I am trying to re-use some .htaccess code on a new site/server and it doesn't work correctly. I'm not an expert with URL rewriting so would appreciate it if anyone can see if my syntax is incorrect or if there is something else I need to check server side.
I am using the following code:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
# News Pages
RewriteRule ^news/$ /news.php
RewriteRule ^news/(.*?)/$ /news.php?article=$1
It works for the 1st level, /news/ but /news/article-1/ just loads the /news/ (news.php) overview page. /news.php?article=article-1 works correctly.
Server is running Apache 2.2.9 and PHP is in CGI mode.
Try it such way:
RewriteRule ^news/(.*?)/?$ /news.php?article=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^news/?$ /news.php [L]
[L] in the end of instruction stops server cheacking of other instructions, if current one match.
So you write more specific ahead of more general.
If your rules work correctly being the only one in the .htaccess, then such organisation of them can help.
/? - this means that / at the end can absent or present
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I have problem with mod_rewrite rule.
I'm trying to get adress:
www.site.com/en/page.html
from url
index.php?page=page&lang=en
I've tried a couple of hours and I can not get ... Unfortunately, I do not know at all mod_rewrite ...
Can someone a guiding me to a solution?
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Peter
First, make sure mod_rewrite is enabled in your Apache configuration file.
Also, make sure htaccess files are allowed (AllowOverride All for your document root folder).
Then, put this code in your htaccess (which has to be in document root folder)
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-z]{2})/([^/]+)\.html$ /index.php?page=$2&lang=$1 [L]
This rule allows you to reach any language/page, for instance:
http://domain.com/en/page.html --> /index.php?page=page&lang=en
http://domain.com/fr/something.html --> /index.php?page=something&lang=fr
If you want to restrict lang parameter:
For english only
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^en/([^/]+)\.html$ /index.php?page=$1&lang=en [L]
For english and french (as an example)
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(en|fr)/([^/]+)\.html$ /index.php?page=$2&lang=$1 [L]
Thank you for your help - exactly is what I meant.
Roughly already beginning to understand what's going on...
From the documentation at hand I can handle it :)
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Peter
I must admit, mod_rewrites are still a bit of black magic for me and I try to stay well away from them unless I really, really need to us them, now I do!
I've just migrated my site to become a multi lingual site and in doing so I've made the following change to the structure.
oldwebsite.net/somefile.php >> newwebsite.com/xx/somefile.php
oldwebsite.net/somefolder/somefile.php >> newwebsite.com/xx/somefolder/somefile.php
Now, I know how to do individual 301 redirects, but I got tons of pages and the new structure hasn't changed the page name so I would like to avoid setting up hundreds of individual 301 redirects, help!!
Thanks,
Mikael
You can put this code in your oldwebsite htaccess (which has to be in root folder)
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} oldwebsite\.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://newwebsite.com/xx/$1 [R=301,L]
i'm using IsapiRewrite from helicontech for my custom classic ASP shopping cart.
My actual httpd.ini file is:
[ISAPI_Rewrite]
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %HTTPS off
RewriteCond Host: (?!^www.domain.com)(.+)
RewriteRule /(.*) http\://www.domain.com/$2 [I,RP]
RewriteRule /httpd(?:\.ini|\.parse\.errors).* / [I,O]
RewriteRule /(.+)-([^-]*)-([^-]*)-([^-]*)\.html$ /detail.asp?brand=$1&model=$2&id=$3&lg=$4 [L]
So i'm actually using this component only to rewrite the product detail page in a nice way.
Lately looking in google cache i find some folders with files inside cached by googleBot that doesn't exist on my server eg: domain.com/carrera-CHAMPION ... and so on.
The page drawn if i access these strange pages is the detail.asp page but without css and some js loaded.
I tested recently the site with Acunetix scanner and seems like he found too these strange folders.
First i added a javascript check to se if Jquery not loaded then that means the page is one of these so i throw an alert and redirect user to homepage ..
Do you know what could be ? or how i could solve this via a rule in httpd.ini?
Hope i make myself clear if no feel free to ask me details,
thank you
Can you confirm that when you disable ISAPI_Rewrite these strange pages/folders disappear?
Please note that ISAPI_Rewrite only rewrites response headers and can't generate anything, so it's highly unlikely to be the cause of the issue.
BTW, your config is the mixture of ISAPI_Rewrite 2 and 3 syntax. If it's v2, please fix it like this:
[ISAPI_Rewrite]
RewriteCond %HTTPS off
RewriteCond Host: (?!www.domain.com).+
RewriteRule /(.*) http\://www.domain.com/$1 [I,RP]
RewriteRule /httpd(?:\.ini|\.parse\.errors).* / [I,O]
RewriteRule /(.+)-([^-]*)-([^-]*)-([^-]*)\.html$ /detail.asp\?brand=$1&model=$2&id=$3&lg=$4 [L]
OK...
I have setup things so that when the following page is requested (browser users and servers)
http://www.visualise.ca/?_escaped_fragment_=corona
the website returns the following the content of this (HTML snapshot)
http://www.visualise.ca/corona
Where 'corona' always change, it varies depending on the page the users or servers are requesting. It could also be
http://www.visualise.ca/?_escaped_fragment_=anne-au-cherry
redirecting to
http://www.visualise.ca/anne-au-cherry
Thanks
UPDATE: OK let me be more clear. I use AJAX to load my Wordpress post and they appear like this http://www.visualise.ca/#!/corona when loaded. But it's not crawlable by Google that request to serv them as http://www.visualise.ca/?_escaped_fragment_=corona so I modified Wordpress to do so. Now Google can crawl my page and index its content and accessing the HTML snapshot available at http://www.visualise.ca/corona.
The problem is that when I paste the http://www.visualise.ca/#!/corona link to facebook it seems to read the http://www.visualise.ca/?_escaped_fragment_=corona and is unable to read the content. But when I paste directly the http://www.visualise.ca/?_escaped_fragment_=corona link it works, it reads http://www.visualise.ca/corona (The HTML).
So I thought maybe if I could redirect http://www.visualise.ca/?_escaped_fragment_=corona to http://www.visualise.ca/corona it would solve my problem.
Here is the existing .htaccess file
#--- DH-PHP handlers ---
AddHandler fastcgi-script fcg fcgi fpl
AddHandler php-fastcgi .php
Action php-fastcgi /cgi-bin/dispatch.fcgi
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
The common mistake that a lot of people do is trying to match whole URL including query string. The reality is: when matching URL, the pattern get applied to path part of it and query string has to be matched separately.
Use this rule: it will issue 301 Permanent Redirect from this kind of URL /?_escaped_fragment_=corona to /corona (where corona can be anything).
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^_escaped_fragment_=([^&]*)
RewriteRule .* http://%{HTTP_HOST}/%1? [R=301,L]
I guess your question is really "how do I do this kind of redirection?". So the answer is here:
There are three ways that I could think of, each with slight differences.
Doing the redirection server side
This basically means you set redirect headers in your response. In php, you could do this using the header function. It can also do a delayed redirect, in which case you need to worry about the contents of the page.
Doing it using client side using html's "http-equiv" meta tags. This way the page always gets loaded. Example here.
doing it via javascript. Thats you basic document.location.href thing. You need to figure out a way to pass the argument to javascript, or have your JS read it from the address url itself.
Since I've shown you 3 ways of doing this, I really hope that's what you're looking for :P
Update after seeing the comments:
The above methods will cause the URL to change. If you don't want the URL to change, but show the contents of that other page on your original page, you caould either do that using iframes (baaaad), or do the decent thing and set up URL rewriting.
:)
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule \?_escaped_fragment_=(.*?) /$1 [L,R=301]
is it what are you looking for?
This may well be a server config issue; or simply a blindly obvious reason I'm missing...
Pre mod_rewrite URL:
www.example.com/subfolder/index.php?userName=x
The devised mod_rewrite:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^subfolder/[^/]([\w]*)$ /subfolder/index.php?userName=$1 [L]
It is my understanding that the above should allow navigation to: www.example.com/subfolder/x. However this causes a 404 error.
Rewrites without the sub-folder work fine; it is only when adding the subfoler to the mix things fall to put.
Your advice is much appreciated.
Try this one instead (works OK for me):
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subfolder/index\.php$
RewriteRule ^subfolder/([^/]+)$ /subfolder/index.php?userName=$1 [L]
NOTE:
This rule is to be placed in .htaccess. If placed in server config / virtual host context, some small tweaking will be required.