We simply have to move every page inside of a directory called "Music" to a directory called "Information"... That's the only change. There's lots of links to pages music and we don't want to break them all. I'm not great at rewrite conditions....
Basically, all I want to do is when a user types in music/index.php, for example, or music/life/mypage.php, to simply redirect it to information/index.php or information/life/mypage.php... just change from music to information. And I do want the correct URL (information) to show in the URL box.
...I'm pretty exasperated. I've been trying to get this thing all darn afternoon!
Use backreferences for this one:
RewriteRule ^foo/(.*)$ bar/$1
RedirectMatch ^/foo/bar/(.*) http://www.wherever.org/a/foo/bar/$1
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I have these three links:
localhost/my_projects/my_website.php
localhost/my_projects/my_website.html
localhost/my_projects/my_website
The paths of the php and html files are as follows:
C:\xampp\htdocs\my_projects\my_website.php
C:\xampp\htdocs\my_projects\my_website.html
The link without an extension is "artificial" and I want to use said link:
localhost/my_projects/my_website
to get the contents of either of these links:
localhost/my_projects/my_website.php
localhost/my_projects/my_website.html
The reason for the two example files, instead of just one, is that I want to be able to switch between those two files when I edit the htaccess file. Obviously I only want to access one of those files at a time.
What do I need to have in my .htaccess file inside the my_projects folder to accomplish that? How can I make one specific link redirect to another specific link?
After reading your comment clarifying your folder structure I corrected the RewriteRule. (By the way, it would be best if you add that info to the question itself instead of in comments).
The url you want to target is: http://localhost/my_projects/my_website
http:// is the protocol
localhost is your domain (it could also be 127.0.0.1 or a domian name like www.example.com in the Internet)
I assume you are running Apache on port 80, otherwise in the url you need to also specify the port. For port 8086 for example it would be http://localhost:8086/my_projects/my_website.
The real path is htdocs/my_projects/my_website.php or htdocs/my_projects/my_website.html depending on your needs (obviously both won't work at the same time).
Here the my_projects in the "fake" url collides with the real folder "my_projects" so Apache will go for the folder and see there is no my_website (with no extension) document there (it won't reach the rewrite rules).
There is a question in SO that provides a work around for this, but it is not a perfect solution, it has edge cases where the url will still fail or make other urls fail. I had posted it yesterday, but I seem not to find it now.
The simple solution if you have the flexibility for doing it is to change the "fake" url for it not to collide with the real path.
One option is for example to replace the underscores with hyphens.
Then you would access the page as http://localhost/my-projects/my-website if you want to keep a sort of "fake" folder structure in the url. Otherwise you could simply use http://localhost/my-website.
Here are both alternatives:
# This is for the directory not to be shown. You can remove it if you don't mind that happening.
Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine On
#Rule for http://localhost/my-projects/my-website
RewriteRule ^my-projects/my-website(.+)?$ my_projects/my_website.php$1 [NC,L]
#Rule for http://localhost/my-website
RewriteRule ^my-website(.+)?$ my_projects/my_website.php$1 [NC,L]
(Don't use both, just choose one of these two, or use them to adapt it to your needs)
The first part the rewrite rule is the regular expression for your "fake" url, the second part is the relative path of your real folder structure upto the page you want to show.
In the regular expression we capture whatever what we assume to be possible query parameters after .../my_website, and paste it after my_website.php in the second part of the rule (the $1).
Later on if you want to point the url to my_website.html, you have to change the second part of the rule, where it says .php, replace it by .html.
By the way, it is perfectly valid and you'll see it in most SEO friendly web sites to write an url as http://www.somesite.com/some-page-locator, and have a rewrite rule that translates that url to a page on the website, which is what I had written in my first answer.
I have a rather large website that I need to move to a different directory. Right now, the website has a normal structure.
www.technology.com
The company wants the entire website moved so the new main URL will be:
www.technology.com/structure
So, the current page structure which is:
www.technology.com
www.technology.com/about
www.technology.com/services
www.technolgy.com/products
needs to become:
www.technology.com/structure
www.technology.com/structure/about
www.technology.com/structure/services
www.technolgy.com/structure/products
This is an older website that isn't inside of a CMS. Would the easiest way to do this be to actually just create a directory in the root called structure and copy everything into it?
What would I do as far as catching any people that might have links bookmarked? So, if someone were to come to www.technology.com, I would want them to automatically be redirected to > www.technology.com/structure and vice-versa with everything else. I'm assuming this could be accomplished with the .htaccess file.
Any help would be appreciated.
Yes this is right just move your complete website to www.technology.com/structure and put this in to your .htaccess file in www.technology.com/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?structure(/.*)?$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ /structure/$1 [R=301,L]
One remark: The whole thing would only work if on your apache server mod_rewrite is enabled and you are allowed to use htaccess files (with mod_rewrite), this is not always the case by default.
I have a series of URLs on my website:
http://www.example.com/sub1/sub2/content.html
But I would like to remove "sub1" completely - not hide it so it still attempts to access that directory. Finished result would be this URL:
http://www.example.com/sub2/content.html
Many similar posts on SE seem to demonstrate how to "hide" a URL from the user. I want to rewrite the URL so that it treats it as if it isn't even there.
Example of what I'm trying not to do: Hide Part of URL htaccess
NOTE: I do not want to actually delete files as suggested by the comment below. I'm trying to redirect the request to another directory.
This worked for me:
RewriteRule ^sub1/sub2/(.*)$ /sub2/$1 [R=302,NC,L]
Helpful page: http://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/redirecting-a-web-folder-directory-to-another-in-htaccess/
I'd like to create a rewrite in .htaccess for my site so that when a user asks for URL A, the content comes from URL B, but the user still sees the URL as being URL A.
So, for example, let's say I have content at mydomain.com/projects/project-example. I want users to be able to ask for mydomain.com/project-example, still see that URL in their address bar, but the browser should display the content from mydomain.com/projects/project-example.
I've looked through several .htaccess rewrite tips and FAQs, but unfortunately none of them seemed to present a solution for exactly what I've described above. Not everything on my domain will be coming from the /projects/ directory, so I'd imagine the rewrite should check to see if the page exists first so it's not appending /projects/ to every url. I'm really stumped.
If a rewrite is not exactly what I need, or if there is a simple solution for this problem, I'd love to hear it.
This tutorial should have everything that you need, including addressing exactly what you are asking: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html . It may just be a matter of terminology.
So, for example, let's say I have content at mydomain.com/projects/project-example. I want users to be able to ask for mydomain.com/project-example, still see that URL in their address bar, but the browser should display the content from mydomain.com/projects/project-example.
With something like:
RewriteRule ^project-example$ /projects/project-example [L]
When someone requests http://mydomain.com/project-example and the URI /project-example gets rewritten internally to /projects/project-example. Note that when this is in an .htaccess file, the URI /project-example gets the leading slash removed when matching.
If you have a directory of stuff, you can use regular expressions and back-references, for example you want any request for http://mydomain.com/stuff/ to map to /internal/stuff/:
RewriteRule ^stuff/(.*)$ /internal/stuff/$1 [L]
So requests for http://mydomain.com/stuff/file1.html, http://mydomain.com/stuff/image1.png, etc. get rewritten to /internal/stuff/file1.html, /internal/stuff/image1.png, etc.
Hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction as htaccess is driving me crazy at the moment.
What i am trying to achieve is an automatic redirect for certain images
Currently I use jquery to replace the image src.
The reason for this is the new resized images are in a different directory.
The problem with this method is every time we refresh we have to wait for the dom to fully load.
And I see this is possible with htaccess.
Redirect /my-domain.com/images/image1.png /my-domain.com/images/resized/image1.png
Currently this works, but for over 100 images I really need to find a dynamic solution for this
I tried the following which obviously failed.
RewriteRule ^/my-domain.com/images/(.*) /my-domain.com/images/resized/(.*) [R=301,L]
the resized directory has several directory's so the rule needs to apply to all child directories.
Although it's not a big problem to list all the directories as long as I don't list all images.
hopefully I am missing something simple here, also I wanted to make sure the redirect will not effect SEO?
maybe there is an alternative solution with htaccess?
This is a bit of a messy way to handle images - across multiple folders - but, if that's how you want to manage it, fair enough.
From the above, I understand that:
There are some images within the /images/resized/ folder
There are also some images within subfolders of the same
You want to be able to call a URL within the /images/ folder and have it transcribed to the /images/resize/ folder (with the same end)
In the webroot's .htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/images/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/images/resized/
RewriteRule ^images/(.+)$ /images/resized/$1
Tested OK with this htaccess tester.
"I wanted to make sure the redirect will not effect SEO?"
Filenames are not as important for SEO as alt tags and titles. There should be no change to the SEO stance of your site as a result of this change.