I have looked around and found a few examples, but they all cause:
500 internal server error
...so here's what I want to do:
I have a file called view.php in my root directory, I want it so if someone types www.test.com/view/16 it actually displays www.test.com/view.php?p=16. Although I don't know how to do this without causing an error.
I would provide code, but it doesn't work and when it doesn't error, it simply redirects me to the same place, it is also a lot longer that other answers I've seen, so its not a layout I want to use. If you really want to see it, let me know and Ill post it.
I also don't want the URL to change in the browser, so sharing is easier... any ideas?
You can use this code in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file:
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^view/(\d+)/?$ view.php?p=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
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Struggling. Help!
In index.php:
require "cachedPages/home.html";
If I visit: https://websiteaddress.org/index.php then it works fine.
If I visit: https://websiteaddress.org then I get an internal server error.
I guess it's a .htaccess thing. All I have in there is some cpanel php72 code and:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}
DirectoryIndex index.php
It seems there's some difference between how index.php is called if you call it directly as opposed to .htaccess calling it for you?!?
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
If you don't have one of the following options in your .htaccess then Apache won't know which file to default back to:
DirectoryIndex index.php
FallBackResource /index.php
Also I'd recommend installing mod_rewrite as well. It's handy for other reasons.
Well, I've managed to sort the problem, but it's a pretty weird situation that no-one else will probably ever experience. Here goes...
If the user lands at:
https://websiteaddress.org rather than https://websiteaddress.org/index.php
and that page (php) requires another page,
which has images that are embedded as URIs rather than linked src files.
Then, the first URI causes a server error.
If I replace the
img src='data:image/jpeg;base64,/998a9g98ahg...etc'
with
img src='path/to/file.jpg'
on the first instance of a jpg then it all works fine.
All the later URIs are fine, it's just the first instance!
It all works now, with this workaround; and the situation is so unique and bizarre that I doubt this thread will be of use to anyone else. In fact it's so edge-case that I can't be bothered investigating it any further myself.
I've got a CMS which I created by myself and I have an external link, which shows the web created by the user.
The link is: http://localhost/CMS/www/users_template/{user_name}
Is there any possibility to change the link and make it:
http://localhost/CMS/{user_name}
but it should still show the web page without any errors?
I think I should edit my .htaccess file, but no idea how to do it. I have never edited the .htaccess file before.
This is a duplicate.
Please view .htaccess: removing part of url path and stay at base
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /CMS/
RewriteRule ^www/users_template/(.*)$ $1 [L,R=301,QSA]
Please how can I rewrite
Could anybody please rewrite this url?
http://localhost/display_news_cat.php?news_cat_id=14&p=2
to
http://localhost/display_news_cat/14/2
Thank you
Create an .htaccess file in the site directory and add the following lines
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^display_news_cat/([\d]+)/([\d]+)$ display_news_cat.php?news_cat=$1&p=$2
Afaik, this is normally accomplished with Apache .htaccess file rewrite rules.
Is you case this would look something like:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^display_news_cat/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)$ display_news_cat.php?news_cat_id=$1&p=$2
If this doesn't work, try checking your access logs to see what's happening.
there are different ways to archive this, and it takes only 1 minute to find this out yourself using google. you could:
use an .htacces file with rewrite-rules to let the apache do the rewriting
map everything on localhost/ to an index.php, read and parse the request-string "by hand" hand show the correct site
Also you can hold it in one script use GET to retrieve the values you wish and re-create the URL with that values. I don't know if it will help you..
Anyway a .httacess file will be much more useful for you.
In the httpd.conf file I have AllowOverride FileInfo. In the .htaccess file in top level of my webserver with all the other files, I have this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^downloads/?$ index.php?page=downloads [L,NC]
But it doesn't work. mywebsite/downloads and mywebsite/downloads/ always give a 404 not found. Any idea why? Thanks. (mywebsite/index.php?page=downloads does work).
And I'm restarting apache every time I change it.
And when I put the code above in httpd.conf, the website won't even load at all, just blank, spinning safari wheel forever.
Its fine if I just do RewriteEngine On, but if I do anything else (RewriteBase, RewriteRule), the web browser spend ages trying to load and finally giving this error:
Safari can’t open the page “http://mk12.gotdns.com/” because the server where this page is located isn’t responding.
Anyone have any idea what's wrong?
EDIT: I'm able to make, for example, css files forbidden with rewrite, and it works, but any rule that goes from downloads to index.php?page=downloads makes the server not respond (see above), it doesn't matter what page, the website won't load at all. Any ideas..?
The best way to debug rewrite rules is to enable rewrite logging so you can see what's going wrong.
It Worked!! I was putting the code in the wrong spot. It was in httpd.conf, but at the end. Move it into <Directory> and its good. Thanks for your help!
EDIT: Also, I found that It won't work if the flags are like this: [L, NC]. It has to be [L,NC] (no spaces).
So the two problems where that it wasn't inside <Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents">, and there were spaces between the flags. Hopefully this will help someone else in the future.
Have you tired adding a slash in front of the "download" like below
RewriteRule ^/downloads/?$ index.php?page=downloads
EDIT: Try the code below:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^downloads/?$ /index.php?page=downloads
I would try removing the trailing slash and question mark after downloads, and the leading slash before index.php.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^downloads$ index.php?page=downloads.
I have a PHP web app located on shared hosting.
My goal is to modify .htaccess file from PHP code when the PHP page is running.
I need that .htaccess to insert a couple of mod_rewrite lines into it.
The problem is that on Windows+Apache I can dynamically modify .htaccess file
but the same code on Linux reports a problem when I try to access this file in any
way (copy or fopen):
"failed to open stream: Permission denied"
I have given .htaccess file 777 permissions - still no result.
WHat prevents me from doing this? How can I develop a workaround?
P.S.
My initial goal was to be able to add a new RewriteRule into .htaccess that maps a
newly added category_id with new category_name.
If it wasn't shared hosting, I would use something like RewriteMap (in main Apache config) and would be able to access the map file.
This is the first real limitation I've been unable to tackle with PHP+Apache, but I hope it's circuventable too.
This seems like an overly-complex solution to just having a general "load category" page that takes the category name from the URL and loads the corresponding ID.
For example, if the URL is:
http://yoursite.com/category/programming
I would remap that to something like:
http://yoursite.com/category.php?name=programming
I want to suggest something else that also works. Instead of writing a rule for every 'special' url, why not use one for all?
I found it a whole lot easier to use what wordpress uses: every url is redirected to the index.
All you have to do is, set up the index file, read in the directory that was loaded (perhaps using $_SERVER['URI_REQUEST']), and deal with it.
add to .htaccess this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
Thanks to that chunck you have a system somewhat unlimited at your disposal. If you ever feel like renaming you categrory url, or add another special case, it's already ready!
You only need a small set of rewrite rules. To do what Chad suggests:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^/category/.*$ category.php [QSA]
Thus, anytime someone navigates to /category/category_id, the request will be directed to category.php, which will be handed the /category/ URI in $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], from which you can easily get the category ID, and you don't need to bother with editing the .htaccess file every time you add a category.
While I agree with the above comments, it can definitely be done. PHP apps like WordPress do exactly this based on changes made on the settings page. It should be as simple as writing the file out however the parent directory NEEDS to have permission for the web server user to write to it.
If it isn't working for you the trick will be making the parent directory either 777 or 775 and having the group set to whatever group Apache runs under (usually "apache" or "www" or something similar)
Adam (commented on your question) is quite correct though, some other security layer on your server might be preventing you from doing this, and this is probably a good indication that you might be approaching the problem the wrong way.
I agree with Chad Birch. In case you can't be dissuaded, though, in your situation I would first be looking for parent directories with locked-down permissions.
FYI, one of the reasons that rewriting the .htaccess is a bad idea is that any requests that come in while the .htaccess is being rewritten will not have any of your redirects applied.