I want to create a rule at the end of an .htaccess file that catches everything that failed to match up until then.
How can I do that?
P.S. I've already tried everything :) Actually, I haven't, but it sure seems like it!
Update: Some people are replying with RewriteRule ^.*$ or an equivalent. This does not work! It will match everything including the other 'good' URLs.
There are actually some good answers here already, but you have responded with...
But then this matches everything including the good stuff.
This is because you aren't telling mod_rewrite to stop processing on a match. To do this, use the "L" tag after each rule, which tells mod_rewrite that "If this rule is matched, stop processing any further rules".
RewriteRule ^RSS/([^/\.]+)/?$ rss.php?Page=$1 [L]
You need to put this after EACH rule. Then, when you put the catch all at the end, it will only be hit if no other rule has been matched.
NOTE: if you are ALSO serving up resources that are not rewritten, like CSS, images, javascript files - you are honestly better off not catching all as you wouldn't want to rewrite their locations.
It sounds like you want to look at the RewriteRule directive. Quie possibly something similar to the following:
RewriteRule ^/(.+) {target}
This will match at the root URL (/) and redirect it to the {target} url.
RewriteRule .* page.php [L] ?
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I'm pulling my hair out trying to get a .htaccess rewrite rule to work. I'm sure this should be easy but I just can't get it right!
I need to add ?query=string to a specific URL pattern so:
www.example.com/downloads/file
Becomes:
www.example.com/downloads/file?query=string
The best I can come up with is:
RewriteRule ^downloads/(.*) downloads/$1?query=string
But it's not working. Where am I going wrong?
What you have looks OK, except you might need to include the L flag to prevent further rewritting:
RewriteRule ^downloads/(.*) downloads/$1?query=string [L]
And if this is intended to be an external redirect then you'll need to make the substitution absolute or root-relative and include the R flag:
RewriteRule ^downloads/(.*) /downloads/$1?query=string [R=302,L]
Ok, so here's my RewriteRule:
RewriteRule ^books/book-([0-9]+)/(.*[^/])$/? authors/book-$1/$2 [R=301,L]
so if someone goes to www.example.com/books/book-5/some-book-title, they are redirected to www.example.com/authors/book-5/some-book-title. This bit works fine.
However, the problem I have is this:
www.example.com/books/book-5/some-book-title/still-more-stuff/still/more/stuff
it will forward to www.example.com/authors/book-5/some-book-title/still-more-stuff/still/more/stuff.
I want it to stop after www.example.com/books/book-5/some-title/ <- It should stop here!!!
It should not allow more parameters after the /some-title/ <- or it should disregard them.
How can I achieve this? Only grab the first parameter /some-title/, otherwise throw a 404? I thought that by putting the [^/] bit, it would stop when it found a forward /.
Thanks
Tweak your regex like this:
RewriteRule ^books/(book-\d+/[^/]+) authors/$1 [R=301,L,NE,NC]
Problem is actually presence of .* in your regex.
I have url's like games/xbox/2
2 being the page number I need the url rewritten. This is what I'm using:
RewriteRule games/(.*?)/$ games/consoles.php?console=$1
RewriteRule games/(.+?)/(.+?)/$ games/consoles.php?console=$1&page=$2
The first rule works fine but the second is returning consoles.php as $1 instead of xbox
RewriteRule games/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/?$ games/consoles.php?console=$1
RewriteRule games/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ games/consoles.php?console=$1&page=$2
Using (.*?) would match even the / character so xbox/2 is treated as a whole
Try something like:
RewriteRule games/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ games/consoles.php?console=$1&page=$2 [L]
RewriteRule games/([^/]+)/?$ games/consoles.php?console=$1 [L]
I first put your most specific rule first - that way you don't do a general match, then a later more specific match mangles that general rewrite.
I also specified the [L] flag to signify that you want the engine to stop looking for more matches at this point. Re-ordering the rules is redundant in this case because of the [L] flag, but it's a good practice to get into.
I also changed the expressions slightly. Rather than using ([A-Za-z0-9]+) like the previous poster said, I changed it to ([^/]+) because that will match everything but a slash, so you can have weird console or game names. If you want to make it more specific feel free to, but this way provides the most general use-case.
I would like to redirect any php page with optional parameter to a new clean url
eg, from: account.php?id=156 to newurl/account/156
I'm using the following redirectmatch
RedirectMatch ^/cmstut/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)[\.php]?[\?]?[a-zA-Z_]?[=]?([0-9]+)?$ /cmstut/redirect/newurl/$1/$2/$3 [L]
but the result I get is it will redirect to newurl/account//?id=156
I thought it was funny when I read somewhere where htaccess and regular expression was compared to voodoo :) we'll now I understand why
I don't understand where your third subexpression is.
$1: ([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)
$2: ([0-9]+)
$3: MIA
May I recommend something more like this?
/cmstut/([A-Za-z0-9]+)\.php(\??id=([0-9]+))?
then you may have to use $3 to access the id number. you want the entire parameter to be optional, right?
I never used URL redirects in .htaccess before, but if it's plain regular expressions, this should work:
RedirectMatch ^/cmstut/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)\.php(\?[a-zA-Z_]+=([0-9]+))?$ /cmstut/redirect/newurl/$1/$3 [L]
Since you weren't very specific in what you want, I took some guesses. This will redirect foo.php?bar=123 to newurl/foo/123 and will ignore bar.
Edit: Thinking about it, rewriting your regexp for you won't help you in the long term, and no one except you is likely to know exactly what you want. I think a better course of action is pointing you to a regexp guide. Here is one, and it's specifically targeted for mod_rewrite.
I finally found the solution. I did some more research and I used a different approach which I believe was even better then what i was using
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([0-9]+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\.php$ /cmstut/redirect/newurl/account/%1? [R=302,L]
I wanted to set .htaccess to rewrite:
example.com/bla/info/
to
example.com/info/index.php?q=bla
example.com/bla/info/txt/
to
example.com/info/index.php?q=bla&t=txt
I wanted the browser still to display:
example.com/bla/info/txt/
I didn't want rewrite in the level 2 rewrites, like:
example.com/bla/xxx/
or
example.com/ccc/zzz/aaa/
but
example.com/silly/info/
would work as well as
example.com/strange/info/mytxt/
Did this make sense?
Any help?
If you start your pattern with ^ and end it with $, the rule will only apply if the whole string matches.
RewriteRule ^/bla/info/$ /info/index.php?q=bla
RewriteRule ^/bla/info/txt/$ /info/index.php?q=bla&t=txt
If you use do not use the [R] option, the URL shown in the browser will be whatever the user entered.
Are you trying to make this general-purpose? If so, you can use regex-type matching and variable substitution. To make 'bla' match any string up to the next slash (/), use
([^/]+)
in your pattern and reference it with $1 in your substitution.
RewriteRule ^/([^/]+)/info/$ /info/index.php?q=$1
RewriteRule ^/([^/]+)/info/([^/]+)/$ /info/index.php?q=$1&t=$2
I recommend the Apache web pages about mod_rewrite for more information.
[Edit. Fixed the rules to not include the host name in the pattern, as the original poster figured out.]
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bmb
you got me in the right track.
i ended up with something like this:
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/info/?$ example/info/index.php?q=$1 [L]
thanks a lot