I have created a .htaccess file that allows for vanity URLs. However, I am no longer able to type www.website.com without typing in the index file. I.e. I have to type in www.website.com/index.php in order to see the homepage. This is what my .htaccess file looks like:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule .* - [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.website.com/profile.php?u=$1 [NC]
Anyone know how to fix this? Thank you all!
The way you defined your rule increased the complexity.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule .* - [L]
Above rule means if file name is a directory of file process as it is. after that dont process farther.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.website.com/profile.php?u=$1 [NC]
This rule means map any request uri to profile.php?u=
Now when you request / that is www.website.com it checks the first rule and it fails to match. Then it check the second rule and maps it to profile.php?u=.
One way to fix it, would be check *if $_GET['u'] is empty or / in profile.php. If it is then load the index.php.
Another way is to find a proper regular expression for your user names once found use it here.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(USERNAME_REGEX)$ http://www.website.com/profile.php?u=$1 [NC,L]
The best way to handle this is using PHP,
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?uri=$1 [L]
Now index.php will get every uri you pass. Now you can process the URI in index.php.
It may be due to your server set up.
Try DirectoryIndex index.php (see http://davidwalsh.name/directory-index-homepage-htaccess )
Edit (due to me not reading the question properly in the first place)
Have you tried it without the RewriteRule .* - [L] line?
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I have the following .htaccess file in a subdirectory of a site which allows me to route all URLs to index.php where I can parse them.
However, it's not allowing the standard files that I need for the website, e.g. css, javascript, pngs, etc.
What do I need to change (I assume in the fourth line) to allow these files so they don't get routed to index.php?
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|public|css|js|png|jpg|gif|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/params=$1 [L,QSA]
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
Something I noticed. You're using the forward slash instead of a question mark... the params redirect would normally look like this:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?params=$1 [L,QSA]
This should work by itself since any of those files *should* be real files.
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?params=$1 [L,QSA]
To have the site ignore specific extensions you can add a condition to ignore case and only check the end of the filenames in the request:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.css|\.js|\.png|\.jpg|\.gif|robots\.txt)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?params=$1 [L,QSA]
If you're trying to ignore a folder then you could add:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(public|css)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.css|\.js|\.png|\.jpg|\.gif|robots\.txt)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?params=$1 [L,QSA]
The easiest is to ignore them explicitly early in your rules:
RewriteRule \.(css|js|png|jpg|gif)$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^(index\.php|robots\.txt)$ - [L]
This avoid carrying them around all over the place with RewriteCond.
At your option, check that the file exists prior to doing so:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule \.(css|js|png|jpg|gif)$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^(index\.php|robots\.txt)$ - [L]
(Note that the file check generates an extra disk access.)
You have the right idea, tweaking the fourth line.
The ^ is saying the various matching strings must be at the beginning of the line. If you don't care where any of these appear in the file, you can just remove the ^. That will avoid rewriting *.css, *.js, etc.; but will also not rewrite publicideas.html.
If you want to limit to just the suffixes, try this:
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|public|.*\.css|.*\.js|.*\.png|.*\.jpg|.*\.gif|robots\.txt)$
This says to match anything at the beginning, then a ., then the suffix. The $ says match these at the end (nothing following).
I'm not sure about the public, so I left it (which means exactly public, with nothing else - probably not what you meant, but you can add a * before or after, or both).
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f alone should be enough.
Another option is t exclude specific files from the rewrite.
From the TYPO3 packages:
# Stop rewrite processing, if we are in the typo3/ directory.
# For httpd.conf, use this line instead of the next one:
# RewriteRule ^/TYPO3root/(typo3/|t3lib/|fileadmin/|typo3conf/|typo3temp/|uploads/|favicon\.ico) - [L]
RewriteRule ^(typo3/|t3lib/|fileadmin/|typo3conf/|typo3temp/|uploads/|favicon\.ico) - [L]
This rule should appear before your actual rewrite. It should be
RewriteRule ^(public/|*\.css|*\.js|*\.png|*\.jpg|*\.gif|robots\.txt) - [L]
in your case.
I'm running in to a mod_rewrite issue where the second rule in my .htaccess file is overriding the first. The .htaccess file in question looks like the one below:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /path/appname
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule /api/v1/(.*)$ api/v1/index.php?rquest=$1 [QSA,NC,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php
</IfModule>
The issue that I'm seeing is this:
If I go directly to http://example.com/path/appname/api/v1/valid/endpoint the first RewriteRule triggers correctly and I get the result back from the API.
However, say I visit http://example.com/path/appname/app - a page which has been rewritten according to the second RewriteRule. This page makes AJAX requests to the api/v1 page. Those requests are instead directed through the second RewriteRule and send to my base index.php page.
I'm confused on how this could be, as my understanding is that the [L] flag prevents any further rules from being run once it matches and thus once any request that has 'api/v1' in it should catch that and stop checking for any further matches. What do I need to change in order for this to work correctly?
Thanks!
You should exclude the segment path for the previous rule-set, so it is not processed again. Like this:
# Don't redirect/map when folders or files exist
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# Exclude the previous path
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !api/v1/? [NC]
# Prevent loops
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index\.php [NC]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>
Replace the last 4 lines in you question with the above lines.
Here is what I am trying to do:
When a file is requested from filesystem and it does not exist, rewrite the URL to /index.php?404
When file is requested and it does exist in filesystem, rewrite the URL to /index.php?file
In every other case rewrite the URL to /index.php?data
But I am getting 500 errors as a result, does anyone know where the problem might be? I have used RewriteEngine in the past, but it's still a bit confusing to me regarding how to use it for special cases like this.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (.*\.([a-zA-Z]{2,4}))$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .* ./index.php?404 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (.*\.([a-zA-Z]{2,4}))$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule .* ./index.php?file [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .* ./index.php?data [L]
You have infinite rewrite loop. To solve -- add extra condition to not rewrite already rewritten URLs .. or at least ignore requests to index.php.
One of the possible approaches:
# do not touch any requests to index.php
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
P.S.
How L flag works: RewriteRule Last [L] flag not working?
How to redirect example.com/anything to script example.com/seoparser.php?anything using .htaccess
This does not work:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/seoparser.php?$1
because of multiple redirection which ends on address http://example.com/seoparser.php?seoparser.php
You have to test if it is not already rewritten:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^seoparser\.php$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ /seoparser.php?$1 [L]
You can check if requested resource is not a file/directory and only then rewrite. For example:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) /seoparser.php?$1 [QSA,L]
Depending on circumstances (what rewrite logic you have in place/needs to be implemented) this can be much better solution than mentioned by #inti. You will see such combination of rules used in a lot of real applications (for example, WordPress, Magento) and PHP frameworks (most of the time they will have only internal routing logic).
This is a bit different approach (mostly from organisational point of view):
RewriteEngine On
# Do not do anything for already existing files
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule .+ - [L]
# Your rewrite rules (file/folder does not exist, we may need to route it elsewhere)
RewriteRule (.*) /seoparser.php?$1 [QSA,L]
can anybody please tell me the rewrite rule so I can make a URL like this:
http://www.mysite.com/index.php?page=directory1/page
what I'm trying to do is remove the "index.php?page=" so i get a
"http://www.mysite.com/directory1/page"
This is how Drupal does it; it's very similar to toneplex's example, but it doesn't mess around with extension checking and it adds an extra check on favicon.ico, which many browsers automatically request; this saves an extra hit on your PHP code if you're missing favicon.ico.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
I'm assuming you are trying to bootstrap everything via the index.php file. So try this out. Any file or directory that doesn't exist will be force through the index.php file.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule !\.(js|ico|gif|jpg|png|css)$ /index.php