Here is my current .htaccess file:
RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]
As you can see, requests to http://domain.com go to http://domain.com/index.html. I want to change this so that they go to http://domain.com/foo, please note that does not exist as a file or folder, it is handled by rails. How do I do this? Note that I have tried the following and it doesn't work:
RewriteRule ^$ foo [QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]
Thanks!
You're probably safe to just change the first line to this:
RewriteRule ^$ foo [QSA,L]
The L flag tells mod-rewrite that it shouldn't apply any other rules after that one. The problem right now is that the second rule gets applied after the first one, and you end up at "foo.html", instead of "foo", right?
The difference between you trying to send to "foo" and the original redirect to "index.html" is that the second rule applies to requests that do not include a period. So when the first rule was redirecting to "index.html", after it was used, the second rule was no longer valid. However, now that you're not redirecting to a location with a period in it, the second rule gets applied after the first one, so you get a double-redirect.
In addition, you may be able to drop the QSA flag from the first line, it depends on your site though. If someone accesses the site like http://domain.com/?user=fred, do you want to send them to http://domain.com/foo?user=fred, or just http://domain.com/foo? If you don't need the Query String Appended, you can drop the QSA flag, and just have:
RewriteRule ^$ foo [L]
Related
I have the following .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/?([^/]+)/?$ /?page=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^/?([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /?page=$1&id=$2 [L,QSA]
This rules allow to enter urls like:
example.com/my-account-dashboard
example.com/my-account-dashboard/1
which are pretty urls for:
example.com?page=my-account-dashboard
example.com?page=my-account-dashboard&id=1
This works fine so far. But internaly the links are with those parameters. Is it possible to redirect (or something) to the pretty urls if possible? What are the rewrite rules for that?
First of all, a few remarks about your current code which contains some errors.
1) RewriteCond only applies on the very next RewriteRule. So your second RewriteRule can match without that condition (you can try it, you'll see). You need to put (again) that condition to the other RewriteRule (or use S skip flag to simulate if/else condition but it gets complicated for nothing).
2) I'm pretty sure you don't want to use QSA flag the way you do. By using it, you tell mod_rewrite to append any query string to the rewrite. Example: example.com/my-account-dashboard/?foo=bar will rewrite to /?page=my-account-dashboard&foo=bar. So unless you really want that, you don't need it. A lot of people think that they need QSA when adding some query string directly in the rewrite, just like you do. Again, this is not an error that will make everything crash, but still it's not totally correct.
3) Your rules create duplicate content which is bad for SEO (referencing). For instance, example.com/my-account-dashboard and example.com/my-account-dashboard/ (notice the trailing slash) both lead to the same page. But search engines won't consider them as the same. I invite you to search "duplicate content" on Google (or any other search engine you like) and have a look at it. A simple way to avoid this is to chose either with or without the trailing slash.
Now that the base is clear, let's answer to your question. You can't simply use a redirect R from old-url to new-url because you'd end up with an infinite loop. Something is there for this problem: THE_REQUEST. When mod_rewrite uses it, it is able to know that it comes from a direct client request, not a redirect/rewrite by itself.
All-in-one, here is how your code should look like:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Redirect old-url /?page=XXX to new-url equivalent /XXX
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/\?page=([^/&\s]+)\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1? [R=301,L]
# Redirect old-url /?page=XXX&id=YYY to new-url equivalent /XXX/YYY
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/\?page=([^/&\s]+)&id=([0-9]+)\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1/%2? [R=301,L]
# if /XXX is not a file/directory then rewrite to /?page=XXX
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/?([^/]+)$ /?page=$1 [L]
# if /XXX/YYY is not a file/directory then rewrite to /?page=XXX&id=YYY
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/?([^/]+)/([0-9]+)$ /?page=$1&id=$2 [L]
NB: i chose to use the "without trailing slash" option (e.g. example.com/my-account-dashboard and example.com/my-account-dashboard/1). Feel free to ask if you want with.
Have a trouble with mod_rewrite.
I want :
htp://example.com/a/some_text -> htp://example.com/?p1=some_text and
htp://example.com/b/some_text -> htp://example.com/?p1=some_text
So, I type:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)\/(a|b)\/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ?fsearch=$2 [QSA]
and get wrong relative paths in css, such as htp://example.com/a/CSS/main.css instead of htp://example.com/CSS/main.css. And get nothing in $2 too.
Help, please
$2 tries to pick the second capture group of the RewriteRules subject, but there is only one! You probably mean %2 which picks from the RewriteCond...
Since you only append a query string in your RewriteRule the original URI (path) is left untouched.
You can simplify the pattern in the RewriteRule since you are not interested in the subject anyway.
This is probably what you are looking for:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)\/(a|b)\/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^ /?fsearch=%3 [QSA]
Much better however would be to rewrite directly to whatever script you actually want to process the request to safe another rewriting round to find the index document, so something like:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)\/(a|b)\/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^ /index.php?fsearch=%3 [QSA]
And unless you decide to use the first capture group in the RewriteCond you can also simplify that further:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/(a|b)\/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^ /index.php?fsearch=%2 [QSA]
What I'm trying to do:
I need to redirect a request to a file to another domain if the file not exists. For example:
http://www.mydomain.com/js/foo.js
redirects to (if not exists)
http://www.myanotherdomain.com/js/foo.js
What I do:
I wrote the next lines at the end the htaccess, but they redirect ALL!
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.myanotherdomain.com/$1 [L,NC]
Before these lines, I have a lot of lines like this (I'm using MVC (Model, View,Controller)):
RewriteRule ^car/brand/?$ ?controller=Car&action=viewBrand [L,NC]
What happens:
It works wells with non existing files, but seems to be imcompatible with the MVC rules. These rules have to match and then stop evaluating rules because de "L" flag. But it seems to continue evaluation of the rules and finally evaluates the redirect rule. The result is this:
http://www.mydomain.com/car/brand/
goes to
http://www.myanotherdomain.com/?controller=Car&action=viewBrand
Please can anyone help me?
Thank you very much,
Jonathan
Try this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILE} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.myanotherdomain.com/$1 [QSA,R,L]
See also: mod rewrite directory if file/folder not found
Try placing these rules after your MVC rules:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.(js|png|jpe?g|gif|css|html?)$ http://www.myanotherdomain.com/$1.$2 [L,R,NC]
If you want all requests, and not just static content like scripts and images then change the RewriteRule line to:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.myanotherdomain.com/$1 [L,R,NC]
is possible to exclude a url being parsed by mod rewrite?
my .htaccess has rewrite rules like
RewriteRule ^contact contact_us.php
and a couple more static pages.
currently my site don't have troubles cause uses http://domain.com/user.php?user=username
but now i need rewrite to:
http://domain.com/username
I've tried with:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ user.php?user=$1 [L]
but all my site stops working...
is possible to avoid parse my static pages like contact/feed/etc being treated like usernames?
edit to match david req:
this is my actual .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
Options +Followsymlinks
RewriteRule ^contact contact_us.php [L]
RewriteRule ^terms terms_of_use.php [L]
RewriteRule ^register register.php [L]
RewriteRule ^login login.php [L]
RewriteRule ^logout logout.php [L]
RewriteRule ^posts/(.*)/(.*) viewupdates.php?username=$1&page=$2
RewriteRule ^post(.*)/([0-9]*)$ viewupdate.php?title=$1&id=$2
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ profile.php?username=$1 [L]
also i've enabled modrewrite log my first file:http://pastie.org/1044881
Put the rewrite rules for the static pages first, and add the [L] flag to them:
RewriteRule ^contact contact_us.php [L]
...
then after those, use your rewrite rule for the username:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ user.php?user=$1 [L]
(hopefully nobody has a username of contact).
EDIT: Based on the log output you posted (which I'm assuming corresponds to an unsuccessful attempt to access the contact page... right?), try changing the contact rewrite rule to either
RewriteRule ^contact$ contact_us.php [L]
or
RewriteRule ^contact contact_us.php [L,NS]
That is, either add $ to make the pattern match only the literal URL contact, or add the NS flag to keep it from applying to subrequests. According to the log output, what seems to have happened is that Apache rewrites contact to contact_us.php and then does an internal subrequest for that new URL. So far so good. The weird thing is that the ^contact pattern again matches contact_us.php, "transforming" it to contact_us.php, i.e. the same thing, which Apache interprets as a signal that it should ignore the rule entirely. Now, I would think Apache would have the sense to ignore the rule only on the subrequest, but I'm not sure if it's ignoring the entire rewriting process and leaving the original URL, /contact, as is. If that's the case, making one of the changes I suggested should fix it.
EDIT 2: your rewrite log excerpt reminded me of something: I'd suggest making the rewrite rule
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ user.php?user=$1 [L]
since slashes shouldn't be occurring in any usernames. (Right?) Or you could do
RewriteRule ^(\w+)$ user.php?user=$1 [L]
if usernames can only include word characters (letters, numbers, and underscore). Basically, make a regular expression that matches only any sequence of characters that could be a valid username, but doesn't match URLs of images or CSS/JS files.
The -f and -d options to RewriteCond check if the current match is a file or directory on disk.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ....
U have used rewrite url module but not able to redirect to the target page and I am getting error as The requested URL /old.html was not found on this server.
Here is my code. Please see to that and suggest to me:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^8080$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://localhost/IN/$1 [L,R]
RewriteRule ^new.html$ /index.html$1 [L]
Your first rule will probably cause an infinite rule as the substitute URL doesn’t use the port 8080 neither. So try this:
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^8080$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://localhost:8080/IN/$1 [L,R]
You also need to request /new.html to see if your second rule works. Additionally, there is no first group in your pattern whose match can be referenced by $1. So:
RewriteRule ^new\.html$ /index.html [L]