So I've found this interesting question on making the question mark symbol appear on $_GET variable after using rewrite rules.
However, as much as I've tried to accomplish this myself, I didn't quite understand how it works to have the same result on my website.
Here's my rewrite rule:
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?uri=$1 [QSA,L]
This basically allows me to route users to specific places without hard coding each page on my htaccess file, so if a user goes to /about/contact page, he's actually going to index.php?uri=/about/contact.
The problem is that sometimes I WANT the question mark to be kept in $_GET. Let's say a topic title of "What's up?" then my url would search for a topic like /topic/what-s-up? and would match with what-s-up? in the database. But, right now, my $_GET variable stores just "what-s-up" (without the "?") and my database still stores "what-s-up?" (with the "?"), which would say that there's no topic with that title when there actually is.
How can I keep the question mark so /topic/what-s-up? still translates to /topic/what-s-up? in the query string?
EDIT: FULL .HTACCESS FILE FOR TEST PURPOSES
Options -Indexes
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?uri=$1 [QSA,L]
You can change your rule to this to capture optional ? in uri parameter:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+([^?]*\??\S*)\sHTTP [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?uri=%1 [QSA,L]
Since we want ? also to be captured we are using RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} since pattern in RewriteRule only matches REQUEST_URI. Since we are capturing value from RewriteCond hence we are using %1 instead of $1 as back-reference.
THE_REQUEST variable represents complete original request received by Apache from your browser and it doesn't get overwritten after execution of some rewrite rules. Example value of this variable is GET /index.php?id=123 HTTP/1.1
I know its late, but i used php urlencode() to pass the question mark, as it converts ? to %3F
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I ned to change this url
https://halopredictions.com/blog/index.php?url=german-bundesliga-prepare-to-return-on-9-may
to
https://halopredictions.com/blog/german-bundesliga-prepare-to-return-on-9-may
This is my .htaccess that am currently using
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ index.php?url=$1 [NC,L]
I have already enabled mod rewrite
The htaccess is on this path ...\blog\.htaccess
Any help I will highly appreciate
Before proceeding with the answer, if I understand correctly you want to redirect from https://halopredictions.com/blog/german-bundesliga-prepare-to-return-on-9-may To https://halopredictions.com/blog/index.php?url=german-bundesliga-prepare-to-return-on-9-may.
Since SEO Urls are used by the visitors, we have to convert them to actual path.
The below RewriteRule will be sufficient to achieve the above condition.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^blog/([A-Za-z0-9-\+]+)/?$ blog/index.php?url=$1 [NC,L,QSA]
Explanation:
^blog/([A-Za-z0-9-\+]+)/?$ - This part is what you want to rewrite from. Since, your URLs will be like in the pattern https://halopredictions.com/blog/german-bundesliga-prepare-to-return-on-9-may, we need to get the url part after blog/.
I have used a regular expression ([A-Za-z0-9-\+]+)/? to match the url part and it can be referrenced using $1.
Now we have to use $1 in our new url. For that, we have written the second part of RewriteRule where you can assign the referrence.
blog/index.php?url=$1 - Now, as you would assume we are using the $1 reference after index.php?url=, so that it will append it to the URL Query param and should lead to a valid path.
By the way, ^ this is used to indicate the start and $ for the end.
I have this code in my htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php/?url=$1 [QSA,L]
And in PHP, I grab the current url request and give it it's controller so if there was http://example.com/index.php?url=about -> this will give me the about controller so it displays the about page (MVC)
Now my question is that how can I remove the index.php?url from every page. For example I want to access the about page then I need it to be -> http://example.com/about
You can see in the htaccess that I am replacing the index.php/?url with whatever I type ($1) But it doesn't seem to work because when I request this url: (example) http://example.com/about I get Object not found! Error 404. And when I have http://example.com I get the controller_home page. However, when i type http://example.com/home it also displays error 404.
If I do this: http://example.com/?url=about or http://example.com/index.php?url=about it works find and gives me the about controller so the ?url isn't getting removed by the htaccess I guess...
Might that be an another error in my php code or what?
Kindly help me as I have been looking over this error about 10 hours and I didn't find why it is behaving like that, my friend has almost the same code and it works perfectly for him.
I am kind of new to php so it might be simple bug...
Thanks in advance for everyone that helps!
If you're using an .htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^/?(.+)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
If you're editing the main apache config file (httpd.conf or apache2.conf). I know the OP is using .htaccess but just in case other people having this issue see this discussion:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^/?(.+)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
First, presumably you want to test if the requested string does NOT match a directory, NOT match a file, and NOT match a symbolic link - so you need add a "!" before the RewriteCond flags (to negate the condition). Stacked RewriteConds are linked with an implicit AND so checking for directory, file and symbolic link doesn't make sense (a given requested string wouldn't match all of these conditions).
Second, the %{DOCUMENT_ROOT} would be necessary if you're doing this in the main apache config file (ie/httpd.conf or apache2.conf). It's not necessary if you're doing this in an .htaccess file.
Third, when RewriteRule is matching it includes the /. Presumably when you request "website.com/about" you want "about" to be passed to index.php not "/about", so the "/?" will remove the / in first character position from $1. I put the question mark, just because I think it's best practice, since technically you could get an HTTP request that does not begin with a slash (although this would be against standards and every browser includes a slash at the beginning).
Fourth, you shouldn't put a / after the index.php in RewriteRule (so it should be "index.php?url=$1", not "index.php/?url=$1". Query strings are separated from a filename via a "?" not a "/?".
Try this
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^((.*)+)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
I have the following .htaccess rewrite problem. We have requests entering with multiple subdirectories and an .html file
for example dir1/file.html
or dir1/dir2/file.html
or dir1/dir2/dir3/file.html
or dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/file.html
what we eventually need is a rewrite rule to
index.html?dir1=$1&dir2=$2&dir3=$3&dir4=$4&file=$5
(where dir2 to dir5 would be empty if path is too short)
Is there any way to do that directly in the .htaccess file, or is it necessary to handle it in php?
I will see if I can test this out, but this should work for the problem as your question states it:
RewriteRule ^/([a-z0-9]+)/?([^/]*)$ /index.php?dir1=$1&$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^/([a-z0-9]+)/([a-z0-9]+)/([a-z0-9]+)/([a-z0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?dir1=$1&dir2=$2&dir3=$3&dir4=$4 [L]
RewriteRule ^/([a-z0-9]+)/([a-z0-9]+)/([a-z0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?dir1=$1&dir2=$2&dir3=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^/([a-z0-9]+)/([a-z0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?dir1=$1&dir2=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^/([a-z0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?dir1=$1 [L]
I emphasize should because only you can really say what your site structure is & how this cascading ruleset would affect your application.
The regex used is fairly simple:
([a-z0-9]+)
That captures any directory name with letters & characters. If you want to capture—let’s say—underscores and dashes on top of that, it would change to something like:
([a-z0-9_-]+)
The first rewrite rule I have set—^/([a-z0-9]+)/?([^/]*)$—is to capture anything that comes after dir1 just in case there’s data to capture that is not a strict directory structure. You can comment that out if you wish. Just added it since that’s how I like to handle situations that need URL parsing like this.
Also, have you considered adding this to the rewrite rule? Perhaps at the top before the rules cascade in?
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
I would suggest you this
http://domain/dir1-dir2-dir3-dir4-dir5-file.html
rules
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule (.+)-(.+) $1/$2 [N]
you can even make it dynamic by adding these
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1
this is much cleaner.
UPDATE:
well I didn't mean you use the second part but anyways I explain what I meant, it's not wrong that people use QUERY STRING for passing path in URL but it's important how you do that like in this URL
http://domain/index.php?route=dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/dir5/file.html
as you can see you will grab the path easily with just one GET variable and even handling of this in RewriteRule is much easier like
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?route=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
which will let you to have a URL like this
http://domain/dir1/dir2/dir3/.../file.html
and with any reason you may change those slash to hyphen or other acceptable chars which become like this
http://domain/dir1-dir2-dir3-dir4-dir5-dir6-dir7-file.html
and as I said it's more easier to pass the current QUERY_STRING which will look like this
http://domain/dir1-dir2-file.html?q=extra_query_value
and result in PHP if you dump $_GET will be:
q => 'extra_query_value'
route => 'dir1/dir2/file.html'
and finally in PHP you may easily explode them to have all folders' name by individual variable.
I have a website that I'm trying to change the URLs on. All of the URLs start with http://domain.com/?
For example, http://domain.com/?index
I just want to remove the question mark. I don't care if it appears in the address bar, I just want my users to be able to access the pages on the site without having to type the question marks.
So, if a user wants to access http://domain.com/?index, I want them to be able to access it by typing http://domain.com/index.
Is this possible using .htaccess?
I've searched around and tried a few different things for a few days now and still can't figure out a way to accomplish what I'm trying to do.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
Try:
RewriteEngine On
# Match against the request instead of the URI
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /\?([^&\ ]+)&?([^\ ]*)
RewriteRule ^$ /%1?%2 [L,R=301]
This takes URI's like http://example.com/?path/to/file.txt and redirects the browser to http://example.com/path/to/file.txt. The browser will display that URL in the location bar instead. This is, of course, assuming that if someone actually goes to that URL, that there is something there to be served other than a 404.
EDIT
To internally map none-query string URLs to the one with a query string:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /?$1 [L]
Try using :
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /?$1 [NC]
in your .htaccess file ,
let me know if it works.
My project have data about different websites so I have rewritten urls using .htaccess so that when ever someone passes a name containing a dot(.) to my website, it shows the site.php page. here is my code for that:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9\_\-]+(\.)[a-zA-Z0-9\_\.\-]+)/?$ site.php?url=$1
RewriteRule contact$ contact.php
This sends site name as parameter to site.php. Now I want one more parameter to be passed to is like it could have been passed in general, for ex. I want the site to get real time updated data, i want to pass ?update=true so that it updates the data from internet rather then taking it from database. But passing parameter like this
http://www.mysite.com/anysite.com?update=true
isn't working, how can I pass additional parameters to my existing rewritten url?
The [QSA] flag ("query string append") will append any received query string onto the rewritten URL. I have also added the [L] flag as a best practice to prevent a match to your first rule also matching an additional rule later on in your chain, should one ever be added.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9\_\-]+(\.)[a-zA-Z0-9\_\.\-]+)/?$ site.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule contact$ contact.php [QSA,L]
However, if I have misunderstood the problem and you don't need for the browser to be sending update=true but rather just want to force it on all requests, simply add it to the rewrite rule:
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9\_\-]+(\.)[a-zA-Z0-9\_\.\-]+)/?$ site.php?update=true&url=$1 [QSA,L]