My site used to generate URLs like this:
/data.php?s=1432862823&type=basic
I have modified the program so the new URLs generated are:
/d.php?s=1432862823&t=basic
Since some people have bookmarked the old URLs I want to write a Rewrite rule that will get them to the new url.
I've not this so far:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule "^/data\.php$" "/d.php"
but I can't figure out how to account for the variables.
Try this :
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^s=([^&]+)&type=([^&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^data.php$ /d.php?s=%1&t=%2 [NC,R,L]
This will externally redirect a request for :
/data.php?s=foo&type=bar
to
/d.php?s=foo&t=bar
Edit: I do apologise, I only noticed now that you have changed the type parameter to t. As such, this solution will not fit your needs, unless for a URI where the query string parameters do not change. I'm leaving this answer here so that others may learn from it - you'll be surprised how many people don't know that the query string is automatically transferred to the new destination. Starkeen's answer, therefore, is the correct answer.
You could follow Starkeen's solution, which specifically checks for the query string and explicitly adds it to d.php. Alternatively, for simplicity, you could just use this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^data.php$ /d.php [R=302,L]
The query string will automatically be transferred from data.php to d.php, and you will be redirected accordingly.
To make the redirect permanent and cached by browsers and search engines, change 302 to 301.
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I know there's a million similar questions on stuff like this, but clearly there's much I don't understand because I haven't been able to derive answers or a solution to my (as I understand it) fairly simple question.
Basically, I'm trying to get an old site back up, but want a more professional look to it this time round, which includes cleaning up the URLs. A typical page is as follows (hosted locally at the moment, but will be assigned a domain in next few days):
192.168.0.200/album-reviews.php?albid=22
Using the following code, I have been able to achieve the above example page loading via manually typing 192.168.0.200/album-reviews/22 into the browser:
RewriteRule ^album-reviews/([0-9a-zA-Z]+) album-reviews.php?albid=$1 [NC,L]
However, what I want as well is for when the link is clicked on my site, it directs the user to /album-reviews/22 instead of album-reviews.php?albid=22. The only way to get the clean URL at the moment is to manually type it into the bar, links from my site do not get the clean URL, the code I have been playing around with (and have been unable to get working) based on sources I've found is this:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /album-reviews/?(?:\.php)?\?albid=([0-9a-zA-Z]+)
RewriteRule ^ /album-reviews/%1? [L,R]
So if anyone could shed some light on how I get all this working as desired, I'd be grateful, I hope my question has been articulated appropriately.
On a side note, If i wanted to include the post title in the URL too like this:
192.168.0.200/album-reviews.php?albid=22&ptitle=my first post
how would alter any code to make it like this:
192.168.0.200/album-reviews/22/my first post
Thank you.
You can use:
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /album-reviews/?(?:\.php)?\?albid=([^\s&]+)&ptitle=([^\s&]+)
RewriteRule ^ album-reviews/%1/%2? [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /album-reviews/?(?:\.php)?\?albid=([^\s&]+)
RewriteRule ^ album-reviews/%1? [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^album-reviews/([^/]+)/?$ album-reviews.php?albid=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^album-reviews/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ album-reviews.php?albid=$1&ptitle=$2 [NC,L]
If you want to show the contents of http://yoursite.com/album-reviews.php?albid=22 at the url http://yoursite.com/album-reviews/22, you need these codes:
Your htaccess needs this lines:
RewriteEngine On
Options -Indexes
RewriteRule ^album-reviews/(.*)$ album-reviews.php?pretty=$1 [L,QSA]
And your PHP these:
$pretty = $_GET['pretty'];
$parameters = explode('/',$pretty);
$albid = $parameters[0];
Your user won't be redirected, your website will show directly the page at the pretty url.
Now, what happened? That you instructed htaccess to send everything after album-reviews as a GET parameter called "pretty". Then in your PHP you cut it for every / that appeared in it, and that way you formed the array $parameters. So you can even get more parameters, for every /, they are all in the array $parameters:
$second_parameter = $parameters[1];
$third_parameter = $parameters[2];
$fourth_parameter = $parameters[3];
I've already search for an answer here, but couldn't find an exact answer.
I've got a php application (it uses CodeIgniter) which is connected to our companys Management Database. The application provides information out of the database in xml form so that our internal mediawiki's can receive those and build Info-Boxes (as example) out of them.
I have the following link to my data in xml format:
https://example.com/controller/function/databaseID/short_name or
https://example.com/App/makeInfoBox/258/Applicationname
which contains Infromation as following:
-<infobox>
<id>258</id>
<short_name>Applicationname</short_name>
<long_name>Long Applicationname</long_name>
<app_number>334</app_number>
<status>End of life</status>
...
</infobox>`
I now want mod_rewrite to change the url to:
https://example.com/appInfoBox.xml?id=258&short_name=Applicationname
I've got something like this:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([0-9]+)\&short_name=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^appInfoBox\.xml$ App/makeInfoBox/%1/%2
I'm really not good in mod_rewrite and this code I got is based on a older version of a used .htaccess file.
Any Suggestions? Thanks!
You must capture the relevant parts of the request (...) and use this in the substitution $...
RewriteRule ^App/makeInfoBox/(.+?)/(.+)$ /appInfoBox.xml?id=$1&short_name=$2 [L]
Use the following directives in the .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/App/makeInfoBox/([0-9]+)/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /appInfoBox.xml?id=%1&short_name=%2 [QSA,R=302]
The .htaccess file should be present in the root folder of example.com.
The RewriteCond directive will check whether the request matches the pattern /App/makeInfoBox/(any-number)/(any-number-of-characters).
IF this is true the RewriteRule directive will map the request to example.com/appInfoBox.xml?id=(any-number)&short_name=(any-number-of-characters) using the QSA flag.
The R=302 flag will cause an external redirect and the end user will be able to see the new URL with query string on the browser.
If you don't want to display the URL with query string to end users, just remove the R=302 flag.
Using your example, now if you will access https://example.com/App/makeInfoBox/258/Applicationname it will redirect to https://example.com/appInfoBox.xml?id=258&short_name=Applicationname
i'm new to mod_rewrite, and i'm trying to convert my web address from:
website.com/profile.php?user=andy
to the following:
website.com/user/andy
This is my following code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^user/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/?$ profile.php?user=$1 [NC,L]
I researched extensively and this does seem to be the correct way to do it, but it doesn't redirect to where i want it to, it just redirects to this:
http://website.com/profile.php?user=andy
which means i must doing something wrong...
Can anyone help me out here? I would appreciate any tips.
If you want
http://website.com/profile.php?user=andy ->301-> http://website.com/user/andy
http://website.com/user/andy means http://website.com/profile.php?user=andy
They are 2 different things, you'll need 2 rules:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^user=([A-Za-z0-9]+)
RewriteRule ^profile.php /user/%1? [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^user/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/?$ profile.php?a=b&user=$1 [L]
The first will 301 (moved permanently) redirect to the pretty url.
The second will allow your application to understand the pretty url.
Whenever you change the url scheme for a site you should take care of existing links. As such, that first rule is required/a good idea. You should not, however, need the first rule when using your own application. If your own application is generating links to profile.php?user=me - change your application code.
You have to change your URLs when outputting them in your HTML to be in the format you want (/user/andy).
mod_rewrite will rewrite /user/andy to main.php?... not the other way around.
What do you mean by my result?
mod_rewrite won't change existing links in your source code. Navigate to website.com/user/andy and you should see it work.
I am currently coding a pagination script into many parts of my site, this has been a well needed and requested feature and I have finally been able to come round and start coding it, it is all going well, until I find that my rewritten urls don't like working with the pagination urls.
So, an example page on my site would be news.php. This file structure can be something like news.php?id=5. I have rewritten the url like so:
/news/5/
## Rewrite URL's for News & Dev ##
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]+)/$ /news.php?id=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]+)$ /news.php?id=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^news$ /news.php [L]
RewriteRule ^news/$ /news.php [L]
The pagination script I am using prepends two new variables in the url, the new url turns out to be this:
news.php?page=1&ipp=55id=5
I would really appreciate it if anyone could assist me in making the urls look better, as it defeats the object of having it in the first place if after they use the pagination, it changes the url back to a clunky and ugly url.
I don't want it to be required to have parts of the url, that is something I really don't want..
e.g I don't want the url to be required to be /news/1/55/5, instead id like it to be optional.
Thank you for your time, it is appreciated!
Additional Information
The links in my news script currently display like so:
news.php?page=1&ipp=55id=5
I don't like to see ugly urls like that, and want to make the url look better using mod_rewrite, It would be better if the urls would display like so:
/news/PAGE/IPP/ID/ -> return news.php?page=1&ipp=55id=5
Also, to make it as user friendly as possible, I don't want any of the fields to be required as such, so for example I would like to have the following link accessible at all times without it requiring the other fields.
/news/ID/
Then, when the user clicks a pagination link, it would use the following link structure:
/news/PAGE/IPP/ID/ -> return news.php?page=1&ipp=55id=5
This is all from user feedback of my site, and is something that people have been asking for. Problem is, I don't understand even simple .htaccess
Thanks
RewriteBase /
# add slash to end of url if not present (and do a redirect)
RewriteCond $0 !/$
RewriteRule ^news([^\.]*)$ $0/ [L,R=302]
# rewrite url with format /news/[<id>/[<page>/[<ipp>/]]]
RewriteRule ^news/(?:([0-9]+)/)?(?:([0-9]+)/)?(?:([0-9]+)/)?$ /news.php?id=$1&page=$2&ipp=$3 [L]
Not sure what ipp is supposed to be, but my guess is it shows the number of item per page. I would personally not like to have that in my url.
You can have :
news/id/page/ipp with
RewriteRule ^news(/?)$ news.php [L]
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]+)-(.*)_([0-9]+)(/?)$ news.php?page=$1&ipp=$2&id=$3 [L]
news/1222-subjet-for-example_34
return :
news.php?page=1222&ipp=subject-for-example&id=34
use (/?) instead of create many rules ;)
Hope it's works for you.
So basically I want users to be able to go to my website with a URL of something like /45678, instead of having to use /?p=45678, so really I just want to remove the variable name. I've tried using mod_rewrite, but it seems that is only for removing the name when the page is visited.
Here is the current code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^p=([0-9]+=$
RewriteRule ^/$ /%1 [R]
Simply change all of your links to /45678 rather than ?p=45678. Or did I misunderstand you completely? Because what I got from your post is that it works properly, unless you manually access the ?p=45678 where as it stays as ?p=45678.
EDIT:
This is what I am using for http://www.madphp.org/dev/, give it a go, works like a charm for me (it also removes the index.php part). To access your now cleaner URL you would simply explode the $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] variable to get all of the required parameters within your PHP script.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
Have you set up mod_rewrite correctly? If so, you can use variables like simple $_GET variables, in this case you must access $_GET['p'] in PHP.
I did this without using .htaccess, but it does query a database. I wrote this a while ago so it uses PEAR DB, adjust to your database/connection method. I'll just copy my code and let you figure out what changes you need.
$db=connect_db();
$name=substr($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 20);
$name=strtolower($name);
$id=$db->getone("select id from user where login='{$name}'");
header("Location: /dragonart/profile?user=" . $id);
If you store your information in a database this may be a nice alternative. The downside is that the the URL is not rewritten and the user is ultimately sent to a page with ending in a $_GET variable.
edit:
Just realized that using my method a simpler method can be used for the answer. Since my solution was used to find the id of a user using their username and then send someone to their profile (which requires the id) a better solution would be something like:
$var=substr($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], $length);
header("Location: /path/to/page?p=".$var);
where $length is the usual length of the URL without the variable at the end.