Im trying to get a url rewrite to work and Im not getting any where. basically I want to have three pages one for music and then general products and the other for mvies, each will have a query string of &pagetype=general etc but the url would be http://shopnbuy.vacau.com/browse/computers.html?pageType=general which will redirect to general_products.php and then there would music_products and also movie_products. So they all have the same url except there is a different parameter &pageType=. Below is my htaccess file this is my first attempt at doing this
# Do not remove this line, otherwise mod_rewrite rules will stop working
RewriteBase /
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^browse/([a-zA-Z0-9_-])\.html general_products.php?department=$1&pageType=general
RewriteRule ^browse/([a-zA-Z0-9_-])\.html music_products.php?department=$1&pageType=music
RewriteRule ^browse/([a-zA-Z0-9_-])\.html movie_products.php?department=$1&pageType=movie
url suppose to look like this
http://shopnbuy.vacau.com/browse/computers.html
All Im getting is an error for each url rewrite
I don't know much htacess, but I used it lately and I found out that you can't actually use "/" effectively. I suggest you change it for "_".
As far as I understand, it may be due the "/" works as the one indicating each argument (I mean A / B sorta logic)
Not sure if I explain myself correctly, hoping someone knowledgeable corrects me since I'm eager to learn about it as well.
RewriteRule ^browse_computers / general_products.php?department=$1&pageType=general ([a-zA-Z0-9_-])
RewriteRule ^browse_music / music_products.php?department=$1&pageType=music ([a-zA-Z0-9_-])
RewriteRule ^browse_movies / movie_products.php?department=$1&pageType=movie ([a-zA-Z0-9_-])
The result, however, will be this:
http://shopnbuy.vacau.com/browse_computers
Bit unsure of your initial url but try this
^browse_(.+)/(.+)$ browse/computers.html?pageType=$1
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fellow programmers,
It's my first time using htaccess for rewrite purposes and i can't figure out a solution for my problem.
I have created a simple rewrite rule to redirect my users to a cleaner url using php GET variables.
Here's the code
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^page/([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/([0-9a-zA-Z]+) index.php?dir=$1&admin=$2 [NC,L]
ErrorDocument 404 /page/404
For now this example doesn't work unless both parameters are set. If i'd like to visit
mysite.com/page/dashboard
then it redirects me to 404 but if add
mysite.com/page/dashboard/random
Then i get my dashboard
I need it to work both ways, if only dir is set and if both are set
Also can i remove that /page/ directory without it messing up my styles, scripts etc? Whenever i remove /page/ and leave it just mysite.com/whatever then my styles and scripts stop working because i guess it's expecting those parameters to be met.
I know it might sound a bit confusing but hopefully someone could help me accomplish this.
So i fixed this issue, seems like the issue was because i didn't check if the url had a slash at the end or not, so i added this.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ index.php?dir=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$ index.php?dir=$1&admin=$2
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ index.php?dir=$1&admin=$2
ErrorDocument 404 /page/404
Notice the duplicate entries.
I also added a $ sign at the end so that apache would not except any more redirects or parameters.
I want this url
http://www.test.racebooking.net/rankings/classifica.html
to point to
http://www.test.racebooking.net/rankings.php
thus, i wrote this rule in my .htaccess file
RewriteRule ^rankings\/[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.html$ /rankings.php
I really can't figure out why, when i type the first url, i get a 404 error msg.
RewriteEngine is on.
/rankings.php exists.
Moreover, I have another RewriteRule, much more complex, which i
wrote, which is working like charm.
classifica.html doesn't exist. I'm just updating my website with
more SEO friendly urls
What's wrong with my rule??
When i test the regexp in any online regexp tester it detects the string "rankings/classifica.html", this means the regexp actually corresponds, but nothing is working....
I found the error, but i didn't find out why it happens.
Basically, if pattern and substitution start with the same word, the RewriteRule doesn't work.
EXAMPLE
If i write this rule in .htaccess:
RewriteRule ^rankings\/[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.html$ /rankings.php
and type this URL
http://www.mywebsite.net/rankings/classifica.html
I get a 404 Error. Even if the Regexp is correct, the apache RewriteEngine is not working. Instead, if i write this rule:
RewriteRule ^ran-kings\/[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.html$ /rankings.php
and type this URL
http://www.mywebsite.net/ran-kings/classifica.html
Everything works fine.
I noticed on youtube their url does not have a file extension and querystring. I've been trying to emulate something similar but found I had to either include the file extension or a trailing slash.
members.php?agefrom=20&ageto=40&city=london (works)
members/?agefrom=20&ageto=40&city=london (works)
members?agefrom=20&ageto=40&city=london (doesnt work)
So I was just wondering how can I get the third case to work? i've tried a few things in the htaccess file.
RewriteRule ^members$ index.php?page=members&%{QUERY_STRING} [QSA,L]
I have tried the above but to no avail.
Any help would be appreciated.
The RewriteRule that you posted is correct for members.php? and for members? It should not work with members/
You must have additional RewriteRules before this one that are getting applied first and are affecting this rule.
However, here is a rule that should still work for you:
RewriteRule ^members/?$ index.php?page=members&%{QUERY_STRING} [QSA,L]
The /? is saying to match if the slash exists or if it doesn't exist.
Have you tried to remove the $ on the end?
RewriteRule ^members/?$ index.php?page=members&%{QUERY_STRING} [QSA,L]
This did work in the end, all I had to do was move it nearer the top of the htaccess file. I had the following line which I guess was being read instead.
....
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/members$ [OR]
....
I am changing my approach to SEO URL's because I was trying to find articles on how the googlebot actually crawls forms and how it prefers the GET method. I was using jquery to alter my action parameter to write the following URL:
/members/london/18-to-25
I dont know how much google likes jquery and whether it would scan javascript code. I am assuimg it just follows the HTML code and having done some research I have changed my form to use the GET method and so the bot can crawl my form without complaining so now my URL looks like this:
/members?location=london&agefrom=18&ageto=40
I am on the right track to assume this? or should I just stick with jquery to rewrite the action parameter for an seo friendly URL?
i'm new to mod_rewrite, and i'm trying to convert my web address from:
website.com/profile.php?user=andy
to the following:
website.com/user/andy
This is my following code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^user/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/?$ profile.php?user=$1 [NC,L]
I researched extensively and this does seem to be the correct way to do it, but it doesn't redirect to where i want it to, it just redirects to this:
http://website.com/profile.php?user=andy
which means i must doing something wrong...
Can anyone help me out here? I would appreciate any tips.
If you want
http://website.com/profile.php?user=andy ->301-> http://website.com/user/andy
http://website.com/user/andy means http://website.com/profile.php?user=andy
They are 2 different things, you'll need 2 rules:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^user=([A-Za-z0-9]+)
RewriteRule ^profile.php /user/%1? [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^user/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/?$ profile.php?a=b&user=$1 [L]
The first will 301 (moved permanently) redirect to the pretty url.
The second will allow your application to understand the pretty url.
Whenever you change the url scheme for a site you should take care of existing links. As such, that first rule is required/a good idea. You should not, however, need the first rule when using your own application. If your own application is generating links to profile.php?user=me - change your application code.
You have to change your URLs when outputting them in your HTML to be in the format you want (/user/andy).
mod_rewrite will rewrite /user/andy to main.php?... not the other way around.
What do you mean by my result?
mod_rewrite won't change existing links in your source code. Navigate to website.com/user/andy and you should see it work.
I am currently coding a pagination script into many parts of my site, this has been a well needed and requested feature and I have finally been able to come round and start coding it, it is all going well, until I find that my rewritten urls don't like working with the pagination urls.
So, an example page on my site would be news.php. This file structure can be something like news.php?id=5. I have rewritten the url like so:
/news/5/
## Rewrite URL's for News & Dev ##
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]+)/$ /news.php?id=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]+)$ /news.php?id=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^news$ /news.php [L]
RewriteRule ^news/$ /news.php [L]
The pagination script I am using prepends two new variables in the url, the new url turns out to be this:
news.php?page=1&ipp=55id=5
I would really appreciate it if anyone could assist me in making the urls look better, as it defeats the object of having it in the first place if after they use the pagination, it changes the url back to a clunky and ugly url.
I don't want it to be required to have parts of the url, that is something I really don't want..
e.g I don't want the url to be required to be /news/1/55/5, instead id like it to be optional.
Thank you for your time, it is appreciated!
Additional Information
The links in my news script currently display like so:
news.php?page=1&ipp=55id=5
I don't like to see ugly urls like that, and want to make the url look better using mod_rewrite, It would be better if the urls would display like so:
/news/PAGE/IPP/ID/ -> return news.php?page=1&ipp=55id=5
Also, to make it as user friendly as possible, I don't want any of the fields to be required as such, so for example I would like to have the following link accessible at all times without it requiring the other fields.
/news/ID/
Then, when the user clicks a pagination link, it would use the following link structure:
/news/PAGE/IPP/ID/ -> return news.php?page=1&ipp=55id=5
This is all from user feedback of my site, and is something that people have been asking for. Problem is, I don't understand even simple .htaccess
Thanks
RewriteBase /
# add slash to end of url if not present (and do a redirect)
RewriteCond $0 !/$
RewriteRule ^news([^\.]*)$ $0/ [L,R=302]
# rewrite url with format /news/[<id>/[<page>/[<ipp>/]]]
RewriteRule ^news/(?:([0-9]+)/)?(?:([0-9]+)/)?(?:([0-9]+)/)?$ /news.php?id=$1&page=$2&ipp=$3 [L]
Not sure what ipp is supposed to be, but my guess is it shows the number of item per page. I would personally not like to have that in my url.
You can have :
news/id/page/ipp with
RewriteRule ^news(/?)$ news.php [L]
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]+)-(.*)_([0-9]+)(/?)$ news.php?page=$1&ipp=$2&id=$3 [L]
news/1222-subjet-for-example_34
return :
news.php?page=1222&ipp=subject-for-example&id=34
use (/?) instead of create many rules ;)
Hope it's works for you.