I would like to keep the links in the address bar as short and clean as possible, for example:
http://example.com/th1ng
If in the database there is a row with 'th1ng' as username, the above link should work like
http://example.com/user.php?name=th1ng
while still showing the first, clean link in the address bar.
If the user doesn't exist, it shows/redirects to the 404 page.
Also, there are other files and directories that will need to be access via the trailing slash too. And it is possible there is a GET query on top as well, like
http://example.com/th1ng?img=13805
which should act like
http://example.com/user.php?name=th1ng?img=13805
I got all of the PHP stuff, including the database check and redirecting to the 404 in case the user doesn't exist.
But.. what would be the proper way to get around showing the clean link in the address bar? With other files and directories on the server still being accessible as well. I can only assume some .htaccess needs to be used but I don't see how exactly.
Thanks for the help!
You will need to use mod_rewrite for that. This would then be placed in the .htaccess.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ user.php?name=$1 [QSA,L]
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I've run into a problem I just cant solve that is:
I have a proxy script running on FileHound.co.uk
The htaccess file contains:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^ /?load=%{REQUEST_URI} [L,QSA]
I need to be able to redirect certain URL such as this:
filehound.co.uk/?load=/torrent/9392320/%5Ba-destiny%5D_toriko_-_135_(1280x720_hi10p_aac)_%5Bde83bd3d%5D.mkv
I want to prevent the link from displaying its destination instead being redirected to a page to i.e. /DMCA/DMCA.html
There are many links that need redirecting in a similar way. As I say its a proxy script and so I cant remove the page or material myself.
Any help would be much appreciated...
If you put all the links that need to be redirected in a database then you can query that table and redirect if it exists something like this (pseudo code):
# if (url in db)
# redirect /DMCA/DMCA.html
Don't forget to sanitize your input, don't want sql injection ;)
I'm currently in the progress of creating a huge website, but instead of the regular URLs I'd like to use Clean / User Friendly URLs. I have been searching on how could I basically tailor these Apache Mod Rewrite rules for my needs, howere I could not found any solution for my particular problem.
Below you can read the aim, which I'd like to achieve with the URLs (I'm not going to write the domain name each time, just imagine: http://www.example.com ahead of the URL parts).
/register/ OR /register ---> /register.php (It should support both of the variations.)
I actually have more files for the registration and I'd like them to be accessible using the "part" words like:
/register/part1/ OR /register/part1 ---> /register.php?part=1 (It should support both of the variations.)
Also, what if I have more than just one query varialbe? (Like "personal=1")
/register/part1/personal/ OR /register/part1/personal ---> /register.php?part=1&personal=1
And what if I have many more of these queries, but I CAN'T specify all of them before? Any of these can be entered. (Like "thing,name,job,etc")
/register/part1/personal/Nicky/ OR /register/part1/personal/Nicky ---> /register.php?part=1&personal=1&name=Nicky
OR any kind of variations you can imagine:
/register/part1/personal/thing/employee/ OR /register/part1/personal/thing/employee ---> /register.php?part=1&personal=1&thing=1&job=employee
EDIT:
This is what I've tried yet, but it just redirects the pages to index.php :/
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
So I have given you a lot of examples, what I'd like to basically achieve. I can have a lot of other pages besides "register.php" so it shouldn't be specific to that page only. I also want that which is VERY important, that IF someone goes to for example: register.php?part=1 it should redirect them to the appropriate Clean URL (of course in PHP).
I would also want to ask what should I do in the PHP end to make everything good? I saw that Wordpress has a really great solution for this, which is pretty automatic, and it looks great!
Is there any ways that someone could please explain me how to create a great .HTACCESS mod_rewrite solution for this? I would be really-really glad!
Please do not mark this question as duplicate, because I really did not found anything specific for my case.
You mentioned WordPress, which has something like this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
What this does is redirect any request that doesn't match a real file or directory to the index.php script. That script will then decide what page to display. It will do so by looking into $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] which holds a path like register/part1.
It would be easier for you to figure out what page to show using this method, because in PHP there are many ways to parse that path string, then map it to a function
You should be able to construct clean URLs like this from your htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ /index.php?pageID=Home [L]
RewriteRule ^about-my-homepage\.html$ /index.php?pageID=About [L]
RewriteRule ^contact-us\.html$ /index.php?pageID=Contact [L]
the first is the one you want to output (the "clean" URL), the second one the one you actually want to open. Good Luck!
I've been trying to rewrite my URL's with a htaccess file.
My project is using my index.php as it's basic controller.
I fetch the pages from the database with the get-value "naam".
Example:
localhost/YourDesigns/YDCMS/index.php?naam=home (this shows the homepage)
localhost/YourDesigns/YDCMS/index.php?naam=about (this shows the about page)
Now i want to rewrite the URLS to be shown like this:
localhost/YourDesigns/YDCMS/home (this shows the homepage)
localhost/YourDesigns/YDCMS/about (this shows the about page)
I have done some htaccess stuff myself and i've successfully removed the "index.php" from the url, but the "naam" still remains.
How do i remove this?
This is my current htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /YourDesigns/YDCMS/index.php?naam=/$1 [L]
Thanks in advance :)
I think your way to see the process it's not totally right, if you want to show the url like you say localhost/YourDesigns/YDCMS/home you have to first replace the url inside your html content to that format, then by using a RewriteRule you call the correct path internally:
RewriteRule ^desired_url_path/([a-z0-9\-]+)$ /base_url_path/index.php?naam=$1 [L]
this way when an user click on a link the Apache server will use the above regex to convert the url by a rule that basically says : everything after the base url is aparameter value to be passed on the index.php.
Naturally the regex can be modified to suit your needs, the one i've written above it's a basic string pattern.
I'll be signing businesses up to advertise on my website, and I want them to have a direct URL for their customers to go to.
Like, instead of www.website.com/page.php?id=324234234,
I want to have www.website.com/businessname
Is there a simple way to do this? I've searched and seen a whole bunch of different things people are trying to do but I haven't seen anything that's the same as what I want to do.
I'm using a VPS, and I want to make sure that I don't open up permissions so that anyone can get in there and mess things up.
Also, these users will not be signing themselves up. I will be doing that.
The simplest way to get my end result is what I'm looking for. Thanks!
Basic URL rewriting could work.
Add to your .htaccess file
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ page.php?businessname=$1 [L]
Then use PHP to rewrite the businessname to the ID of the company / find the data.
Of course .htaccess rewrite rules is a complete science if you need more complex rewriting...
Re-iterating what jtheman said with a little more explanation:
Create a file named .htaccess with the contents:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ page.php?businessname=$1 [L]
You need, of course, the ability to have directory level .htaccess enabled - you're using a VPS so you should be able to do this if it is not already enabled.
So let me explain what each line will do.
RewriteEngine on
Turns on the ability to URL re-write
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
Tells Apache not to re-direct files that exist in the directory already
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ page.php?businessname=$1 [L]
This is where the magic happens.
^(.*)$ this part is like a regular expression match. It will tell Apache to collect any URLs that have any characters within them and redirect them to page.php?businessname=(.*)
So, if you post:
www.website.com/stackover
It will really be sending: www.website.com/page.php?businessname=stackover
Then you can just use $_GET[businessname] to dynamically update the page.
Hope this helps!
I know theres a lot of posts about redirects but this is a little different (I think).
Basically I want my outlinks to be example.com/out/1234 and I want them to go to a php that looks up the URL 1234 if referenced to in MySQL and the php header redirect to that URL.
The problem Im having is passing 1234 to a page. I know how if it was out.php?q=1234 but I want it to be /out/1234
Does there need to be an index file within an /out directory that also has a htaccess to rewrite it?
If so, any ideas what the regex need to be to do this? I have seen a few sites doing this and I cant work it out.
htaccess file in your document root, you can try adding:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/?out/(.*)$ /out.php?q=$1 [L]
Replace the /out.php with whereever your php script for handling the URL is