I need to do a mass 301 Redirect for all pages ending with .html for my site. I am looking to move all the old .html files to a sub-folder ir.
RedirectMatch 301 (.*)\.html$ http://www.domain.com/folder/$1.html
When I add this and refresh the browser I get a ton of folder/folder/folder now after the url ie
domain.com/folder//folder/folder/folder.....
Any ideas what could be wrong?
Thanks if you can help
The problem is, that 'folder/foo.html' also matches the condition of the RedirectMatch and folder is appended again (and again, and again ...)
Therefore you probably need something like this (untested):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/folder/
RewriteRule (.*)\.html$ /folder/$1.html [R=301,L]
The RewriteCond should check that the URI doesn't start with /folder and only if this condition is met, the RewriteRule will be checked.
Unfortunately I haven't any Apache installation available at the moment for testing such things, so you will probably have to try it on your own. But I hope you got the idea.
If your old html files are in the root, I would suggest the following:
RedirectMatch 301 ^([^/]+)\.html$ http://www.domain.com/folder/$1.html
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I have read a lot on stack about rewriterule and how it applies and I've tried reading up on some good articles online but I still cannot wrap my head around a few things.
I have blogs setup where all folders are in
https://domain.ca/posts/post-tree/*
So I've setup htaccess like this
RewriteRule ^posts/post-tree/(.*)$ /index.php?$1 [R=301]
As I'm sure you can guess this basically brings me root index.php where I catch this request with a $_GET to know the name of the blog folder it was requesting.
This is fine I can hit index.php and with $_GET I know the blog page they requested.
What I do not get, and I've tried a lot of things, is once I have this request in index.php how do I re-write the URL to show something like https://domain.ca/blogpage/ instead of looking like https://domain.ca/index.php? where https://domain.ca/blogpage/ does not really exist of course, but it is because I want to hide the http://domain.ca/posts/post-tree/ path.
Its a little like when wordpress processes a blog page with the id and after rewrites the url to whatever slug is set for that blog page. at least my understanding of it as they don't have individual folders for blogs, but I do.
I finally got this working with the following in the htaccess file
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# the above checks if file or folder exists, if not the below is processed
# this will route to base index file and fetch $1 folder via $_GET
RewriteRule . /posts/post-tree/index.php?$1
I must admit, mod_rewrites are still a bit of black magic for me and I try to stay well away from them unless I really, really need to us them, now I do!
I've just migrated my site to become a multi lingual site and in doing so I've made the following change to the structure.
oldwebsite.net/somefile.php >> newwebsite.com/xx/somefile.php
oldwebsite.net/somefolder/somefile.php >> newwebsite.com/xx/somefolder/somefile.php
Now, I know how to do individual 301 redirects, but I got tons of pages and the new structure hasn't changed the page name so I would like to avoid setting up hundreds of individual 301 redirects, help!!
Thanks,
Mikael
You can put this code in your oldwebsite htaccess (which has to be in root folder)
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} oldwebsite\.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://newwebsite.com/xx/$1 [R=301,L]
I redesigned this website, and tried to create a 301 redirect to redirect the old links to the new ones in order to save the existing google pagerank. I am using joomla for my site.
Example of a link i tried:
Old link: frutaplantaonline.nl/cgi-bin/index.pl?n=823&txt=privacy_policy
New link: frutaplantaonline.nl/privacy-policy
I tried:
Redirect 301 /cgi-bin/index.pl?n=823&txt=privacy_policy http://frutaplantaonline.nl/privacy-policy
RewriteRule ^/?cgi-bin/index.pl?n=823&txt=privacy_policy/?$ http://frutaplantaonline.nl/privacy-policy [L,R=301]
All the links have the cgi-bin/index.pl in it, if i remove the dot in index.pl i can redirect the site.
Have been searching for hours and hours but found no solution, I'd appreciate if someone can help me out!
Redirect directive in your case is uselsess as it works only on paths (i.e. /cgi-bin/index.pl).
You need to use RewriteRule directive and accompany it with RewriteCond to match against query string. From the official documentation:
If you wish to match against the hostname, port, or query string, use a RewriteCond with the %{HTTP_HOST}, %{SERVER_PORT}, or %{QUERY_STRING} variables respectively.
So in your case something like this might do:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} n=823&txt=privacy_policy
RewriteRule ^/cgi-bin/index.pl$ http://frutaplantaonline.nl/privacy-policy [R=301,L]
So, lately I've been dealing with an issue relating to mod_rewrite and it seems nobody is trying to do anything like it. Every question people have is about trying to exclude directories from the rewrite, when I want them to be included like any other.
For instance, assuming my root directory with .htaccess file in it is www.example.com/root/
When I type in made up directory, such as www.example.com/root/asdfasdf, I have my .htaccess file set to redirect me to www.example.com/root/index.php?url=asdfasdf without change what's in the address bar on my browser
However, in trying to do the same with a real directory, such as www.example.com/root/admin, it not only changes the url in the address bar but changes it to www.example.com/root/admin/?url=admin.
Can anyone explain to me what's going on. I've tried all kinds of different regular expressions and flags and the ones that redirect anything still cause this same issue. can I go to www.example.com/root/admin and still get redirected to the root folder while hiding that the query string is ?url=admin.
[UPDATE: additional information 11-30-2012]
Like I said, I've tried it will multiple different lines of code and come out with the exact same redirect issue, assuming the redirect doesn't just fail altogether and produce a 500 error. Here's one of my latest iterations, though, which has produced the issue of not ignoring direcotories.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /root/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(.\*\\.("png"|"jpg"|"gif") [NC]
RewriteRule (.\*?) index.php?url=$1 [QSA]
The rewrite condition is to keep the engine from rewriting if a picture is being requested (for css and img tags). I only didn't mention it previously because I have tried removing that line and it has made no difference.
I'm not exactly a master of mod_rewrite, though, so if you see any errors with anything I've written, please feel free to let me know.
It's not entirely clear from your question what you are trying to do and it would have been helpful to see what your .htaccess file actually looked like. However the following lines in an .htaccess file in the root folder:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/root/index\.php
RewriteRule (.*) /root/index.php?url=$1 [L]
Will silently redirect requests made to http://www.example.com/root/madeupfolder/madeupfile.php to http://www.example.com/root/index.php?url=madeupfolder/madeupfile.php and will also do the same for real folders. So if the folder admin exists under root, then requests to http://www.example.com/root/admin will be silently redirected to http://www.example.com/root/index.php?url=admin
If however you wanted to serve up folders and files that actually exist, but rewrite requests for folders and files that do not exist, then you would need to adjust the rewrite like so
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/root/index\.php
RewriteRule (.*) /root/index.php?url=$1 [R=301]
This would still rewrite requests made to http://www.example.com/root/madeupfolder/madeupfile.php to http://www.example.com/root/index.php?url=madeupfolder/madeupfile.php, but for real folders and files, such as requests made to http://www.example.com/root/admin, the admin folder would be served up.
Hope this helps, but if you can clarify your question a bit then I can try and help again.
This may well be a server config issue; or simply a blindly obvious reason I'm missing...
Pre mod_rewrite URL:
www.example.com/subfolder/index.php?userName=x
The devised mod_rewrite:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^subfolder/[^/]([\w]*)$ /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.