I'm working on a site where all the pages are actually index.php + a 'name' parameter that is analyzed
and loads the appropriate template and content.
the homepage url is:
http://www.some_site.com/?page=homepage
1. i was asked to "change" the homepage url to:
http://www.some_site.com
can i use url rewite and htaccess for that and if so, what should i write there?
working on my local machine, i tried this code (mode rewrite is enabled):
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule /index.php /index.php?page=homepage
</IfModule>
i would still need the 'name' parameter to be available to the php code of course, so i can load the
template and css files.
2. it would be nice for other pages (not homepage) to be converted from (example)
http://www.some_site.com/?page=products
to:
http://www.some_site.com/products
this is less crucial.
thanx in advance and have a nice day :-)
You don't need a rewrite rule at all. Just change your index.php file to show the homepage when there is no page variable at all.
if (!isset($_GET['page'])) {
$_GET['page'] = 'homepage';
}
For educational purposes, the rewrite rule:
RewriteRule /$ index.php?page=homepage [L]
That is, the URI to match is just the slash (the URI starts after your domain in the URL). The $ means that there should be no characters after the slash.
As for products and such, assuming single words made of only letters:
RewriteRule /([a-zA-Z]+)$ index.php?page=$1 [L]
The following should be what you're looking for (for your second, less crucial, question). Put it in your .htaccess-file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/([a-zA-z0-9-_]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1
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I'm on my begining of learning PHP and very first steps of .htaccess, most of my new web is about main category and few subcategories.
Here are links examples i had before working out .htaccess RewriteEngine:
example.com/index.php?cat=email
example.com/index.php?cat=about&show=some
with help of .htaccess RewriteEngine i've convered them to:
example.com/email/
example.com/about/some/
Here is part of .htaccess:
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/$ 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.
I'm trying to convert a query string;
http://atwd/books/course?course_id=CC100&format=XML&submit=Submit
Into a segment URI;
http://atwd/books/course/CC100/XML
I'm working in CodeIgniter.
I was looking at a stackoverflow answer that said to check CodeIgniter's URL segment guide, but I don't think there's any information on how to convert a query string into a segment URI. There is, however a way to convert a segment URI into a query string, which is bringing up a load of results from Google too.
Following another stackoverflow answer, I tried this in my .htaccess file but nothing seemed to work
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^course_id\=([^&]+)\&format\=([^&]+)$
RewriteRule ^$ /course/%1/format/%2 [R,L]
In my entire .htaccess file I have this;
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
#Source: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/urls.html
#Removal of index.php
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?route/$1 [L]
#Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3420204/htaccess-get-url-to-uri-segments
#Format Course function requests
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^course_id\=([^&]+)\&format\=([^&]+)$
RewriteRule ^$ /course/%1/format/%2 [R,L]
</IfModule>
This is in my root directory of Codeigniter screenshot
My code in the .htaccess file isn't working, I refresh the page and nothing happens. The code to hide the index.php is working though. Does anyone know why?
The notion of "converting URLs" from one thing to another is completely ambiguous, see the top part of this answer for an explanation of what happens to URLs when redirecting or rewriting: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11711948/851273
There's 2 things that happen, and I'm going to take a wild stab and guess that you want the 2nd thing, since you're complaining that refreshing the page doesn't do anything.
When you type http://atwd/books/course?course_id=CC100&format=XML&submit=Submit into your browser, this is the request URI that gets sent through mod_rewrite: /books/course. In your rule, you are matching against a blank URI: RewriteRule ^$ /course/%1/format/%2 [R,L]. That's the first reason your rule doesn't work. The second reason why it doesn't work is because above that, everything except images and index.php and robots.txt is being routed through index.php. So even if you were matching against the right URI, it gets routed before your rule even gets to do anything.
You need to correct the pattern in your rule to match the URI that you expect to redirect, and you need to place this rule before the routing rule that you have. So everything should look roughly like this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^course_id\=([^&]+)\&format\=([^&]+)$
RewriteRule ^/?books/course$ /course/%1/format/%2 [R,L]
#Source: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/urls.html
#Removal of index.php
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?route/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
You'll need to tweak the paths to make sure they match what you are actually looking for.
To both redirect the browser and internally rewrite back to your original URL, you need to do something different.
First, you need to make sure all of your links look like this: /course/CC100/format/XML. Change your CMS or static HTML so all the links show up that way.
Then, you need to change the rules around (all before your codeigniter routing rule) to be something liek this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
# redirect browser to a URI without the query string
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|HEAD)\ /books/course/?\?course_id=([^&]+)&format=([^&]+)
RewriteRule ^/?books/course$ /course/%2/format/%3? [R,L]
# internally rewrite query string-less request back to one with query strings
RewriteRule ^/?course/([^/]+)/format/([^/]+)$ /books/course?course_id=$1&format=$2&submit=Submit [L]
#Source: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/urls.html
#Removal of index.php
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?route/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
I'm not going to address the misunderstanding already addressed pretty well in the other answer and comments, and I can't speak for CodeIgniter specifically, but having given their URL routing docs a quick skim, it seems pretty similar to most web frameworks:
You probably just want to direct all traffic (that doesn't match physical files) to the frontend web controller (index.php) and handle the URL management in CodeIgniter's routing, not a htaccess file.
To do that, your htaccess could be as simple as:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .* index.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
This, as I said, will redirect any traffic that doesn't match an physical file such as robots.txt or an image to your index.php.
Then, using the routing as described in the docs (http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/general/routing.html) you can take in parameters and pass them to your controllers as you see fit, there is no need to 'convert' or 'map' anything, your URL's don't need to resolve to /?yada=yada internally, based on your routing rules CodeIgniter can work it out.
You'll need wildcard routes such as this from the docs:
$route['product/:id'] = "catalog/product_lookup";
A rough example of what yours might end up looking like would be something like:
$route['course/:id/format/:format'] = "course/something_or_other_action";
If I'm understanding you correctly, you might be over-thinking it. I have something similar in my own code.
I have a controller named Source. In that controller, I have the following method:
public function edit($source_id, $year)
{
# Code relevant to this method here
}
This produces: http://localhost/source/edit/12/2013, where 12 refers to $source_id and 2013 refers to $year. Each parameter that you add is automatically translated into its own URI segment. It required no .htaccess trickery or custom routes either.
I have a php website having following folder structure (basic structure).
project_name
app
controller
model
view
css
js
img
index.php
So when I view index.php in WAMP the url is http://localhost/project_name/
But when I go inside the site (eg. login.php which resides under view folder) url is like this. http://localhost/project_name/app/view/login.php
I found that using .htaccess we can change the urls. So I tried this (in .htaccess).
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
Redirect 301 /project_name/app/view/login.php /project_name/login.php
RewriteRule ^/project_name/login.php$ /project_name/app/view/login.php [L]
Now url is http://localhost/project_name/login.php It is correct. But it seems php does not use the original link to grab the file (ie. from /project_name/app/view/login.php) but from here /project_name/login.php
So it throws 404 error.
What should I change? Please help me, i am just trying to hide /app/view/ part from the url so that user won't see my folder structure. I have read about various ways of doing that for about 9hrs today but still couldn't get anything working correctly.
Hope my question is clear enough. Any help is greatly appreciated!
URI's passed through rewrite rules in an htaccess file has the leading slash removed, so your rule:
RewriteRule ^/project_name/login.php$ /project_name/app/view/login.php [L]
won't ever match anything because of ^/. Also, since you are rewriting to a URI that matches a previous redirect, your browser will see a redirect loop and say that it's not redirecting properly. You'll need to match against the actual request and not the URI:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /project_name/app/view/login\.php
RewriteRule ^ /project_name/login.php [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^/?project_name/login.php$ /project_name/app/view/login.php [L]
I have a single page website that changes content based on variables passed through the URL with PHP.
For instance, my url displays as
www.mysite.com/index.php?section=home
www.mysite.com/index.php?section=about-us
so forth and so on, depending upon which link you click in the main navigation.
I want the urls to read as www.mysite.com/home or www.mysite.com/about-us.
My mod-rewrite feature is enabled because before I made this a one page site, it was functioning correctly.
I've tried this...
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^home/?$ index.php?section=$1 [NC,L]
I've tried every suggestion I found on Google and on StackOverflow, nothing is working.
Any help would be appreciated!
I have an .htaccess for exactly the same purpose, and it's working beautifully. My code is below.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?id=$1 [L]
Naturally, if index.php isn't your main PHP file, replace that with what is. Also, replace ?id with ?section if your example code is what your using.
What the [^/\.]+ means is saying I need you to find text that contains anything but a period (.) or a forward slash (/), and there has to be at least one character in it.
For an example, go to the website I'm using it on, Northside Aikido.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.
EDIT
Note, this code won't turn http://www.example.com/index.php?section=home into http://www.example.com/home automagically, it'll just mean that the latter link works like the former. If you want it to automatically replace it, you'll need more code than one line.
this is what im using:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ index.php?section=$1 [NC,L]
</IfModule>
Almost
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/?$ index.php?section=$1 [NC,L]
Is there a way use mod_rewrite to produce the result below?
Original URL:
http://www.domain.com/shop.php?id=newyork
to
SEO friendly URL
http://www.domain.com/newyork
I've seen plenty of example where the above URL can be converted to http://www.domain.com/shop/newyork but I actually don't want to display the word 'shop/' so just http://www.domain.com/newyork
I'd have a go with something like the following, off the top of my head
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]*)$ www.example.com/shop.php?id=$1
Do bear in mind that anything after your root domain, will be piped into your shop.php script.
Yes, in your .htaccess file put
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/([^/.]+)$ shop.php?id=$1 [L]
</IfModule>
([^/.]+) will match anything that isn't a / or . and store that info,
$1 at the end outputs that info into your shop script.
[L] tells mod_rewrite to stop looking for rules if this one works.
Based on your example:
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)$ /shop.php?id=$1 [L]
Would match newyork, alaska, hamburg but not highway-1.