I would like to know how to allow periods at the end on my url's. Currently if I had the url:
http://www.mydomain.com/Page/I.D.K.
The page grabbing the information would return
Title: I.D.K (Without the ending period)
This also happens with other punctuation and it is effecting my pages displaying information wrongly. Thanks for looking, hope somebody knows the solution.
I am using the following in my htaccess file:
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/?$ /index.php?Page=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?Page=$1&Level1=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?Page=$1&Level1=$2&Level2=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?Page=$1&Level1=$2&Level2=$3&Level3=$4 [L]
Ok problem virtually solved. The & still breaks my strings if I try doing Artist1 & Artist2 but I will just use string replace to replace that symbol with something else. Anyway, to allow punctuation anywhere, even at the end, I replaced all + with * in my rewrite rules. Here is how it looks now:
RewriteRule ^([^/.]*)/?$ /index.php?Page=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/.]*)/([^/]*)/?$ /index.php?Page=$1&Level1=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/.]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/?$ /index.php?Page=$1&Level1=$2&Level2=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/.]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/?$ /index.php?Page=$1&Level1=$2&Level2=$3&Level3=$4 [L]
Hope this helps some other people with similar problems.
I'm assuming this is located in http://www.mydomain.com/. Here's what I'd use for the second Rule (which can then be transposed to the other rules):
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9\-,]+)/([A-Za-z0-9.\-,]+)/?$ /index.php?Page=$1&Level1=$2 [L]
That will match the following: (and will allow for hyphens, commas, and periods for Level1)
IDK/Jump.ing.
IDK/Jump.ing./
But not:
S$!LV/J
I try and whitelist my options (something like /[A-Z]/), rather than blacklist them (/[^3-5]/). I'm sure there are arguments for both options, but I like whitelisting mostly because I have control over what can be used. If I don't include it in my list, it's not a valid option. Of course, if you're accepting a LOT of options, then this could make for some very long character classes or whatnot. What if someone went to http://www.mydomain.com/Page/I.D.K.&somevariable=somevalue ? It could potentially break your script (if the person is smart). Your RewriteRule would send them to /index.php?Page=Page&Level1=I.D.K.&somevariable=somevalue. Not at all what you anticipated happening.
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I have spent hours looking for a solution, but .htaccess rules seem way over my head. I have this rule:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ wikka.php?wakka=$1 [QSA,L]
and I need it to be applied only if there is anything beyond the domain name, ie. www.example.com/xyz but NOT with just www.example.com because then I only need to display a simple index.php instead {no address translation}.
How do I do that?
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ wikka.php?wakka=$1 [QSA,L]
You just need to change the * (0 or more) in the RewriteRule pattern to + (1 or more). For example:
RewriteRule (.+) wikka.php?wakka=$1 [QSA,L]
I also removed the anchors ^ and $, since they are not necessary here. You are grabbing everything anyway, so saying you are grabbing everything from the start to the end is just not necessary.
Also, unless you require the query string from the original request I would remove the QSA flag. By itself this rule will result in a repeated query string of the form ?wakka=wikka.php&wakka=xyz - where xyz is the intial request. This still "works" if reading the URL params with PHP as wakka=xyz will override the earlier parameter.
How can modrewrite be done in this above situation:
Lets say the website us is: www.real-estate.com
Then we have the first mod rewrite:
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z\-]+) cities.php?city_url=$1
So this will rewrite to something similar: www.real-estate.com/florida and it will list all the real estates in florida.
Then we add this rule:
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z\-]+)/(.*)+$ details.php?project=$2
This will rewrite to www.real-estates/florida/project-one and it will display details from that project.
But if I access the link for the city like this: www.real-estae.com/florida/ (with slash last) it will jump me to the second mod rewrite rule, taking me to details.php with an empty variable.
What is the correct solution to slove this problem, so that if the users adds a slash after the city it will still display the projects in that city and not the details page with empty var ?
After playing around I found that his works, but I do not know if it is the correct solution:
I replaced this:
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z\-]+)/+(.*)$ details.php?project=$2
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z\-]+) cities.php?city_url=$1
With this:
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z\-]+)/([a-zA-Z\-]+) details.php?project=$2
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z\-]+) cities.php?city_url=$1
So I have replaced (.*)$ Why does this work and the other way not I do not know.. Maybe someone can explain.
Probably it fixed the immediate problem but your rules might still match more than required due to faulty regex used and not using anchor $.
For your case use these rules:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^[a-zA-Z-]+/([a-zA-Z-]+)/?$ details.php?project=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z-]+)/? cities.php?city_url=$1 [L,QSA]
Apache mod_rewrite Introduction
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.
I have a page called category.php5 that uses $_GET["category"] to fetch the right content from the database. I want to pretty it up so is looks like:
sinaesthesia.co.uk/category/psoriasis
which would equal:
sinaesthesia.co.uk/category.php5?category=psoriasis
I have successfully done this sort of rewriting before, but since I can't get it to work now, I'm worred that I might have rules in place that are somehow screwing me. Here is my entire .htaccess file - the last couple of lines are supposed to do the above rewrite:
RewriteEngine On
#remember to change this to aromaclear
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^sinaesthesia\.co.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://sinaesthesia.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]
#Translate default page to root
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ .*/index\.(php5|html)\ HTTP
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.(php5|html)$ /$1 [R=301,L]
#translate any .html ending into .php5
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ /$1\.php5
#change / for ?
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html/(.*)$ /$1\.html?$2
#strip .html from search res page
RewriteRule ^(.*)search/(.*)$ /$1search_results\.html/search=$2
#translate product details link from search res page
RewriteRule ^products/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ /product_details.php5?category=$1&title=$2&id=$3 [L]
#Translate products/psorisis/chamomile-skin-cream-P[x] to productview.php5?id=1
RewriteRule ^products/.*-P([0-9]+) /productview.php5?id=$1 [L]
#Translate /category/psoriasis to /category.php5?category=$1
RewriteRule ^category/(.*) /category.php5?category=$1 [L]
When I manually enter category.php5/category=psoriasis, it works great. When I enter category.php5/category/psoriasis, it doesn't. I'm worried that my line that changes a html/ to html? is an error, however when I take that line out, it still doesn't work. Everything else works as expected.
As a general strategy, strip down your file by commenting everything out, then re-enable things piece by piece until you find the rule that causes it to break.
Bear in mind that browsers sometimes cache redirects, so starting a fresh browser instance is a good idea. A useful service is http://web-sniffer.net/ which will give you an uncached result.
In general, looking at your set of redirects, this seems a little convoluted to me because of the chaining/sieve -type system you seem to be using. Instead, I would recommend starting with URLs that can be identified specifically, e.g. starting with
RewriteRule ^category/(.*) /category.php5?category=$1 [L]
and then leaving the rather messy .html => .php conversion stuff towards the end, if you end up needing it at all. I've done a lot of sites using redirects and have never needed generic conversions like that, so they should be avoidable.
Also bear in mind that .* means matching anything or nothing, so you probably want to use .+ instead.
Ah: because I have a document called category.php5 and I'm trying to use category/psoriasis, the server tries to resolve that as category.php5/psoriasis, which fails. Fixed it now!