I have a cascade problem with my .htaccess rules. Consider the following:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^product/(.*)$ product.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [L]
With the above, if I requested a URL like http://example.com/product/product-slug, then I’d expect the request to get routed to product.php. However, it doesn’t; my index.php script is picked the request up.
I would have thought that the first RewriteRule would be matched, and as it has a L (last) flag that no further RewriteRules would be matched, including the “catch-all” one at the bottom.
Why is this not working as expected?
This should sort it:
RewriteRule ^product/(.*)$ product.php [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !product.php
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [L]
The problem is that because the rules were in different sets, i.e. not attached a condition, it only stopped processing the current set of rules (the first one) and jumped onto the second.
Hope that clears it all up :)
Perhaps a typo in your code? You're writing "http://example.com/products/" in your question, but in the code you're targeting ^product$, with no s.
Also, your first rule is too strict. It will only match http://example.com/product/. You need to include a wild card after product to allow it to pick up product-slug. Something like RewriteRule ^products/(.*)$ product.php [L,QSA] should work.
Is it not because of the order you have placed the rules in? The one below will override changes to the one above it. Try changing them around.
Also, do you need to set the RewriteBase or not? Is your project on an actual domain, or locally stored in a sub-directory of the server root?
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I have searched in SO but never came across this specific answer. If anyone can help.
This use to be my URL structure /index.php?param1=is1 and I got it to look like this /is1 by using this Rewrite.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /(index\.php)?\?([^&\ ]+)
RewriteRule ^ /%1? [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?$1 [L]
Do not ask my how I got this as it's been a while that this was written. Now the issue is i have a second parameter. So my url that is like this /index.php?param1=is1¶m2=is2 needs to be like this /is1/is2.
Obviously, now it's like this /is1¶m2=is2. So i guess what I am searching for is a way to ask if ¶m2= is seen than hide it ?
I really don't get the logic behind all this URLREWRITE. I am trying to clean my URL structure for SEO purposes and COPY/PASTE logic as URL's should be shared between different users / clients. Obviously, having /this-is-something&this=that is not that bad but having /this-is-something/that is much better.
Just for info, first parameters is BRANDS /this-is-my-brand1 or /this-is-my-brand2 and second parameter is a product as /this-is-my-brand1/product1 before all that I use to have /index.php?brand=brand-one&product=product-one. Changing everything is not an issue, I can start from scratch if there is anything better than what I have.
I am on the learning curve, so I don't mind long explanations.
Any help is appreciated.
If your request parameters name are static (never change) you can use a more specifiq rule
RewriteRule ^(.+)/(.+)$ index.php?brand=$1&product=$2 [L]
I have a URL that appears like this
http://www.domain.com/previous-winners/?ceremony=406&title=2015
and i'm trying to rewrite this with my .htaccess file to appear like this. Keeping the title parameter and dropping the ceremony one.
http://www.domain.com/previous-winners/2015
This is what i have so far
RewriteRule ^previous-winners/$2 /previous-winners/?ceremony=$1&title=$2 [NC]
But i'm not really sure where to go next.
Use this rule in your .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^previous-winners/([^/]*)$ /previous-winners/?ceremony=406&title=$1 [L]
It will leave you with the URL: http://www.domain.com/previous-winners/2015
Just make sure you clear your cache before you test this.
i need help regarding nice looking referral link. for example here is a referral link
http://www.my-domain.com/register.php?ref=john.doe
this is a perfect url but not looks good like the following
http://www.my-domain.com/john.doe
how can i achieve this using .htaccess file? please note that, i have index.php, member.php and other many php files in my server. moreover, if someone write my-domain.com it need to hit index.php file.
any help is highly appreciated.
Based on your example you can use the following .htaccess:
DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+\.php)$ $1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+\.[a-zA-Z]+)$ register.php?ref=$1
This works as following:
Line 1: Sets your index file to index.php if someone accesses http://www.my-domain.com/. This should already be working, but just in case.
Line 2: Enables the RewriteEngine.
Line 3: If someone wants to access anything (technically: anything with at least one character) ending with .php, it is just forwarded (i.e. foo.php will be mapped to foo.php). [NC,L] enables case insensitive matching (for the extension - you never know) and prevents any further rules from being executed. Otherwise the second one would also match every time.
Line 4: If someone wants to access anything matching "at least one character, a dot, at least one more character", then this will be mapped to register.php?ref=<input>
Note: This will effectively prevent all user names ending with .php, but allow access to all your files. It will also prevent user names containing less or more than one dot and it will in its current form not work if your files or user names contain any other characters (e.g. foo_bar.php or i_love_php). But those two limitations can be easily overcome if needed, just provide more details regarding expected behaviour.
You could add a RewriteCond to check if there actually exists a .php file with the requested name and treat it as user name otherwise, but I really don't think you should do that (think about adding new files).
This will get you what you need. This rule will handle nice link and also redirect old link to nice link.
DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ /+register\.php\?ref=(.+)
RewriteRule ^ %1? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ /register.php?ref=$1 [L]
I'm trying to use mod_rewrite to point the blog portion of a site to a blog site.
this is what I have to handle the normal stuff
RewriteRule ^(\w+)/?$ index.php?page=$1
This is what i'm trying to use for the blog site
RewriteRule ^blog/?$ http://url.to.my.blogger.site
but it's not working, when I go to site/blog it directs me to index.php?page=blog is there something I need to do to not do the second rewrite if the first is correct? like an if/else? sorry don't know much about mod_rewrite so any advice would be awesome.
also I noticed that if I try to do something like site/home everything works fine but if I attempt to hit site/home/ it puts all of my urls into the wrong context, for example my css and images don't get loaded correctly.
my full file is this
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^blog/?$ remote/blog/uri/here
RewriteRule ^(\w+)/?$ index.php?page=$1
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} index\.php
RewriteRule ^index\.php - [F]
and when i hit site/blog it still tries to serve index.php?page=blog, I'm guessing I have to break out of the code at some point? I couldn't find documentation on if/else statements
I needed to add flags to my RewriteRule lines so that the server wouldn't evaluate further. Changing them to be
RewriteRule ^/blog http://url.to.blog [L]
did the trick, the problem was that it was evaluating all the way down, seeing as I wasn't attempting to go to index the last valid rule to evaluate was the general rewrite rule.
I have a problem with RewriteRule flags. I have a "main" RewriteRule that handles my application, but I also have some urls that need to be handled differently (see them as custom routes).
I've tried many different flags, but it never gives me the result I want. Check the first comment in the code for what I want.
# First check if this pattern is found, and if it's not, continue to the next one and disregard this one
RewriteRule ^test/report/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?page=report&id=$1 [PT,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [PT,L]
Thanks in advance!
You use the C flag, for chaining, on your first rule, which means that the second rule will be disregarded if the first does not match. Your comment describes what would happen without the C flag. I think you may want an L flag instead if you want to avoid applying the second rule if the first rule matches.
Edit:
Now that you've changed the C flag to L on your first rule, there is another issue. You need to ensure that a rewritten path does not get re-processed by your RewriteRule directives in some way that will change it.
In this case, one way to accomplish that goal is to ensure that the page itself is not already rewritten to index.php:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index.php
RewriteRule ^test/report/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?page=report&id=$1 [PT,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [PT,L]
Unfortunately, I do not know of a way to make the same RewriteCond apply to all your rules other than repeating it before each one.
Edit:
Now that I think of it, yes, there is possibly a somewhat better solution. Instead of using the RewriteCond directives, start with:
RewriteRule ^index.php - [PT,NC,L]
Now, anything starting with index.php will match, nothing changes, and no more RewriteRules will be followed.