My primary domain name is abcd.com. But when a user from India comes into my site I want to redirect him to in.abcd.com. There are several solutions to this using GeoPlugin. But the problem is site become so slow because of this API call. Is it possible to redirect other than this solution like using .htaccess or something else?
You need to install the mod_geoip module (GeoIP Extension) installed on your server. link for mod_geoip
Then, tweak your .htaccess file accordingly :
GeoIPEnable On
GeoIPDBFile /path/to/GeoIP.dat
# Start Redirecting countries
# Canada
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^CA$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://ca.abcd.com$1 [L]
# India
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^IN$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://in.abcd.com$1 [L]
# etc etc etc...
Related
I need to develop a plugin that can write into the WP htaccess file and "simulate" subdomains.
I have a new WP installation with basic htaccess on example.com
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Is there a way via htaccess that if I go to about.example.com I see the page example.com/about, without changing the URL (meaning that I still see about.example.com in the browser address bar)?
And also, is it possible that if I go to about.example.com/category1 I see the page example.com/about/category1?
I tried using the following code by adding it to the end of the htaccess, but it doesn't work:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?example.com.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ about [L]
You should be able to do that using the following rule in your .htaccess:
RewirieEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^about.example.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.about.example.com
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://example.com/about/$1 [P]
What this does is check for the address about.example.com, if the condition is met it should redirect to example.com/about/.... but keeping the original address.
The [P] flag causes the request to be handled by mod_proxy, and handled via a proxy request.
However, keep in mind that using mod_proxy can cause security issues:
Take care when constructing the target URL of the rule, considering
the security impact from allowing the client influence over the set of
URLs to which your server will act as a proxy. Ensure that the scheme
and hostname part of the URL is either fixed, or does not allow the
client undue influence.
Normally using .htaccess you cannot go from one domain to another domain keeping the original URL. It can be a security nightmare as mentioned above. However, since this is a subdomain it should work.
Make sure you clear your cache before testing this.
Alternative
You can use ProxyPass - which would be a more secure option. You can find more information on how to use this via the Apache Documentation via this link. But this would need to done on a level higher than .htaccess. Through the config files.
I hope this helps.
i'm creating a website, before uploading the site to web hosting i'm using XAMPP on windows. i was trying to use Search Engine Friendly URLs, for example:
http://localhost/mysite/[something]
to
http://localhost/mysite/index.php?p=[something]
i tried this .htaccess
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([0-9A-Za-z]+) index.php?id=$1 [QSA,L] #and also tried http://localhost/mysite/index.php?p=$1
before this i tried more examples but they didn't work. The real problem is that for example if y type
localhost/mysite/some_page
i get an error (403), using the [R] flag i realized that redirection is: http://localhost/C:/XAMPP/htdocs/mysite/index.php?p=some_page
i removed htaccess file and restarted apache but problam persist with some urls
Perhaps I'm trying to solve a different problem, but if the [something] always leads to content served by your index.php, then just send all requests to index.php and let that page use the URL string to get the variable you need to serve the right content (ie the string after the /).
You may need to turn off MultiViews in your .htaccess using Options -MultiViews.
The following is what you need in your .htaccess
RewriteBase /
# Where "/" is the location of your index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [QSA, L]
Hope this helps.
I've list of states and a php file which will list all the city of the state. By taking the URL parameter as /common.php/?state=Texas and list all the cities.
After clicking on the city it takes the url as /common.php/?city=Alanreed&state_code=TX and displays the city information.
I want to format the url using .htaccess like for states it should take state_name.html eg. Texas.html and for city name either Texas/sugar_land.html or tx/sugar_land.html How can I achieve this using php and .htaccess?
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*).html$ common.php/?state=$1&city=$2 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(.*/)?index\.html$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ common.php/?state=$1 [L]
\w{2} means 2 word characters, so it is rewritten as a state code, the second rule is to rewrite the full state names and the third is to rewrite states.
Try something like this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-z]{2})\.[hH][tT][mM][lL]?$ common\.php\?state_code=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)\.[hH][tT][mM][lL]?$ common\.php\?state=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-z]{2})/([_a-zA-Z]+)\.[hH][tT][mM][lL]?$ common\.php\?state_code=$1&city=$2
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)/([_a-zA-Z]+)\.[hH][tT][mM][lL]?$ common\.php\?state=$1&city=$2
</IfModule>
Should also work for tx.htm
This assumes that your apache has mod_rewrite enabled.
I've searched and found a lot of questions on this site and elsewhere that are very similar, but I've tried implementing and modifying all the suggestions I've found and none of it works. I realize this is a very basic question an I am extremely frustrated because nothing I'm trying is working.
With that having been said... I am trying to organize my content pages within kurtiskronk.com/pages/... (e.g. kurtiskronk.com/pages/about.php)
What I want to do is make it so that I can simply link to kurtiskronk.com/about ... So how do I go about stripping "pages/" and ".php"? I don't have a ton of content pages, so it's not a big deal if I have to specify for each page, though something dynamic would be handy.
NOTES: I am using Rackspace Cloud hosting, and WordPress is installed in /blog. My phpinfo() can be seen at http://kurtiskronk.com/pages/phpinfo.php
This is my existing .htaccess file (in the root)
php_value register_globals "on"
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
#301 redirect to domain without 'www.'
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.kurtiskronk\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://kurtiskronk.com/$1 [R=301,NC]
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{ENV:PHP_DOCUMENT_ROOT}/pages/$1 -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ pages/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{ENV:PHP_DOCUMENT_ROOT}/pages/$1.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ pages/$1.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^blog/ blog/index.php [L]
# PHP - MAIL
php_value mail.force_extra_parameters -kurtis#kurtiskronk.com
I tested and the rewrite works with the line below (/about as URL brings up file /pages/about.php), but then the homepage gives a 500 Internal Server Error:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /pages/$1.php [L]
So I'm still sort of in the same boat as before, and as a follow-up, possibly more difficult question, if you go to http://kurtiskronk.com/weddings I am using SlideShowPro (flash) w/ SSP Director (self-hosted) as the back-end for it. When it pulls up a new image, it adds the following after /weddings ... "#id=album-152&num=content-9698"
There are four sections of the portfolio
# Homepage (kurtiskronk.com) id=album-148 ($id is constant for this section)
# Weddings (/weddings) id=album-152 ($id is constant for this section)
# Portraits (/portraits) id=album-151 ($id is constant for this section)
# Commercial (/commercial) id=album-150 ($id is constant for this section)
Assuming we get kurtiskronk.com/weddings to rewrite successfully without breaking anything, how would we make the total URL something cleaner kurtiskronk.com/weddings/9698 since the $num is the only thing that will change within a given section?
Kurtis, thanks for the extra information. It's a lot easier to give a specific answer to this.
My first comment is that you need to separate out in your thinking URI space -- that is what URIs you want your users to type into their browser -- and filesystem space -- what physical files you want to map to. Some of your mappings are URI->URI and some are URI->FS
For example you want to issue a permanent redirect of www.kurtiskronk.com/* to kurtiskronk.com/*. Assuming that you only server the base and www subdomains from this tree, then this cond/rule pair should come first, so that you can assume that all other rules only refer to kurtiskronk.com.
Next, you need to review the RewiteBase documentation. .htaccess files are processed in what Apache calls a Per-Directory context and this directive tells the rewrite engine what to assume as the URI base which got to this directory and .htaccess file. From what I gather, your blog is installed in docroot/blog (in the filesystem, and that you want to get to directory by typing in http://kurtiskronk.com/blog/ but that this .htaccess file is for the root folder -- that is the base should be (this goes before the www mapping rule)
DirectorySlash On
DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteBase /
#301 redirect to domain without 'www.'
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.kurtiskronk\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://kurtiskronk.com/$1 [R=301,NC]
You can add some field dumps look for REDIRECT_* in the Server or Environment table in the phpinfo O/P to see if these are sensible. For example:
RewriteWrite ^(.*)$ - \
[E=TESTDR:%{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/pages/$1.php,E=TESTPDR:%{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/pages/$1.php]
Your next rule is that if the file exists in the subdirectory pages then use it:
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/pages/$1 -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ pages/$1 [NS,L]
[Note that some shared service sites don't set up DOCUMENT_ROOT properly for the rewrite engine so you may need to run a variableinfo script (<?php phpinfo(INFO_ENVIRONMENT | INFO_VARIABLES); to see if it sets up alternatives. On your site you have to use %{ENV:PHP_DOCUMENT_ROOT} instead.]
Your next rule is that if the file exists, but with the extension .php in the subdirectory pages then use it:
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/pages/$1.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ pages/$1.php [NS,L]
Now redirect any blog references to the blog subdirectory unless the URI maps to a real file (e.g. the blog stylesheets and your uploads.)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^blog/ blog/index.php [L]
A complication here is that WP may be using a poorly documented Apache feature call Path Info that is a script can act as a pseudo directory so http://kurtiskronk.com/blog/tag/downtown/ is redirected to docroot/blog/index.php/tag/downtown/ which is then executed by `docroot/blog/index.php using /tag/downtown/ as the PATH_INFO. But this is one for Wordpress experts to comment on. If this last rule doesn't work then try:
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*) blog/index.php/$1 [L]
PS. I like your site. I wish I was that young again :(
Postscript
When you say "it doesn't work", what doesn't with this .htaccess?
http://kurtiskronk.com/phpinfo,
http://kurtiskronk.com/phpinfo.php,
http://kurtiskronk.comblog/tag/downtown/
It's just that these rules work for these tests (with domain swapped) on mine. (One way is to move or copy the above variableinfo.php to the various subdirectories. If necessary temporarily rename the index.php to index.php.keep, say, and copy the variableinfo.php to the index.php file. You can now enter the various URI test patterns and see what is happening. Look for the REDIRECT_* fields in the phpinfo output, and the SCRIPT_NAME will tell you which is being executed. You can add more {E=...] flags to examine the various pattern results. (Remember that these only get assigned if the rule is a match.
Lastly note the changes above especially the additional NS flags. For some reason mod_rewrite was going directly into a subquery which was resulting in redirect: being dumped into the file pattern. I've had a look at the Apache code and this is a internal botch to flag that further redirection needs to take place (which then replaces this or backs out). However this open bug indicates that this backout can be missed in sub-queries and maybe that's what is happening here. Certainly adding the NS flas cured the problem on my test environment.
PS. Note the added explicit DirectoryIndex directive and also that whilst http://kurtiskronk.com will run the root index.php, the explicit /index.php version will run the one in pages, because that's what your rules say.
Here is a simple solution. You can use it apache conf file(s) or in .htaccess (easier to set up when you're trying).
mod_rewrite has to be enabled.
For example, use .htaccess in your DocumentRoot with:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /pages/$1.php [L]
It will redirect /about to /pages/about.php, and any other page.
The "RewriteCond" part is to authorize access to an existing file (eg: if you had an "about" file at the root of your site, then it will be served, instead of redirecting to /pages/about.php).
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule /([0-9]+)$ /pages/$1.php [L]
Put something like this in your .htaccess file. I guess that is what you want.
Juest a redirect from a simple url to a longer url.
I am sorry, I have tried for hours to get this working, but I haven't made progress...
I want to make it so that if a user on my site types user.site.com they will be taken to site.com/user, but the URL will still show user.site.com. How can I do this? With .htaccess? Server files?
Almost there Ken
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !www.site.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z0-9-_]+).site.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) %1/$1 [QSA,L]
%1 = what's before .site.com
$1 = what you got after the /
If you have test.site.com/foo.php , you would have /test/foo.php.
if you just want test, just forget about the $1.
QSA = query string append,
L = Last.
You should read the url about mod_rewrite in #phihag post.
Use mod_rewrite:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !www.site.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z0-9-_]+).site.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) %1/$1 [QSA,L]
If you want to link to resources, either use full (http://site.com/user/static/x.css) or relative (static/x.css) URLs. Absolute URLs (/user/static/x.css) will need to be crafted differently when this rule is in effect.
To keep the original address in the address bar you will need a reverse proxy rather than a redirect. Redirecting tells the browser to send a second request to the server with a different address, reverse proxy tells the server to find another page and send it without notifying the browser about it (this is what you want I believe). Reverse proxy is achieved with the [P] flag in mod_rewite
Make sure mod_rewrite, mod_proxy and mod_proxy_http are loaded and put the directives
<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://site.com/user/$1 [PL]
into your virtual host configuration for user.site.com or .htaccess if you do not have root privileges. This will proxy all pages from the subdomain to the main domain folder. If you only want to proxy the index page use RewriteRule ^/ http://site.com/user instead.
I assume you are using http and not https. If so, it gets a little more complex...