How to redirect using rewrite rules - url-rewriting

I am trying to use rewrite rules to redirect as such:
https://myurl.com/w2/clientname.w2
to
https://myurl.com/clientname
The client name is not static. It can be anything.
I am not sure whether I can do this using just rewrite rules or whether I also need to use rewrite maps?

You should be able to do this with a rewrite rule using a regular expression. For your example something like w2/(.*)\.w2 could be the pattern and that should get you "clientname" as {R:1} to use in your redirect.

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Changing domains in IIS environment

I am working with IIS (Internet Information Services ) in a windows server with URL Rewrite.
Need to redirect a URL (https://page.olddomain.com) to a new URL (https://page.newdomain.com). Everything remains the same, just need to URL to change if a user goes to https://page.olddomain.com.
Wondering if I'm following the right process of thought here.
I have a Inbound Rule created that should work.
Match URL
Requested URL: Matches the Pattern Using: Exact Match Pattern:
https ://page.olddomain.com (ignore case)
No conditions set
No server variables
Action
Action Type: Rewrite
Action Properties
Rewrite URL: https://page.newdomain.com
Append query string: checked
Am I missing anything here?
For this problem, if you can't implement the redirect step, I think it was caused by the wrong input in Pattern box which same with the comment mentioned by Lex Li.
We do not need to input the base url(such as https://page.olddomain.com) in Pattern, we just need to input the append url after the base url in Pattern. For your requirement, you just need to do it as below screenshot:
I suggest you to use "Regular Expressions" instead of "Exact Match", it can success implement your requirement.
And by the way, maybe you want to input / in Pattern(just ignore baseurl), but it will not work. So please input .* in Pattern. Apart from this, you'd better also define a condition to specify the HTTP_HOST equal your old host url.
For the comment you mentioned about SSL, I think it will not be affected by the redirect/rewrite rule.

How can I have a parameter with slashes in gin url

I want to have a parameter with slashes in the router in gin.
From what I gathered I can do this by adding a wildcard to the URL. For example: /api/v0/files/*addr
But this approach doesn't work if I want to have the addr in the middle of the URL like /api/v0/*addr/files, and it returns this error:
catch-all routes are only allowed at the end of the path.
I was wondering whether there is another way of having it?
Seems that is a limitation of the Gin framework, as seen # https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin/blob/master/tree.go#L322
You could always invert the order and do a rewrite using a proxy and a regexp (i.e. /api/v0/*addr/files to /api/v0/files/*addr) or only accept methods ending with /files inside your handling function, but I'm afraid that is a hardcoded limitation of the Gin framework.

Filters in Laravel 4

I'm trying to use a pattern based filter in my routes file.
I want to stop anything without crsf and only allow ajax calls.
So far I have:
Route::when('/gateway/*', 'crsf');
I'm not sure where im going wrong and how i could add in the ajax verification.
You can use Route Groups to apply before filter.
http://laravel.com/docs/routing#route-groups
You can check if a request is ajax or not by calling if(Request::ajax). Define this on your before call.
http://laravel.com/docs/requests
As for the patterns, have a look at Pattern Based Filters section of Routing documentation.
http://laravel.com/docs/routing

How can I shorten routes in Codeigniter for certain requests?

I have a page that has this category URL website.com/category/view/honda-red-car and I just want it to say http://website.com/honda-red-car no html or php and get rid of the category view in the URL.. this website has been done using the CodeIgniter framework..
also this product view URL website.com/product/details/13/honda-accord-red-car
and I want it to be website.com/honda-accord-red-car PLEASE HELP!!!
I cannot find correct instructions on what I am doing wrong??
In Routes.php you need to create one like so
$route['mycar'] = "controller_name/function_name";
So for your example it would be:
$route['honda-red-car] = "category/view/honda-red-car";
Take a look into the URI Routing part of the user guide.
If you have concrete set of urls that you want to route then by adding rules to the application/config/routes.php you should be able to achieve what you want.
If you want some general solution (any uri segment can be a product/details page) then you might need to add every other url explicitly to the routes.php config file and set up a catch-all rule to route everything else to the right controller/method. Remember to handle 404 urls too!
Examples:
Lets say the /honda-red-car is something special and you want only this one to be redirected internally you write:
$routes['honda-red-car'] = 'product/details/13/honda-accord-red-car';
If you want to generalize everything that starts with the honda- string you do:
$routes['(honda-.*)'] = 'product/details_by_slug/$1'; // imaginary endpoint
These rules are used inside a preg_replace() call passing in the key as the pattern, and the value as the replace string, so the () are for capture groups, $1 for placing the capture part.
Be careful with the patterns, if they are too general they might catch every request coming in, so:
$routes['(.*)'] = 'product/details_by_slug/$1';
While it would certainly work for any car name like suzuki-swift-car too it would catch the ordinary root url, or the product/details/42 request too.
These rules are evaulated top to bottom, so start with specific rules at the top and leave general rules at the end of the file.

Mod_rewrite and MySql

I have a url eg. www.example.com/user.php?user_id=9 , where the user_id field maps to one of the pk in the user table . I don't want the url to be like this , instead i want to have a url like www.example.com/user/Aditya-Shukla.i am using apache 2 and I understand that mod-rewrite module has sets of rewriting rules which can be used to create url alias.
My question is
I have all href in the form www.example.com/user.php?user_id=9. So to change the url I suppose i have to change all the href's to the www.example.com/user/Aditya-Shukla and for rewriting the rule do a query to get a record?
Is there a better solution .
No, mod_rewrite does not have sets of rewriting rules. It rather provides directives to build rules based on regular expression patterns that can be combined with additional conditions.
In your case you would build a rule that takes any requested URL path that starts with /user/ and has another path segment following and rewrites it internally to your user.php, like:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/user/([^/]+)$ /user.php?name=$1
The first directive RewriteEngine on is just to enable mod_rewrite. And the second directive RewriteRule … is the rule as described above: ^/user/([^/]+)$ is the pattern that matches any URL path that starts with /user/ (i.e. ^/user/) and that is followed by one path segment (i.e. ([^/]+)$). That request is then rewritten internally to /user.php while the matched path segment behind the /user/ is used as a parameter value for the name parameter ($1 is a reference to the matched value of the first group denoted with (…)).
So this will rewrite a request of /user/Aditya-Shukla internally to /user.php?name=Aditya-Shukla. You can then use that user name and look it up in your table.
You can either add a RewriteRule that will rewrite user/Aditya-Shukla to user.php?user_name=Aditya-Shukla and handle the rest in your code.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^user/(.*)$ user.php?user_name=$1
Or using a RewriteMap directive to lookup usernames, which will allow to rewrite user/Aditya-Shukla directly to user.php?user_id=9
I presume that within your own site you will always create the canonical form of the URL, i.e.:
/user/Aditya-Shukla
...and you are just having to deal with outside links that are not in canonical form, i.e. "old links" like:
www.example.com/user.php?user_id=9
mod_rewrite may not be suitable for remapping in this situation. I am presuming you may have very many users, and that number may grow. mod_rewrite does have a RewriteMap directive and yes there are ways to generate your map dynamically, but I don't think that would be a good design (to dynamically create a map of userId-to-userName dynamically every time your rewrite rule matches...)
Instead you should simply write your user.php code to lookup the correct userName, assemble the canonical form of URL you want, and send a redirect back to the client. Something like:
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
Header( "Location: http://www.example.com/user/Aditya-Shukla" );
You should probably also use a 301 redirect (instead of 302) to indicate this is a "permanent" URL change, which will help search bots index your site correctly if it encounters an "old style" URL out there.
-broc

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