I am trying to write some simple routing in htaccess for PHP
My file looks like this for now:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /webservices/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ server.php [QSA,L]
But it does nothing.
The thing that I want with htaccess is that all the calls to server.php are caught like this:
http://localhost:8888/webservices/server.php?username=test&password=test
to be written
http://localhost:8888/webservices/server/u/test/p/test/
Can someone help me with that?
It is actually working, because it redirects all queries to server.php. Therefore
http://localhost:8888/webservices/server/u/test/p/test/
can be handled by server.php, where you can easily catch parts of the URI using explode() on the $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] array. Forget the
http://localhost:8888/webservices/server.php?username=test&password=test
URL structure, you won't need it anymore, because using the .htaccess you've just written, you can dynamically handle every request to your server on server.php.
[QSA] in your .htaccess appends query string to the URI, which is not needed, because we want to get rid of it, right? Since you wont use that format, you can remove QSA flag.
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I have a little mod_rewrite problem and really need some help.
I need to have a second .htaccess file in a subfolder for a project on my domain.
The URL to the project is like:
https://example.com/project-name/
Now I have a query parameter for which I want to create a nice URL with mod_rewrite.
The URL including the parameter looks like this:
https://example.com/project-name/index.php?preset=nameofapreset
And I want it to be:
https://example.com/project-name/nameofapreset
The important thing: The mod_rewrite has to work for the current folder only. Without having any info about the current path, cause I need to use the file in other folders, too.
That's what I thought should work (cause I am using a similar rewrite rule in another project):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-z])/?$ index.php?preset=$1
But it doesn't. And all my trials fail.
Any ideas how I can make it work?
Thanks!
You can use this rule in /project-name/.htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([\w-]+)/?$ index.php?preset=$1 [L,QSA]
I'm currently writing a PHP app and am about to create various controllers. Currently I have one controller with certain method, so the URL looks like this:
http://somewebsite.com/index.php?c=controller&a=action
It's being rewritten to this:
http://somewebsite.com/controller/action
With this .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)/([a-z]+)$ index.php?c=$1&a=$2 [NC]
What I want to achieve is the ability to rewrite URL with more than one controller (the more, the better), possibly in random order. Is there a more convenient way than rewriting every possible combination of URL parameters?
Many frameworks (Codeigniter, WordPress, Laravel, etc.) use an .htaccess file similar to the following:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]
This rewrites all incoming URLs to be handled by the index.php file. You can then use $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] variable to get the exact request URI, parse it, and then handle it how you want.
if you're going for an arbitrary routing scheme, probably your best bet is to just pass the entire url string e.g. ^(.+)$ to index.php and let your php application split the string based on '/' and handle the array however makes sense for your application
I'm trying to convert a query string;
http://atwd/books/course?course_id=CC100&format=XML&submit=Submit
Into a segment URI;
http://atwd/books/course/CC100/XML
I'm working in CodeIgniter.
I was looking at a stackoverflow answer that said to check CodeIgniter's URL segment guide, but I don't think there's any information on how to convert a query string into a segment URI. There is, however a way to convert a segment URI into a query string, which is bringing up a load of results from Google too.
Following another stackoverflow answer, I tried this in my .htaccess file but nothing seemed to work
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^course_id\=([^&]+)\&format\=([^&]+)$
RewriteRule ^$ /course/%1/format/%2 [R,L]
In my entire .htaccess file I have this;
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
#Source: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/urls.html
#Removal of index.php
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?route/$1 [L]
#Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3420204/htaccess-get-url-to-uri-segments
#Format Course function requests
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^course_id\=([^&]+)\&format\=([^&]+)$
RewriteRule ^$ /course/%1/format/%2 [R,L]
</IfModule>
This is in my root directory of Codeigniter screenshot
My code in the .htaccess file isn't working, I refresh the page and nothing happens. The code to hide the index.php is working though. Does anyone know why?
The notion of "converting URLs" from one thing to another is completely ambiguous, see the top part of this answer for an explanation of what happens to URLs when redirecting or rewriting: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11711948/851273
There's 2 things that happen, and I'm going to take a wild stab and guess that you want the 2nd thing, since you're complaining that refreshing the page doesn't do anything.
When you type http://atwd/books/course?course_id=CC100&format=XML&submit=Submit into your browser, this is the request URI that gets sent through mod_rewrite: /books/course. In your rule, you are matching against a blank URI: RewriteRule ^$ /course/%1/format/%2 [R,L]. That's the first reason your rule doesn't work. The second reason why it doesn't work is because above that, everything except images and index.php and robots.txt is being routed through index.php. So even if you were matching against the right URI, it gets routed before your rule even gets to do anything.
You need to correct the pattern in your rule to match the URI that you expect to redirect, and you need to place this rule before the routing rule that you have. So everything should look roughly like this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^course_id\=([^&]+)\&format\=([^&]+)$
RewriteRule ^/?books/course$ /course/%1/format/%2 [R,L]
#Source: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/urls.html
#Removal of index.php
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?route/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
You'll need to tweak the paths to make sure they match what you are actually looking for.
To both redirect the browser and internally rewrite back to your original URL, you need to do something different.
First, you need to make sure all of your links look like this: /course/CC100/format/XML. Change your CMS or static HTML so all the links show up that way.
Then, you need to change the rules around (all before your codeigniter routing rule) to be something liek this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
# redirect browser to a URI without the query string
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|HEAD)\ /books/course/?\?course_id=([^&]+)&format=([^&]+)
RewriteRule ^/?books/course$ /course/%2/format/%3? [R,L]
# internally rewrite query string-less request back to one with query strings
RewriteRule ^/?course/([^/]+)/format/([^/]+)$ /books/course?course_id=$1&format=$2&submit=Submit [L]
#Source: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/urls.html
#Removal of index.php
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?route/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
I'm not going to address the misunderstanding already addressed pretty well in the other answer and comments, and I can't speak for CodeIgniter specifically, but having given their URL routing docs a quick skim, it seems pretty similar to most web frameworks:
You probably just want to direct all traffic (that doesn't match physical files) to the frontend web controller (index.php) and handle the URL management in CodeIgniter's routing, not a htaccess file.
To do that, your htaccess could be as simple as:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .* index.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
This, as I said, will redirect any traffic that doesn't match an physical file such as robots.txt or an image to your index.php.
Then, using the routing as described in the docs (http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/general/routing.html) you can take in parameters and pass them to your controllers as you see fit, there is no need to 'convert' or 'map' anything, your URL's don't need to resolve to /?yada=yada internally, based on your routing rules CodeIgniter can work it out.
You'll need wildcard routes such as this from the docs:
$route['product/:id'] = "catalog/product_lookup";
A rough example of what yours might end up looking like would be something like:
$route['course/:id/format/:format'] = "course/something_or_other_action";
If I'm understanding you correctly, you might be over-thinking it. I have something similar in my own code.
I have a controller named Source. In that controller, I have the following method:
public function edit($source_id, $year)
{
# Code relevant to this method here
}
This produces: http://localhost/source/edit/12/2013, where 12 refers to $source_id and 2013 refers to $year. Each parameter that you add is automatically translated into its own URI segment. It required no .htaccess trickery or custom routes either.
I am trying to get url from:
192.168.0.1/movie-page.php?id=123
to:
192.168.0.1/movie/movie-name
or even (for now):
192.168.0.1/movie/123
I've simplified it by using this url (to get something working):
192.168.0.1/pet_care_info_07_07_2008.php TO 192.168.0.1/pet-care/
my .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^pet-care/?$ pet_care_info_07_07_2008.php [NC,L]
What am I doing wrong? I've tried many combinations but no luck and my patience is running out...
I am running this on my local NAS which should have mod_rewrite enabled by default. I have tested .htaccess by entering random string in .htaccess file and opening the page, I got 404 error. I assume this means that .htaccess is being used since the page stops functioning if the file is malformed.
If you want to rewrite:
192.168.0.1/movie-page.php?id=123 too
192.168.0.1/movie/movie-name or 192.168.0.1/movie/123
Then you would do something like, but will require you manually add a rewrite for any new route (fancy url) you want, and eventually you may want your script to create routes dynamically or have a single entry point to sanitize:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^movie/([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)$ movie-page.php?id=$1 [L]
So a better method is to route everything through the rewrite:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?route=$1 [L,QSA]
Then handle the route by splitting the $_GET['route'] with explode()
<?php
//192.168.0.1/movie/movie-name
$route = (isset($_GET['route'])?explode('/',$_GET['route']):null);
if(!empty($route)){
//example
$route[0]; //movie
$route[1]; //movie-name
}
?>
You want something like this:
RewriteRule ^movie/([0-9]*)$ /movie-page.php?id=$1 [L,R=301]
That will give the movie ID version with a numeric ID.
I am trying to capture a url such as
http://www.mysite.com/somepage.php?sometext=somevalue
and redirect it to.
http://www.mysite.com/index.php?page=somepage.php&sometext=somevalue
I tried searching for such .htaccess online, but couldn't find it.
Can you please help me?
I'm quite sure this is a duplicate, but I'm having a bit of an issue finding it/them [Edit: I found one, though possibly not the best example].
Anyway, this is a fairly standard problem resolved with fairly standard code:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?get=$1 [L,QSA]
The RewriteRule captures the entire request as $1, and passes it to index.php as the page GET parameter.
The [QSA] flag on the end says to take any existing GET parameters (sometext=somevalue in your example), and add them as additional GET parameters on the new request. (The [L] flag just says that this should be the last rule executed.)
Note that this will also redirect requests for things like images or CSS files, so it's good to add the following lines directly before this rule:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
These lines say "if the request is for a file or directory that actually exists, don't process the rule." That way, requests for real files will be served directly by Apache, rather than being handled (or more likely, mishandled) by your PHP script.
RewriteRule ^(.*).php?sometext=(.*)$ index.php?page=$1.php&sometext=$2 [QSA,L] #rewrite
RewriteRule ^(.*).php?sometext=(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/index.php?page=$1.php&sometext=$2 [R=301,L] #redirect