I'm using localhost, and in my index.php page I have this code:
<? echo 'LANG IS '.$_GET['lang']; ?>
When I type localhost on the URL it only shows LANG IS, obviously, but if I type localhost/en I see a 404 Not Found message. I have to type localhost?lang=en to show my index.php code. I want to type localhost/en instead of localhost?lang=en and get the same result.
I'm using Apache2 and I have mod_rewrite enabled. I also have a .htaccess file with this code (I have changed and tested it a lot of times):
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/([a-zA-Z0-9]+|)/?$ index.php?lang=$1 [L,QSA]
I have been reading about .htaccess and clean urls for days but I couldn't make this work. Any ideas? Thank you so much in advance.
Most likely your .htaccess isn't even enabled. Verify it first
To check if your .htaccess is enabled try putting same random/garbage text on top of your .htaccess and see if it generates 500 (internal server) error or not?
It it is not enabled then then you will need AllowOverride All line in <Directory "/var/www/>` section.
Once it is enabled following rule should work for you:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(\w+)/?$ index.php?lang=$1 [L,QSA]
Try getting rid of the leading slash in the pattern:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+|)/?$ index.php?lang=$1 [L,QSA]
URI's that are sent through rules in the htaccess files have the leading slash stripped off so the pattern needs to omit it.
The problem is probably in the regular expression.
Try with this one:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/ /index.php?lang=$1 [L,QSA]
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i am using godaddy hosting and addon domain. i want to make my long url to short url.
for example my url is follwing:
www.example.com/events/landing_event.php?url=text-first
and i want following url:
www.example.com/events/text-first
for this i am using following rewrite url in .htaccess file
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ events/landing_event.php?url=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/$ events/landing_event.php?url=$1 [L]
but this rewrite rule is not working.
so please help how can i make short url.
Use this source after you make sure RewriteEngine Enabled and On
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^events/([^/]*)$ /events/landing_event.php?url=$1 [L]
The original URL:
http://www.example.com/events/landing_event.php?url=text-first
The rewritten URL:
http://www.example.com/events/text-first
Updated with 500 Internal Server Error
Your code is guaranteed to generate 500 internal server error because it is causing infinite looping. Reason is that your matching URI pattern is: ^events/([^/]*)$
Which matches your URLs before and after rewrites. And once it reaches max allowed internal rewrite limit Apache throws 500 internal server error and bails out.
Change your code to this
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^events/([^/]*)$ /events/landing_event.php?url=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
Try this code :
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.html$ /events/landing_event.php?url=$1 [L]
Add this in your .htaccess file
You can see there are many ways to achieve that goal.
Also
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^events/([^/]*)\.html$ /events/landing_event.php?url=$1 [L]
would do the job. So basicly, how does the full scope of your project urls look like?
Like do you always want to print the parameters? If yes, also the name sometimes or also the value?
The newer versions of apache requires you to change AllowOverride on /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
from
AllowOverride None
to
AllowOverride All
I use this htaccess url
mywebsite.com/xyz/search.html
here xyz is a folder in root
in .htaccess is use the code for this url
# enable apache modRewrite module #
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^//]+)/?(^/*)?.ht(m?ml?)$ index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]
now i want this
xyz/search.html is hit the
url xyz/index.php?page=search
but this:
RewriteRule ^([^//]+)/?(^/*)?.ht(m?ml?)$ index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA])
code is not working..
any idea regarding this...
Type some random characters in your .htaccess file and try to reload your page, if you see error 500 then your .htaccess file is working, put your random characters after "RewriteEngine On" .
Not sure that rule would work. Does this one do the job?
RewriteRule ^.*/(.*)\.html?$ index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]
Also, if you want to test the rule with a bit more visibility, you can add R=302 to the flags, that way your browser will get a redirect and you'll be able to see the rewritten URL in the address bar
I wonder why people don't use RewriteLog.
Put in the same place:
RewriteLog /tmp/rewrite.log
RewriteLogLevel 3
It slows down the server but for debugging it's made for.
Try:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*?)/?([^/]+)\.ht(m|ml)?$ $1/index.php?page=$2 [L,QSA]
There is a very handy online tool for testing htaccess files. Simply paste your redicrect rules in the form provided and test various urls to see if they are redirected or left untouched.... soooper easy!
Ok, I'm starting to think that the problem is me but... ¿What's wrong here?
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule testpage\.html http://www.google.com [R] #It works
RewriteRule ^mineral/([0-9]+)/?$ ver.php?id=$1 [NC,L] #It doesn't
I have a folder called "WebX" and this .htaccess inside it along with other files from the web.
mod_rewrite is working ok according to phpinfo and everything is running on localhost.
The most courious thing is that if I type localhost/WebX/testpage.html it redirects to Google
but unfortunately for me if I type localhost/WebX/mineral/1 it gives me 404. ¿What happens?
The problem you are having is caused by RewriteBase /. Your .htaccess is in a subdirectory /WebX/, but you are telling mod_rewrite to rewrite rules as if the current directory was /. It tries to load a file ver.php in your www-root, which doesn't exist. If you have verbose error messages with what file it tried to load, you'll notice it says that it tried to load /ver.php and not /WebX/ver.php as you might expect.
The rest you are doing, most notably using a relative url instead of a / prefixed absolute url, seems correct. The correct .htaccess to use would be:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /WebX/
RewriteRule testpage\.html http://www.google.com [R] #It works
RewriteRule ^mineral/([0-9]+)/?$ ver.php?id=$1 [NC,L] #It now should work
When I try to use this rule:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^articleID/([^/]*)$ /viewArticle.php?articleID=$1 [L]
It sends me to a 404 page.
I am not well-versed in how to use an htaccess, so I most likely did something wrong. I generated it with a tool at generateit.net
I'm trying to access http://majornoob.com/devel/testdesign/articleID/5 which would equal http://majornoob.com/devel/testdesign/viewArticle.php?articleID=5
Try to add a RewriteBase:
RewriteBase /
Also make sure that your server accept htaccess files. Does the Server configure contains a AllowOverride all statment in your Directory Directive.
With the path, it should work:
RewriteRule articleID/([^/]*)$ /devel/testdesign/viewArticle.php?articleID=$1 [L]
I am using WAMP and has created a website in a 'http://localhost/snap2/html' folder. I am trying to execute following Rewrite rule but this is not working for me.
Server is giving me an error below:
The requested URL /snap2/html/browsed.html was not found on this server.
My .htaccess file is located in html folder and its structure is as below:
`RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^decision/([0-9]+)$ /snap2/html/decision.php?PanelID=$1`
Website is in a structure like 'www/snap2/html
Infact I am trying to rewrite following url
http://localhost/snap2/html/decision.php?PanelID=20
in to
http://localhost/snap2/html/decision/20
Also Options +FollowSymLinks gives me an error 500 therefore, I have commented it.
Any help would be pretty much appreciated.
Try this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule RewriteRule ^snap2/html/decision/([0-9]+)$ /snap2/html/decision.php?PanelID=$1
But I guess this is not what you want. But maybe you will see where you wrong.
Symbol ^ in regular expression means that following string should be at the beginning of URL. so you have to include entire path, see htaccess RewriteEngine for more examples
Your write RewriteRule twice. Try
RewriteRule decision/([0-9]+)$ /snap2/html/decision.php?PanelID=$1 [L, QSA]
Or
RewriteRule snap2/html/decision/([0-9]+)$ /snap2/html/decision.php?PanelID=$1 [L, QSA]