I am having a severe problem and have no clue about what is going on... I will specify the general issue which is causing multiple issues on this Wordpress powered portal.
Steps to reproduce:
Visit the URL: http://gamersgeographic.com/en/ (or any post on this site)
Append #abc or #anything to the URL
The URL tries to resolve for a second and magically deletes the "#" and instead changes to /abc or /anything , which of course does not exist and gives a 404 page not found.
Even if the local anchor with #abc exists, behaviour is the same.
Now, consider the case below:
Visit http://gamersgeographic.com/monster-hunter-diary-1/
Comment link appends a #comments or #respond depending on whether a comment is there or not.
Both the anchors exist on the single post page
Still it redirects after finding them, to /comments and gives 404
Direct URL with #comments works e.g. http://gamersgeographic.com/monster-hunter-diary-1/#comments works but when I change any base URL to #comments, it redirects to 404...
I have tried several combinations with Permalinks, so it is not a problem with that. I even wrote my own Comment link generator in php with just a plain
href="#comments"
but still no luck...
If you need any further information about any function's code in theloop.php or anything please let me know.
Thanks in advance !
Regards
The contents of .htaccess are as below:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
This is not a PHP issue, it is Javascript: it is evident when you reproduce it, and you can test it by disabling Javascript and adding #comments at the end of the URL; it will work.
Now, I have done some work for you, and the culprit is a Javascript file aptly named hashchange.js. Look, for example, at this line:
function second_passed() {
if(current_page!=location.href {
get_page_by_hash(location.href);
}
setTimeout(second_passed,1000);
}
Which explains why you see it “working” for a second.
And here is the redirect:
jQuery(window).hashchange(function() {
var link = window.location.hash.replace("#", "");
get_page_by_hash(link)
});
Note that hashchange is a method for event handling available in jQuery Mobile.
<link rel="canonical" href="URL OF YOUR HOMEPAGE HERE>
add this in your header.php in <head></head> section and then try . it shouldn't be giving 404 error !
The way that page bookmarks are used is, as you know, the href="" of an anchor points to an #some-place. In order for this to happen #some-place must be the id of the element within the page you wish to go to.
For example:
http://gamersgeographic.com/monster-hunter-diary-1/#respond
should take you to the element with id="respond" in that page.
If the element with that ID doesn't exist you won't be able to travel to it, and may be the reason it results in a 404 Not Found. However, if the element does indeed exist on the page with the proper ID and it still redirects to a 404 then you may want to check your web server configuration to make sure it isn't filtering the # in some way.
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I'm trying to clean my URL path's so that I don't have any GET parameters and PHP extensions in all of my links. As an example for what I'm trying to achieve:
http://localhost/projectname/?page=dashboard
needs to be:
http://localhost/projectname/dashboard/
And it actually works, I used the following code in my .htaccess:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} dashboard/
RewriteRule dashboard/ http://localhost/projectname/?page=dashboard
However, the page displays itself without any CSS or Javascript. I tried navigating to my Style.css only to find out that it looks exactly like the webpage itself, instead of showing me my CSS rules.
So what am I doing wrong? Please don't mark my question as a duplicate, I've been looking into similar questions but couldn't solve the problem.
You're changing the relative URI when your URL goes from /projectname/ to /projectname/dashboard/.
When that happens, every relative link on the page will have the wrong base added to it. The browser has no idea that the base is actually /projectname/ when all it sees is the location being at /projectname/dashboard/.
Right now, when your css is linked like:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="Content/style.css">
The browser attempts to resolve it by adding the base from the location, and it'll load:
https://localhost/projectname/dashboard/Content/style.css
which doesn't exist because the "dashboard" isn't actually a folder.
You can either add a base to the actual page by including this in the page header:
<base href="/projectname/" />
Or you can try to un-rewrite the dashboard out of the request (a bit trickier and more error prone) by adding this rule
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/projectname/dashboard/(.*\.css)$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/projectname/%1 -f
RewriteCond ^projectname/dashboard/(.*\.css)$ /projectname/$1 [L]
Note that does this may have an unintended impact on your browser's cache.
Use the absolute path to the CSS.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://localhost/projectname/assets/style.css">
I decided to use mod_rewrite to make my URLs look better. I created very simple rules:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(profile|contact|help|events|account|logout)/?$ index.php?p=$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^home/?$ index.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^PlaceOrder/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?p=mos&gc=$1 [NC]
It almost works well but it doesn't. So for example, [NC] is supposed to make it case-insensitive. However, for some reason, when I type for example localhost/Help in the browser, for some strange reason, it redirects to home page.
Another issue is with the last rule. If I type in localhost/PlaceOrder/1 it works as expected and opens index?p=mos&gc=1. But after that if I click on, for example, Account button, the browser uses this URL: localhost/PlaceOrder/account. Which is wrong. It should only use localhost/account. Why is it adding that sub-directory in there? It is only happening after the last rule is used. Prior to using the last rule, all links work well.
I'm going to guess that the localhost/Help isn't because of the rules and because of something in your index.php script. There's nothing those rules do that could possibly rewrite Help to the home page.
The second issue is a matter of a relative vs absolute URL issue. You're probably using relative links in your pages and because you've changed your relative URL base (which would be /PlaceOrder/ all relative links will have that prepended to it. You need to either change all your links to absolute URLs (they'd start with a /) or add this to your page's header:
<base href="/" />
My question title may not be appropriate but you i can try to explain the problem i am, running through here in the description :
What i want is that one page of the site should be redirected to a particular url and the rest to another one.
i.e.
www.mysite.com/industries/accounting.php should redirect to www.mysite.com/new-industries/accounting
where as
www.mysite.com/* should point to www.mysite.com/newsite
I hope i make sense here. issue is that whenever i try to put in a rule it gets looped for the specific page. any help is appreciated.
Regards.
You can use this code in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^industries/accounting\.php$ /new-industries/accounting [L,NC,R=302]
RewriteRule ^((?!newsite/).*)$ /newsite/$1 [L,NC,NE,R=302]
My present htaccess file contains mod_rewrite rules to perform this:
www.mysite.com/articles/jkr/harrypotter --> www.mysite.com/index.php?p=articles&author=jkr&book=harrypotter
www.mysite.com/articles/jkr --> www.mysite.com/index.php?p=articles&author=jkr
www.mysite.com/articles --> www.mysite.com/index.php?p=articles
In my root directory, I have some PHP files like: index.php, pre.php, view.php, etc.
What I want: block direct access to php files.
Eg:
www.mysite.com/index.php --> "404 - Page Not Found" or "File not exist"
www.mysite.com/view.php --> "404 - Page Not Found" or "File not exist"
I have tried a code that I found on searching. It uses "f" flag. But i did not understand it. When I used it do not show the home page also. So, I removed everything that I was testing. My htaccess file now contains three rules only(to accept page, author, book).
Please help.
I saw another question that was previous asked in here : mod_rewrite error 404 if .php
A change that I made to it is, added [NC] flag. Otherwise, if we put the uppercase letter in extension(say, "index.PHP") it will load.
So,
SOLUTION:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \.php[\ /?].*HTTP/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [R=404,L]
thank you
Create a simple 404.php that throws a 404 error, then rewrite index.php to 404.php etc.
You can also do this at your script level. If you add a rule within your index.php to check whether you have been passed GET variables or just called the page without any parameters like so:
<?
if(empty($_GET))
header('Location: http://www.yoursite.com/404.php');
else
//your usual script
?>
Then you have control to either redirect people to a 404 error or show something more helpful, like a landing page with an index or some form of website navigation.
Recently, I was doing .htaccess url rewrite, make all my php url into html, in some page, the logout button wont work properly. for example, in page ‘quotedetails/Q9999.html’ (rewrited from ‘quotedetails.php?quoteID=Q9999′), when I click logout button in this page, it wont do the trick, but when i use the old php url of this page, it works again, other rewrited pages like index.html (index.php), search.html(search.php), all works perfectly.
I use firebug to debug, after I click the logout button, it stays in the same page without redirect me to the index.html, but I saw the the ‘logoff’ params has been passed through, but just dont let me logout and redirect to index page. I’ve changed all the relavent file path to absolute path, still no luck…..help please.
I’ve also noticed from firebug, that page cannot get the redirect ‘location’ as I tried in other pages, their response headers come with ‘location: index.html’, but in that no-workin-page, there is no such line called ‘location: index.html’ in its response headers.
Here is my .htaccess file, no-workin-pages are related to the first four ReweiteRules
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^reps/all,all.html$ rep.php?repID=all&repName=all
RewriteRule ^reps/([A-Z]+),([A-Za-z\sA-Za-z]+).html$ rep.php?repID=$1&repName=$2
RewriteRule ^reps/([A-Za-z]+),([A-Za-z\sA-Za-z]+),([0-9]+).html$ rep.php?repID=$1repName=$2&page=$3
RewriteRule ^quotedetails/(Q[0-9]+).html$ quotedetails.php?quoteID=$1
RewriteRule ^index.html$ index.php
RewriteRule ^addquote.html$ addquote.php
RewriteRule ^search.html$ search.php
RewriteRule ^viewall.html$ viewall.php
RewriteRule ^howto.html$ howto.php
all the CSS will be lost, how to fix this issue?
Use absolute path for all the CSS files and images
I click log out button, its not working
You have to do at least initial debug. Nobody here knows, what's going on when you press a button. Go figure.
You don't have to use absolute paths... most people just forget about one of the most important html-tags. write this into your -section of your html-output:
<base href="http://mysite.com" />
Now all your css-files and images should be loaded correctly.