I'm actually developping a small php website (only php, no java) and I would like to figure out something.
When I have this url called URL A: http://www.domain.com/?toto, everything's working
I would like to rewrite it to http://www.domain.com/toto (called URL B) but when I tried, I have a 404 page not found.
What do I have to use to tell apache, when you have URL B it's an alias of URL A ??
It tried proxypass, Rewrite rules without reaching my aim. Can someone help me please?
Thx a lot !!!
You need to use Apache's mod_rewrite.
A simple rewrite rule can be placed in your .htaccess file (untested):
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^(.+) /index.php?$1 [L]
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I'm trying to get right syntax for .htaccess without any result...
I've a URL structured as domain.com/app/public/pageName .
It's working fine but I would "hide" the 'app/public/' part in browsers, basically doing something like:
[real URL] domain.com/app/public/pageName -> domain.com/pageName [what users type and see in browsers]
I think in that way it should be more readable and seo-friendly.
As I understood from docs (and maybe it's wrong because it's not working...) I should tell to Apache to map/redirect all URL like domain.com/pageName to domain.com/app/public/pageName , but only internally, in order to show the minimal URL in users' browsers.
Right now I have something like:
RewriteEngine on
#RewriteBase /app/public/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ https://localhost/app/public/index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
(I'm using full URL with https://... in order to get something that will be quick and easy to adapt when I upload all to my hosting, is it right?).
Problem is that RewriteRule actually change the URL, because it perform a redirect and URL rewrite it's not handle internally.
So, first of all: is it possible what I'm trying to do? If so, how can I handle the URL rewrite only internally?
Everything should be uploaded to a shared hosting, so I don't have other than .htaccess.
Anyway, I can consider to upgrade to a vps if there are not other possibilities...
Thanks!
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EDIT (should be more clear now)
tl;dr version:
I'm looking for a method that let users to type domain.com/pageName (and they will see that address in their browsers) and rewrite internally that URL in order to point to domain.com/app/public/pageName.
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More: after /app/public/ there can be an arbitrary number of elements, separated by / . All of these elements are appended at the end of the URL after index.php. At the end URL looks like:
domain/app/public/index.php?url=lot/of/elements/here
This is already working with the RewriteRule posted above, I would keep that too.
Thanks!
This is working fine for me, Hope it will work for you as well.
Check .htaccess here
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/app/public
RewriteRule ^app/public/(.*)$ /$1 [L,QSA]
Just for reference, I found a solution, maybe will be usefull for someone.
Basically I moved .htaccess to the root server (instead of /app/public directory) and changed the RewriteRule as follow:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /app/public/
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [PT]
Now it's working (at least on localhost).
What do you think? Are there any side effects with this config?
So, I've this problem:
Base Website located at http://example.com/
Second Website located at http://example.com/web2/
People making various requests to the second website like
http://example.com/myWeb/pg1 and http://example.com/web2/pg2
Recently and due to some other issues I need to have a custom new path for the second website but also keep the first one working.
The ideia is to allow users to access the second website over the two following addresses:
http://example.com/web2/
http://example.com/alternative-url-web2/
The folder /web2/ actually exists on the server, but how can I simulate the folder /alternative-url-web2/ and "redirect" the requests to /web2/?
Please note I don't want the URL on the browser to change, this must be a "silent redirect". And I also make sure that all other requests like http://example.com/other are not redirected by the second website.
Thank you.
Update:
According to #anubhava I could simply solve this issue by adding in my .htaccess:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^alternative-url-web2(/.*|)$ /web2$1 [L,NC]
This is probably working fine but I noticed the following:
http://ex.com/alternative-url-web2 is redirected to http://ex.com/web2/ (changing browser URL);
http://ex.com/alternative-url-web2/ is redirected to http://ex.com/(changing browser URL);
http://ex.com/alternative-url-web2/someRequest works fine and does NOT change the browser URL;
http://ex.com/alternative-url-web2/index.php works fine and does NOT change the browser URL;
Site Note:
At /web2/ there's an .htaccess that might be cause the wired redirect behavior above... So here is the file contents:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(data/|js/|styles/|install/|favicon\.ico|crossdomain\.xml|robots\.txt) - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]
</IfModule>
Can the internal RewriteRule to index.php be causing all this? If yes, how can I fix it?
Enable mod_rewrite and .htaccess through httpd.conf and then put this code in your .htaccess under DOCUMENT_ROOT directory:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^alternative-url-web2(/.*|)$ /web2$1 [L,NC]
Alternate code:
RewriteRule ^alternative-url-web2/?$ /web2/ [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^alternative-url-web2/(.+)$ /web2/$1 [L,NC]
This is a pretty simple rewrite. In the htaccess file in your document root, just add the following:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^alternative-url-web2/?(.*)$ /web2/$1 [L]
Unlike a redirect, which makes the browser/client send a new request for a new URL (thus changing what's in the browser's location bar), a rewrite happens entirely on the server's side.
By the way, in order to follow the trail of htaccess redirects, you could add something like this to each of them:
Header add X-Remark-Rewrite "/path.to/htaccess"
You can inspect these in the response in the developer tools.
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/$1 [QSA, L]
Hope this helps.
I'm trying to perform a URL Rewrite but giving me a 500 Internal Server Error
I have an index.php file that can take a parameter which I called cmd so the URL should look like:
http://localhost/some_folder/index.php?cmd=some_parameter
What I'm trying to achieve is allowing users to just type any of the following:
http://localhost/some_folder/some_parameter
OR
http://localhost/some_folder/index/some_parameter
Here is my .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On # Turn on the rewriting engine
RewriteRule ^index.php/?$ index.php?cmd=shifts [NC,L]
I also tried:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule /cmd/(.*)/ index.php?cmd=$1
I don't know what I am doing wrong here!
I found this error Invalid command 'RewriteEngine', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
You need to load mod_rewrite. See this answer for details for how to fix.
After lots of searching on the internet and especially stackoverflow, I reached a solution (not what I wanted, but it is working for now until I find another one that suits my needs better.
Here is the .htaccess that I'm using at the moment (actually I'm using 2 files as each folder/sub-folder got different parameters):
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /rootFolder # In the sub-folder I type /rootFolder/subFolder
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php
RewriteRule /cmd/(.*)/ index.php?R=$1 # In the sub-folder I type index.php?cmd=$1
Now I access using the URL http://localhost/rootFolder/index/R/xxx-1234 and http://localhost/rootFolder/admin/index/cmd/xxx
What I need to do is remove the index portion of the URL.
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