At the root of my site... www.domain.com . want to add some static pages that the page url can be set from the user.
So if the users set as url profile then full page url should be www.domain.com/profile ..
So far a simple rewrite rule would do the job.
trasnlate it to something like /staticpage.php?tag=profile
The problem that i want some pages like www.domain.com/shop at the root which arent static...
So what can i do if all the requests for the main directory go to /staticpage.php?tag=$1 ?
I recommend using mod rewrite to send everything to your index.php file and using a front controller to do this. It makes it much easier.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>
You'll find a lot more help about mod_rewrite on ServerFault as a general rule, but I tend to do this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^static.*$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^assets.*$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule .* /router.php
where "static" are uploaded files, and "assets" are production graphics/stylesheets/js libraries etc.
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The problem is,
I want to port my current website which is built upon CodeIgniter to WordPress. I do not want to hurt my google ranking and for that, I really need to map certain URLs to an existing file and for new URLs, I will let WordPress handle it in the default way. The main problem that arises is that I do not wish to change the existing domain. I want to redirect/map the files on the same domain from my existing CodeIgniter project.
Okay, let me make it a bit more clear about the state of my problem. I copied my existing CodeIgniter project into the WordPress root folder. Now, I will let the old URL being served from my CodeIgniter project and for all the new ones I will let WordPress handle it. I will also port the existing database to the new server and create a separate one for the WordPress installation.
So, how can I map my old URLs to the CodeIgniter?
My old URLs looks something like this,
http://www.example.com/site/blog/123/abc-xyz-wxy
I want to handle these URL from CodeIgniter file and the new URLs that will be created by WordPress will be handled by WordPress which would look like this,
http://www.example.com/abc-xyz-wxy
So, far this is how my .htaccess file looks like,
BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /cms/wordpress/
RewriteRule ^site/blog/([0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/?$ codeignitor/index.php/$2
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /cms/wordpress/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
END WordPress
And this thing works absolutely fine, but what I want is more of a URL masking. I want to eliminate the CodeIgnitor folder name from the URL.
For selecting the "abc-xyz-wxy" string and redirecting, try using:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILE} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILE} !-d
RewriteRule ^site\/blog\/123\/([a-z-]+) index.php\/$1 [NC,L] ^$1
Disclaimer: Never used CodeIgniter, so everyone feel free to correct.
In case anyone else happens upon this, I have a similar sounding use case where the application code resided inside /public_html/app/ and I wanted it redirect from /public_html/ but not show the app/ portion of it in the url. There was also an additional requirement to not route specific urls in this manner. The resulting file is below. Hopefully it helps someone on a similar journey.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
## SSL
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
## DO NOT ROUTE THESE DIRECTORIES
RewriteRule ^(path-1|path-2) - [L]
## ROUTE OTHER REQUESTS TO /APP
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} . [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /(.+)
RewriteRule !\.[a-z0-4]{2,4}$ /app/index.html [NC,L]
RewriteRule (.*) /app/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
So I've been searching for a while now and can't find anything specific on how to create a pretty url / seo / slug url type system WITHOUT sending everything to a index.php or moving things into subfolders.
Basically I'm making a website which you can currently go to urls like movie.php?id=#### / show.php?id=####. Ideally I'd like the url to be movie/#### or movie/id/#### (or down the line slugs of the name that i can use to grab the right one) etc.
Is there a way to do it without having a single index.php router or am I just going to have to rewrite all my files to adhere to this style?
You can create a rewrite rule in .htaccess that routes the movie urls to movie.php as follows:
movie/123:
RewriteRule ^movie/(\d+)$ movie.php?id=$1 [L]
movie/id/123:
RewriteRule ^movie/id/(\d+)$ movie.php?id=$1 [L]
movie/title-of-movie:
RewriteRule ^movie/(\S+)$ movie.php?slug=$1 [L]
movie/title/title-of-movie:
RewriteRule ^movie/title/(\S+)$ movie.php?slug=$1 [L]
combination movie/123/title-of-movie:
RewriteRule ^movie/(\d+)/(\S+)$ movie.php?id=$1&slug=$2 [L]
Edit: added a full .htaccess example for 1 required with up to 2 extra optional parameters with a fallback on index.php if the url is not for movies.
Options -Indexes
IndexIgnore */*
Options FollowSymLinks
AddDefaultCharset utf-8
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^movie/([^/]+)/?([^/]*)/?([^/]*)$ movie.php?param1=$1¶m2=$2¶m3=$3 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>
^ to match from the beginning
$ to match until the end
? for 0 or 1 occurrence
+ for 1 or more occurrences
* for 0 or more occurrences
If the url rule does not match and the file does not exist then it will route the url to index.php, but you can remove that last part if you don't want that.
Yes, assuming your URL structure follows a relatively consistent pattern, you can definitely do this with an .htaccess file and mod_rewrite (without the need for an index.php file, commonly referred to as a front controller).
Here's a really simple example:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)$ $1.php?id=$2 [NC,L]
This takes an incoming URL like http://example.com/movie/3 and performs a transparent/internal rewrite (so the user doesn't see the URL change) to http://example.com/movie.php?id=3.
Of course, this example could be expanded to handle more parameters, etc. but hopefully this gets you started on the right path. I highly recommend you read the mod_rewrite documentation for more details: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_rewrite.html
Let say I have a site
www.mysite.com
Is there anyway to have to have user page urls be
www.mysite.com/username
instead of the usual
www.mysite.com/user.php?id=whatever
I would like to know if this is possible in php without having multiple folders and index pages. I would like to avoid the folder method because from my understanding you would have an issue with efficiency especially if you have to bounce from one user to another. I would like to do this method because it is a lot easier for someone to say get my info from
www.mysite.com/username
than the other option. Any help (tutorials, sites, etc) would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I would like to know if this is possible in php without having multiple folders and index pages.
Yes, its possible. You can do it redirecting all requests to your index.php and process this url (route) manually
sample .htaccess for redirecting all request to your index.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?route=$1 [L,QSA]
BUT implemention of
www.mysite.com/username
is not easy thing. You have to know all your system usrls such as /register, /login, /post, ... etc and dont allow to register these usernames.
I recomend you implement this scheme:
www.mysite.com/~username
or
www.mysite.com/user/username
Apply front controller pattern with any kind of router [e.g. klein], then you'll need a single, universal .htaccess file in your webroot:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
Yes sure, use this rule in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ /user.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
I have been working on a website that is primarily PHP based. When a user visits the site stuff like http://robroscoe.ca/index.php, is redirected to http://robroscoe.ca and I am okay with this. What I am not okay with is, my webpages like robroscoe.ca/cv.php when you type in robroscoe.ca/cv redirecting back to robroscoe.ca. I am not sure how this happened and I am wondering if someone could explain to me what is going on.
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
I think the .htaccess file has something to do with this but I am not sure how to modify this as Wordpress seems to have created this for me without me knowing it. Any help or reading materials would be appreciated.
Thanks for your time!
You problem is that you've created a PHP script that is separate from WordPress and are trying to access it through a 'pretty' URL which WordPress handles. WordPress does not know of a page called 'cv', and handles it like any other 404.
I would strongly recommend that you create the page within WP so it can manage its own 'pretty URL' structure.
If you're hellbent on shoehorning your own scripts in, then get cozy with hand-editing your .htaccess file for each one.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^cv/?$ cv.php [L] #new rule
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] #this is made redundant by the very next line.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
i have urls like
http://mysite.com/index.php?p=resources
http://mysite.com/index.php?p=resources&s=view&id=938
but i want urls like
http://mysite.com/resources
http://mysite.com/resources/view/938
instead of making hundreds of rewrite rules i wonder if it would be possible to just have one? Ive head this is possible by "getting the uri and splitting it into parts" and then just add a rewrite rule for index.php
but how? could someone give an example or link a tutorial
I happen to use this in .htaccess:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]
This essentially calls index.php no matter what is requested. Then inside your PHP code you can look at $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] to get the URL and parse it accordingly.
The RewriteCond lines are there to exclude direct calls to files. In my case I don't want stuff like requests for js/css/image files to go through index.php for performance reasons.
Create a .htaccess file. Not somefilename.htaccess, it is simply named .htaccess.
Note: Your index.php and .htaccess file should be in the same directory.
Now try this on your .htaccess file
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)$ index.php?p=resources
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)/([0-9]+)$ index.php?p=resources&s=view&id=938
</IfModule>
see more about url rewrite here