is a regular expression - it matches any word of 1 or more characters, followed by a / maybe. So it changes site.com/iPhone into site.com/index.php?search=iPhone. Sound about right?