say, I have 3 php files inside 'test' folder (eg. example1.php, example2.php, example3.php,) inside cpanel. If a user types test/example1.php, is there any way to only display only test/ inside browser url box using .htaccess file?
The only way to change the URL server-side is with a redirect. The problem there is that once you redirect to test/, how would you know which file to display?
One client-side solution would be to include a JS snippet or file on each page that replaces the current history entry with that of the parent directory. For example
<script>
history.replaceState(null, document.title, './')
</script>
See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History_API#The_replaceState()_method
Keep in mind, that if the user does request test/, there's no way to decide which file to render so Apache will just choose the configured directory index. See https://wiki.apache.org/httpd/DirectoryListings
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It has been a ling time since i have had to code.
My situation is, i need to make a button that open an HTML file that I have located on my website. The HTML file is a interactive course that will open in a new window.
I have tried <button>launch Course</button> but I get a "page not found" error.
First of all, you don't need to combine the anchor tag with tag. In this case a tag is enough. Also, please check well the path, and verify that the HTML file is in the folder. /Text.
To verify that the file is accessible, and the name and the extension is correct, you can copy and paste the path in the browser to see if you can access it. Links can be absolute (the full path from the root, ex: C:/Users/path/to/folder/file.ext) or relative (the short path from the originating folder). If not, re-write the path until it works.
Tip: for security use rel="noopener noreferrer" to prevent potential malicious attacks.
Happy coding Brandon!
Make sure that your directory with the page you are currently on has the folder home and the html file is located within it.
Here's a example directory
/----------
| index.html(or the current page your on)
| home -------
| file.html
I have made my first website and I have a simple contact form that runs a php scripts to send the details inputted in the form to my email. I initially had all the files in the root directory but I am trying to tidy it up so I now have,
all html files in the root directory, I then have folders for php, css, assets, js.
I know that to link to these I need to just do something like,
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/contactus.css"/>
I believe this tells the html to look in the root directory, then in css folder and for the file contactus.css.
This seems to work for all the css files but not for the php file ( I get a 404 error). I know this file is correct as when all the files where in the root folder it worked fine.
I currently have,
<form action="php/contactform.php" method="post">
I believe my issue is that when using href it will automatically start in the root folder but as I am not using href in this case it is not starting in the root folder. So I just need to find out what I use to link to a different folder to that of the html file (If I put the php file back in the root folder it works fine.
DIR structure
The action and href attributes work exactly same. The final url depends on how you've written the url in these parameters and what is your current url.
Let's say the current url is http://localhost/my-project/html/my-form.html
If your url in action looks like php/contactform.php this is called path relative url. To get final url the browser will append relative url after last / in current url resulting in http://localhost/my-project/html/php/contactform.php.
You can use .. in the relative url if you want to reference directory higher in the structure. Url ../php/contactform.php will result in http://localhost/my-project/php/contactform.php
If your url in action looks like this /php/contactform.php it is root relative url. The main difference is the starting /. In this case the browser will put your url right after the domain name resulting in http://localhost/php/conactform.php.
Based on your screenshot both /php/contactform.php and php/contactform.php should work fine because the url of the html file should be http://your-domain.example/DJ_contactme.html so both urls should result in http://your-domain.example/php/contactform.php
If you are using mod_userdir your url probably looks like http://your-domain.example/~dannyjeb/DJ_contactme.html in that case the php/contactform.php should work as it would result in http://your-domain.example/~dannyjeb/php/contactform.php
From DJ_Contactme.html you target css file like this:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./css/contactus.css"/>
I have three pages on my localhost 1 is my index page,2 is my universal header page which is under includes folder of and 3 is my html file which is under html folder.The header file is included in both the index file and html file like that...
for index.php-include("includes/header.php");
for html.php-include("../includes/header.php");
and my header has the link of index.php page that is (./index.php)
Now my questions is that when i open my index page and click on link of index page from my header it takes me to same index.php page but when in open html.php page and then click index.php page link from header it does not go to index.php page but it goes to this page-
(localhost/educational%20website/html/index.php) how to solve that.
And i also want to know that write now i am on localhost but when i make my site live is there any need to change the paths because i am making around 150 pages with your technique plaese so please answer me that kind of technique that is used for both localhost and on live
Your are including paths relatively, use a (absolute) base path in your index.php to fix this:
include_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/includes/header.php');
One way is to define a variable or a constant for the site's url in the header.php file. Then in all your other pages, you could just use this variable/constant when you need to mention the other urls.
Eg(put this as first line in your header.php file):
define('SITE_URL', 'http://localhost/educationalwebsite');
Here, we have defined a constant named SITE_URL. Then in other pages, you are already including this header file. Isn't it? So, this constant will be available in your index.php, html.php and other pages.
And suppose for a link in your html.php file(to point to the index.php), you could use it like this:
Home
If you want to include link to the html.php file residing inside html folder, it would be like:
HTML
By using this way, if you are uploading the whole site to a live server, you only need to change one line, ie. the first line in header.php, where we have defined the SITE_URL constant. Just change it's value to the new URL of the home directory of your website.
Hope this helps
Currently I have subdomain.mydomain.com, which redirects to mydomain.com/subdomain(I am using a PHP - codeigniter framework).
But all I want is after redirection url should remain subdomain.mydomain.com instead of mydomain.com/subdomain.
Is there any way to achieve this?
if you like to keep it pure html + php, i suggest you look into the iframe tag from html.
it is basically a browser window within your current browser window. Set the iframe to cover up 100% of your current browser window and set it's url to mydomain.com/subdomain.
what you'll see is that it's displaying content from mydomain.com/subdomain but your url field in your main browser is still saying subdomain.mydomain.com
Write this code in the routes.php file(present in config folder):
$route['mydomain.com/subdomain'] = "subdomain.mydomain.com";
Basically it's logic is
$route['route_you_want_to_show'] = "current_route";
But mind well in codeigniter routes are formed from the redirection of code to controller and its methods.
This is hard to explain, so hopefully I'm understood in my question.
(1) I want to create "SEO friendly" links that remove the query string from a web site. There is only one variable, let's call it "page". Here is the following code for my .htaccess file.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$1
This works in providing the proper redirect. So /applications/ will send to index.php?page=applications.
(2) My index.php will include a view page based on the value of $_GET['page']. Here is some sample code below:
switch ($_REQUEST['page']) {
default:
include ("home.php");
break;
case "apps":
include ("apps.php");
break;
}
There seems to be no problems so far.
(3) Let's make apps.php an exact copy of home.php. home.php loads just fine, but apps.php will not load linked CSS and JScript pages. When apps.php is loaded, it thinks it is in the /apps/ directory. To load the linked pages, I would need to insert a "../" in front of the file name. Then it displays correctly.
So my question is -- How can I properly write the .htaccess file so the home.php and apps.php page can be identical files and produce identical results, instead of the apps.php file being treated as if it were in the /apps/ directory?
First, I should apologize as I don't have a solution which involves making changes in the htaccess. My solutions are of a different nature.
I think the problem can be solved if you have a config variable,preferably in a config file, which will hold the root folder for images, js etc. Most of the time its public_html, the document root, where the url of your website points to. so your config variable could look like:
$base_url = 'http://www.mywebsite.com/';
The config file should be included in index.php unconditionally.
So, when you include any js or images, you do it like this:
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo $base_url;?>js/global.js" />
<img src="<?php echo $base_url;?>images/gradient_green.jpg" />
If you include the config file in index.php, all the files you include based on switch-case conditions, will be able to use the $base_url variable.
Another possible solution is to use the base tag. Look it up here:
http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_base.asp
I hope this helps.
use absolute urls for js, css and images on your pages (starting with a slash).
/js/main.js instead of js/main.js
You can't do that with .htaccess unless you do an external redirect (by adding the [R] flag to your RewriteRule). But then you expose the query string, which is what you wanted to avoid in the first place.
The reason it can't be done: It is not apps.php which "thinks it is in the /apps/ directory" - it's the browser which "thinks" that. In the page source generated by apps.php, you send relative URLs back to the browser, and now the browser will request these resources relative to the location of the page it asked for. For the browser, the page it got is in /apps/, no matter what rewriting you applied internally on the server side.
So the options you have are:
Do an external redirect with your .htaccess (and defeat your original purpose ;-)
Change the URLs dynamically with PHP while processing apps.php etc, as you said (prefixing ../ to the URLs)
Use absolute URLs, just as #nobody has suggested in his answer.
The last one is the only real option IMHO.