Alright, I give up. I just can't quite wrap my mind around apache rewrites, I've looked through a lot of the stackoverflow suggestions and none seems to make sense to me.
So, I have a script that current renders content based on www.example.com/index.php?article=some-article-name
But, I want the user to think that page is www.example.com/section/some-article-name
I've tried using stuff like
# Turn on URL rewriting
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/section/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)$ index.php?article=$1
I discovered the answer thanks to the direction of all of these folks.
RewriteRule ^section/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ test.php?article=$1
RewriteRule ^section/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$ test.php?article=$1
You need both to handle 2 different types of requests, ones with a / at the end and those that don't.
You may want a simpler rule like.
RewriteRule ^/section/(.*) index.php?article=$1
A name like some-article-name will fail because you won't match the hyphen. If you want a limited regex try something like:
RewriteRule ^/section/([-_.a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ index.php?article=$1
This will match ASCII alphanumeric characters along with punctuation most likley to be in the name.
Either of these rules will fail if you have parameters on the incoming request.
Your RegEx is SO close. You have a capturing group ([a-zA-Z0-9]+) that is looking for one or more lower case letters, upper case letters and/or numbers, but what it isn't looking for is a hyphen. Try this:
RewriteRule ^/section/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)$ index.php?article=$1
Because the hyphen has special significance in Regular Expressions you need to escape it.
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I dont know much about htaccess and haven't found a solution for this issue.
I want that if a user opens example.com/#username/posts a php file is displayed and the username and page type (e.g. /posts/) is availiable as a get argument.
I already found this: RewriteRule "^user/([A-Z a-z 0-9_\-.]{1,})((/\w+)+|/?)$" "/account/profile.php?name=$1" but this isn't my usecase because its example.com/user/username
Do you know how to realise example.com/#username/posts orexample.com/#username/images with my htaccess or other stuff?
Thanks a lot, I am a newbie in this area :D
Have a great sunday!
Try:
RewriteRule "^#([\w.]+)\/(.+)$" "/account/profile.php?name=$1&page=$2"
^ and $ make it so that the expression in-between must try to match everything, not a sub-string.
([\w.]+) matches and captures uppercase, lowercase, 0 to 9, underscore (_), hyphen and dot (the dot might not be required in your case, in which case you can change it to (\w+)). + makes it greedy (matches as much as possible).
(.+) matches and captures as much a possible.
In my .htaccess file I have defined following rule,
RewriteRule ^([-0-9a-zA-Z]+) search.php?id=$1
The above rule works fine if I am browsing http://example.com/abcd
I need to use the symbols & % - / in the url like: http://example.com/ab&cd
What changes have to be made to the rule for this to work?
No idea how that rule is working for you. First, it loops. Second, there is no capture groups for $2 and $3, but it doesn't matter because $1 is always "search" anyways. I'm assuming you've pasted a partial snippet of a rule that you have that works.
The reason why &, %, or / isn't being matched is because your regex says:
[-0-9a-zA-Z]+
which means: one or more letters, numbers, or a dash. So no &, %, or /. So you can add those into the square brackets:
RewriteRule ^([-0-9a-zA-Z/%&]+) search.php?id=$1&ff=$2&ffid=$3
However, keep in mind that the URI is decoded before any rules get applied. This means if the URI looks like:
/foo%28bar
You don't need to match against %, because the URI gets decoded into:
/foo(bar
and you need to match against (. A better option may to just match against every except dots:
RewriteRule ^([^.]+) search.php?id=$1&ff=$2&ffid=$3
or whatever you don't want in your match.
Try:
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ search.php?id=$1 [B]
The difference here is the $ to bound the match to the end of the URI, and the B flag ensures the & gets encoded.
You need to URL encode 'ab&cd' using urlencode
so that & gets turned into %26.
After this, in search.php you'll need to account for it and decode it, using urldecode.
Do the URL like this:
http://example.com/id/ff/ffid
and write your rule around that. Also, why do you need 3 ID parameters? Couldn't you just lookup the other 2 using the first one?
Do with your url
RewriteRule ^directory/([^/.]+)$ /searchpage.php?search_keywords=$1 [L]
I am a real newbie to the either mod_rewrite or Regex.
Therefore I just need your help for the following problem.
I got a PHP-Page that looks just like:
stuff.php?id=1&text=2
I know want to to look like
stuff/2.html
Do anyone of you have the RewriteRule line for the htaccess in mind to let it look just like this?
Thanks a lot in advance!
A rewrite rule for this particular page:
RewriteRule ^stuff/2\.html$ stuff.php?id=1&text=2
And if 2 should be dynamic:
RewriteRule ^stuff/([0-9]+)\.html stuff.php?id=1&text=$1
A little explanation:
^ and $ stand for start and end of the string, so we don't match longstuff/2.html.php.
The dot has to be escaped \. because otherwise it has a special meaning in RegEx ("any character")
the parantheses in the second pattern are a "capture group", their content will be available in the rewrite as $n (with n = number of capture group, in this case 1)
[0-9] is a character class, matches one character of the class, in this case a digit
+ means "one or more"
Here's a rule to redirect stuff/2.html to stuff.php?id=1&text=2
RewriteRule ^stuff/([\d]+)\.html$ stuff.php?id=1&text=$1 [L]
Notice [\d]+ will only accept numbers, if you want to allow letters and caret, use the following rule :
RewriteRule ^stuff/([\w-]+)\.html$ stuff.php?id=1&text=$1 [L]
My .htaccess file looks like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^articles/(\d+)*$ ./articles.php?id=$1
So, if the URL foo.com/articles/123 is requested, control is transferred to articles.php?id=123.
However, if the requested URL is:
foo.com/articles/123/
or
foo.com/articles/123/whatever
I get a "404 Not Found" response.
I would like to call articles.php?id=123 in all these cases. So, if the URL starts with foo.com/articles/[digits]... no matter what other characters follow the digits, I would like to execute articles.php?id=[digits]. (The rest of the URL is discarded.)
How do I have to change the regular expression in order to achieve this?
Just don't look for the end:
RewriteRule ^articles/(\d+) ./articles.php?id=$1
You do need to allow the trailing / with:
RewriteRule ^articles/(\d+)/?$
The \d+ will only match decimals. And the $ would disallow matches beyond the end.
If you also need trailing identifiers, then you need to allow them too. Then it might be best to make the match unspecific:
RewriteRule ^articles/(.+)$
Here .+ matches virtually anything.
But if you want to keep the numeric id separate then combine those two options:
RewriteRule ^articles/(\d+)(/.*)?$ ./articles.php?id=$1
I want to convert every url which contains "+" to "=+"
for example that url:
http://www.bedavaemlaksitesi.com/mersinemlakrehberi210/index3.php?+
should be like this:
http://www.bedavaemlaksitesi.com/mersinemlakrehberi210/index3.php?=+
tried that and few other lines but doesn't work so far, i'm guessing it causes a loop or something.
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)+([^/\.]+)?$ $1=+$2 [R]
I'm just gonna give you a literal answer for that specific example. Not sure if that will actually help you:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^([+])$
RewriteRule /index3.php$ index3.php?=(%1) [R,L]
You cannot repleace each + in the QS, as you do need a separate condition to match it first.
Also about your original rule:
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)+([^/\.]+)?$ $1=+$2 [R]
Escaping the dot in the charclass is redundant, [^/.] suffices. And you need at least a separator between the two groups / to make sense. But you can't match the query_string there, that's handled separately from the current filepath.
See alsos: ServerFault: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Mod_Rewrite Rules but Were Afraid to Ask? -and- HttpdWiki: Manipulating the Query String