How to rewrite specific urls in lighttpd - url-rewriting

I moved a wiki install on lighttpd from https://www.example.com/wiki to a subdomain of https://wiki.example.com so I need to redirect anything wiki related to the new subdomain.
url.rewrite-once = (
"^/wiki" => "https://wiki.example.com",
)
This gives me an error 404 not found as the browser is still pointed to the old page.
In addition I would like to add a rule to handle pages people already have bookmarked such as sending
https://www.example.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
to
https://wiki.example.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
I ended up doing this:
url.redirect = ( "^/wiki/(.*)$ => https://wiki.example.net/$1",
"^/wiki/([^?]*)(?:\?(.*))?" => "https://wiki.example.net/index.php?title=$1&$2",
)
This works on 99% of the site. However there are a few forums threads that do not display correctly now because they are trying to redirect.
This one works and can view the forum normally
https://www.example.net/forums/showthread.php?796166-Wiki-Skins
This one breaks and tries to redirect
https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?796105-Wiki-Extensions-amp-Gadgets

While Stackoverflow is a good resource, please also try reading the primary source documentation for the tool you are asking about. In this case, that is lighttpd documentation.
You might consider using mod_redirect to redirect the client. See documentation and examples at https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Docs_ModRedirect

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Typo3 behind Proxy

I'm trying to get a Typo3 (6.2) instance running behind a (forwarding) proxy (squid). I have set
'HTTP' => array(
'adapter' => 'curl',
'proxy_host' => 'my.local.proxy.ip',
'proxy_port' => '8080',
)
as well as
'SYS' => array(
'curlProxyServer' => 'http://my.local.proxy.ip:8080',
'curlUse' => '1'
)
The proxy doesn't ask for credentials.
When I try to update the extension list, I get the error message
Update Extension List
Could not access remote resource http://repositories.typo3.org/mirrors.xml.gz.
If I try Get preconfigured distribution, it says
1342635425
Could not access remote resource http://repositories.typo3.org/mirrors.xml.gz.
According to the proxy log, the server doesn't even try to connect to the proxy.
I can easily download the file using wget on the command line.
Ok, I've investigated he issue a bit more and from what I can tell, the Typo3 doesn't even try to connect anywhere.
I used tcpdump and wireshark to analyze the network traffic. The site claims to have tried sending a http-Request to repositories.typo3.org so I'd expect to find either a proxy connection attempt or a DNS query followed by an attempt to connect to that IP. (Of course, the latter is known not to work.) However, none of this happens.
I've tried some slight changes in the variable curlProxyServer. The documentation clearly states
String: Proxyserver as http://proxy:port/. Deprecated since 4.6 - will be removed in TYPO3 CMS 7. See below for http options.
So I tried adding the trailing "/" and removing the "http://" - no change. I'm confident there's no problem whatsoever regarding the proxy as the proxy isn't even contacted and has been working perfectly fine for everything else for years.
The error message comes from \TYPO3\CMS\Extensionmanager\Utility\Repository\Helper::fetchFile(). This one uses \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Utility\GeneralUtility::getUrl() to get the actual file content.
According to your setting, it should use the first part of the function, because curlUse is set and the URL starts with http or https.
So what you would need to do now is to throw some debug lines in the code and check at what point the request goes wrong.
Look at the source code, three possibilities come to mind:
The curl proxy parameters does not support a scheme, thus it should be 'curlProxyServer' => 'my.local.proxy.ip:8080',.
Some redirect does not work.
Your proxy has problems with https, because the TYPO3 TER should be queried over https.

Allow URLs with Dashes on azure websites

I am trying to make an SEO friendly link for a downloads page
using codeigniter hosted on Azure Websites, now this is working:
www.example.com/downloads/viewfile/34
now when i generated this link :
www.example.com/downloads/viewfile/my-nice-file-name-34
the Url rewrite works great locally on a WAMP server, but when deployed to the remote (Azure Webites IIS ?) it gives the error:
The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
I believe that the cause is: dash symbols are not allowed on IIS but is there a way arround ?
After all, i found out that its not the dash symbols that are causing the problem, but the words in the url itself
like yesterday i had www.example.com/downloads/viewfile/example-file-34
to some reason, having your domain-name in the url segments makes that error apear, so i simply replaced "mydomain" into nothing before generating the Url segment
$fileName = str_replace('mydomain','',$fileName);
return url_title($fileName.$fileId);
Now the same link above is www.example.com/downloads/viewfile/file-34 and its working fine.
i also noticed that same behavior is experienced when using some words like : ajax, json.
I hope this would be helful to somone.
In your routes.php file
Find
$route['translate_uri_dashes'] = FALSE;
Replace with
$route['translate_uri_dashes'] = TRUE;
You may need to look also into
URI Routing Codeigniter 3
http://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/routing.html
Codeigniter 2 URI Routing
http://www.codeigniter.com/userguide2/general/routing.html

CodeIgniter returns 404 for all routes but works

I have strange problem with CodeIgniter and routing system and can't find solution for it, so: I have several routes such as
'forum/(:num)'
=> 'forum/category/$1',
'forum/(:num)/(page:any)'
=> 'forum/category/$1/$2',
and them works, but return 404 code in header.
I mean I don't get 404 page, correct HTML returns and page's content displays correctly for my forum's categories. But I'm getting 404 in header (Network tab in Firebug), so I can't work with POST data correctly.
If I request /forum/ - 200 Ok returns, but when I trying to get routed page, I get right page, but with 404 Not Found.
I'm using PHP5.4+Apache2 on Linux host, if it will help You to give me solution.
I've found solution! Maybe it will save someone's time.
Problem wasn't in CodeIgniter, I've found solution in activation mod_rewrite. Yes, that worked, but wan't activated in Apache.
Just try to do
sudo a2enmod rewrite
and restart apache service after
sudo service apache restart
And all routed pages will return 200 Ok
None of these worked, but I did this instead:
At the end of my controller I put this:
$this->output->set_status_header('200');
and actually though that worked, the problem turned out to be a controller name that conflicted with a real directory name...

MVC3 SSL Trouble - Can't switch from HTTPS to HTTP when SSL is not required

I'm trying to get my MVC3 site to redirect from HTTPS back to HTTP when the user browses to a page where it's not required (and they aren't logged in). I Don't want to have the load of running the whole site HTTPS but it's looking like thats the way I'll have to go.
I've been having loads of trouble with remote debug and symbols, but having gone back in time to 1985 and using message box equivalents to debug with I've come to the following conclusion:
if (filterContext.ActionDescriptor
.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(RequireHttpsAttribute), true)
.Any()
)
{
return true;
}
return false;
Always returns false.
The controller def starts as:
[FilterIP(
ConfigurationKeyAllowedSingleIPs = "AllowedAdminSingleIPs",
ConfigurationKeyAllowedMaskedIPs = "AllowedAdminMaskedIPs",
ConfigurationKeyDeniedSingleIPs = "DeniedAdminSingleIPs",
ConfigurationKeyDeniedMaskedIPs = "DeniedAdminMaskedIPs"
)]
[RequireHttps]
public class AccountController : Controller
{
And it doesn't seem to work for any actions in this controller (although they do get successfully routed to SSL).
Any suggestions? I'd love to see an answer for what I perceive as my own nubery ;)
Custom NotRequreHttpsAttribute tutorial
I use the above link post to implement my custom attribute, and redirect from https to http. Hope this helps.
My problem was discovered to be related to the bindings on the server published to. We use the same server for stage and production, and the stage https bindings were not set, so whenever it was calling an https page it was resolving into our production site (which looked the same so it was hard to spot).
Once I added a binding it was all solved. My code was ok...

ruby mechanize in Facebook

I'm trying to click the Settings button on the home page, but when I do I get this page back:
#<WWW::Mechanize::Page
{url
#<URI::HTTP:0x1023c5fc0 URL:http://www.facebook.com/editaccount.php?ref=mb&drop>}
{meta}
{title nil}
{iframes}
{frames}
{links}
{forms}>
which is.. kinda empty! Is there some problems with these iframes and frames stuff maybe?
As roja mentioned, following redirects might be what you need. Here's an example of how to do this:
#agent = Mechanize.new
#agent.redirect_ok = :all
#agent.follow_meta_refresh = :anywhere
Then you can pretty much ignore the fact that there's redirects involved - Mechanize will simply put you on the resulting page.
Facebook redirects me to: https://register.facebook.com/editaccount.php which I assume is the final destination. Assuming that WWW::Mechanize is set up to follow https redirects you should end up there too.
Much of facebook like most modern websites is generated by javascript which I think that WWW::Mechanize is unable to cope with, this could be the source of your problem. I recommend trying to scrape while appending "?_fb_noscript=1" to the url's you visit. This turns off much of facebooks javascript system and should enable a smoother ride for your little bot.
(Do remember this is only an idea and doubtless whatever you do is against facebooks usage policy and this makes you a "baddy." I don't condone such badness and beleve that baddies should be forced to go to bed early etc... ad nauseum)

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