I have a website which uses TinyMCE textboxes for editing. It works fine except for the toolbar options which open a popup window as it seems to be caught by my url rewriting in the .htaccess file. Each of them show my 404-page. The url rewriting is set up so that all urls (except ajax calls) are sent to an index.php file. It seems obvious that the popup windows are caught by this as well but I have no idea what url signatrues to look for in the .htaccess file, so do anyone know what kind of pattern I can match against?
As #andyk pointed out, you can use a .htaccess in your TinyMCE folder to override the global settings that are doing the URL rewriting. I've done this in the past myself to resolve the same issue.
If that's not attractive to you for whatever reason, the other option is to exclude the tinyMCE folder like so:
# if URL starts with /TinyMCE, stop processing here
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/TinyMCE [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [L]
This sets a rewrite condition to check for the directory TinyMCE is in, and if found, the rule .* - means for all URLS, do nothing and the [L] means stop processing here.
try putting an exception in your htaccess for the tinyMCE folder maybe ?
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I would like to know how to add a trailing slash to joomla categories, but have no extension on articles.
Example, i want- xxx.com/category1/ and xxx.com/category1/article
Currently google sees- xxx.com/category1/ and xxx.com/category1 as duplicate content.
I would say you probably want to keep the URL without the trailing slash rather than the other way around. This just keeps it cleaner in the event that you have a category page which later needs a query string on the end of it. For example /categroy1?page=2 reads better than /categroy1/?page=2. This is personal preference though, Google does not really care so long as it's consistent.
The easy way to achieve what you are trying to do is through the .htaccess file in the root of your website.
Seems to be a few threads online about this subject. I've just tried a few of the solutions myself and the one that seems to work best is listed here https://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=701030.
In summary you need to add the following to your .htaccess file just below the 'RewriteEngine On' statement.
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !administrator
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !component
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1 [R=301,L]
Note that the Rewrite Base is needed, but if you are running your site in a sub folder (as you might in dev) you need to include that folder in the RewriteBase.
Apparently the !administrator and !component statements are needed to prevent some infinite loops when viewing the admin area, or a component content page without a SEF URL. There may be other exclusions that are needed.
Other options to solve your problem include canonical tags on the pages to tell the search engines which one you want indexed. Extensions to perform the redirect for you. Or if you have a really small site, use Joomla!'s redirect component to redirect every page you don't want to the one you do.
Hope this helps.
KevBallard
Alright, so the only way I know of changing links to not show the file extensions;
this yourwebsite.com/customlink.php to yourwebsite.com/customlink
is either creating a folder called customlink and shoving an index file in there. Or creating a 404 page which snoops around the URL and grabs whatever string is behind the last / and does whatever to show the proper content.
My question is if this way of solving the problem is straight out idiotic, or not? I'm doing this because in my mind it saves space, let me explain: Every page that needs a customlink are the same with some bits and content taken from other places, so instead of creating X amount of folders and index files that includes a main file, I'll just have one 404 file that can handle it.
I apologize in advance if this is really stupid
As you are not mentioning what server your pages are running on (Apache, IIS, ...?), I'll just assume Apache.
Put an .htaccess file into the root of your site with the following content:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php
It will internally rewrite everything without an extension to the corresponding php file, provided that:
the request is not a valid directory
a file with a php extension is in fact present
A more common approach is to route all HTTP requests to a single index.php using mod_rewrite in a .htaccess.
Then, based on the requested resource, the index.php outputs the appropriate file, whether it is generated from a database or nested in some other folder.
It's probably not a good idea to use a 404 page (an error page) for anything other than "File Not Found" instances.
I'm new with URL Rewriting and dont know how to do this:
All sites after /ex1 should be redirect to index.php
My current script:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(ex1|ex2)/?$ index.php [NC,L]
But this will only rewrite example.com/ex1/and not example.com/ex1/abcd
Thanks in advance ;)
Close to perfect, try this instead:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(ex1|ex2)/? index.php [NC,L]
Note: the trailing $ in the regular expression has been removed. That one was the cause why only the exact urls example.com/ex1 and example.com/ex1/ were matched, but no longer ones. The trailing $ anchors the search to the line end, so the end of the url here. So if there is anything between the last matched characters (the ex1 or ex1/ in this case), then the expression will not match.
Another more general note: this pattern is only usable withing .htaccess style files, but not in the normal hosts configuration. There are situations when such files come in handy, for example if you do not have administrative control over the http server. But in general you should always prefer to place such things inside the http servers hosts configuration instead of using .htaccess style files. Reason is that such files are notoriously error prone, hard to debug and finally really slow the server down.
What I want is a Wordpress type of URL rewrite.
What I have now is:
.htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ rewrite.php?data=$1 [L,QSA]
This almost works rewriting everything except existing files (css,js etc files are not rewritten as expected).
The problems I have with this are:
.css, .js, Image and PHP files are also accessible by entering their file name. eg.: domain.com/style.css will be accessible by anyone.
I want some existing files(only php right now) to be redirected anyway. eg.: domain.com/movies.php should redirect to rewrite.php(include 404.php) and domain.com/movies or domain.com/movies/ would include movies.php page.
Ideally I would also be able to change user entered URL from domain.com/movies to domain.com/movies/ for consistency more than anything else.
I want to keep .htaccess to a bare minimum. Does wordpress rewrite everything including .css files?
What I want:
Some php files to redirect others not. eg: includes/func.inc.php
should not be accessible to the users, while movies.php should be
accessible but ONLY from this url domain.com/movies/
(not essential)
Change url to canonical url eg: domain.com/movies to
domain.com/movies/ (some resources on how to achieve this would be
nice). Note: domain.com/movies url should still work but appear with
a slash at the end either via rewrite or maybe by just adding a
slash with javasript (faster?)
Make .css/.js files inaccessible by the user. eg: domain.com/style.css should redirect the user to a 404 page
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?