How to insert an "index.php" into every url using .htaccess? - .htaccess

Example: My Site gets called like that:
www.mysite.com/controller/method/parameter1/parameter2
Now, .htaccess needs to rewrite this URL into:
www.mysite.com/index.php/controller/method/parameter1/parameter2
But the problem is: In case of an img, css or js directory, no redirection should happen.
How can I achieve this? What must I put to .htaccess? I just added this line but nothing happens:
RewriteCond $1 !^(css|js|images)

I haven't tested it, but this should work:
RewriteRule !^((css|js|images)/.*)$ index.php%{REQUEST_URI} [L, NE]
%{REQUEST_URI} will be the original /controller/method... stuff, including the ?query part hopefully. NE prevents double escaping of stuff, and L means no further rules are applied.

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htaccess to add ?query=string to specific url

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]

Redirect from image to script

please help me with redirect in .htaccess
Iam have simple link
http://domain.com/test123/image-123.gif
Iam need to redirect from this image to script.
http://domain.com/test.php?company=test123?image=image-123.gif
My example doesnt work =(
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.+)/(.+).\gif$ tracking.php?company=$1&email=$2 [L,QSA]
Assuming this is literally what you have in a .htaccess file, the problem is that you have .\g rather than .g -- that is, you've escaped the 'g' character, rather than the . character.
That is, what you want is:
RewriteRule ^(.+)/(.+)\.gif$ tracking.php?company=$1&email=$2 [PT,L,QSA]
Also, note that this does not redirect, as you say in your question, but it does a transparent rewrite. If you want it to redirect, replace the PT with a R in the flag.

Why doesnt this htaccess rewrite work?

Okay so I am trying to make it so that if people go to /?char=USERNAME it would show the contents of /game/CharWidget.swf?login=USERNAME. This is my code so far:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} char=(.*)
RewriteRule ^index.php?char=(.*) /game/CharWidget.swf?login=%1
This makes the url server side as /game/CharWidget.swf but doesn't carry the ?char=username and make it ?login=username so it wont show what I want it to show.
Edit; If it's easier doing /char/USERNAME to /game/CharWidget.swf?login=USERNAME i wouldnt mind doing that if someone could give me the code for it.
The query string is not visible to RewriteRules, so ^index.php?char=(.*) will never match. (Except that, since you haven't escaped . or ?, it will match e.g. indexZphchar=foo, which is probably not what you want.)
Also, if the user visits /?char=USERNAME, what the RewriteRule would normally see is just /; no index.php. Finally, if this is in an .htaccess file, you'll generally also need a RewriteBase directive.
Putting all those fixes together, something like this should work:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^char=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^/?(index\.php)?$ /game/CharWidget.swf?login=%1 [NS]
(The regexp ^/?(index\.php)?$ will match either an empty path or index.php, with or without a leading slash. That makes it a bit more complex than absolutely necessary, but also more robust. In particular, the /? lets it also work outside .htaccess files, where the leading slash will be present.)
Ps. The regexp ^char=(.*)$ will also allow URLs like /?char=foo&bar=baz to be rewritten to /game/CharWidget.swf?login=foo&bar=baz. If you don't want to allow such rewrites, replace it with e.g. ^char=([^&;]*)$.
Edit: Unfortunately, this isn't going to work for .swf files, because those execute on the client, and so won't see any changes to the query string made by server-side rewrites.
What you could do is make the rewrite external by replacing the [NS] flag with [NS,L,R=302]. However, this will also change the URL shown in the browser address bar, which may not be what you want. If so, another option would be to make the original request serve an HTML page on which you embed the .swf file.

.htaccess not working as expected in sub-folder

I have this rewrite rule placed in /dashboard/.htaccess [dashboard is actually a folder]:
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ index.php?mode=$1 [L]
My structure is index.php?mode=support, even though, $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] outputs this:
mode=index.php
Example: site.com/dashboard/index.php?mode=support should be site.com/dashboard/support
So , how can I make it parse the param value, and not the file itself.
Managed to solve it while doing more research on regular expressions.
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)$ index.php?mode=$1 [L,QSA]
Thi solved my problem, preferred plus instead asterisk because it tells the engine to repeat it zero or more times. (when i'm on index.php , query string is empty as needed)
Your rule is matching anything that starts with not a slash and doesnt contain a slash anywhere when your actual path is
/dashboard/support
to get the folder you actually want you need a base on there like this
RewriteBase /dashboard/
If that is placed above the rule, Then your redirect should be ok

mod_rewrite .htaccess with %20 translate to -

I have been reading about .htaccess files for a couple of hours now and I think I'm starting to get the idea but I still need some help. I found various answers around SO but still unsure how to do this.
As far as I understand you write a rule for each page extension you want to 'prettify', so if you have something.php , anotherpage.php, thispage.php etc and they are expecting(will receive??) arguments, each needs its own rule. Is this correct?
The site I want to change has urls like this,
maindomain.com/sue.php?r=word1%20word2
and at least one page with two arguments
maindomain.com/kevin.php?r=place%20name&c=person%20name
So what I would like to make is
maindomain.com/sue/word1-word2/
maindomain.com/kevin/place-name/person-name/
Keeping this .php page and making it look like the directory. Most of the tutorials I have read deal with how to remove the .php page to which the argument is passed. But I want to keep it.
the problem I am forseeing is that all of the .php?r=parts of the url are the same ie sue.php?r=, kevin.php?r= and the .htaccess decides which URL to change based on the filename and then omits it. If I want to keep the file name will I have to change the ?r=
so that it is individual? I hope this make sense. So far I have this, but I'm sure it won't work.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$1.php?r=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$1.php?r=$1&c=$1
And I think I have to add ([^-]*) this in some part or some way so that it detects the %20 part of the URL, but then how do I convert it to -. Also, how are my $_GET functions going to work??
I hope my question makes sense
You're missing a space somewhere in those rules, but I think you've got the right idea in making 2 separate rules. The harder problem is converting all the - to spaces. Let's start with the conversion to GET variables:
# check that the "sue.php" actually exists:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([^/]+)/?$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%1.php -f
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /$1.php?r=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%1.php -f
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /$1.php?r=$2&c=$3 [L,QSA]
Those will take a URI that looks like /sue/blah/ and:
Extract the sue part
Check that /document_root/sue.php actually exists
rewrite /sue/blah/ to /sue.php?r=blah
Same thing applies to 2 word URI's
Something like /kevin/foo/bar/:
Extract the kevin part
Check that /document_root/kevin.php actually exists
3 rewrite /kevin/foo/bar/ to /kevin.php?r=foo&c=bar
Now, to get rid of the "-" and change them to spaces:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)(c|r)=([^&]+)-(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1?%1%2=%3\ %4 [L]
This looks a little messy but the condition matches the query string, looks for a c= or r= in the query string, matches against a - in the value of a c= or r=, then rewrites the query string to replace the - with a (note that the space gets encoded as a %20). This will remove all the - instances in the values of the GET parameters c and r and replace them with a space.

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