I'm having a problem with my htaccess rules.
i have this rule in my htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^u/([a-z-0-9-_]+)$ user.php?id=$1
and its work just fine but when i write username with dot (.) its does not work
and the browser say the page not found
i looked up the internet and nothing helped me
so can anyone here help ?
The [a-z-0-9-_] pattern only matches lowercase ASCII letters, - and _. If you replace it with a negated character class [^/] it will match any char but /.
Use
RewriteRule ^u/([^/]+)$ user.php?id=$1
Related
# Redirect all users to access the site WITH the 'www.' prefix
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
**RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !\.([a-z-]+\.[a-z]{2,6})$ [NC]**
RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
Ok, so in the above code I think the 1st line says "if the URL does not have www." and then the 3rd line says to "rewrite the URL with the www. as a 301 redirect", but the 2nd line I believe is to take into consideration subdomains and exclude them, but can anyone tell me what this !\.([a-z-]+\.[a-z]{2,6})$says exactly?
Another question: if mod_rewrite is enabled do I still need to add RewriteEngine Onto the top of the .htaccess file? What happens if I don't?
The regular expression on the second line matches, if the string:
! does not have
\. a literal dot, followed by
[a-z-] multiple characters of the a-z,- range, followed by
\. another literal dot, followed by
[a-z]{2,6} between 2 and 6 characters from the a-z range
$ before the end of the string
The parenthesis "(..)" allow capturing of a matched substring.
This can then be used in following expression/substitutions.
The NC flag will cause the match to performed case-insensitive.
In your case this will trigger a rewrite if the incoming URL
does not start with www. (1st line)
does not end with sth that looks like .hostname.tld (2nd line)
See https://regex101.com/ for a good playground to experiment with regular expressions.
I want to allow in url (1-9 , a-z, A-z, -, _ , %)
I have below code in htaccess
RewriteRule ^shop/search/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/?$ shop.php?search=$1 [QSA,NC]
Issue : when space is passed in url
Example
domain.com/shop/search/my%20keyword
It is not working
Basically i want to allow % in url via htaccess
How to do it?
... it is matched against the (%-decoded) URL-path of the request ...
source, emphasis mine.
mod_rewrite never sees the %, it decodes the %20 to a space. If you want to accept %20 in the URL then add space to the character class.
Basically i want to allow % in url via htaccess How to do it?
You can use this rewrite rule with negative character class:
RewriteRule ^shop/search/([^/]+)/?$ shop.php?search=$1 [QSA,NC,L]
[^/]+ will match 1 or more of any character that is not / hence it will match whitespace or any other decoded character also that you want to match.
This are my urls right nowm for my products
http://www.example.com/product.php?product=32723
I want to achieve this
http://www.example.com/product/32723-brand-model-productname
I have been modifying my .htaccess but really with no clue on how to achieve this.
You must match your URL with a RewriteRule pattern and rewrite it to the target URL
RewriteRule ^/product/(\d+)- /product.php?product=$1
This pattern matches any URL starting with /product/ and captures the following digits (\d+) followed by a dash -. The substitution URL will be /product.php?product= with the captured digits $1 appended.
To capture some part of the match, you enclose it in parenthesis (...). Read more on regular expressions used in mod_rewrite at Apache mod_rewrite Introduction - Regular Expressions.
This question is so common I just put up the whole answer with code here:
http://www.prescia.net/bb/coding/5-141018-simple_friendly-url
I'm trying to write my .htaccess to support two vanity url's, the code will speak for itself as I'm not very good with .htaccess.
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/?$ index.php?p=$1&s=$2 [L,QSA]
Upon going to for example http://website.com/home/test
I get a 404, but $_GET["p"] still returns back home if I go to just website.com/home.
Why am I getting a 404 when adding in my second variable in the url?
You get a 404 because /home/test does not match the expression ^[a-zA-Z0-9]+/?$. The second group after the first / exists beyond your $ string terminator. You need to add a second () group, which is optional. I have replaced the a-zA-Z0-9 character classes with [^/]+ which matches everything up to the next slash.
The (?:) indicates a non-capturing group encompasing the first /, with a capturing group () inside it to retrieve the $2 component. The entire construct is made optional with ? before the final $ terminator.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)(?:/([^/]+)/?)?$ index.php?p=$1&s=$2 [L,QSA]
I'm wanting to make a URL look pleasing to the eye.
from
/index.php?a=grapes
to
/grapes
Although, I'm having a few problems. I wanted a to have a wider variety of characters like a-z A-Z 0-9 / _ - . [ ].
from
/index.php?a=Grapes.Are.Green/Red[W4t3r-M3l0n_B1G_Gr4p3]
to
/Grapes.Are.Green/Red[W4t3r-M3l0n_B1G_Gr4p3]
In the index.php file I have
<?php
$a = $_GET["a"];
echo $a;
?>
just to test the URL is working correctly.
Right now what I have in .htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9/_]+)?$ index.php?a=$1
only accepts a-z A-Z 0-9 / _.
If I add - into the square brackets and have it as one of the
characters which a equals I get the 404 error.
If I add . into the square brackets I get index.php outputted.
If I add [ or ] I get the 404 error.
If anyone has a solution I'd love to see it. Also, if anyone has time please could you explain each part of the RewriteRule saying what the part does. Thanks!
The problem is that some of your character are "special":
Special characters:
(full stop) - match any character
* (asterix) - match zero or more of the previous symbol
+ (plus) - match one or more of the previous symbol
? (question) - match zero or one of the previous symbol
\? (backslash-something) - match special characters
^ (caret) - match the start of a string
$ (dollar) - match the end of a string
[set] - match any one of the symbols inside the square braces.
(pattern) - grouping, remember what the pattern matched as a special variable
So if you want to use them in a url, you have to scape them.
For example
.s?html? matches ".htm", ".shtm", ".html" or ".shtml"
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?a=$1 [QSA]
The [QSA] thing at the end is what made it work :) Thanks to jedwards for suggesting to use ^(.*)$ which accepts all characters.