I have a site which I have converted to use cms made simple. It works perfectly and I have the friendly urls working fine too. My issue is with a little script I wrote myself and how best to integrate it. The script is a gallery script, it reads a directory and outputs a formatted gallery in html. I was planning on making it a user defined tag in cms made simple but I hit a small snag.
The gallery script needs to be able to read in two values from the url groupId and showpage.
If I am using freindly urls then the cms and use the tag I hit a snag as the cms tries to find an actual page at "www.mysite.com/gallery/mygroup/2" and then throws a 404.
basically I need
http://www.mysite.com/gallery/photogroup/2
rewritten to
http://www.mysite.com/gallery.php?groupId=photogroup&showpage=2
UPDATE
Follwoing Yuri's advice I added his rule to the htaccess. But I have hit another snag.
So for instance if we go to
http://www.mysite.com/gallery/photogroup/2
then Yuri's rule should take effect. But that path is also a correct physical directory on my site coincidentally. Is there a way to have the rewrite rule take effect instead of bringing me to a white screen browsing the files in the directory or to the forbidden screen if I have indexes turned off which I do.
Below is my htaccess
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1
RewriteRule ^gallery/(\w+)/(\d+)$ gallery.php?groupId=$1&showpage=$2 [QSA,L]
So, did you try to write in .htaccess something like this?
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond ${REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond ${REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^gallery/(\w+)/(\d+)$ gallery.php?groupId=$1&showpage=$2 [QSA,L]
sounds like a "module" to me. Maybe this Make your module use clean URLs
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I'm on my begining of learning PHP and very first steps of .htaccess, most of my new web is about main category and few subcategories.
Here are links examples i had before working out .htaccess RewriteEngine:
example.com/index.php?cat=email
example.com/index.php?cat=about&show=some
with help of .htaccess RewriteEngine i've convered them to:
example.com/email/
example.com/about/some/
Here is part of .htaccess:
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/$ index.php?cat=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/$ index.php?cat=$1&show=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)$ index.php?cat=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)$ index.php?cat=$1&show=$2 [L]
Now problem is that most of content have inside links like: "example.com/index.php?cat=about&show=some" Changing them all is option, but anyway... is there anything else could be done? I heard of some .htaccess option that autoconverts links to format you need without changing them manualy, so all links in PHP pages will be the same, but once user gets page loaded, links will be like (example.com/about/some/) Is there anything like that, or is there any other option to leave original link without changing them all?
Cheers!
Links on your site are created with your PHP scripts, Apache with htaccess can't magically change all this links in a raw.
Now what you can do, is redirect old URL to the new ones using htaccess, with a 301 redirection.
For example, if someone click on example.com/index.php?cat=email, Apache will redirect (= the URL will be changed and there will be another HTTP request) to example.com/email/, and then rewrite this to index.php?cat=email
Add this to your htaccess :
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} index.php$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} cat=([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)
RewriteRule ^ http://example.com/%1/? [L,R=301]
Anyway I strongly recommend you to change the links directly in your code, because even if the solution I've just explained should works (not tested), it's not really healthy to use redirection when you can avoid them.
TL; DR: I would like to hit the index-api.php file if api is found in the URL, but then simply keep all other requests pointing to the site/dist directory as if it were the 'root' of the site.
So, I've spent way too many hours on this and trust me, I've dug through all of the resources for mod_rewrite. I guess I'm just not quite understanding and figured I'd ask on here.
What I want to do, in theory, seems simple. I'm building a single page application (Angular App) using Grunt, outputting that to a the root of a WordPress install. The WordPress install is simply serving up an API using the WordPress JSON API plugin, so I want the root of the site to hit my Grunt directory (located at site/dist/index.html), but all requests to siteurl.com/api to hit the index.php file and proceed normally.
Keep in mind I have other assets / images located in this site/dist directory, so ideally, it would be awesome if all requests to the site root would simply use this folder as the "base" of the site (e.g. a request to siteurl.com/images/testimage.jpg pulls from site/dist/images/testimage.jpg).
I feel like I'm onto something here and am surprised I couldn't find anything that directly tackles this issue.
What I've done now is renamed the index.php from WordPress to index-api.php and left it the same:
index-api.php:
<?php
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require('./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php');
// phpInfo();
.htaccess:
<ifModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^api/(.*)$ index-api.php [L]
RewriteRule (.*)$ site/dist/index.html [L]
</ifModule>
I tried a myriad of other efforts from a few posts trying to get this working, and it seems to me like it should work fine. The funny thing is, if I comment out the last line RewriteRule (.*)$ site/dist/index.html [L] the api request works normally as expected, so I know I'm close.
Any suggestions?
Would appreciate anyone's help on this, it's been really confusing!
In the first place you'll need to make sure that requests made to /index-api.php are not matched and rewritten by the second rule. In the second rule you can use $1. $1 will be replaced with whatever was matched in the first capture group. We'll also need to make sure that the second rule will not match what it rewrites, or we'll end up with an infinite loop and an internal error.
You can use the $1 in the first rule too, as I show below:
RewriteRule ^api/(.*)$ index-api.php?url=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/site/dist/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index-api\.php
RewriteRule (.*)$ site/dist/$1 [L]
I recommend reading the documentation of mod_rewrite to get a better understanding how you can use it and what things you have at your disposal while rewriting url's.
I'll be signing businesses up to advertise on my website, and I want them to have a direct URL for their customers to go to.
Like, instead of www.website.com/page.php?id=324234234,
I want to have www.website.com/businessname
Is there a simple way to do this? I've searched and seen a whole bunch of different things people are trying to do but I haven't seen anything that's the same as what I want to do.
I'm using a VPS, and I want to make sure that I don't open up permissions so that anyone can get in there and mess things up.
Also, these users will not be signing themselves up. I will be doing that.
The simplest way to get my end result is what I'm looking for. Thanks!
Basic URL rewriting could work.
Add to your .htaccess file
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ page.php?businessname=$1 [L]
Then use PHP to rewrite the businessname to the ID of the company / find the data.
Of course .htaccess rewrite rules is a complete science if you need more complex rewriting...
Re-iterating what jtheman said with a little more explanation:
Create a file named .htaccess with the contents:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ page.php?businessname=$1 [L]
You need, of course, the ability to have directory level .htaccess enabled - you're using a VPS so you should be able to do this if it is not already enabled.
So let me explain what each line will do.
RewriteEngine on
Turns on the ability to URL re-write
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
Tells Apache not to re-direct files that exist in the directory already
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ page.php?businessname=$1 [L]
This is where the magic happens.
^(.*)$ this part is like a regular expression match. It will tell Apache to collect any URLs that have any characters within them and redirect them to page.php?businessname=(.*)
So, if you post:
www.website.com/stackover
It will really be sending: www.website.com/page.php?businessname=stackover
Then you can just use $_GET[businessname] to dynamically update the page.
Hope this helps!
I am currently working on a web application where i want to give user access to their profile by typing www.mysitename.com/username this is working fine with .htaccess but i also want the user to access other pages with clean urls by redirecting
http://www.mysitename.com/song-type-one.php?song=xyz to
http://www.mysitename.com/song-type-one.php/song/xyz
i used the rewrite rule like this
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ./song-type-one.php?song=$1
RewriteRule ^lok-songs/(.*)$ .song-type-one.php?song=$1
if i type the clean url now in the browser only my main content is loaded the css, javascript and my php include are not loaded. there might be something wrong with my .htaccess whats the best way to achieve all rules i want with .htaccess ?
Try adding this before it:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
If the file exists on disk it won't do your rewrite rule allowing the JS and images to be loaded normally.
I am trying to change my url type with .htaccess but I have a few problems. I tried a few online tools but they even do not work for me. So here what I am trying to do;
I have pages like http://mydomain.com/profile.php?u=newuser and I want to make as this: http://mydomain.com/newuser but so far I could not achieve it.
Here also what I have tried;
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) profile.php?u=$1
After making changes in .htaccess, do I also have to make any changes in my php files? Also, when try to open http://mydomain.com/newuser I noticed that some of my images on the page are disappearing, what would be the reason for that? Thank you so much guys!
You've gotten quite far, but now you're rewriting every possible url in your domain to profile.php, including stuff like /images/logo.jpg for example.
The question is, what do you want to do with this? An easy way to go about is changing it to this:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule (.*) profile.php?u=$1
The added 'RewriteCond' causes the rewriteengine to only rewrite urls that don't exist on the server, so your images will show up fine.
Personally, I think it might be better to add a /profile/ prefix to all your profile urls:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule profile/(.*) profile.php?u=$1
This will allow you to add new rewrite rules in the future, if you need them; it will also not give you issues if one of your users decides to go for a username called 'profile.php' or anything else that clashes with the existing urls on the server.
This is because you're sending every request to profile.php (.*). This is going to affect all the requests for images, resources, etc.
Add this line above your rule to exclude "real" resources:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d