I'm trying to write clean url's for my website. I'm a rookie at this so forgive me. My .htaccess file currently looks like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)$ something.php?query=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/$ something.php?query=$1
The first rule seems to work. For example website.com/good-looking-query-string does in fact rewrite to website.com/something.php?query=ugly+looking+query+string
The second rule is where I'm having a problem. I can't get that trailing slash to work. For example website.com/good-looking-query-string/ appears to pull up the page but without any CSS rules applied. I noticed all the links end up appended to the query string also. For example the link back to index.php ends up like website.com/good-looking-query-string/index.php
I need to get that trailing slash to work. What in the world am I doing wrong?
You can combine two line in one line:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/?$ something.php?query=$1
In this case / will be optional
Your issue is client side, you are using relative paths but you need to be using Root-relative paths. A URL of:
website.com/good-looking-query-string
loads from the root. A url of:
website.com/good-looking-query-string/
loads from the good-looking-query-string directory.
So instead of href="style.css" you should have "href="/style.css"and the index issue should behref="/index.php"instead ofhref="index.php"`.
As noted in the earlier comment your regex could be simplified by adding a ? on the trailing slash to make it option. That is not your issue though, just simplifies the rules.
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/?$ something.php?query=$1
Related
I want to redirect the following sets of links:
a/b/c or a/b/c/ to a.php?b=c
x/y1/z1/y2/z2 or x/y1/z1/y2/z2/ to x.php?y1=z1&y2=z2
using htaccess and mod rewrite in a standardized general format associating the appropriate PHP get tags and values to the corresponding SEO-friendly link. How do I do so?
I've tried tinkering around with RewriteCond and REQUEST_FILENAME but just cannot seem to get it to work.
Something like this might help:
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/? /$1.php?$2=$3 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/? /$1.php?$2=$3&$4=$5
Consider my domain name is
www.mydomain.com
Consider a page request
www.mydomain.com/user/register
I want to add a custom word after base URL for every request inside mydomain.com.example
www.mydomain.com/customword/
www.mydomain.com/customword/user/register
Can we do this using URL rewriting in htaccess file ?
Actually it should execute 'www.mydomain.com/user/register' internally...but externally the URL should look like www.mydomain.com/customword/user/register.
You could create the directory "register", and put an index file inside it that performs the action.
That's probably the simplest way without url rewriting anyway.
UPDATE (since the question was updated)
In .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-.]+)/user/register/?$ user/register.php?customword=$1
register.php will receive a GET request:
//User went to www.mydomain/word/user/register
echo $_GET['customword']; // will return word in this case
Make sure that you have mod_rewrite enabled :)
Yes, you can do it with htaccess
Here is an example which will add a trailing slash with url if it doesnt contain trailing slash
http://enarion.net/web/htaccess/trailing-slash/
edit formatting updated
If you are serving one site from this then the following should work:
Edit your .htaccess file to do a url rewrite
accessing www.yourdomain.com/user/registry will actually server content from www.yourdomain.com/customword/user/registry
RewriteEngine On<br>
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/customword/<br>
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /customword/$1
You haven't mentioned what kind of site you;re using..eg: PHP, MVC etc as you could do similar thing in there as well.
I noticed on youtube their url does not have a file extension and querystring. I've been trying to emulate something similar but found I had to either include the file extension or a trailing slash.
members.php?agefrom=20&ageto=40&city=london (works)
members/?agefrom=20&ageto=40&city=london (works)
members?agefrom=20&ageto=40&city=london (doesnt work)
So I was just wondering how can I get the third case to work? i've tried a few things in the htaccess file.
RewriteRule ^members$ index.php?page=members&%{QUERY_STRING} [QSA,L]
I have tried the above but to no avail.
Any help would be appreciated.
The RewriteRule that you posted is correct for members.php? and for members? It should not work with members/
You must have additional RewriteRules before this one that are getting applied first and are affecting this rule.
However, here is a rule that should still work for you:
RewriteRule ^members/?$ index.php?page=members&%{QUERY_STRING} [QSA,L]
The /? is saying to match if the slash exists or if it doesn't exist.
Have you tried to remove the $ on the end?
RewriteRule ^members/?$ index.php?page=members&%{QUERY_STRING} [QSA,L]
This did work in the end, all I had to do was move it nearer the top of the htaccess file. I had the following line which I guess was being read instead.
....
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/members$ [OR]
....
I am changing my approach to SEO URL's because I was trying to find articles on how the googlebot actually crawls forms and how it prefers the GET method. I was using jquery to alter my action parameter to write the following URL:
/members/london/18-to-25
I dont know how much google likes jquery and whether it would scan javascript code. I am assuimg it just follows the HTML code and having done some research I have changed my form to use the GET method and so the bot can crawl my form without complaining so now my URL looks like this:
/members?location=london&agefrom=18&ageto=40
I am on the right track to assume this? or should I just stick with jquery to rewrite the action parameter for an seo friendly URL?
I've been searching all over the web and haven't yet found any solution to this issue. I'm hoping you could shed some light on the situation.
I have my index file set up like this:
<header></header>
<div id="main">
<?php
if(isset($_GET["p"])) $p = $_GET["p"];
else $p = "home";
if(file_exists("pages/{$p}.php")) include("pages/{$p}.php");
?>
</div>
which makes me load my pages with a ?p=contact href.
Say I would like to display a users profile. I'd then create a subfolder in my "pages" folder, making the relative path pages/users/profile.php, thus the href ?p=users/profile&uid=5. But that leaves an ugly URL (as well as SEO rating).
How would I rewrite that URL to look like /users/profile/5?
EDIT:
I've tried the following, resulting in HTTP 500:
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /?p=$1&uid=$2 [L]
EDIT: My .htaccess file, located directly inside root folder: http://pastie.org/2268239
Line 338 is where I want to achieve this (currently just a comment).
Simplest answer for both your situations would be to add this in your .htaccess file
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?$1 [L]
This will redirect all traffic on your domain to your index.php file.
You could then determine what to do in your script using the uri in $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]
I achieved the desired effect by adding these three lines:
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)$ index.php?p=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)/([a-zA-Z]+)$ index.php?p=$1/$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)/([0-9]+)$ index.php?p=$1&uid=$2 [L]
This allows me to access /contact, /users/index and /users/profile/5.
I'm not a php guy, but I tried this with my rewrite.
RewriteRule ^/(.+)/([^/]+)$ /index.php?p=$1&uid=$2 [L]
In this case, for the p parameter, you're looking for all chars up to the last slash, so the first part of this takes anything, otherwise it's going to stop at the first slash (users instead of users/profile).
Then it looks for a slash and keep (not-slash). The (.+) will be greedy, so it will go up to the last slash before the end.
Then it occurred to me the last part doesn't need to avoid slashes. Since the first part is greedy, the explicit / slash is going to BE the last slash. So it's even simpler:
RewriteRule ^/(.+)/(.+)$ /index.php?p=$1&uid=$2 [L]
I like the .+ to require something, at least when first figuring these out. If later you know they can be optional, you can do .*, but usually that ends up being a different page or a different rule.
These rules do expect all urls to be in this format, which is what you're asking. But maybe it's a little too grabby, so it could exclude urls that really have a .htm or .php or whatever.
RewriteRule ^/(.+)/([^.]+)$ /index.php?p=$1&uid=$2 [L]
This looks for anything up to the last slash, then anything without a dot in it. If it has a dot, this won't apply. So if it's a "regular" url, this will leave it alone. This might help with the 404 problem, in case the 404 page is getting caught by this.
I am pretty new to using the RewriteRule, so I am likely missing something obvious, but I have a PHP script that takes URL variables like this:
{baseurl}properties.php?prop=Property-Name
I would like to create RewriteRules so that anyone who types in this script name/variable combo would have their URL rewritten to:
{baseurl}/properties/Property-Name
As well as ensuring that anyone who types in the flat-link url, actually calls the script with the right variable name and value.
I have been referring to this link and I have found related threads:
Mod_rewrite flat links
Mod_rewrite trouble: Want to direct from ?= to a flat link, nothing seems to work
But, I am obviously doing something wrong, as I cannot get this URL to work the way I want. I am currently using the following code, which appears to do nothing (aside from rewriting the URL to include the www, and redirect requests for index.php to the site root):
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^baseurl.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.baseurl.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^index.php / [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^properties/([0-9A-Za-z]+)/$ /properties.php?prop=$1
The issue is clearly with the last RewriteRule, assuming nothing above is affecting it. Again, I am likely doing something ridiculous. Can someone please explain what I am doing wrong?
Thanks for your help.
At a quick glance, it appears that you forgot to include the dash in your regular expression and you included trailing slash. Use this instead:
RewriteRule ^properties/([0-9A-Za-z-]+)$ /properties.php?prop=$1
If you look at your rule ^properties/([0-9A-Za-z]+)/$ you see that it needs to end with a forward slash. You can either remove that or make it optional like ^properties/([0-9A-Za-z]+)/?$.