On a php web page, i'm displaying an html5 player which plays an mp3 track, and there's a download button next to that. I want to mask the download link only, so visitors will not be able to see the directory tree of my server (www.example.com/content/plugins/audio/downloads/test.mp3). I want to change the link to something more simple and smaller like (www.example.com/download/test.mp3) without changing the folders structure of my server.
I'm not sure if it is an .htaccess or PHP thing.
Thanks in advance.
With .htaccess you would need the following rewrite rule:
$ pwd
/var/www
$ cat .htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/download/(.*\.mp3) /content/plugins/audio/downloads/$1 [NC]
It will match all http://yourdomain.com/download/….mp3 requests and redirect to http://yourdomain.com/content/plugins/audio/downloads/….mp3
If you want your .htaccess to work from inside a subdirectory, use RewriteBase:
$ cat subdirectory/.htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /subdirectory
RewriteRule ^download/(.*\.mp3) content/plugins/audio/downloads/$1 [NC]
i.e. http://yourdomain.com/subdirectory/download/….mp3 to http://yourdomain.com/subdirectory/content/plugins/audio/downloads/….mp3
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I am working on an e-commerce project , but i am facing two problems.
first, when i click on sub category link such as classic shoes
supposed that mysite.com/classic-shoes.php open
now i need to make classic-shoes.php file and file to every sub category and that is nonsense
second, i want my url to be like that
https://www.jumia.com.eg/mobiles-tablets/
not having .php in the end of the link..
forgive me on my bad english but i hope that you understand my problem, thanks in advance
To remove the php extension from url you can use htaccess file to rewrite the rule
create .htaccess file in root directory of your project — use sublime text or any other text editor to create if you are unable to create .htaccess file.
put the rule below in this file.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_-]+)$ $1.php [L]
For more reference:
http://www.htaccess-guide.com/
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html
I store data in text file.
And when user enter in address bar something like
my_syte.com/aaa - (without extension)- I need to file_get_contents aaa.txt file
my_syte.com/bbb - I need to file_get_contents bbb.txt file
Please advise the most powerful way of do it. Apache server.
Thanks
On Apache servers you can use mod-rewrite in .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)$ /$1.txt [L]
if your files can contain - or _ or numbers then use:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ /$1.txt [L]
On nginx servers it's more complicated but some of them works with .htaccess. On other servers there may be entirely different approach. It's hard to help you without more informations.
As you said it's Apache, then use examples above. Either edit or create .htaccess file on your webroot (directory which is accessed by domain). First check if it were there (could be hidden) and if it exists then only edit it (add lines at the top).
If it doesn't exist, then create one by yourself.
Can you please give us some insights about your server? Apache nginx?
In Apache, you can achieve that with url rewriting.
Enable mod_rewrite in apache
Put the following line of code in .htaccess on the same location of my_site.com/
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/foo$ /foo.txt [PT]
to make it generic
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/*$ /foo.txt [PT]
Maybe I am wrong in sytax based on your specific server configuration. You need to make the best possible regular expression for this case.
I currently run a site with 750 pages of .html webpages (yeah I know it was a stupid idea, but I'm a novice). I'm looking to move these to php. I don't really want to set up 750 individual 301 redirects and rewrite each page to .php
I've heard that I can use htaccess to this. Anyone know how?
A few additional questions -
Can I permanently redirect these links from html to php without losing my search engine rankings and
if I want to add php to each of the files (i.e. a php file menu (using the include command) to make the links quicker to update will this work? Because won't they still be html files?
Sorry for the stupid questions, but I'm still learning.
Congratulations on a 750 page site - you must have put some work into that.
To collect your current list of pages use a tool called xenu to create an export into excel. You can then easily change the name the files to PHP in column b and create a .htaccees file.
However why would you want 750 php files? If you have lots of data pages, make it one page and suck in the HTML main content and reference one page. If you have a page called warehouse-depot-22-row-44.html then change that to show-warehouse-row.php?depot=22&row=44 and return that content only. This will significantly reduce your number of pages and to start using databases to render the content.
For redirecting you could use the Apache Module mod_rewrite: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html
You can use url rewriting to match a specific file name request with a regular expression and then decide where to redirect if matched
RewriteRule ^myname/?$ myname.php [NC,L]
http://www.addedbytes.com/articles/for-beginners/url-rewriting-for-beginners/
Depends on the structure you have.
You want the user to access them in their natural location?
/public_html/folder1/file.php
user would access like
mydomain.com/folder1/file
or you want to map them differently?
Personally I think I would use a rewrite rule to map all requests to my /public_html/index.php and would map the requests from there using php (using include for instance). This gives great flexibility, plus you have a single point of entry for your application which is very beneficial since you can easily maintain control of the application flow.
The .htaccess would look like this
#
# Redirect all to index.php
#
RewriteEngine On
# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php
# RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/[^.]*|\.(php|html?))$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/[^.]*|\.)$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]
of course I place all my not directly accessible files (everything except index and css, js, images, etc) to a folder outside the public_html to ensure no user can ever access them directly ;)
I've had a similar (yet much much smaller) site that went through the same thing.
I have this in my .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1.php [L]
This will help redirect any visitors to your .html addresses to your .php addresses.
You hopefully have an IDE (I recommend Aptana), and you can use some of the find/change functions project-wide, and hopefully with some time and patience get your internal links from .html to .php.
But, I caution you a little bit - Perhaps it is time to look into a database based CMS, such as Wordpress or Drupal?
I just started using Amazon S3 to host static files (images, videos, etc.).
For accessing the uploaded files, temporary links are created.
A temporary link looks like this one:
http://zeebit.s3.amazonaws.com/stackoverflow-logo.png?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIXEHEYSBDWAAXVVA&Expires=1346888760&Signature=B%2BS%2FlUoRXno3UfSqf9Ua0RuCcBc%3D
What I want is to serve these file through my url, something like this:
http://s3.mydomain.com/zeebit/stackoverflow-logo.png/AKIAIXEHEYSBDWAAXVVA/B%2BS%2FlUoRXno3UfSqf9Ua0RuCcBc%3D
I know I can redirect requests to http://s3.mydomain.com to the Amazon url via PHP (for example), but I don't want the address bar to change.
I can create a .htaccess to transform the url to the Amazon url, but as I know .htaccess can't redirect to external resources.
So, how can I solve this?
There are a couple of solutions:
.htaccess Solution #1 - Rewrite Rule
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^s3\. # Hostname starts with "s3."
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-f # Not a file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-d # Not a directory
RewriteRule ^/(.+)/(.+)/(.+)/(.+)/(.+)$ http://$1.s3.amazonaws.com/$2?AWSAccessKeyId=$3&Expires=$5&Signature=$4 [R=302,L]
NOTE: Your initial desired URL was missing the "Expires" value, so the above would work for URLs formed like so:
http://s3.yourdomain.com/[[S3_Bucket_Name]]/[[S3_Filename]]/[[AWSAccessKeyId]]/[[Signature]]/[[Expires]]
So:
http://s3.mydomain.com/zeebit/stackoverflow-logo.png/AKIAIXEHEYSBDWAAXVVA/B%2BS%2FlUoRXno3UfSqf9Ua0RuCcBc%3D/1346888760
would redirect to
http://zeebit.s3.amazonaws.com/stackoverflow-logo.png?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIXEHEYSBDWAAXVVA&Expires=B%2BS%2FlUoRXno3UfSqf9Ua0RuCcBc%3D&Signature=1346888760
.htaccess Solution #2 - Redirect
Whilst being a less flexible solution than the above, you could put the following into your .htaccess file
redirect 302 /s3/ http://zeebit.s3.mydomain.com/
Using this rule, requests for
http://yourdomain.com/s3/stackoverflow-logo.png?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIXEHEYSBDWAAXVVA&Expires=B%2BS%2FlUoRXno3UfSqf9Ua0RuCcBc%3D&Signature=1346888760
Would basically retain everything after /s3/ and simply replace everything preceeding it with the Amazon S3 location.
http://zeebit.s3.amazonaws.com/stackoverflow-logo.png?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIXEHEYSBDWAAXVVA&Expires=B%2BS%2FlUoRXno3UfSqf9Ua0RuCcBc%3D&Signature=1346888760
I have 20 million images spread across 3 subdomains. Here is an example:
subdomain3.domainabc.com/images/image5.jpg
I do not wish to move these images to my new server/domain and I do not wish to link to them directly. Instead, I want to use my htaccess file on domainxyz.com. So, on domainxyz.com when this image is called:
subdomain3.domainxyz.com/images/image5.jpg
It goes to server domainabc.com and displays the correct image. Is this possible? Here is what I've put into domainxyz.com htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.+)\.domainxyz\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.jpg$ http://%1\.domainabc\.com/$1\.jpg [R,L]
Take a look at: Mod-rewrite rule for external pages?
Tunneling is not possible; only redirecting.