Rewrite url with an urlencoded parameter - php

I send an urlencoded address as a GET parameter called fromurl to my page http://localhost/myapp/admin/login.php:
http://localhost/myapp/admin/login.php?fromurl=%2Fmyapp%2Fadmin%2F
I would like to enable a nicer URL on the form using mod_rewrite which I am quite new to. The nicer URL variant of the example above would have the form:
http://localhost/myapp/admin/login/%2Fmyapp%2Fadmin%2F
I have tried this line in .htaccess which did not work (the URL can not be found):
RewriteRule ^admin/login/(.*)$ admin/login.php?fromurl=$1
I have other mod_rewrite rules working. How should I write the RewriteRule in this case?

Try escaping your slashes:
RewriteRule ^admin\/login\/(.*)$ admin/login.php?fromurl=$1
Additionally, you might need to add a rewritebase (before the rewrite rule) because you aren't accessing this via a dedicated hostname
RewriteBase /myapp/

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htaccess rewrite rule for url varible as parent folder

I already create a .htaccess in my folder and would like to make the URL:
www.example/good/page
toward:
www.example/page?type=good
my current document is written as:
RewriteRule ^(\w+)$\/page page.php?type=$1 [NC,L]
but it didn't work, and I don't know how to check it is correct or not
would anyone able to provide some example for that?
thanks!
Make sure your rewite engine is on, and it is rewriting the base. Change your code like the following:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^/?([^/]+)/page?$ "page.php?type=$1" [L,QSA]
And then your rewrite rule must look like this.
The RewriteRule basically means that if the request is done that matches ^/?([^/]+)/page?$ (matches any URL except the server root), it will be rewritten as page.php?type=$1 which means a request for page.php be rewritten as page.php?type=good).
QSA means that if there's a query string passed with the original URL, it will be appended to the rewrite (example.com/good/page?id=2 will be rewritten as page.php?type=good&id=2.
L means if the rule matches, don't process any more RewriteRules below this one.
Try this and let me know. Accept the answer if it worked for you.

changing php function calling URL with mod_rewrite

I've already search for an answer here, but couldn't find an exact answer.
I've got a php application (it uses CodeIgniter) which is connected to our companys Management Database. The application provides information out of the database in xml form so that our internal mediawiki's can receive those and build Info-Boxes (as example) out of them.
I have the following link to my data in xml format:
https://example.com/controller/function/databaseID/short_name or
https://example.com/App/makeInfoBox/258/Applicationname
which contains Infromation as following:
-<infobox>
<id>258</id>
<short_name>Applicationname</short_name>
<long_name>Long Applicationname</long_name>
<app_number>334</app_number>
<status>End of life</status>
...
</infobox>`
I now want mod_rewrite to change the url to:
https://example.com/appInfoBox.xml?id=258&short_name=Applicationname
I've got something like this:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([0-9]+)\&short_name=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^appInfoBox\.xml$ App/makeInfoBox/%1/%2
I'm really not good in mod_rewrite and this code I got is based on a older version of a used .htaccess file.
Any Suggestions? Thanks!
You must capture the relevant parts of the request (...) and use this in the substitution $...
RewriteRule ^App/makeInfoBox/(.+?)/(.+)$ /appInfoBox.xml?id=$1&short_name=$2 [L]
Use the following directives in the .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/App/makeInfoBox/([0-9]+)/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /appInfoBox.xml?id=%1&short_name=%2 [QSA,R=302]
The .htaccess file should be present in the root folder of example.com.
The RewriteCond directive will check whether the request matches the pattern /App/makeInfoBox/(any-number)/(any-number-of-characters).
IF this is true the RewriteRule directive will map the request to example.com/appInfoBox.xml?id=(any-number)&short_name=(any-number-of-characters) using the QSA flag.
The R=302 flag will cause an external redirect and the end user will be able to see the new URL with query string on the browser.
If you don't want to display the URL with query string to end users, just remove the R=302 flag.
Using your example, now if you will access https://example.com/App/makeInfoBox/258/Applicationname it will redirect to https://example.com/appInfoBox.xml?id=258&short_name=Applicationname

mod_rewrite: set custom header through .htaccess

I'have this rewrite condition that redirect all the request of non-existing files to the app.php in parent directory.
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond $1#%{REQUEST_URI} ([^#]*)#(.*)\1$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %2../app.php [L]
In the last line (rewriterule) the value of $1 is the path relative to the dir where .htacces is, in order to make it portable ( found here: http://linlog.skepticats.com/entries/2014/08/Using_RewriteBase_without_knowing_it.php ).
That is : calling http://localhost/myapp/public/test123/r.txt I will get test123/r.txt in $1 variable (considering that .htaccess is in public/).
I would like to pass the value of $1 to the app.php, a common solution would be to append it as a query string:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %2../app.php?__path=$1 [L]
In this way I have __path as a GET variable (PHP: $_REQUEST["__path"]) , but how it works with other kind of requests like POST (query string should not be there) ?
A more clean solution would be to put $1 in a HTTP custom header but, how can I set a custom header, say MYAPP_PATH to $1 value through .htacess ?
To start with your comment:
I've noticed that the trick ?__path=$1 overrides all the querystring that I pass in the original URL.
You forgot to set the QSA flag.
Second to the core question:
In this way I have __path as a GET variable (PHP: $_REQUEST["__path"]) , but how it works with other kind of requests like POST (query string should not be there) ?
This just works fine. GET-parameters are just popularly called that, they're actually query string parameters and can be passed with any HTTP verb, from GET and POST to PUT and DELETE. So if you POST to a URL with query string parameters you can still read them from $_GET just fine.
Final point, as the above solves all your issues: please do not use $_REQUEST. It's really REALLY bad practice, and may lead to obscure security and stability issues. Just use $_POST, $_GET et al instead.

htaccess rewrite URL for dynamic content

I am wondering how would I change the url from:
single.php?id=1
to:
quote-1
Each submitted data has an id, of course. They can go to the URL, the id of the "quote" to get the quote. How would the URL rewrite look? I've tried to use tools online, but ether they didn't work or I didn't understand how to use it.
Place the following your .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule quote-(\d+) single.php?id=$1 [QSA]
mod_rewrite documentation

htaccess redirect files with no file extension and pass parameters to a file

http://abc.com/test/batch/profile/anyname
In the above url anyname varies depending upon the selected link.
I have to redirect the above url to friend.php and I should pass anyname as parameter to that file
How can I do this?
Put this in your .htaccess:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^profile/([a-z0-9]+)$ friend.php?username=$1 [NC,L]
This allows that people access the following url on your site:
http://www.yoursite.com/profile/abc
http://www.yoursite.com/profile/abc123
http://www.yoursite.com/profile/123
However, any other characters than alphanumerics will not qualify for the rewrite above.
Edit:
If you actually will be keeping the http://www.yoursite.com/test/batch/-url, the .htaccess would have to be adjusted accordingly. I just assumed that you'd be using the root of http://www.yoursite.com/.
You need to do something like this:
RewriteRule ^/test/batch/profile/([^/?]*)$ friend.php?param=$1

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