The project is already running in prod, the developer who added that rule is no longer working with us but it is pretty working in prod, so in order to have the project working locally I tried many options, now I set the SSL in my web server and set virtual host to match exactly the prod so that it can run correctly, in the code the sign form is sent by session but it is blocked for security reason and I am pretty sure that it is related to htaccess and here are the full rules mentioned in htaccess: # -- SITE PAGES ---
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.html$ index.php?_htaccess_url=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule https://www.sanatariol.com(.+)\.html$ index.php?_htaccess_url=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
The URL of sign page is: https://www.sanitavia.com/cabchatt/connexion.html
Do I have to add a rule in htacces since I want it to run locally?
the rule is correct but try to add this just before your rule
RewriteBase /
# If the request is not for a valid directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# If the request is not for a valid file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule https://www.sanatariol.com(.+)\.html$ index.php?_htaccess_url=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
The RewriteRule directive matches against the URL-path only (not the absolute URL). So, the above rule will not match.
Try the following instead:
RewriteRule (.+)\.html$ index.php?_htaccess_url=$1 [QSA,L]
You also don't need to manually append the query string, use the QSA (Query String Append) flag instead.
Related
I want to set a rule in .htaccess if I enter in the url www.mydomain.com/compare.php set 'public_html' as root otherwise anything come in the url set root as 'public' folder.
RewriteRule ^(?!compare-source.php).*)$ public/$1 [L]
I want to achieve following result.
if url is www.mydomain.com/compare.php hit following file.
public_html/compare.php
if urls are www.mydomain.com/ OR www.mydomain.com/home etc hit following file.
public_html/public/index.php
I am weak in regex and in these apache rules always :-( can someone give me the solution with good description?
Your answers are welcome, please can you describe how this crazy things work in detail. Thanks.
Try:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public
RewriteRule ^((?!compare\.php).*)$ /public/$1 [L]
The RewriteEngine directive enables or disables the runtime rewriting engine.
The RewriteCond directive defines a rule condition. The following Rule is only used if this condition is met; In our case, if REQUEST_URI (the path component of the requested URL) does not (because of !) begin (because of ^) with /public. We need this condition because we don't want to rewrite already rewritten URL - that would cause loop and Internal error 500.
Finally, the RewriteRule will match regex Pattern (^((?!compare\.php).*)$) against part of the URL after the hostname and port, and without the leading slash. If the pattern is matched, the Substitution (public/$1) will replace the original URL-path.
In plain language, if URL path does not begin with compare.php (because of ?!), pick everything (.*) between beginning (^) and end ($) and place it in variable $1. Then replace the original URL path with /public/$1.
#Anubhava's answer is also correct, he just placed both conditions in RewriteRule, and also it could be written even more readable as:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/compare\.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /public/$1 [L]
You can use this .htaccess in site root:
RewriteEngine On
# route /home/ or /home to /
RewriteRule ^home/?$ / [L,NC]
# if not compare-source.php or public/* then route to /public/*
RewriteRule ^(?!public/|compare-source\.php$).*)$ public/$1 [L,NC]
I want to remove all client request querystrings whatsoever, no exceptions.
I have tried everything I can find, and everything I know about regular expressions, and this task puzzles me. I have been able to achieve removal of the query strings, but now all requests have the full file path prepended to the working directory upon rewrite and redirect.
Examples: there is no http in these because stackoverflow won't let me post URLs.
I access the file: /localhost/testing/dogs/pups.txt
Yes, pups.txt exists and lives right there.
Server returns this to browser: /localhost/home/user/public_html/testing/dogs/pups.txt
If I access it with a query string appended:
/localhost/testing/dogs/pups.txt?bark=woof
I get the same output to the browser:
/localhost/home/gost/public_html/testing/dogs/pups.txt
So I know the query string is being nixed, while the full root path is being added to the hypertext address.
How do I tell mod_rewrite to keep the relative path of the existing files, so that this prepending of the full file path stops, and accurately cause it to rewrite internally and externally so that no query string ever makes it to php-land?
Here is the current .htaccess file. It resides in directory /home/user/public_html/testing. Where deployed online, it is NOT possible to put it in the root web directory, the obvious move that would instantly resolve this problem.
# These are commented out on purpose because they kill access to the server.
# The weird rules for regex in Apache configurations is baffling me. This
# does remove all QUERY_STRING characters, but, it then rewrites by
# prepending the web root path to the current directory, causing error 404.
# RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^
# RewriteRule (.*) $1? [R=301,L]
# These rules work fine. Whatever does not end with a media or document
# extension gets sent to index.php
RewriteRule ^.*\.(gif|jpe?g|png|txt|svg|pdf|rtf|odt|doc|docx)$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^.*\.(tex|epub|mobi|csv|ods|xls|swf|flv)$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
Change this RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^ to this RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} .
and add the directory to the rule since you can't use rewritebase. So it should look like this
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} .
RewriteRule (.*) /testing/$1? [R=301,L]
I can't accept my own answer for two days, so if anyone wants to add logic about mod_rewrite for future questioners, have at it. Per Panama Jack's advice, this .htaccess file does the job and this question is answered.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} .
RewriteRule (.*) /testing/$1? [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^.*\.(gif|jpe?g|png|txt|svg|pdf|rtf|odt|doc|docx)$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^.*\.(tex|epub|mobi|csv|ods|xls|mm|)$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^ test.php [L]
I was trying to prettify URLs for dynamically generated pages on my website, so that when a user visited the virtual URL topicview/interesting-user-friendly-text he would really be seeing, under the hood, topicview.php?topicid=123
I added the necessary code to my .htaccess file to replace the topicview/interesting-text part of the URL with topicview.php?topicname=interesting-test, but the Regex kept misfiring.
So, I changed the Regex to return the entire URL so I could see why it wasn't working with this code:
#Allow for topicview/topic-name URLs
RewriteRule (.+)$ topicview.php?topicname=$1 [L]
I then visited topicview/user-friendly-text. I'm not sure if this is unique to Network Solutions hosting, however, when I examined the topicname GET paramter, I got this string in return:
data/1/2/323/232/823238/user/999999/htdocs/topicview.php
This URL was not displayed in the topicname GET parameter, just a regular file, like index.php or topicview.php, if I just visit the URL index.php or topicview.php
Why is the URL internally represented like this to the Apache server, and how can I rewrite my mod_rewrite code to get a more user friendly virtual URL for the topicview.php?topicid=1 pages?
thanks
For the friendly URL try this in your .htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/?topicview/([^/.*]+)/?$ topicview.php?topicname=$1 [L,QSA]
The pattern matched in a RewriteRule is normally the similar to the REQUEST_URI but the behaviour you describe suggests it is matching against the REQUEST_FILENAME or something similar which is the file path including the full document root.
This would suggest your RewriteRule is not in your .htaccess file but instead in your or rules in the Apache config files, correct?
Instead you should try getting the value you want using a RewriteCond so you can guarantee you are matching against the REQUEST_URI, for example:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)$
RewriteRule . topicview.php?topicname=%1 [L]
Note the %1 rather than $1 which allows you to use values captured in the RewriteCond.
I have the following code in my .htaccess.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/(\w+)/?$ /?user=$1
I'm trying to rewrite
http://domain.com/?user=username into http://domain.com/username. Unfortunately this code doesn't rewrite anything. Please help
Note:
I checked phpinfo() and mod_rewrite is loaded.
Update
I need to get username from url like http://facebook.com/username. But this code rewrites every folder in root folder, so my /css folder become http://domain.com/css/?u=common. How to allow this code works only for http://domain.com/index.php
The mistake you are doing is the use of / in the beginning of the line ^/(\w+)/?$
rewrite rules strips off the / from the beginning of the pattern to be matched in .htaccess and directory context.
Try doing this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(\w+)/?$ /?user=$1
From RewriteRule Directive docs :
What is matched?
In VirtualHost context, The Pattern will initially be matched against the part of the URL after the hostname and port, and before the query string (e.g. "/app1/index.html").
In Directory and htaccess context, the Pattern will initially be matched against the filesystem path, after removing the prefix that lead the server to the current RewriteRule (e.g. "app1/index.html" or "index.html" depending on where the directives are defined).
If you wish to match against the hostname, port, or query string, use a RewriteCond with the %{HTTP_HOST}, %{SERVER_PORT}, or %{QUERY_STRING} variables respectively.
Edit: Answer updated as per OP's request:
Add this :
RewriteEngine On
#do nothig if URL is trying to access the folder CSS.
RewriteRule *css/* - [L]
#checks where the URL is a valid file/folder.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(\w+)/?$ /?user=$1
I think that you are doing it the right way round, but explained it the wrong way round!
Is the problem that you don't need the initial / as the URL passed to test doesn't include it!?
I suspect it should be RewriteRule ^(\w+)/?$ /?u=$1
Also, be careful you don't end up with a loop!
I am using this rule to rewrite the link
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*) show_cv.php?email=$1
It is working fine like if I write this url with last slash
www.mysite.com/letschat_2008#yahoo.com/ ----> index.php?email=letschat_2008#yahoo.com
But when I remove the last slash from the link www.mysite.com/letschat_2008#yahoo.com/ it shows error 404.
I wish the URL Rewrite rule would work for both with slash and without slash (/)
www.mysite.com/letschat_2008#yahoo.com/ ----> index.php?email=letschat_2008#yahoo.com
www.mysite.com/letschat_2008#yahoo.com ----> index.php?email=letschat_2008#yahoo.com
Your rules are looping, you need to make sure you are rewriting an email address, and add some conditions so that the rule doesn't get applied if it's accessing an existing resource:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_\-\#\.]+)/?$ /show_cv.php?email=$1 [L]
You should then be using the following rule:
RewriteRule ^(.*)/? show_cv.php?email=$1
I assume you note these rules in a .htaccess file, not in the server configuration when looking at your description ?
Rethink if you don-t want to put this into the server configuration. Apart from the usage of .htaccess files being harder to debug using rewrite rules in those files is more complex than in the server configuration. This is documented in mod_rewrites docs.
The reason for the behaviour is the different content of REQUEST_URI in both cases. Have a try checking this directly and you will see the problem. The whole part "letschat_2008#yahoo.com" is simply missing in that variable in case 2 (no "/"). To get this working you must use an additional rewriteCondition (also documented...). Something like these untested lines:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(.+)&
RewriteRule - show_cv.php?email=%1
(note the '%' instead of a '$' in the last line)