i'm trying to make the URL write rule work but it doesn't show any data after the rule is applied.
The URL (without rewrite)
http://example.com/categories.php?explore=design&sc=css
The URL (with rewrite)
http://example.com/design/css/
The Rewrite Rule i have
#Level-1
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /categories\.php\?explore=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ categories/%1/? [R=302,L,NE]
RewriteRule ^categories/([^/]+)/?$ categories.php?explore=$1 [NC,L,QSA]
#Level-2
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /categories\.php\?explore=([^\s&]+)&sc=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ categories/%1/%2/? [R=302,L,NE]
RewriteRule ^categories/([^/]+)/?$ categories.php?explore=$1&sp=$2 [NC,L,QSA]
The above does work for only 1 Level, Whats wrong with the 2nd Level?
Try with this .htaccess:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /categories\.php\?explore=([^\s&]+)&sc=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ categories/%1/%2/ [R=302,L,NE]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /categories\.php\?explore=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ categories/%1/ [R=302,L,NE]
RewriteRule ^categories/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ categories.php?explore=$1&sc=$2 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^categories/([^/]+)/?$ categories.php?explore=$1 [NC,L,QSA]
(and you wrote sp with the first and sc with the last...)
Related
Rewriting the following 3 URLs
http://example.com/index.php?page=search
to
http://example.com/search
http://example.com/index.php?page=profile&value=myname
to
http://example.com/myname
http://example.com/index.php?page=stats&type=daily
to
http://example.com/stats/daily
Current .htaccess is written as the following:
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php\?page=([^\s&]+)&value=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ index/%1/%2? [R=302,L,NE]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php\?page=([^\s&]+)&type=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ index/%1/%2? [R=302,L,NE]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php\?page=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ index/%1/? [R=302,L,NE]
RewriteRule ^index/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?page=$1&value=$2 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^index/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?page=$1&type=$2 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^index/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?page=$1 [NC,L,QSA]
I need to remove /index/ from the first and third URL, and /index/profile/ from the second one.
All comments & suggestions are welcomed.
You can't have both the search and profile be the same regex pattern. For example, if someone requests:
http://example.com/index/foo
Are they trying to go to a page called "foo" or go to a profile of a user named "foo"? You need to add something that separates the two, maybe something like:
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php\?page=profile&value=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ profile/%1? [R=302,L,NE]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php\?page=([^\s&]+)&type=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ page/%1/%2? [R=302,L,NE]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php\?page=([^\s&]+)(\ |$) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ page/%1? [R=302,L,NE]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?page=profile&value=$1 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^page/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?page=$1&type=$2 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^page/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?page=$1 [NC,L,QSA]
This makes your urls look like:
http://example.com/profile/myname
http://example.com/page/search
http://example.com/page/stats/daily
Presumably these are 3 exceptions (special cases) to the current rules, so the existing rules should not change. (?)
Add the following "special cases" immediately after your RewriteBase directive, before your existing rules:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php\?page=(search)
RewriteRule ^ /%1? [R=302,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php\?page=profile&value=(myname)
RewriteRule ^ /%1? [R=302,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php\?page=(stats)&type=(daily)
RewriteRule ^ /%1/%2? [R=302,L]
If you then need to internally rewrite these specific URLs back into the "real" parameterized versions then, at the end of your .htaccess file:
RewriteRule ^(search)$ /index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(myname)$ /index.php?page=profile&value=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(stats)/(daily)$ /index.php?page=$1&type=$2 [L,QSA]
(I've removed the NC flag - add this back if you really need it.)
If this is a duplicate then I am really sorry, but I used google and also search here and could not find anything that would work for me. Maybe I just don't know what exactly to search for.
Anyway, back to my question:
I am trying to change old ugly URLs to nicer urls (wanted to have news/XXX/XY but relative links defeated me), so I wrote couple lines of code to my .htaccess and tested them (well, I actually used same code on my other page for redirect, so I know it does work). I get redirected from /news.php to /news, but the query string magic is not working at all...
RewriteRule ^news.php$ /news [L,NC,R=301]
RewriteRule ^news?$ /news.php [L,NC]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /news\?rowstart=([^\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ news-row-%1? [R=302,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /news\?readmore=([^\s]+)&rowstart=([^\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ news-%1-%2? [R=302,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /news\?readmore=([^\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ news-%1? [R=302,L]
None of the RewriteRules after first one gets executed. But if I change my .htaccess like this:
RewriteRule ^news.php$ /news [L,NC,R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /news\?rowstart=([^\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ news-row-%1? [R=302,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /news\?readmore=([^\s]+)&rowstart=([^\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ news-%1-%2? [R=302,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /news\?readmore=([^\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ news-%1? [R=302,L]
RewriteRule ^news?$ /news.php [L,NC]
then it works. I tried using /\?bla - /news\?bla - /news\.php\?bla etc. Nothing actually worked.
Does somebody have any Idea why its behaving like this and how to fix it? It looks like it does not recognize the news after it starts loading from news.php file.
I am completly lost, as I don't work with .htaccess that often. Any ideas?
I actually ended up using this:
#########################
# NICE URLS QUERIES #
#########################
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /news(?:\.php|)\?rowstart=([^\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ news-page-%1? [R=302,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /news\(?:\.php|)\?readmore=([^\s]+)&rowstart=([^\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ news-%1-%2? [R=302,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /news(?:\.php|)\?readmore=([^\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ news-%1? [R=302,L]
RewriteRule ^news-([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)?$ news.php?readmore=$1&rowstart=$2 [L,QSA,NC]
RewriteRule ^news-([0-9]+)/?$ news.php?readmore=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
RewriteRule ^news-page-([0-9]+)/?$ news.php?rowstart=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
#######################
# OTHER NICE URLS #
#######################
RewriteRule ^news.php$ /news [L,NC,R=301]
RewriteRule ^news?$ /news.php [L,NC]
The first thing you need to make sure you're doing is putting all the redirects first. That is, every rule that has the R flag needs to be before the rules that don't. But it looks like you're not matching the - style URLs to rewrite them BACK to the version with the query string. So I think you really want something like this (you can get rid of the .php extension while you get rid of the query string):
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /+news\.php(\ |$)
RewriteRule ^ /news [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /+news(?:\.php|)\?rowstart=([\ &]+)
RewriteRule ^ /news-row-%1? [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /+news(?:\.php|)\?readmore=([^&]+)&rowstart=([\ &]+)
RewriteRule ^ /news-%1-%2? [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /+news(?:\.php|)\?readmore=([\ &]+)
RewriteRule ^ /news-%1? [L,R=301]
## Now, internally rewrite the request back to the query string and php extension
RewriteRule ^news$ /news.php [L]
RewriteRule ^news-row-(.*)$ /news.php?rowstart=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^news-(.*)-(.*)$ /news.php?readmore=$1&rowstart=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^news-(.*)$ /news.php?readmore=$1 [L,QSA]
i have a page with search form(fields: make,model,year,mileage,price)
on form submit url is:
http://www.example.com/buy-car.php?make=xxx&model=xxx&mileage=100;10000&year=2000;2015&price=20000;60000&sort=date;DESC
i want to rewrite to look like:
http://www.example.com/buy-car/xxx/xxx/100;10000/2000;2015/20000;60000/date;DESC
Note: query string may or may not contain all the variable
i tried multiple rules but still not getting what i want
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /buy-car\.php\?make=([^\s&]+)&model=([^\s&]+)&year=([^\s&]+)\&mileage=([^\s&]+)\&price=([^\s&]+)\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ buy-car/%1/%2/%3/%4/%5? [R=302,L]
RewriteRule ^buy-car/([\w-]+)/([\w-]+)/([\^;a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([\^;a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([\^;0-9-]+)/?$ buy-car.php?make=$1&model=$2&year=$3&mileage=$4&price=$5 [L,QSA,NC]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /buy-car\.php\?make=([^\s&]+)&model=([^\s&]+)&year=([^\s&]+)\&mileage=([^\s&]+)\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ buy-car/%1/%2/%3? [R=302,L]
RewriteRule ^buy-car/([\w-]+)/([\w-]+)/([\^;a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([\^;a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/?$ buy-car.php?make=$1&model=$2&year=$3&mileage=$4 [L,QSA,NC]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /buy-car\.php\?make=([^\s&]+)&model=([^\s&]+)&year=([^\s&]+)\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ buy-car/%1/%2/%3? [R=302,L]
RewriteRule ^buy-car/([\w-]+)/([\w-]+)/([\^;a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/?$ buy-car.php?make=$1&model=$2&year=$3 [L,QSA,NC]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /buy-car\.php\?make=([^\s&]+)&model=([^\s&]+)\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ buy-car/%1/%2? [R=302,L]
RewriteRule ^buy-car/([\w-]+)/([\w-]+)/?$ buy-car.php?make=$1&model=$2 [L,QSA,NC]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /buy-car\.php\?year=([^\s&]+)\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ buy-car/%1? [R=302,L]
RewriteRule ^buy-car/([\^;0-9-]+)/?$ buy-car.php?year=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /buy-car\.php\?make=([^\s&]+)\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ buy-car/%1? [R=302,L]
RewriteRule ^buy-car/([\w-]+)/?$ buy-car.php?make=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
what could be the solution.
thanks
Rather than maintaining so many rules like that and possibly more due to optional query parameters I strongly suggest using front controller .htaccess like this:
DirectryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# If the request is not for a valid directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# If the request is not for a valid file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule (.+) index.php?uri=$1 [L,QSA]
Then use $_GET['uri'] in the php code to get requested URI and process them.
I am completely dumb when it comes to .htaccess, even through my numerous attempts to learn the basics. So I am here:
This is my current .htaccess:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ /splash [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L,NE]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9-]+)/?$ /index.php?cat=$1 [L,NC,QSA]
I would like to keep its current functionality and add two things so its like:
(keep) redirecting address without variable to domain.com/splash
(keep) redirecting of address without WWW to address with WWW (http://domain.com/xx to http://www.domain.com/xx)
(keep) make it rewrite from http://www.domain.com/aa to http://www.domain.com/index.php?cat=aa
(add) make it rewrite from http://www.domain.com/aa/bb to http://www.domain.com/index.php?cat=aa&product=bb
(add) remove trailing slash at the end if present
You can use:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ /splash [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L,NE]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s(.+?)/+[?\s]
RewriteRule ^(.+?)/$ /$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9-]+)/?$ /index.php?cat=$1 [L,NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9-]+)/([a-z0-9-]+)/?$ /index.php?cat=$1&product=$2 [L,NC,QSA]
I had problems with a .htaccess file, that has been fixed, now i have another problem. I wish to clean the url using a .htaccess file. here is my current rule
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+index\.php\?a=page&b=([^&]+)[\s&] [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1? [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/?$ index.php?a=page&b=$1 [L,NC,QSA]
This will clean page links to point to a clean url that have a link containing a=page. It works perfectly. I tried to add another rule so that it applies to links containing a=rpofile but it did not work. However it does work if i remove the above code. It seems that i can not have both rules running at the same time. Below is the a=profile version of the above code.
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+index\.php\?a=profile&u=([^&]+)[\s&] [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1? [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/?$ index.php?a=profile&u=$1 [L,NC,QSA]
If URL is /about then first rule will forward to /index.php?a=page&b=about now same /about cannot be forwarded to /index.php?a=profile&b=about.
But you can have /profile/something be treated as profile URL.
You can have 2 rules as:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+index\.php\?a=page&b=([^\s&]+)[\s&] [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1? [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/?$ /index.php?a=page&b=$1 [L,NC,QSA]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+index\.php\?a=profile&u=([^\s&]+)[\s&] [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /profile/%1? [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/.]+)/?$ /index.php?a=profile&u=$1 [L,NC,QSA]