I have the following URL:
http://example.com/pages/page.php?company_name=Name
What I want to achieve is to have a URL like this:
http://example.com/pages/Name
I have tried different rules but they don't work:
RewriteRule ^pages/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ /pages/page.php?company_name=$1 [NC] or
RewriteRule ^pages/([^/]*)\.php$ /pages/page.php?company_name=$1 [L]
It doesn't work. It gives me a "not found" page. How can I properly use mod_rewrite?
Try this out:
RewriteRule ^pages/([0-9a-zA-Z\-_]*)(/|)$ /pages/page.php?company_name=$1 [QSA,L]
This will care or not care if the url has a trailing slash:
http://example.com/pages/Name
http://example.com/pages/Name/
And will also include any extra agrs (QSA) if the page calls for it:
http://example.com/pages/Name/?more=stuff
That should work, if your apache has mod_rewrite and the php exists where you have shown.
UPDATE
If you have a different url that needs a different php, for example 'bluepages':
http://example.com/bluepages/Name
Then this would work for that:
RewriteRule ^bluepages/([0-9a-zA-Z\-_]*)(/|)$ /bluepages/somescript.php?some_var=$1 [QSA,L]
If you have multiple like this you wish to control, you can make multiple RewriteRules in your htaccess for each one. However if you just want to wildcard it, then this would do a blind catchall (and cause lots of error reports in your apache logs):
RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z]*)/([0-9a-zA-Z\-_]*)(/|)$ /$1/page.php?some_var=$2 [QSA,L]
You will either need to be specific, or just change everything. There are so many ways one can go with it, and it really depends on your intent.
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
so I have this htaccess entry:
RedirectMatch /([a-zA-Z0-9]+).php /dirA/$1.php
The goal is that any .php that is on the root directory should be redirected to /dirA/*.php
eg. suppose I make the request
domain.com/something.php
it should instead redirect to
domain.com/dirA/something.php
However when I put that entry in my .htaccess file and then I go to domain.com/something.php
it instead returns
"The page isn't redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for
this address in a way that will never complete."
Any idea how I can modify my htaccess to accomplish what I want to do?
Updated Question
Also is there a way to make it so that it only redirects if the file doesn't exist in the root directory...hence if x.php exists in root, serve that x.php otherwise redirect to dirA/x.php
mod_rewrite is an overkill for this, you were on the right track with RedirectMatch. Your rule, however, is a bit faulty: the regex /([a-zA-Z0-9]+).php matches all string that contain the specified substring, so it matches "/foo/bar/baz.php", but also "dirA/foo/bar.php" (and even "/foo/bar.php/baz.php"I. Your redirection ended up in an endless loop because there was no stop condition: /dirA/foo.php was redirected to /dirA/foo.php.
You can remedy the situation by using anchors in the regex:
RedirectMatch ^/([a-zA-Z0-9]+).php$ /dirA/$1.php
As for your second question: that might indeed call for mod_rewrite. Something along these lines should do the trick:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+).php$ /dirA/$1.php [R=301]
I haven't tested it, but this should get you started. Make sure to check out the manual for details, or just search around on SO, there are tons of questions about this.
Try this
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+).php /dirA/$1.php [R=301,L]
This one should be just fine
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subdir/$1
i'm new to mod_rewrite, and i'm trying to convert my web address from:
website.com/profile.php?user=andy
to the following:
website.com/user/andy
This is my following code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^user/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/?$ profile.php?user=$1 [NC,L]
I researched extensively and this does seem to be the correct way to do it, but it doesn't redirect to where i want it to, it just redirects to this:
http://website.com/profile.php?user=andy
which means i must doing something wrong...
Can anyone help me out here? I would appreciate any tips.
If you want
http://website.com/profile.php?user=andy ->301-> http://website.com/user/andy
http://website.com/user/andy means http://website.com/profile.php?user=andy
They are 2 different things, you'll need 2 rules:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^user=([A-Za-z0-9]+)
RewriteRule ^profile.php /user/%1? [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^user/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/?$ profile.php?a=b&user=$1 [L]
The first will 301 (moved permanently) redirect to the pretty url.
The second will allow your application to understand the pretty url.
Whenever you change the url scheme for a site you should take care of existing links. As such, that first rule is required/a good idea. You should not, however, need the first rule when using your own application. If your own application is generating links to profile.php?user=me - change your application code.
You have to change your URLs when outputting them in your HTML to be in the format you want (/user/andy).
mod_rewrite will rewrite /user/andy to main.php?... not the other way around.
What do you mean by my result?
mod_rewrite won't change existing links in your source code. Navigate to website.com/user/andy and you should see it work.
I am pretty new to using the RewriteRule, so I am likely missing something obvious, but I have a PHP script that takes URL variables like this:
{baseurl}properties.php?prop=Property-Name
I would like to create RewriteRules so that anyone who types in this script name/variable combo would have their URL rewritten to:
{baseurl}/properties/Property-Name
As well as ensuring that anyone who types in the flat-link url, actually calls the script with the right variable name and value.
I have been referring to this link and I have found related threads:
Mod_rewrite flat links
Mod_rewrite trouble: Want to direct from ?= to a flat link, nothing seems to work
But, I am obviously doing something wrong, as I cannot get this URL to work the way I want. I am currently using the following code, which appears to do nothing (aside from rewriting the URL to include the www, and redirect requests for index.php to the site root):
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^baseurl.com$ [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]+)/?$.
Not sure how you'll take this question but...
Whenever I try to make my URLs look pretty I always end up messing around for too long and it's simply not worth the trouble. But the end effect is good if it were a simple task.
So what I want to do is create a method which in the end would achive something like...
index.php?do=user&username=MyUsername //This becomes...
/user/MyUsername //...that
index.php?do=page&pagename=customPage //And this becomes...
/page/customPage //...that
index.php?do=lots&where=happens&this=here //This also becomes...
/lots/happens/here //...that
index.php?do=this&and=that&that=this&and=some&more=too //And yes...
/this/that/this/some/more //This becomes this
So then I just make a nice .htacess file that I'll never have to look at again. Everything will be better in the world because we have pretty URLs and my head didn't hurt in the making.
You can use a different approach of throwing the url in a single parameter, and parse it in your application.
So the apache rewrite rule would look like:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
which will convert your urls as follows:
/user/MyUsername => index.php?q=/user/MyUsername
/page/customPage => index.php?q=/page/customPage
...
In your app, you then have a $_GET['q'] variable, which you can split by '/', and have your arguments in order. In PHP it would be something like:
$args = explode('/', $_GET['q']);
$args will be an array with 'user', 'MyUserName', etc.
This way you will not have to touch your .htaccess again, just your app logic.
For /user/MyUsername ==> index.php?do=user&username=MyUsername and /page/customPage ==>
index.php?do=page&pagename=customPage, you can use:
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)$ index.php?do=$1&$1name=$2 [L]
But I don't think you can write a catch-all rule for /lots/happens/here and /this/that/this/some/more because you need to tell mod_rewrite how to translate the two urls.
Remember, mod_rewrite has to translate /lots/happens/here into index.php?do=lots&where=happens&this=here and not the other way around.
The best approach would be to delegate your application to generate the “pretty URLs” as well as parse and interpret them and to use mod_rewrite only to rewrite the requests to your application with a rule like this one:
RewriteRule %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
This rule will rewrite all requests that can not be mapped directly to an existing file to the index.php. The originally requested URL (more exact: the URL path plus query) is then available at $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'].