shorten url with htaccess - apache

I have an old system and would like to shorten the URL.
At the moment:
www.site.com/app/views/accessories.php
I would like to open it like this:
www.site.com/accessories.php
I tried to do like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ app/Views/$1 [NC,QSA]
But this error appears "Internal Server Error". What is wrong?
My folder structure is as follows:
As you can see the files are not in the root. They are inside two app/views/ folders.
Because of that the pages are opening with big and ugly links.
www.site.com/app/views/acessorios.php
www.site.com/app/views/clientes.php
www.site.com/app/views/empresas.php
I wish I could open them like this:
www.site.com/acessorios.php OR www.site.com/acessorios
www.site.com/clientes.php OR www.site.com/clientes
www.site.com/empresas.php OR www.site.com/empresas
That is, without looking like app/views/ in the url.

1st solution: With your shown samples and attempts please try following .htaccess rules file. Make sure to place your .htaccess rules file along with your app folder(not inside it, along side it). Also make sure to clear your browser cache before testing your URLs.
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteBase /app/views/
##External redirect rules from here.
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/app/views/([^.]*\.php)\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1? [R=301,L]
##Internal rewrite rules from here.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^.]*\.php)/?$ /app/views/$1 [QSA,L]
2nd solution: Rules to redirect URLs to www.site.com/acessorios are as follows:
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteBase /app/views/
##External redirect rules from here.
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/app/views/([^.]*)\.php\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1? [R=301,L]
##Internal rewrite rules from here.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/?$ /app/views/$1.php [QSA,L]

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how to change url to a clean url that works

I've been looking for an answer for my problem, however the things I tried didnt work out. What I've been trying to do is to create a beatiful url for this link:
mywebsite.com/blog_template?slug_url=blog-post-name
to
mywebsite.com/blog-post-name
To achieve this I tried the following code:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^blog_template/([^/]+)$ /blog_template?slug_url=$1 [L]
But my code didnt work... Any advice?
Here’s the full htaccess my website:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
ErrorDocument 404 http://91.218.67.117/404/
ErrorDocument 500 http://91.218.67.117/500/
#redirect 404
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/500/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /pages/errors/500.php [L]
#remove php
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.php$ /$1 [R,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*?)/?$ /$1.php [NC,END]
Considering you want to rewrite this request in backend to index.php(OR change it to appropriate file's name in case its some other php file). With your shown samples and attempts please try following .htaccess Rules.
Please make sure to clear your browser cache before testing your URLs.
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/blog_template\?slug_url=(\S+)\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$ index.php?slug_url=$1 [QSA,L]
ErrorDocument 500 /pages/errors/500.php
NOTE: Please keep your .htaccess file and index.php(OR any php file which is taking rewrite request in backend for that matter) in same path(your root etc).
Your attempt was close. Just a small fix:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/?([^/]+)/?$ /blog_template?slug_url=$1 [L]
This relies on additional rewriting rules to get applied though, since /blog_template most likely is not a resource the http server can somehow "execute" immediately. So you may want to combine above rule with other rules, which you did not reveal to us, which is why I cannot say anything about that.
If you also want to redirect requests to the "old" URL, then that variant should do:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^slug_url=([^/]+)$
RewriteRule ^/?blog_template$ / [QSD,R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/?([^/]+)/?$ /blog_template?slug_url=$1 [L]
It is a good idea to start out using a R=302 _temporary_redirection and to only change that to a R=301 permanent redirection once everything works as expected. That prevents nasty caching issues on the client side.

URL Rewrite - Multiple query

I am trying to see how I can achieve the following rewrite rules.
From
https://localhost/site/?page=place&place=west
https://localhost/site/?page=location&location=cityname
To
https://localhost/site/place/west
https://localhost/site/location/city
I am able to change
https://localhost/site/?page=place to https://localhost/site/place but not with another additional query as mentioned above.
htaccess
RewriteEngine On
#Redirect /site/?page=foobar to /site/foobar
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /site/(?:index\.php)?\?page=(.+)\sHTTP [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /site/%1? [L,R]
# Internally rewrite new path to the original one
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(?:site/)?(.+)/?$ /site/?page=$1 [L,QSA]
The above htaccess works for the following which is what I also need.
https://localhost/site/place
https://localhost/site/about
https://localhost/site/contact
With your shown attempts, please try following htaccess rules file. Make sure to clear your browser cache before testing your URLs. New rules are clubbed to your already existing rules.
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteBase /site/
##New rules from here......
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/site/?\?page=([^&]*)&place=([^&]*)\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /site/%1/%2? [R=301,L]
# Internally rewrite new path to the original one
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^site/([^/]*)/(.*)/?$ index.php?page=$1&location=$2 [NC,QSA,L]

friendly url only opens the post.php not cat.php

Friends, what is the right way to get both the php files to open friendly URL contents?
My current code works OK if I only use:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
# SEO URL Settings
RewriteBase /site/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ post.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]
but then I also need friendly URL for my categories so I tried to add:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ cat.php?cat=$1 [QSA,L]
but doing so only the post URL opens but category links redirect back to index.php but if you remove the rewrite for post than the cat.php contents shows.
If someone could help me out here would really appreciate your kindness.
This is because of your use of the [L] flag.
The [L] flag causes mod_rewrite to stop processing the rule set. In
most contexts, this means that if the rule matches, no further rules
will be processed. This corresponds to the last command in Perl, or
the break command in C. Use this flag to indicate that the current
rule should be applied immediately without considering further rules.
Documentation
Instead, try and have your rules laid out like this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ post.php?id=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ cat.php?cat=$1 [QSA,L]

How to remove and avoid url directories in htaccess

I'm trying to allow my site to rewrite urls. I have put the following into my .htaccess file in the root directory.
RewriteEngine On
#would be nice to remove member-pages from the URL but no idea how.
#RewriteRule ^members/(.*)/?$ /$1 [NC,R]
#This part works though!
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)/?$ ./members/$1/ [L]
So far, it takes
mydomain.com/someUserName or mydomain.com/someUserName/ (with trailing slash) and, if it exists, will load the page at mydomain.com/members/someUserName/ without a hitch. This works like a gem.
What I want now (and am trying to do with the first rewrite rule) is to take a mydomain.com/members/someUserName or mydomain.com/members/someUserName/ and have it show up as mydomain.com/someUserName in the url.
How do I do this? Thanks in advance!
If I understand you correctly, You want to redirect domain.com/members/foo to domain.com/foo , You can use the following rule for that:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /memebers/([^\s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1 [R,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ ./members/$1 [NC,L]

htaccess RevriteEnngine url doesnt rewrite Why?

in the same folder where there is index.php I have .htaccess file with the following code inside:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^example.com/(.+)$ example.com/secondpage.php?firmname=$1 [R,L]
so that instead of
example.com/secondpage.php?firmname=GGGGGGG
it should show
example.com/GGGGGGG
but it doesn't work and I cant find mistake there...
You don't want the hostname in the regex and rule's target. It's also showing the URL with the query string because you are using the R flag, which redirects the browser and thus changes the address in the location bar.
You probably want something like:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /secondpage.php?firmname=$1 [L]
And maybe:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /+secondpage\.php\?firmname=([^&\ ]+)
RewriteRule ^ /%1? [L,R]