mod_rewrite understanding sub-directories whilst passing $_GET value server issue? - mod-rewrite

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.

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How to setup a 301 redirect using mod_rewrite

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]

IsapiRewrite rules generate strange pages/folders?

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]

Upload CodeIgniter project to cpanel

I have worked on that the whole day, but I couldn't find why I always get the CI 404 Page not found. The project works very well in localhost. What could be the problem?
This is my .htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index.php|css|js|jq|uploads|robots.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
I suspect the default controller can't be found.
What more do you think I should show you?
I will be grateful for your answers.
PD: I use CI 2.1.2
If you've set up everything right, then try changing your last line to: RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/?$1 [L]
EDIT
Since it's not working when you disable .htaccess and use index.php, you need to check your config.php for things like base_url, index_page, uri_protocol, etc... and routes.php and make sure the default controller is not capitalized (read more about the naming conventions, but I wrote you the general idea in the comments).

Forwarding only the root of a subdomain to a folder in the main domain (mod_rewrite)

I think I'm misunderstanding some fundamental thing here, as this is my first time using mod_rewrite.
I would like the following:
blog.example.com
blog.example.com/
blog.example.com/index.php
to redirect to:
example.com/blog
However, I would like all other cases to do nothing, e.g.
blog.example.com/foobar
blog.example.com/wp-admin
blog.example.com/wp-admin.php
This is my current .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =blog.example.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^|/|index\.php$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www\.example\.com/blog [QSA,L]
I have tried many variants but each time either all requests redirect, or none redirect, so mod_rewrite is definitely doing something, just not what I want.
I have skimmed through this post for anything relevant, but I think the issue is more that I'm missing some subtle fact due to inexperience. Would someone kindly point out my error? I know we don't need yet another mod_rewrite question on SO but I'm really struggling with this one. Thanks in advance.
Try this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =blog.example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?(index\.php)?$ http://www.example.com/blog [QSA,R,L]
Some basic points:
The second part of the rewrite rule is not a regular expression, so periods do not need to be escaped there.
I was not familiar with the =String option for RewriteCond. Thank you for teaching me something today (I was worried when I did not see a regex there but that should be fine)! I would add [NC] here since it will help match both lowercase and uppercase versions of your domain.
None of this will work unless your virtual host includes the blog.example.com subdomain as a proper alias, and DNS is set up for that subdomain.

ModRewrite .htaccess / SEO URLs syntax

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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