I am trying to redirect from one url to another using a htaccess file. I have got them all working except from one which causes an infinite redirect loop. The url I wish to redirect from is:
http://website.co.uk/author/ and i want to redirect to http://website.co.uk/author/authorname
Any ideas would be helpful
Sounds a lot like your .htaccess redirect rules are doing pattern matching on your domain name, so that when you redirect to /jamescrawford it matches against www.pragencyone.co.uk/author/ and tries to redirect again.
If you're trying to catch everything that matches http://www.pragencyone.co.uk/author/.* then you'll need to exclude http://www.pragencyone.co.uk/author/jamescrawford (and potentially any assets it uses like images, if they're in the same directory) from being matched by the pattern you're using.
You might try posting the actual rules that you're using to do the redirect, though obviously be sure not to post anything any info from your .htaccess that would compromise your server's security.
try this in your htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
DirectoryIndex index.php
AddDefaultCharset On
Options +FollowSymLinks -Indexes
RewriteRule ^author /author/jamescrawford [L]
RewriteRule ^author/ /author/jamescrawford [L]
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so I have this htaccess entry:
RedirectMatch /([a-zA-Z0-9]+).php /dirA/$1.php
The goal is that any .php that is on the root directory should be redirected to /dirA/*.php
eg. suppose I make the request
domain.com/something.php
it should instead redirect to
domain.com/dirA/something.php
However when I put that entry in my .htaccess file and then I go to domain.com/something.php
it instead returns
"The page isn't redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for
this address in a way that will never complete."
Any idea how I can modify my htaccess to accomplish what I want to do?
Updated Question
Also is there a way to make it so that it only redirects if the file doesn't exist in the root directory...hence if x.php exists in root, serve that x.php otherwise redirect to dirA/x.php
mod_rewrite is an overkill for this, you were on the right track with RedirectMatch. Your rule, however, is a bit faulty: the regex /([a-zA-Z0-9]+).php matches all string that contain the specified substring, so it matches "/foo/bar/baz.php", but also "dirA/foo/bar.php" (and even "/foo/bar.php/baz.php"I. Your redirection ended up in an endless loop because there was no stop condition: /dirA/foo.php was redirected to /dirA/foo.php.
You can remedy the situation by using anchors in the regex:
RedirectMatch ^/([a-zA-Z0-9]+).php$ /dirA/$1.php
As for your second question: that might indeed call for mod_rewrite. Something along these lines should do the trick:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+).php$ /dirA/$1.php [R=301]
I haven't tested it, but this should get you started. Make sure to check out the manual for details, or just search around on SO, there are tons of questions about this.
Try this
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+).php /dirA/$1.php [R=301,L]
This one should be just fine
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subdir/$1
Consider my domain name is
www.mydomain.com
Consider a page request
www.mydomain.com/user/register
I want to add a custom word after base URL for every request inside mydomain.com.example
www.mydomain.com/customword/
www.mydomain.com/customword/user/register
Can we do this using URL rewriting in htaccess file ?
Actually it should execute 'www.mydomain.com/user/register' internally...but externally the URL should look like www.mydomain.com/customword/user/register.
You could create the directory "register", and put an index file inside it that performs the action.
That's probably the simplest way without url rewriting anyway.
UPDATE (since the question was updated)
In .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-.]+)/user/register/?$ user/register.php?customword=$1
register.php will receive a GET request:
//User went to www.mydomain/word/user/register
echo $_GET['customword']; // will return word in this case
Make sure that you have mod_rewrite enabled :)
Yes, you can do it with htaccess
Here is an example which will add a trailing slash with url if it doesnt contain trailing slash
http://enarion.net/web/htaccess/trailing-slash/
edit formatting updated
If you are serving one site from this then the following should work:
Edit your .htaccess file to do a url rewrite
accessing www.yourdomain.com/user/registry will actually server content from www.yourdomain.com/customword/user/registry
RewriteEngine On<br>
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/customword/<br>
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /customword/$1
You haven't mentioned what kind of site you;re using..eg: PHP, MVC etc as you could do similar thing in there as well.
I have a url "www.example.com/abc/abc.php"
If I change it to "www.example.com/abc/abc.php/asdasd", some kind of infinite loop starts and the server's memory peaks to 100%.
I have heard that there's some way by .htaccess by which I can redirect any "abc.php/asdasd" to "abc.php" only. Please help how, as I am not able to understand it from other examples mentioned on net.
NOTE : I dont want this "/" to be removed if it is put at the end of directories though.
This would redirect one URL to another:
Redirect 301 /abc.php/adssd http://www.example.com/abc.php
However, this will only handle this one example. You should post your full .htaccess file so we can see what's really going on
I was able to achieve what I wanted by the following htaccess code :
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php/(.*) $1.php [F]
</IfModule>
This may not be perfect, but gets the job done. Now anything after the text 'abc.php' results in a page-not-found.
Works for cases like :
www.website.com/abc.php/
www.website.com/abc.php/asd
www.website.com/abc.phpasd
www.website.com/abc.php?
etc.
I have a multilanguage site and I'm trying to rewrite the URL's with a fake directory something like this:
http://localhost/theSite/page.php?id=param&cat=param?lang=en,fr,es
to http://localhost/theSite/(en|fr|es)/page/param/param
.htaccess
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(fr|en|en)/(.*) $2.php?id=$1&cat=$2&lang=$3 [NL,QSA]
This resolves as a 404 error.
Any help will be apreciate.
RewriteRule ^(en|fr|es)/(.*?)/(.*?)/(.*) $2.php?id=$3&cat=$4&lang=$1 [NC,QSA]
I suppose you meant NC (no case), not NL. You referred to capture groups that didn't exist and repeated $2.
You're second capture will capture everything until the end of the URL. So it is possible you are doubling up on the extension or the wrong directory.
Although it shouldn't affect the redirect, you don't have a third capture, so where is $3?
Look at your headers and see where it is really redirecting to and comment back.
In my .htaccess file I have defined the following rule to make my register page URL as http://example.com/register/
RewriteRule register/ /register.php
The above rule is perfectly fine but I can access my register page from http://example.com/register/ as well as from http://example.com/register.php.
I don't want that user will be able to access the URL from http://example.com/register.php URL, is there any RULE which I can define in .htaccess to stop execution of register.php URL or simply redirect any direct register.php request to /register/
If you are doing this to avoid getting multiple links to the same content, you can simply don't use "register.php" anywhere on your page. I think no search engine will "guess" for a certain file type and if there are no security concerns you are on the safe side, because in my opinion no user will link to this file either. However if you want to be certain just reroute all your functionality through an index.php via one line in your .htaccess which should be placed inside your www-root directory:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*?)$ index.php?file=$1
In your index.php you can then simply choose which function/file to invoke by breaking down and checking the $_GET["file"] parameter. To make 100% certain no one can access your register.php file directly just move it (and all your others) to a separate directory and include a .htaccess file with the following line:
DENY from all
There are a couple of other options to prevent direct access. Just define() a variable somewhere in your index.php and at the top of your register.php just put
defined('access') or die('Intruder alert!');
at the top. Another way could be to be honest and simply tell search engines that your content has been moved and that they no longer should use the old link:
header("Status: 301"); /* Content moved permanently */
header("Location: http://yourserver/Register/");
exit;
Update
Just one more thing that crossed my mind, you can also check $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], whether the user attached any ".php" and act accordingly by either denying access completely or just redirecting to the new location.
It is true that you cannot use location directive, but you can actually paste .htaccess file into any directory.
Just if you put this into it, say:
Options -Indexes
order allow,deny
deny from all
you can copy paste this file into any (root) directory you want to protect from external execution.
To check the initial requested URL path, you need to use the request line. So try this rule:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ /[^?\s]+\.php[/?\s]
RewriteRule (.+)\.php$ /$1 [L,R=301]
And then again your rule (in a slightly modified way):
RewriteRule ^register/$ register.php
If you want to completely block /register.php by using mod_rewrite, use a variant of SleepyCod's answer:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} register\.php [NC]
RewriteCond %{IS_SUBREQ} false
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Explanation:
[NC]: Makes the condition case-insensitive, just in case you're on a windows box.
Condition 1: The requested filename is 'register.php', and
Condition 2: The request is no subrequest (this is important, since every new round through RewriteRules actually creates subrequests).
Rule: essentially do nothing
Flags: [F]: Send an 403 Forbidden header, [L]: This is the last rule to apply, skip all following rewrite rules
Rewriting correctly is an art by itself. I suggest you carefully read http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/.
Cheers,
Try this.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^register\.php$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/register register.php
Or this
Redirect register.php /register
Ignoring the user-experience part, you can implement the new rel=canonical link to sort out the search engines.
Although, for this case you should probably just use a 301 redirect from /register.php to /register/
In register.php
if ( stristr( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '.php' ) )
{
header ('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
header ('Location: /register');
}