So, I've this problem:
Base Website located at http://example.com/
Second Website located at http://example.com/web2/
People making various requests to the second website like
http://example.com/myWeb/pg1 and http://example.com/web2/pg2
Recently and due to some other issues I need to have a custom new path for the second website but also keep the first one working.
The ideia is to allow users to access the second website over the two following addresses:
http://example.com/web2/
http://example.com/alternative-url-web2/
The folder /web2/ actually exists on the server, but how can I simulate the folder /alternative-url-web2/ and "redirect" the requests to /web2/?
Please note I don't want the URL on the browser to change, this must be a "silent redirect". And I also make sure that all other requests like http://example.com/other are not redirected by the second website.
Thank you.
Update:
According to #anubhava I could simply solve this issue by adding in my .htaccess:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^alternative-url-web2(/.*|)$ /web2$1 [L,NC]
This is probably working fine but I noticed the following:
http://ex.com/alternative-url-web2 is redirected to http://ex.com/web2/ (changing browser URL);
http://ex.com/alternative-url-web2/ is redirected to http://ex.com/(changing browser URL);
http://ex.com/alternative-url-web2/someRequest works fine and does NOT change the browser URL;
http://ex.com/alternative-url-web2/index.php works fine and does NOT change the browser URL;
Site Note:
At /web2/ there's an .htaccess that might be cause the wired redirect behavior above... So here is the file contents:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(data/|js/|styles/|install/|favicon\.ico|crossdomain\.xml|robots\.txt) - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]
</IfModule>
Can the internal RewriteRule to index.php be causing all this? If yes, how can I fix it?
Enable mod_rewrite and .htaccess through httpd.conf and then put this code in your .htaccess under DOCUMENT_ROOT directory:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^alternative-url-web2(/.*|)$ /web2$1 [L,NC]
Alternate code:
RewriteRule ^alternative-url-web2/?$ /web2/ [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^alternative-url-web2/(.+)$ /web2/$1 [L,NC]
This is a pretty simple rewrite. In the htaccess file in your document root, just add the following:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^alternative-url-web2/?(.*)$ /web2/$1 [L]
Unlike a redirect, which makes the browser/client send a new request for a new URL (thus changing what's in the browser's location bar), a rewrite happens entirely on the server's side.
By the way, in order to follow the trail of htaccess redirects, you could add something like this to each of them:
Header add X-Remark-Rewrite "/path.to/htaccess"
You can inspect these in the response in the developer tools.
Related
I'd like to redirect the following url:
http://www.example.com/food/?p=11&q=22&r=33
to
http://www.example.com/food/api.php/DBNAME/?p=11&q=22&r=33
As you may have noticed, DBNAME is the name of a database.
With the API I'm using it is necessary to include it in the URL.
Here's a brief folder structure of my program:
food/
->include/
->models/
->.htaccess
->api.php
->config.php
->test.php
I tried writing the rules on the .htaccess file but I get an Internal server error.
My .htaccess file looks like this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ api.php/DBNAME/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
I can get my head around achieving the redirection.
I also tried
RewriteRule ^food/(.*)$ api.php/DBNAME/$1 [L]
but this rule just lists the files in the directory food.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
PS: The query string is not just p=11&q=22&r=33 it may use any letter or word such as type, quantity and so on. p=11&q=22&r=33 is just an example.
Edit
From the link that #sanj provided I changed my .htaccess ffile to this
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/food/?$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ api.php/DBNAME/$1
</IfModule>
It works partially. Why partially?
I have two servers, one for testing and one for production. It works well on the testing server but not on the production server. I get an Authorization Required error. I believe it's due to the configuration in my .htaccess because if I remove the mod_rewrite module and access the url directly it works. Any ideas?
Found my mistake. The folder was protected by Basic Authentication. I needed to include login parameters in my code. I can't believe I overlooked that.
I think this will work:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteBase /food
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} /DBNAME/
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.*)
RewriteRule ^$ index.php/DBNAME/?%1 [L]
</IfModule>
i'm creating a website, before uploading the site to web hosting i'm using XAMPP on windows. i was trying to use Search Engine Friendly URLs, for example:
http://localhost/mysite/[something]
to
http://localhost/mysite/index.php?p=[something]
i tried this .htaccess
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([0-9A-Za-z]+) index.php?id=$1 [QSA,L] #and also tried http://localhost/mysite/index.php?p=$1
before this i tried more examples but they didn't work. The real problem is that for example if y type
localhost/mysite/some_page
i get an error (403), using the [R] flag i realized that redirection is: http://localhost/C:/XAMPP/htdocs/mysite/index.php?p=some_page
i removed htaccess file and restarted apache but problam persist with some urls
Perhaps I'm trying to solve a different problem, but if the [something] always leads to content served by your index.php, then just send all requests to index.php and let that page use the URL string to get the variable you need to serve the right content (ie the string after the /).
You may need to turn off MultiViews in your .htaccess using Options -MultiViews.
The following is what you need in your .htaccess
RewriteBase /
# Where "/" is the location of your index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [QSA, L]
Hope this helps.
I'm working on a website that has been built sloppily.
The website is filled with regular links that are translated into the corresponding .php pages by the .htaccess page.
This is it:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^koral/(.*)/$ page.php?name=$1
RewriteRule ^koral/(.*)$ page.php?name=$1
RewriteRule ^(.*).html/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ cat.php?cat=$1&page=$2&order=$3&dir=$4
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ cat.php?cat=$1
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*).html$ product.php?cat=$1&product=$2
<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterEngine Off
</IfModule>
First of all, I would love some help regarding whether or not this page has everything it should. I've never messed with it before.
Secondly and my main issue, if, for example, I would write the address www.thewebsite.com/foobar.html, it would be translated into www.thewebsite.com/cat.php?cat=foobar by the .htaccess page, and it would give a database error (and reveal information about the database).
I've put a check into cat.php which checks if the category exists, but I can't redirect the user to the 404 error page. There's a page called 404.shtml in the website, but redirecting the user to it causes the .htaccess to just change it again to cat.php?cat=404.
Is the way they used the .htaccess page normal? Should I change this system?
And how are users sent to error pages? From what I understood the server should be doing it on its own?
I would love some clarification... There is some much about this subject I don't understand.
Update:
This is my new .htaccess page
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^error.php?err=(.*)$ Error$1.html
# Only apply this rule if we're not requesting a file...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
# ...and if we're not requesting a directory.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [NC]
RewriteRule ^koral/(.*)/$ page.php?name=$1
RewriteRule ^koral/(.*)$ page.php?name=$1
RewriteRule ^(.*).html/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ cat.php?cat=$1&page=$2&order=$3&dir=$4
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ cat.php?cat=$1
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*).html$ product.php?cat=$1&product=$2
<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterEngine Off
</IfModule>
Because the redirecting is in the code and the user cannot see it, I allowed myself to write the link in a non-clean way. I tried turning it into a clean URL but the following does not do anything:
RewriteRule ^error.php?err=(.*)$ Error$1.html
Can someone please help me understand why? I thought since error.php is a real page, I should put it before the conditional but it didn't work. BTW, I saw in an article about .htaccess that the page should start with Options +FollowSymLinks. It seems to me that everyone sort of has their own way of writing it. Is there a guide or something like that, which I can be sure is authentic and covers all the bases there is about .htaccess?
Thank you so much!!
Using rewrite rules to work around links to .html pages that don't exist is unusual in my experience, but it's really just a different take on "pretty" URLs, e.g. www.thewebsite.com/foobar/ gets routed to cat.php?cat=foobar on the backend.
Your 404 issue is different. You need to be able to display error pages.
One option here is to rewrite requests as long as they don't request an existing file. This is very common for serving up static content like images, CSS files, and the like. To do this, you can use the -d and -f options to RewriteCond, which apply when requesting a directory and file respectively:
RewriteEngine On
# Only apply this rule if we're not requesting a file...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
# ...and if we're not requesting a directory.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [NC]
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)\.html$ cat.php?cat=$1 [L,QSA]
Now, requests to 404.shtml should go through, because you're requesting an existing file on the filesystem.
Note that the RewriteConds only apply to the single RewriteRule that immediately follows. For additional RewriteRules, also include additional RewriteConds.
Your regex is wrong anywhere. Literal dot needs to be escaped using otherwise it will match any character. Also it is better to use L and QSA flags to end each rule properly.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^koral/([^/]+)/?$ page.php?name=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)\.html/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]*)/?$ cat.php?cat=$1&page=$2&order=$3&dir=$4 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)\.html$ cat.php?cat=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^.]+)\.html$ product.php?cat=$1&product=$2 [L,QSA]
I want to have a PHP file catch and manage what's going to happen when users visit:
http://profiles.mywebsite.com/sometext
sometext is varying.
E.g. It can be someuser it can be john, etc. then I want a PHP file to handle requests from that structure.
My main goal is to have that certain PHP file to redirect my site users to their corresponding profiles but their profiles are different from that URL structure. I'm aiming for giving my users a sort of easy-to-remember profile URLs.
Thanks to those who'd answer!
Either in Apache configuration files [VirtualHost or Directory directives], or in .htaccess file put following line:
Options -MultiViews
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L,NC,QSA]
</IfModule>
It will silently redirect all incoming requests that do not correspond to valid filename or directory (RewriteCond's in the code above make sure of that), to index.php file. Additionally, as you see, MultiViews option also needs to be disabled for redirection to work - it generally conflicts with these two RewriteCond's I put there.
Inside index.php you can access the REQUEST_URI data via $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] variable. You shouldn't pass any URIs via GET, as it may pollute your Query-String data in an undesired way, since [QSA] parameter in our RewriteRule is active.
You should use a rewrite rule..
In apache (.htaccess), something like this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
Then in your index.php you can read $_GET['url'] in your php code.
You can use a .htaccess file (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/htaccess.html) to rewrite your url to something like profiles.websites.com/index.php?page=sometext . Then you can do what you want with sometext in index.php.
An obvious way to do this would be via the 404 errorDocument - saves all that messing about with mod_rewrite.
If you have not heard about MVC, its time you hear it, start with CodeIgniter, its simplest and is quite fast, use default controller and you can have URLs like
domain.com/usernam/profiledomain.com/usernam/profile/editdomain.com/usernam/inboxdomain.com/usernam/inbox/read/messageid Or use .htaccess wisely
In order to convert my dynamic URL i.e www.3idiots.co.in/index.php to static url i.e www.3idiots.co.in/index.html, I edited my .htccess file and put the following code in it:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /index.html [R]
when i uploaded this file in the root directory,and try to open the page, I got the error
404 page not found error, www.3idiots.co.in/index.html not found.
You have to actually have a file named index.html. Right now you don't. The rewriting/redirecting is working fine, you're just redirecting to a non-existent page/file.
I'm a little confused as to what you're actually trying to do. If you just want to move index.php to index.html, rename the file. Rewriting makes it so that if someone tries to open index.php they will be redirected to index.html, but you still have to have an index.html file for them to be redirected to.
RewriteEngine On
# Send the user to index.html
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /index.html [R]
# Tell the server that index.html really means index.php
RewriteRule ^index.html$ /index.php
Try these rules:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ /index\.php
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /index.html [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ index.php [L]
The first rule redirects every direct request of /index.php externally to /index.html. And the second rule rewrites requests of /index.html internally to /index.php.
Are you sure mod rewrite is enabled & working?
1) create an html page called found.html with whatever you want in it, but some text to be sure it's loaded (not a blank page basically) and put this in an file called ".htaccess" :
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^find.html$ /found.html [L]
2) upload both your .htaccess and the found.html files in your domain's root
3) Just try to load -www.example.com/find.html (with your real domain of course). If mod_rewrite is available, you should see the content of found.html while browsing find.html (which does not physically exist by the way).
If it does not work, try :
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^find.html$ found.html [L]
In the Apache Conf file, you also need to make sure that AllowOverride is set to a value that will allow .htaccess to be processed.
Normally it's AllowOverride all
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index.html$ index.php
RewriteRule ^$index.htm/$ index.php [L]
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^index.html$ index.php
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