I'd like to redirect the following url:
http://www.example.com/food/?p=11&q=22&r=33
to
http://www.example.com/food/api.php/DBNAME/?p=11&q=22&r=33
As you may have noticed, DBNAME is the name of a database.
With the API I'm using it is necessary to include it in the URL.
Here's a brief folder structure of my program:
food/
->include/
->models/
->.htaccess
->api.php
->config.php
->test.php
I tried writing the rules on the .htaccess file but I get an Internal server error.
My .htaccess file looks like this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ api.php/DBNAME/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
I can get my head around achieving the redirection.
I also tried
RewriteRule ^food/(.*)$ api.php/DBNAME/$1 [L]
but this rule just lists the files in the directory food.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
PS: The query string is not just p=11&q=22&r=33 it may use any letter or word such as type, quantity and so on. p=11&q=22&r=33 is just an example.
Edit
From the link that #sanj provided I changed my .htaccess ffile to this
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/food/?$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ api.php/DBNAME/$1
</IfModule>
It works partially. Why partially?
I have two servers, one for testing and one for production. It works well on the testing server but not on the production server. I get an Authorization Required error. I believe it's due to the configuration in my .htaccess because if I remove the mod_rewrite module and access the url directly it works. Any ideas?
Found my mistake. The folder was protected by Basic Authentication. I needed to include login parameters in my code. I can't believe I overlooked that.
I think this will work:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteBase /food
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} /DBNAME/
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.*)
RewriteRule ^$ index.php/DBNAME/?%1 [L]
</IfModule>
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'm creating a website, before uploading the site to web hosting i'm using XAMPP on windows. i was trying to use Search Engine Friendly URLs, for example:
http://localhost/mysite/[something]
to
http://localhost/mysite/index.php?p=[something]
i tried this .htaccess
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([0-9A-Za-z]+) index.php?id=$1 [QSA,L] #and also tried http://localhost/mysite/index.php?p=$1
before this i tried more examples but they didn't work. The real problem is that for example if y type
localhost/mysite/some_page
i get an error (403), using the [R] flag i realized that redirection is: http://localhost/C:/XAMPP/htdocs/mysite/index.php?p=some_page
i removed htaccess file and restarted apache but problam persist with some urls
Perhaps I'm trying to solve a different problem, but if the [something] always leads to content served by your index.php, then just send all requests to index.php and let that page use the URL string to get the variable you need to serve the right content (ie the string after the /).
You may need to turn off MultiViews in your .htaccess using Options -MultiViews.
The following is what you need in your .htaccess
RewriteBase /
# Where "/" is the location of your index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [QSA, L]
Hope this helps.
I do not understand something ...
I have CMS written by me and have some strange problem about hidden error from "mod_rewrite". In apache2 error.log "mod_rewrite" giving :
File does not exist: /home/path/to/request, referer: http://IP/request?view=1
my $_GET / $_POST request are all empty
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] is ok (returns request?view=1)
$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] is also empty
also i install Drupal CMS to test is it problem on web server, but Drupal works just fine... then i copied drupal ".htaccess" file to my CMS in order to fix mod_rewrite preferences. (Drupal do not create apache error like my )
No luck, i have same problem again.
also tried with all options in .htaccess from Drupal CMS
I try to turn on RewriteLog (several attempts) but without result, not a single log file was not created.
Am i something missing or ... just my cms sucks
and one more thing, my CMS work just fine on other webserver with exactly the same files .... ?????
RewriteEngine On
Options -Indexes
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
#tested RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
#tested RewriteRule ^ index.php [L,QSA]
#tested Options FollowSymLinks
#tested Options -MultiViews
#tested RewriteBase /
P.S. sorry for my bad English
Not sure if that's your whole .htaccess but you need to enable rewrite, here's a rewrite I use and its never failed:
RewriteEngine On
Options -Indexes
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?route=$1 [L,QSA]
The RewriteRule passes everything (.*) to a route parameter in index.php then my router class handles the controller ect, the QSA flag will also allow me to pass extra GET/POST values to any part of the script.
hope it helps
ps I dont add the RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d because I dont allow folder views and I dont serve content from a folder, everything goes through a controller inc (images,css,js), so there is no need for this in most cases. And it also protects the folders like core & template ect ;)
finally I found the solution of my problem!
The answer is very,very,very simple...
In apache2 configuration (on Ubuntu) I found the <Directory tag is duplicated by default ... I just erase all directories tags and create one basic.
reload apache2 configuration and every thing starts working just fine
Can someone help me with this? I'm feeling like I've been hitting my head against a wall for over 2 hrs now.
I've got Apache 2.2.8 + PHP 5.2.6 installed on my machine and the .htaccess with the code below works fine, no errors.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|css|gfx|js|swf|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
The same code on my hosting provider server gives me a 404 error code and outputs only: No input file specified. index.php is there. I know they have Apache installed (cannot find version info anywhere) and they're running PHP v5.2.8.
I'm on Windows XP 64-bit, they're running some Linux with PHP in CGI/FastCGI mode. Can anyone suggest what could be the problem?
PS. if that's important that's for CodeIgniter to work with friendly URLs.
Update1:
mod_rewrite is installed and on.
What I've noticed is that if I change in RewriteRule to /index.php?$1 (question mark instead of forward slash) it goes into an infinite loop. Anyway, using question mark isn't an option as CodeIgniter (required) is not going to work this way.
Homepage also works when I request index.php directly: example.com/index.php
I'm starting to think it might be apache thinking that once the trailing slash is added it is not a file anymore but a folder. how to change such a behaviour?
Update 2:
I was wrong.
Apache handles these URLs correctly.
Requesting http://example.com/index.php/start/ (homepage) or any other valid address works.
Seems that Apache is just not forwarding the query for some reason.
Update 3:
Just to be clear what I'm trying to achieve.
I want to rewrite addresses like that:
http://www.example.com/something/ => http://www.example.com/index.php/something/
http://www.example.com/something/else/ => http://www.example.com/index.php/something/else/
I was beating my head up against this as well. I'm also installing Code Igniter.
The goocher was no RewriteBase. Here's my .htaccess:
DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
The Problem
I encountered a similar problem just now and unfortunately none of the answers in this thread helped:
Zend Framework was giving out "No input file specified.", but:
The default RewriteBase was just fine, and adding RewriteBase / did not help
It's a shared hosting server and only FastCGI is available (no ability to switch to SuPHP)
AcceptPathInfo was on
There was no problem with URL rewriting in general on the server
So the answer came from the following site:
https://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/55620/P15 [dead link]
(even though the host is not DreamHost).
The Solution
Apparently all you need to do is replace this line:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1
With this:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1
Problem solved.
This worked for me:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
After index.php, the question mark is important!
Try if it works with a simpler RewriteCond; like one that rewrites only everything that isn't an existing file/folder/link:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [R,L]
Go Daddy Users:
login to your Go Daddy Account
click on your hosting account.
go to Settings > File Extensions Management
change .php and .php5 to run under PHP5.2X (instead of PHP5.2xFastCGI)
SOLVED!!!!
mod_rewrite is a bit too smart for its own good, because it tries to figure out what sort of redirect it should be doing. In this case it looks to mod_rewrite like you're trying to redirect to a folder, so it looks for the folder and can't find it, hence the error.
Edit: Just to be perfectly clear I think your best bet is to change your rewrite rule to:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?$1 [L]
unless there is a very speciic reason why you want it to be a forward slash.
Edit 2: I see that you already tried this. The reason you're getting an infinite loop is because you have index.php in your rewrite condition. If you remove that you should be free of the infinite loop.
this code will fixed this issue.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
.htaccess for Live Server :-
DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
.htaccess for Localhost :-
RewriteEngine On
#RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php/$1
It is very likely that the administrator of your host has disabled the ability to use Rewrite in .htaccess. They might not even have mod_rewrite installed.
Drop them an email and ask
Since this is a server configuration issue, perhaps you should ask at Server Fault
Edit (since you are sure that the server is configured correctly)
Have you considered tagging your RewriteCond with an end of line $?
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|css|gfx|js|swf|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico)
Will (based on my limited knowledge) block any url that contains index.php, css, gfx ... at the start of a url. Because you don't have a $ at the end of the regexp, it will also block any urls that continue on from there...
I.e www.yourdomain.com/index.php/something is not redirected, same with www.yourdomain.com/js/something
Perhaps you want to add a $, which will require the url to end immediately after your regexp.
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|css|gfx|js|swf|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico)$
Here is one time I caught no input file specified right on action:
This causes it:
RewriteRule ^(.*\.swf)$ redirect_php.php/?a=1 [last]
This corrected it:
RewriteRule ^(.*\.swf)$ redirect_php.php?a=1 [last]
note the / before query ?
This seems really related to AcceptPathInfo, which is about the ability to read paths after file names:
http://domain.com/file.php/tricky_path/?regular_query_stuff
Since this question seems to attract a lot of attention I'd like to propose another answer for people having encountering the same problem and are unable to solve it with the help of the existing answers. I myself was one of those people until five minutes ago.
Always, I mean always check your server logs because they might present useful information to you.
After checking my server logs (Apache2.4) I found out that open_basedir caused the trouble:
mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Warning: Unknown: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/data/sites/domain/public/index.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/local/bin:/data/sites/domain/http-docs) in Unknown on line 0
mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in Unknown on line 0
In this case, open_basedir could not handle a symbolic link I created because it points to the outside of the open_basedir settings. Either broaden the open_basedir setting to also the new location or move the required files to the inside of any allowed directory..
You may be using Nginx, not an Apache. The error message will be the same.
echo out your sever data to be sure.
echo $_SERVER["SERVER_SOFTWARE"];
I spent hours trying all recipes from SO until I found the solution: you have to add question mark (?) after ".php", so last line of your rewrite rules will look like:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php ? /$1 [L]
There was no ? In my CodeIgniter setup from previous server, cause it usedpure Apache (no Nginx). And no recipes with port forwarding, nginx reconfiguration or php-fm reinstallation helped -- I tried them all on my VDS.
That simple method solved all in seconds.
In my case, the rewrite engine was conflicting with the doc_root directive in php.ini. The rewrite engine was treating the rewritten URL as a local file path and prefixing it with the document root, only to be prefixed again by PHP.
The solution was to rewrite to a relative URL, and add the PT flag. This tells mod_rewrite to pass the result to normal URL processing.
RewriteRule "^/(unwanted-part)/(.*)$" /$2 [PT]
In my case I am running laragon it's happening due to php.ini file, then I removed the php and install it again and it worked successfully. I think made some changes in php.ini file that's why it's displaying no input specific. After installing php.ini it fixed my issue.
update php.ini
Maybe your server has AcceptPathInfo disabled that is essential for that kind of URL to work properly. Try to enable it:
AcceptPathInfo On
Ok, try this rule:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule !^index\.php(/|$) index.php%{REQUEST_URI} [L]