I understand that .htaccess URL re-write questions have been asked a number of times however, I am really struggling to get these two things working in combination.
My site takes the following url and performs a wildcard search
http://www.localhost:8888/exercises/exercise?q=overehead%20squat&
I am using the following rule to remove all the %20 spaces to give me:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+(.*?)(?:\+|%20|\s)+(.+?)\sHTTP [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1-%2 [L,NE,R=302]
Gives: http://www.localhost:8888/exercises/exercise?q=Overhead-Squat
The last thing I would like to do is remove the ?q= so the URL looks like this:
http://www.localhost:8888/exercises/exercise/overehead-squat
It is not essential to make it lowercase, however it is desirable.
Many thanks in advance.
Create a directory called "excercise" and place your code file in it (name it index.php), and place this .htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*) index\.php?q=$1
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.htaccess newbie here.
I have a URL like this:
example.com/lesson-plans/earth-sciences/show_lesson_plan.php?title=Some_Title&id=6
that I need to be rewritten like this:
example.com/lesson-plans/earth-sciences/some-title-6
I am using the following .htaccess URL rewrite:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^lesson-plans/earth-sciences/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /lesson-plans/earth-sciences/show_lesson_plan.php?title=$1&id=$2&cat=3 [L]
However, when I hover over/click on links of the original format (example.com/lesson-plans/earth-sciences/show_lesson_plan.php?title=Some_Title&id=6), they are not being rewritten. I've tried a few different rewrite rules, but nothing works.
How can I make this rewrite work? As far as I know, .htaccess is working on my server and rewrites are permitted.
You were close
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} title=([^&]+)&id=([^&]+)
RewriteRule ^lesson-plans/earth-sciences/show_lesson_plan.php$ /lesson-plans/earth-sciences/%1-%2 [QSA,L,R]
Randomly while lying in bed last night.
You have the rewrite rule back to front. you have to add the rule for the rewritten url to turn it back into an ugly one
see: http://martinmelin.se/rewrite-rule-tester/
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^lesson-plans/earth-sciences/(.*)-(.+)$ /lesson-plans/earth-sciences/show_lesson_plan.php?title=$1&id=$2&cat=3 [L]
so
lesson-plans/earth-sciences/some-title-6
becomes
/lesson-plans/earth-sciences/show_lesson_plan.php?title=some-title&id=6&cat=3
I ended up using the following code and am posting it as an answer in the event someone else finds this useful:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/([^/.]+)$
show_lesson_plan.php?title=$1&id=$2
This will take a url (like this: http://example.com/lesson-plans/earth-sciences/a-cloud-in-a-bottle-i/8923) and run it through this: http://example.com/lesson-plans/show_lesson_plan.php?title=$1&id=$2
Note that I changed the original URL slightly, opting to break the id out of the title string.
This is an image rotator that I'm trying to be able to manage completely through the url to avoid having to setup a user login system. With this system, the urls of the images to be added and removed from the list are passed through the url as a variable. When I type out the entire url: http://www.url.com/index.php?add=http://www.url2.com/images/image.png it works fine. When I try to do it with an htaccess file, http://www.url.com/add=http://www.url2.com/images/image.png, I get a 403.
Applicable .htaccess line:
RewriteRule ^add\=(.*)/? index.php?add=$1 [QSA]
This htaccess line works as long as I'm not trying to submit an entire url. Any ideas? If this isn't enough information just let me know.
-- Edit --
Added more information about the url that I'm trying to retreive
Try this rule:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /add=(\S+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /index.php?add=%1 [QSA,L]
Comment from Ultimater and the solution:
The reason is because it's not a valid URL to begin with. You can't have two colons in the path. You can have them in the query string though but not in the path. http://localhost/add=http://localhost/ is an invalid URL. You can, however put a ? in front so it accepts the colon. Or simply omit the scheme. – Ultimater
I'm currently in the progress of creating a huge website, but instead of the regular URLs I'd like to use Clean / User Friendly URLs. I have been searching on how could I basically tailor these Apache Mod Rewrite rules for my needs, howere I could not found any solution for my particular problem.
Below you can read the aim, which I'd like to achieve with the URLs (I'm not going to write the domain name each time, just imagine: http://www.example.com ahead of the URL parts).
/register/ OR /register ---> /register.php (It should support both of the variations.)
I actually have more files for the registration and I'd like them to be accessible using the "part" words like:
/register/part1/ OR /register/part1 ---> /register.php?part=1 (It should support both of the variations.)
Also, what if I have more than just one query varialbe? (Like "personal=1")
/register/part1/personal/ OR /register/part1/personal ---> /register.php?part=1&personal=1
And what if I have many more of these queries, but I CAN'T specify all of them before? Any of these can be entered. (Like "thing,name,job,etc")
/register/part1/personal/Nicky/ OR /register/part1/personal/Nicky ---> /register.php?part=1&personal=1&name=Nicky
OR any kind of variations you can imagine:
/register/part1/personal/thing/employee/ OR /register/part1/personal/thing/employee ---> /register.php?part=1&personal=1&thing=1&job=employee
EDIT:
This is what I've tried yet, but it just redirects the pages to index.php :/
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
So I have given you a lot of examples, what I'd like to basically achieve. I can have a lot of other pages besides "register.php" so it shouldn't be specific to that page only. I also want that which is VERY important, that IF someone goes to for example: register.php?part=1 it should redirect them to the appropriate Clean URL (of course in PHP).
I would also want to ask what should I do in the PHP end to make everything good? I saw that Wordpress has a really great solution for this, which is pretty automatic, and it looks great!
Is there any ways that someone could please explain me how to create a great .HTACCESS mod_rewrite solution for this? I would be really-really glad!
Please do not mark this question as duplicate, because I really did not found anything specific for my case.
You mentioned WordPress, which has something like this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
What this does is redirect any request that doesn't match a real file or directory to the index.php script. That script will then decide what page to display. It will do so by looking into $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] which holds a path like register/part1.
It would be easier for you to figure out what page to show using this method, because in PHP there are many ways to parse that path string, then map it to a function
You should be able to construct clean URLs like this from your htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ /index.php?pageID=Home [L]
RewriteRule ^about-my-homepage\.html$ /index.php?pageID=About [L]
RewriteRule ^contact-us\.html$ /index.php?pageID=Contact [L]
the first is the one you want to output (the "clean" URL), the second one the one you actually want to open. Good Luck!
I'm trying to implement a SEO friendly URL using .htaccess by using the RewriteRule below
RewriteRule ^n/article/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$ article.php?title=$1
The actaul URL looks like this
http://localhost/n/article.php?title=this-is-the-first-news-article
but I want it to look like this :
http://localohst/n/article/this-is-the-first-news-article
When I applied the RewiteRule above it does not change to the desired URL
This should do it. You are missing the n. Not sure why you need the word title though.
RewriteRule ^n/article/title/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$ article.php?title=$1
You have to capture the query string first. You can't do that with a RewriteRule because they ignore the query string. Here we're using [R] to redirect. If this is working for you and there is the potential that the old URLs are being stored somewhere as links, then you may want to specify [R=301]. Be sure to remove all old-style links from your site though (that contain the previous link format we're rewriting), that way you're not penalized for not updating your links.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} title=([^&]+)
RewriteRule ^n/article.php n/article/%1? [R,L]
If your site needs the formatting to function from the original, you might also need this after the first rule. This rule quietly redirects the URL back to the original without showing it to the end user:
RewriteRule ^n/article/(.*) n/article.php?title=$1 [L]
it will be RewriteRule ^n/article/title/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$ article.php?title=$1
With the new Diggbar, you can put http://digg.com in front of any URL that you are currently at and it will create a Digg short URL. I am only assuming they do this by modrewrite (though I am not sure since I am new at this all).
How is this done? It seems to me when I try this with a website I am working on, it bombs out.
I want to be able to do the following:
http://example.com/http://stackoverflow.com/question/ask
and have a modrewrite that will allow this to go to
http://example.com/index.php?url=http://stackoverflow.com/question/ask
But when I use this modrewrite:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)$ /message.php?id=$1 [L]
it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?
You have to take the value from the request line because Apache removes empty path segments. The initially requested URI path /http://foobar/ becomes /http:/foobar/. But the request line (THE_REQUEST) stays untouched:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ /(https?://[^\s]+)
RewriteRule ^https?:/ index.php?url=%1 [L]
You're only looking for letters and numbers in that regular expression, so it won't pick up the colon and slashes. You're also using index.php in the example and message.php in the htaccess ;)
You'll probably want something like this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^http://(.+)$ /index.php?url=$1 [L]
This makes sure you only catch URLs here, and you can still have regular pages! (Think about what would have happened if you went to example.com/index.php, you'd end up in an infinite loop.)