Add URL Rewrite Rule .htaccess - php

I've installed a Wordpress plugin that makes my website to a static one. The plugin is called "Simply Static".
Now I have a static version of my website here: http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/static/
But my visitors should not see the whole url, i want them just to see http://example.com
or e.g.: http://example.com/contact/ instead of http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/static/contact/
However I can't seem to modify the htaccess to rewrite this.
I've tried:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule !^/ /wp-content/uploads/static/%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
Any ideas appreciated!

To rewrite from / to /wp-content/uploads/static, you just use
RewriteRule !^wp-content/uploads/static /wp-content/uploads/static%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
Note the following
the pattern never starts with a slash in a directory context (e.g. .htaccess)
%{REQUEST_URI} already contains a leading slash
no R|redirect flag

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.htaccess redirect and rewrite url if REQUEST_URI starts with specific path

I am working on a Wordpress site, it requires a plugin that needs to access the API endpoint of WP.
It wants to access the site's:
http://myhost.test/wp/wp-json/erp/v1/hrm/employees/1\?include\=department,designation,reporting_to,avatar,roles
but changes to the folder structure, causes the real, and actual link should be:
http://myhost.test/wp-json/erp/v1/hrm/employees/1\?include\=department,designation,reporting_to,avatar,roles
as you can see, there should be no /wp at the start of the %{REQUEST_URI}
I am trying to make this work: but it won't redirect the request:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/wp/wp\-json/
RewriteRule ^/wp/wp\-json(.*) /wp\-json$1 [L,R]
I do not understand what I am doing wrong,
I am catching everything after ^/wp/wp-json then forward it to ^/wp-json
What is going on?
Regards,
Using mod_rewrite in .htaccess context vs a <Directory> or <VirtualHost> context each have slightly different requirements in how the patterns are parsed. Most importantly to your situation, in .htaccess the first argument to RewriteRule is not matched against a leading slash / because the pattern is considered relative to the directory it is in.
Remove the leading / from your RewriteRule matcher argument:
RewriteRule ^wp/wp\-json(.*) /wp\-json$1 [L,R]

RewriteRule for a single .php page in a sub directory

I've a joomla website. Recentley I added a subdirectory to the root of the website which contains some pages which are not linked to the CMS in any way.
I wanted to remove the .php from the end of these pages as I was going to promote them over social media and wanted the URL's to be easier for users to remember.
The page in questions is:
http://www.mytestwebsite.com/share/thepage.php
So I added the following rule to my .htaccess file:
RewriteRule ^/share/thepage?$ /share/thepage.php [NC]
With the hopes that the URL would be http://www.mytestwebsite.com/share/thepage
and still load thepage.php but it's not working.
Use:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^share/thepage/?$ /share/thepage.php [NC,L]
No leading / in the first RewriteRule argument in htaccess.
And /? is for the optional trailing slash (not optional e with e?)

How to ignore a folder from beautiful URL using htaccess

I am developing a website, assuming example.com and a blog located at example.com/blog.
The website language is PHP (I designed and programmed it by myself), and I used wordpress as the blog.
I tried to use beautiful URL in main part of the website to convert example.com/services.php to example.com/services by means of this code in htaccess:
# BEAUTIFUL URL
RewriteBase /
DirectorySlash Off
# remove trailing slash
RewriteRule ^(.*)\/(\?.*)?$ $1$2 [R=301,L]
# rewrite /dir/file?query to /dir/file.php?query
RewriteRule ^([\w\/-]+)(\?.*)?$ $1.php$2 [L,T=application/x-httpd-php]
The main part of the website works fine. But when I try to load the blog, I must add a trailing slash at the end of the URL to make it work.
http://www.example.com/blog >> 403 Forbidden error
http://www.example.com/blog/ >> Loads correctly
I tried to add trailing slash after URLs using htaccess, But I dont know is this the best solution or not? Could anyone suggest a way to ignore blog folder to be effected by beautiful url?
I simple way to handle this is to create a file called blog.php which simply redirects to example.com/blog/.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/blog
above the RewriteRules.
Not tested it, I think it should work

Remove in between folder structure from the url in a php website

I have a php website having following folder structure (basic structure).
project_name
app
controller
model
view
css
js
img
index.php
So when I view index.php in WAMP the url is http://localhost/project_name/
But when I go inside the site (eg. login.php which resides under view folder) url is like this. http://localhost/project_name/app/view/login.php
I found that using .htaccess we can change the urls. So I tried this (in .htaccess).
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
Redirect 301 /project_name/app/view/login.php /project_name/login.php
RewriteRule ^/project_name/login.php$ /project_name/app/view/login.php [L]
Now url is http://localhost/project_name/login.php It is correct. But it seems php does not use the original link to grab the file (ie. from /project_name/app/view/login.php) but from here /project_name/login.php
So it throws 404 error.
What should I change? Please help me, i am just trying to hide /app/view/ part from the url so that user won't see my folder structure. I have read about various ways of doing that for about 9hrs today but still couldn't get anything working correctly.
Hope my question is clear enough. Any help is greatly appreciated!
URI's passed through rewrite rules in an htaccess file has the leading slash removed, so your rule:
RewriteRule ^/project_name/login.php$ /project_name/app/view/login.php [L]
won't ever match anything because of ^/. Also, since you are rewriting to a URI that matches a previous redirect, your browser will see a redirect loop and say that it's not redirecting properly. You'll need to match against the actual request and not the URI:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /project_name/app/view/login\.php
RewriteRule ^ /project_name/login.php [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^/?project_name/login.php$ /project_name/app/view/login.php [L]

htaccess rewrite ".../pages/about.php" to ".../about"

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.

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