Ok I want to simulate the YouTube URL and redirect it to my real URL. Reason being is I used a random string to make video ID's so they aren't guessable by sequence.
I have the links as so
http://www.mysite.com/watch?v=Dxdotx3iT1
and want to redirect to
http://www.mysite.com/index.php?page=videos§ion=view&v=Dxdotx3iT1
Can't seem to figure out the mod rewrite. Also using a ? I believe tells it to do something.
Any help would be appreciated.
You need to adjust your RewriteRule to include the query string using the [QSA] (query string attached) flag:
RewriteRule ^watch$ index.php?page=video§ion=view [QSA]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^v=(.+)
RewriteRule ^watch /index\.php?page=videos§ion=view&v=%1 [QSA,R=301,L]
None of these answers worked for me, so in the end I found through trial and error the following worked for me;
The RewriteRule to get my URL to look like this https://www.example.com/video/watch?v=UnIq3Id follows;
RewriteRule ^video\/watch\?*$ index.php?page=video [L,QSA]
I found that the following rule I had previously set up to make my URL look like this https://www.example.com/video/UnIq3Id interfered with my redirecting;
RewriteRule ^/?([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)$ index.php?page=$1&v=$2
Simply commenting it out fixed the issue, as follows;
#RewriteRule ^/?([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)$ index.php?page=$1&v=$2
The RewriteRule to get my URL to look like this https://www.example.com/watch?v=UnIq3Id is as follows;
RewriteRule ^watch\?*$ index.php?page=video [L,QSA]
I found that the following rule I had previously set up to make my URL look like this https://www.example.com/video/ interfered with my redirecting;
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [NC]
Simply commenting it out fixed the issue, as follows;
#RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [NC]
Hope it helped someone and saved you the headache I had, people are not so forthcoming on this issue at times How do you write an htaccess RewriteRule to make my urls work like youtube?.
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My URLs look like http://example.com/?n=x. I want the URL to show as http://example.com/. I have used to approaches so far and none of them works.
First one is based on this question:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^n=1$
RewriteRule (.*) $1? [R=permanent]
After the answer below I modified the .htaccess file:
```RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^n=(.*)$
RewriteRule (.*) $1? [R=permanent]```
but it still did not work. Here is the debugging info:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^n=(.*)$
This condition was met.
RewriteRule (.*) $1? [R=permanent]
The new url is http://example.com/blog/cat/??
Test are stopped, a redirect will be made with status code permanent
Second approach is:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [QSD]
None of them seem to work.
I have a few more questions:
Does rewriting only work if the URL is not typed manually?
Can I still access the values of query strings in PHP?
What happens when a user copies the rewritten URL?
The first approach is correct if you go to http://example.com/?n=1, if I am correct you should change ^n=1$ to ^n=(.*)$.
And the other questions:
It works for all kind. It doesn't matter if it was a robot or a human writing it, when you access a page, .htaccess will be read.
Yes you can. Use $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]. If you use the htaccess redirection before explained, you will lose them because you are redirecting.
What do you mean ?
For some reasons a google addbot generates links like:
https://batteryservice.bg/продукт/фенер-nitecore-mt40gt/batteryservice.bg
I would like to remove this last part /batteryservice.bg and have something like:
https://batteryservice.bg/продукт/фенер-nitecore-mt40gt/
I tried this solution like : RewriteRule ^(.+)/batteryservice.bg /$1 [R=301,L,NC] But this didn't worked for me.
This one worked, strangely enough RewriteRule ^(.+)/batteryservice.bg https://batteryservice.bg/$1 [R=301,L,NC]
Ok, So I've looked at this topic for quite a while now and can't get anything to work, probably because I'm still having difficulty understanding it - So I'm going back to basics and asking this in the simplest of terms.
I have an empty .htaccess file
I have a current URL of http://www.website.co.uk/news.php?id=111111
I want this to become http://www.website.co.uk/news/111111
How Do I Do This?
Also please not that although this is the URL now, I'm planning on making some changes to the site so the URL's in the future may be:
http://www.website.co.uk/news.php?city=city&issue=1&title=the-title&id=111111
http://www.website.co.uk/news/city/issue/the-title/111111
How can I make it so that the future changes will work too? So far I have:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^news/(.+)$ news.php?id=$1 [L]
This still displays the full url and typing in news/111111 redirects to an error page. Please help!
Adding the following to your htaccess should work:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^news.php$ /news/%1? [L,R]
RewriteRule ^news/(.*) news.php?id=$1 [QSA]
The above will change http://www.website.co.uk/news.php?id=111111 to http://www.website.co.uk/news/111111
and below will change
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^city=(.*)&issue=(.*)&title=(.*)&id=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^news.php$ /news/%1/%2/%3/%4 [L,R]
RewriteRule ^news/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*) news.php?city=$1&issue=$2&title=$3&id=$4 [QSA]
http://www.website.co.uk/news.php?city=city&issue=1&title=the-title&id=111111 into http://www.website.co.uk/news/city/issue/the-title/111111
The values in %1, %2, $3, %4 gotten from the parameters after city=, issue=. title=. id=.
In city=London, London will be contained in %1 etc
The second RewriteRule will allow you to find the id used.
I am using codeigniter for my website, and before theres always that index.php? on my every url or links, for example
mysite.com/index.php?/about
Google has indexed all of my urls with that index.php? and I want to remove it and redirect it without that. I am having a problem rewriting the URL and redirect it to mysite.com/about and this what i have tried so far
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+index\.php\?(/[^\s\?]+)? [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1/ [QSA,L,R=301]
what happened is, it only removed the index.php,
for example mysite.com/index.php?/about will turn to mysite.com/?/about I don't know how to remove that question mark,
I'm not good on mod_rewrite thanks in advance for the help.
I think you can improve the rules slightly.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}?%{QUERY_STRING} index\.php?\?.+
RewriteRule .*$ %{QUERY_STRING}? [R=301,L]
Essentially, you don't have to worry about the entire request line in %{THE_REQUEST}, which removes all the complicated regex. Also, the rule redirects to whatever is listed in %{QUERY_STRING}, and removes the query string.
I am not sure why you used QSA in the first place. I think that was part of the problem earlier. Just for an exercise, you can try removing QSA and see what happens.
You should try this one.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^/[a-z]+$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/index.php$ %{QUERY_STRING} [NC,L,R=301]
I'm just wondering how other websites replace there get variable.
example:
http://www.example.com/page.php?page=1
replaced:
http://www.example.com/page/1
indeed, just what ssx said.
You need a .htaccess file in the root of the website, with some content that looks like this (i use this one)
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([\(\)\|a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?ext=$1&cat=$2&name=$3&urlID=$4 [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([\(\)\|a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/?$ /index.php?ext=$1&cat=$2&name=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/p=([0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?ext=$1&cat=$2&p=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/?$ /index.php?ext=$1&cat=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/?$ /index.php?ext=$1 [L]
I'd say take a look at an answer I provided someone else a while back. I'd type it all out here again or copy and paste it but the link is much easier.
PHP dynamic DB page rewrite URL