htaccess redirect issue with / - .htaccess

I have the htaccess rules below that work almost perfectly. When I load
http://localhost:8888/site/name/register/ it redirects to http://localhost:8888/site/name/fr/register/ as is intended.
But when I load http://localhost:8888/site/name/register (sans trailing slash) the redirect does not occur. I'm sure I just need to add a slash somewhere in the .htaccess rules but can not find where (adding it to the RewriteBase makes no difference).
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /site/name/
#some URI processing also occurs in routing.php!
RewriteCond $1 !^(fr|nl)$
#don't apply the rule to the assets folders
RewriteCond $1 !^css$
RewriteCond $1 !^js$
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/.* /site/name/fr/$0 [L,R=301]
#Removes access to the system folder by users.
#Additionally this will allow you to create a System.php controller,
#previously this would not have been possible.
#'system' can be replaced if you have renamed your system folder.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
#Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
#such as an image or css document, if this isn't true it sends the
#request to index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
Note the site homepage is http://localhost:8888/site/name
How can I get the redirect to occur also at http://localhost:8888/site/name/register ?

^([^/]+)/.* means everything that comes before the first slash. In other words, a slash is required. If you just remove the slash it should work.
RewriteRule ^([^/]+).* /site/name/fr/$0 [L,R=301]

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Rewrite folders with .htaccess

For a website, I want to set up a redirection using .htaccess.
My folder structure is something like
/
/folderA/
/folderB/
/index/
where folderA and B and index contain subfolders and files. Now, I want to rewrite all requests for the root / and for all not existing folders and files to index. It should be masked. It seems to me like an easy task but I cannot get it to work. So far, I tried
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule (.*) /index/$1 [L]
The redirection somehow works but it does not work when I call the root http://example.org/ directly.
Is the root also seen as valid directory or excluded in the RewriteCond checks? Any ideas how to realize that?
Yes, the root is also a directory. You will need to add another rule to rewrite the root only. For example:
RewriteRule ^$ /index/ [L]
And since the root is a directory, you might as well exclude this from the first rule. ie. Change (.*) to (.+).
HOWEVER, your existing rule will result in a rewrite-loop (500 error) if the URL you are rewriting to in /index/... does not exist either*1. eg. If you request /foo, it rewrites to /index/foo and if /index/foo does not exist then it rewrites to /index/index/foo to /index/index/index/foo etc.
You will need to add an additional condition (or use a negative lookahead) to prevent requests to /index/... itself being rewritten.
(*1 Unless you have another .htaccess file in the /index subdirectory that contains mod_rewrite directives and you have not enabled mod_rewrite inheritance.)
For example:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule (.+) /index/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^$ /index/ [L]

using htaccess to load page for certain domain

I have a domain example.com and mainexample.com- i want a example.com to point to mainexample.com/social/pre/register/121 which already driven by the htaccess file.
I am not sure how to go about this.. I have pointed the two domains at the same directory. I'm on a virtual shared server so I am using directadmin with php/codeigniter.
The site uses the standard htaccess file for codeigniter listed below
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /upd8r_jul
#Removes access to the system folder by users.
#Additionally this will allow you to create a System.php controller,
#previously this would not have been possible.
#'system' can be replaced if you have renamed your system folder.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
#When your application folder isn't in the system folder
#This snippet prevents user access to the application folder
#Submitted by: Fabdrol
#Rename 'application' to your applications folder name.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^application.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
#Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
#such as an image or css document, if this isn't true it sends the
#request to index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
You're going to want to add slashes to the %{REQUEST_URI} lines, because they all look like /something and not something like the URI's used against matches in RewriteRule's. But that does affect the question you're asking.
If you want to redirect http://example.com/ to http://mainexample.com/social/pre/register/121 then add these rules above the rules you already have in your htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ http://mainexample.com/social/pre/register/121 [L,R=301]

.htaccess Rewrite direct file access

I have been looking all over and I can't find a solution that works for me.
I'm trying to redirect http://example.com/files/file.ext -> http://example.com/users/documents/file.ext
No matter what I try when I got directly to the file it downloads it. The GET request for the file doesn't show in any of my apache logs either. I have logging on debug.
[Edit]
The files I'm trying to download are of various types including ppt, pdf, xls, zip, doc, etc. I want to rewrite the filename to the end of the new URI. I am also using CodeIgniter so /users/documents/ is a RESTy uri.
Anyone have a fix?
Here is my .htaccess file:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteBase /
#Removes access to the system folder by users.
#Additionally this will allow you to create a System.php controller,
#previously this would not have been possible.
#'system' can be replaced if you have renamed your system folder.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
#When your application folder isn't in the system folder
#This snippet prevents user access to the application folder
#Submitted by: Fabdrol
#Rename 'application' to your applications folder name.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^application.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
#Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
#such as an image or css document, if this isn't true it sends the
#request to index.php
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [N]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/files/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/files/(.*)$ /users/documents/$1 [L,R=301]
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_php5.c>
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
If this is in your htaccess file, try replacing this line:
RewriteRule ^/files/(.*)$ /users/documents/$1 [L,R=301]
with:
RewriteRule ^/?files/(.*)$ /users/documents/$1 [L,R=301]
And putting the condition and rule before any of the index.php routing rules.
I went to http://martinmelin.se/rewrite-rule-tester/ and tested my rewrite rules.
It said the RewriteCond wasn't matching anything, but when I remove the rule it matches.
Working Rule:
RewriteRule ^/?files/(.*)$ /users/documents/$1 [L,R=301]
Moving this to the top of the htaccess file fixes the issue.

mod rewrite to remove file extension, add trailing slash, remove www and redirect to 404 if no file/directory is available

I would like to create rewrite rules in my .htaccess file to do the following:
When accessed via domain.com/abc.php: remove the file extension, append a trailing slash and load the abc.php file. url should look like this after rewrite: domain.com/abc/
When accessed via domain.com/abc/: leave the url as is and load abc.php
When accessed via domain.com/abc: append trailing slash and load abc.php. url should look like this after rewrite: domain.com/abc/
Remove www
Redirect to 404 page (404.php) when accessed url doesn't resolve to folder or file, e.g. when accessing either domain.com/nothingthere.php or domain.com/nothingthere/ or domain.com/nothingthere
Make some permanent 301 redirects from old urls to new ones (e.g. domain.com/abc.html to domain.com/abc/)
All php files sit in the document root directory, but if there is a solution that would make urls such as domain.com/abc/def/ (would load domain.com/abc/def.php) also work it would be great as well, but not necessary
So here is what I have at the moment (thrown together from various sources and samples from around the web
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
# redirect from www to non-www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
# remove php file extension
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ /[^?\s]+\.php
RewriteRule (.*)\.php$ /$1/ [L,R=301]
# add trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^.*[^/]$ /$0/ [L,R=301]
# resolve urls to matching php files
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*)/$ $1.php [L]
With this the first four requirements seem to work, whether I enter domain.com/abc.php, domain.com/abc/ or domain.com/abc, the final url always ends up being domain.com/abc/ and domain.com/abc.php is loaded.
When I enter a url that resolves to a file that doesn't exists I'm getting an error 310 (redirect loop), when really a 404 page should be loaded. Additionally I haven't tried if subfolders work, but as I said, that's low priority. I'm pretty sure I can just slap the permanent 301 redirects for legacy urls on top of that without any issues as well, just wanted to mention it. So the real issue is really the non working 404 page.
I've had problems with getting ErrorDocument to work reliably with rewrite errors, so I tend to prefer to handle invalid pages correctly in my rewrite cascade. I've tried to cover a fully range of test vectors with this. Didn't find any gaps.
Some general points:
You need to use the DOCUMENT_ROOT environment variable in this. Unfortunately if you use a shared hosting service then this isn't set up correctly during rewrite execution, so hosting providers set up a shadow variable to do the same job. Mine uses DOCUMENT_ROOT_REAL, but I've also come across PHP_DOCUMENT_ROOT. Do a phpinfo to find out what to use for your service.
There's a debug info rule that you can trim as long as you replace DOCROOT appropriately
You can't always use %{REQUEST_FILENAME} where you'd expect to. This is because if the URI maps to DOCROOT/somePathThatExists/name/theRest then the %{REQUEST_FILENAME} is set to DOCROOT/somePathThatExists/name rather than the full pattern equivalent to the rule match string.
This is "Per Directory" so no leading slashes and we need to realise that the rewrite engine will loop on the .htaccess file until a no-match stop occurs.
This processes all valid combinations and at the very end redirects to the 404.php which I assume sets the 404 Status as well as displaying the error page.
It will currently decode someValidScript.php/otherRubbish in the SEO fashion, but extra logic can pick this one up as well.
So here is the .htaccess fragment:
Options -Indexes -MultiViews
AcceptPathInfo Off
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
## Looping stop. Not needed in Apache 2.3 as this introduces the [END] flag
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_END} =1
RewriteRule ^ - [L,NS]
## 302 redirections ##
RewriteRule ^ - [E=DOCROOT:%{ENV:DOCUMENT_ROOT_REAL},E=URI:%{REQUEST_URI},E=REQFN:%{REQUEST_FILENAME},E=FILENAME:%{SCRIPT_FILENAME}]
# redirect from HTTP://www to non-www
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
# remove php file extension on GETs (no point in /[^?\s]+\.php as rule pattern requires this)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} =GET
RewriteRule (.*)\.php$ $1/ [L,R=301]
# add trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^.*[^/]$ $0/ [L,R=301]
# terminate if file exists. Note this match may be after internal redirect.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^ - [L,E=END:1]
# terminate if directory index.php exists. Note this match may be after internal redirect.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteCond %{ENV:DOCROOT}/$1/index.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)(/?)$ $1/index.php [L,NS,E=END:1]
# resolve urls to matching php files
RewriteCond %{ENV:DOCROOT}/$1.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*?)/?$ $1.php [L,NS,E=END:1]
# Anything else redirect to the 404 script. This one does have the leading /
RewriteRule ^ /404.php [L,NS,E=END:1]
Enjoy :-)
You'll probably want to check if the php file exists before adding the tailing slash.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^.*[^/]$ /$0/ [L,R=301]
or if you really want a tailing slash for all 404 pages (so /image/error.jpg will become /images/error.jpg/, which I think is weird):
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} !200
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^.*[^/]$ /$0/ [L,R=301]
I came up with this:
DirectorySlash Off
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
#if it's www
# redirect to non-www.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301,QSA]
#else if it has slash at the end, and it's not a directory
# serve the appropriate php
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1.php [L,QSA]
#else if it's an existing file, and it's not php or html
# serve the content without rewrite
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.php)|(\.html?)$
RewriteRule ^ - [L,QSA]
#else
# strip php/html extension, force slash
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteRule ^(.*?)((\.php)|(\.html?))?/?$ /$1/ [L,NC,R=301,QSA]
Certainly not very elegant (env:redirect_status is quite a hack), but it passes my modest tests. Unfortunately I can't test the www redirection, as I'm on localhost, and has no real access to a server, but that part should work too.
You see, I used the ErrorDocument directive to specify the error page, and used the DirectorySlash Off request to make sure Apache doesn't interfere with the slash-appending fun. I also used the QSA (Query String Append) flag that, well, appends the query string to the request so that it's not lost. It looks kind of silly after the trailing slash, but anyhow.
Otherwise it's pretty straightforward, and I think the comments explain it pretty well. Let me know if you run into any trouble with it.
Create a folder under the root of the domain
Place a .htaccess in the above folder as RewriteRule ^$ index.php
Parse the URL
With PHP coding you can now strip the URL or file extension as required

htaccess rewrite rule, old URL to new

A bit of help fellow SO people.
What I have at the moment (based on some code I used for a different type of URL).
I want the first URL to redirect to the second, with no query string included afterwards
This is what I have to so far.
RewriteRule ^(page.php?id=missionstatement+)/?$ http://example.com/why/mission-statement [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(page.php?id=ofsted+)/?$ http://example.com/how/ofsted-report [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(page.php?id=governingbody+)/?$ http://example.com/governors [R=301,L]
Here is the rule (will redirect 1 URL):
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=whatever
RewriteRule ^page\.php$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/how/somehow? [R=301,L]
This rule intended to be placed in .htaccess in website root folder. If placed elsewhere some small tweaking may be required.
I have used %{HTTP_HOST} -- this will redirect to the same domain as requested URL. If domain name has to be different, replace it by exact domain name.
The ? at the end of new URL will get rid of existing query string.
Ahoy!
Give this a whirl:
#check mod_rewrite is enabled
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
#enable mod rewrite
RewriteEngine On
#set working directory
RewriteBase /
#force trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/ [R=301,L]
#bootstrap index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^page.php\?id=(.*)$ http://www.willans.com/page.php/$1 [R=310,L]
#end mod rewrite check
</IfModule>
It's been a while since i've done any web dev, but that should be a push in the right direction at least ;)

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