All,
I want to redirect all traffic that comes to http://mysite/ to http://mysite/public folder. Currently I am doing this using the below in an .htaccess file and it works for the root directory. But if I browse to http://mysite/application, it doesn't redirect and shows the directory listing. I want all traffic regardless of what folder it is to redirect to http://mysite/public folder
RedirectMatch permanent ^/*$ /public/
Thanks
Try this mod_rewrite example:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule !^public/ /public%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
I see that you're using Zend Framework. Zend uses 'public' as the exposed web folder, but you should use the folder dictated by your web host. What is the name of the server-side folder that is exposed to the web? Your file structure should be like this:
application/
[web_exposed_dir]/
library/
In my case, the [web_exposed_dir] is called 'content'. You won't have to redirect everything to 'public' if you do it the way I've outlined.
Related
Site location: http://localhost/~username/website
The website loads lots of images with an absolute url such as /image/image.png.
I need that request to go to:
http://localhost/~username/website/image/image.png
instead of
http://localhost/image/image.png.
I also need this to not affect any other folders or the root folder. So that I could also access http://localhost/image/image.png if I wanted to.
Is there some way of making it so that when it's requested from this subfolder to redirect?
I want the absolute reference like /css/something.css and /image/image.png to points to /subdirectory/css/something.css and /subdirectory/image/image.png. That way I don't have to rewrite all the absolute references. So, I don't want to modify the root directory.
I'm wondering if setting up a virtual host that would not allow the subdirectory "website" to have no ability to access the root. I don't ever need root access from this folder.
Be sure you are allowed to use .htaccess file in your webserver. Look at this how to enable in apache:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-the-htaccess-file
Create a .htaccess file in root or ~username/website directory Then write this to your .htaccess file:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^~username/web/image/(.*) /image/$1
Why the requirement to use /image/image.png? Why wouldn't you just use one of these instead:
http://localhost/~username/website/image/image.png (absolute)
image/image.png (relative without preceding slash)
You can use this rule in root .htaccess OR in Apache/vhost config:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/~
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ~username/website/$1 [L]
I'm building an application for broad distribution and I want to change the way it's routed so that all the files can exist in the document root but still be secure as if they were above the doc root.
The ideal set up would be to house the application folder above the docroot like so:
/home
/---/username
/---/--->application
/---/---/--->all application files
/---/--->public_html
/---/---/--->all public files
But I know this isn't ideal for all potential users of my app, so I'd prefer to move this to a structure like so:
/home
/---/username
/---/--->public_html
/---/---/--->application
/---/---/---/--->all application files
/---/---/--->public
/---/---/---/-->all public files
Basically just putting everything within the doc root, forbidding access to the application directory, and routing all requests to the public folder, so that we can get the same security of having files above the doc root, but making it simpler for those that may not want this type of set up for their shared hosts.
I was thinking of using an include inside public_html/index.php that would include public_html/public/index.php but I can't seem to get that to work.
Any help would be appreciated.
As I understand it you want to have home/username/public_html as the real Apache Document Root, deny access from the /application directory and, ideally, route all web requests into the /public sub-directory instead (presumably for users not on dedicated servers who can't install outside of the docroot) ... If I've misunderstood the question let me know and I'll update/remove the answer ;)
You should be able to achieve this with an .htaccess file in /home/username/public_html like:
RewriteEngine on
# deny access to the application directory
RewriteRule ^application/? - [F]
# route all requests to the public directory that aren't already there
RewriteRule ^(?!public/)(.*)$ /public/$1 [L,QSA]
Any attempts to access the /application directory will result in a 403 error and all requests to http://www.myserver.tld/file.ext will be routed to http://www.myserver.tld/public/file.ext.
Caveat: To prevent recursive loops of the redirect, the rewrite rule will not redirect any URL path that already begins with /public ... this means that any file under /public will be accessible on both the http://www.mysite.tld/filename.ext and http://www.mysite.tld/public/filename.ext - which may upset search engines.
To be extra safe you could also add an .htaccess file to the /application directory like:
Deny from all
Use this.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ public_html/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) public_html/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
Are you using any framework in your app?
Have you a sample of code we could access to understand your problem?
Basically, you just need an htaccess in your public_html folder that redirect the request to the public folder and disable the access to any other directory than public.
I have a problem with Codeigniters Security.
My Codeigniter Installation has the Application Folder, System Folder and a Assets Folder.
In my Assets Folder there is a Third Party PHP Script.
I want to Call this Script: DOMAIN/assets/FOLDEROFEXTERNALSCRIPT/EXTERNALPHPSCRIPT.php
Is there a option that i can call this File over the URL without a Controller?
I hope you have removed index.php from your url's which is done by either adding the below rewrite rules in the .htaccess file at your DOMAIN root directory, or by adding these rewrite rules in the virtual hosts.
Below rule means, to rewrite every url to index.php?params except if the current url contains "index.php or assets in it", now you can put any static content or even core PHP scripts in this folder to be access directly, with having CI in picture.
In your .htaccess file just add "assets" folder in the bypass rule, along with index.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 ^!(index\.php|assets)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?$1 [L,QSA]
Alright I have already contacted BlueHost Support and they couldn't figure out how to fix this issue. I've also tried to use cpanels 301 permanent redirect but that doesn't work so I decided to give it a whirl on here.
I host with BlueHost.com if you haven't caught that by now. The file structure is as follows:
public_html/
directory1/subdomaindirectory
directory2
directory3
I have my main website in my root (public_html). Then I have to create new directories and assign the url to that directory. So essentially if you typed in www.maindomain.com/directory1 it would show the website in the directory. I would like to modify the .htaccess to redirect that to it's original domain so www.maindomain.com/directory1 would go to www.directory1.com
The same for subdomains. I created subdomain.directory1.com and pointed it to public_html/directory1/subdomaindirectory and if you go to www.directory1.com/subdomain it pulls up the site.
I realize theoretically it's the same thing but it bugs me that you are able to pull up a website like that.
Is there anyway to modify the .htaccess to fix this issue?
In.htaccess you could do it like this
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /gorbox
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.gorbox.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^support$ http://support.gorbox.com [L,R=301]
Put this in the .htaccess file that resides within the root folder of www.gorbox.com
I have the following shared hosting file structure using a codeigniter project:
myTLD.com/sites/mysite
mysite contains: application, system , index.php ... ( standard CI2 setup )
myTLD.com/public_html - contains : index.php
I have symlinked myTLD.com/public_html/index.php to myTLD.com/sites/mysite/index.php
Unfortunately I am getting:
Your system folder path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open the following file and correct this: index.php
I have set it up this way to avoid placing the actual site in the document root for security purposes . I don't want to change mysite/index.php because I want to keep the entire project in its mysite directory where it can easily be revised etc.
The application and mysite/ folder are set to 755 so I don't think this is a permission problem .
My myTLD.com/public_html/.htaccess folder directs all requests to index.php:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php
Can someone advise me on an approach to sending requests through to the codeigniter index file without causing this error?
Thank you
You can try following way
1) Remove the symlink
2) Use this in htaccess at myTLD.com/public_html/.htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ myTLD.com/sites/mysite/index.php?/$1 [L]
Use absolute system path if you are aware of it.