I have a WordPress installation in my main folder, so my site goes like
www.example.com
Besides that I have a subfolder with a separate static site that you can access with
www.example.com/special
So in the special pages I have a page called
www.example.com/special/my-special-page
It's actually a .php file, but I've removed the extensions in the .htaccess file of that special site with this
RewriteEngine On # Turn on the rewriting engine
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]
And this works.
But my client said: I want, when I enter
www.example.com/myawardspage
to go to
www.example.com/special/my-special-page
but to have the above URL (without /special/my-special-page) in it. So in the main .htaccess file (the one that controls the WordPress) I've added
RewriteRule ^myawardspage?$ http://www.example.com/special/my-special-page [NC,L]
So now when you go to
www.example.com/myawardspage
I am redirected to
www.example.com/special/my-special-page
which is great, but I need the URL to look like
www.example.com/myawardspage
So in the .htaccess file of the special page I've added
RewriteRule ^myawardspage/?$ /special/my-special-page [NC]
But the URL remains the same (http://www.example.com/special/my-special-page).
What am I doing wrong here?
Just below RewriteEngine on, place the following lines in your /.htaccess (document root) file:
# Check if the file being requested exists
# in the 'special' directory
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/special/$1.php -f
# If so, then rewrite accordingly:
RewriteRule ^([^.]+) special/$1.php [L]
Using this method means that you don't need that rule in the special/.htaccess file - you can safely remove it.
Ok, so you mean when ever you want to hit www.example.com/myawardspage then you want to get data from www.example.com/special/my-special-page while in your address bar your address remains www.example.com/myawardspage To achieve this apply this rule in your WordPress installation's .htaccess file.
RewriteRule ^myawardspage/?$ www.example.com/special/my-special-page [NC,L] # Handle requests for "www.example.com/special/my-special-page"
It wil get you desired data and your problem will be solved. Let me know if that works for you.
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I'm struggling pretty hard with .htaccess. Even though I looked up quite a few solutions here, I couldn't get to setup the following:
I have a file called index.php. Inside the index.php I have a link like
Post
Clicking the link, should lead to a file in the same directory called post.php. Inside the post.php I'm grabbing the id through $GET['id'].
But I still like to display post/12345678901 as the URL.
I already tried editing the .htaccess but clicking the links leads to a 404.
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^post/([^/]+) /post.php?id=$1
You have a RewriteRule but you probably need a ReWriteCondition to go with it else this rewrite will be applied to every call to a page on the apache.
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
# Not a file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# not a directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# Edited to show root location of files.
# also added NoCaseSensitivity flag.
RewriteRule ^post/([0-9]+)/? /post.php?id=$1 [NC]
Also remove the first / in the second part of the RewriteRule because that will be domain.com/post.php which might not be your actual file location.
Your HTML appears to be showing relative filepathing which is not a good idea and might come back to bite you in the future, As a recommendation every URL on the same domain on your HTML should start with a / so;
Post
Which can then be manipulated by the .htaccess to go where you need, even in another folder (not the base).
Hi, so this may be asked elsewhere but I have searched and come up with irrelevant results.
I clearly don't know what to search for exactly.
I'm just trying to rewrite everything after a certain directory to that directories index.php.
Here is an example of the URL a visitor would SEE
website.com/search/location/United%20States
And I would like that URL to be rewritten server-side so that it loads website.com/search/location/index.php
(not a 301 redirect)
I would like the Url to stay the same but load the index.php script (to include United%20States so this can be passed to PHP to determine what the location is and if it is legitimate etc.).
Sorry I know that this will be somewhere already but I just can't find it
I have some code already but it is buggy and seems to choose when it wants to work and also sometimes uses location/index.php/United%20States which is not what I want.
Put this code in your htaccess (which has to be in your root folder)
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^search/location/.+$ /search/location/index.php [L]
If you have Apache web server, make sure you have mod-rewrite enabled and put .htaccess file into your WEBROOT/search/location directory. Put this into .htaccess file:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php [L]
This will internally redirect all requests, where file or directory does not exists, to index.php.
You could also put .htaccess file into your WEBROOT directory and write this into to:
RewriteRule ^search/location/.* /search/location/index.php
Hope this helps.
I have a question about using multiple .htaccess files - I couldn't find the answer to this after looking elsewhere on stackoverflow, so I hope you guys can help.
I currently have one .htaccess file in the root of my site, which performs a simple url rewrite:
Options -MultiViews
# CheckSpelling off
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?url=$1 [L]
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
I'm currently working on the second phase of development of this site, and I've made a replica in a subfolder (e.g. www.abcdef.com/new/). The trouble is, at the moment if I click a link on this replica site, it redirects me to the root, original page, whereas I want it to go to the equivalent page in the new/ folder. I've put another .htaccess file in this new/ folder, which however doesn't have any noticeable effect:
Options -MultiViews
# CheckSpelling off
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /new/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /new/index.php?url=$1 [L]
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
So my question is: is it permissible to have another .htaccess file in a subfolder like this? And if so, why aren't the above lines working?
Thanks in advance for any ideas on this!
It's possible to have multiple .htaccess files, and the system is designed to work the way you want it to.
You're setting RewriteBase, which explicitly sets the base URL-path (not filesystem directory path!) for per-directory rewrites.
So it seems like your requests would be rewritten to /new/new/index.php, a path and directory which probably doesn't exist on your filesystem (thus not meeting your RewriteConds) and such is being redirected to your /index.php 404.
As a test, perhaps try changing the ErrorDocument to:
ErrorDocument 404 /new/index.php
If you see rewritten calls go to this then it might indeed be your RewriteBase.
You say
The trouble is, at the moment if I click a link on this replica site,
it redirects me to the root, original page, whereas I want it to go to
the equivalent page in the new/ folder.
Could it be that you are using absolute links in your pages and not relative ones? For instance if a link looks like "/sample", when in your main site it will link to http://.../sample and the same is true if the link is inside a page under "/new/". If you'd use just "sample" then that would resolve as http://..../sample or http://...../new/sample, depending on the URL of the page.
Having a second htaccess file in a subdirectory shouldn't be an issue, and as far as I can tell, your two look okay.
Are you sure the links in the site are correct? (ex, they are /new/foo, not just /foo)?
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/$1.php [L]
Put something like this in your .htaccess file. I guess that is what you want.
Juest a redirect from a simple url to a longer url.
I would like to take requests for /somefolder/style.css and handle them with /somefolder/program.php
So, I put the following in my .htaccess file:
rewriteengine on
rewriterule ^style.css$ program.php?css=1 [R=302,L]
The result is that instead of redirecting to /somefolder/program.php, the server tries to redirect to:
/var/www/html/somefolder/program.php?css=1
How can I get rid of the /var/www/html/ in the redirect? I thought that since I just entered program.php in the .htaccess that it would default to the same folder.
Since this is a generic script that I will use in many places, I would like to avoid using rewritebase to specify the folder I'm in -- the .htaccess has to work in any folder without being modified.
Leave the R flag away and you will get an internal redirect:
RewriteRule ^style\.css$ program.php?css=1 [L]
Otherwise specify the full URL path you want to redirect to externally:
RewriteRule ^style\.css$ /program.php?css=1 [R=302,L]
Or for any arbitrary folder:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)/style\.css$
RewriteRule ^style\.css$ %1/program.php?css=1 [R=302,L]
I think the problem is that you are missing a ReWrite base statement.
Also the I would put the .htaccess file in the root directory of your site. That way you don't have to copy an .htacess file into every new directory you create. What if you want to change the name of your php file? You'd have to change every .htaccess file.
This is how I would redirect www.mydomain.com/orange/style.css to www.mydomain.com/orange/program.php?css=1 using generic rules:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)/style\.css$ $1/program.php?css=1 [L]