How can I redirect all of the sub pages that include a particular path (/home-2016/) back to my home page? I am using the below code in my .htaccess file, but it is not working. I can't seem to find a solution.
I want to redirect the following
https://www.example.com/home-2016/ to https://www.example.com
https://www.example.com/home-2016/... to https://www.example.com
RewriteRule ^home-2016/(.*) / [R=301,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^home-2016/(.*) / [R=301,NC,L]
This rule already does as you require, but it would seem you were putting the rule in the wrong place. Redirects like this would need to go near the top of the .htaccess file, before any existing rewrites (like a CMS front-controller pattern).
However, this rule can also be simplified, since you don't need the capturing subpattern.
The following will do the same, but with a more efficient regex:
RewriteRule ^home-2016/ / [R=301,NC,L]
Unless you specifically need a case-insensitive match, you should remove the NC flag.
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We are moving to apache from IIS. IIS did not care about case, it served pages whether it was the user capitalized some words or not. But now I'm getting 404 errors all over the place. I need a 301 redirect that will automatically search for similar pages.
For example:
NewHoMepage.htm
will redirect to
newhomepage.htm
and
News25/newnews.htm
will redirect to
news25/NewNews.htm
Our site has 25 directories with 13,000+ pages, so a pages by page redirect is out of the question.
Any help would be appreciated.
You can try this short rule in your htaccess file
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,NC,L]
Because each case is different, one cannot simply redirect to lower case.
As you have mentioned you don't want to do redirects for 13k pages, RewriteMap is also out of the question.
The general solution is to use CheckSpelling on in your .htaccess file. To be more specific, you could use CheckCaseOnly on instead.
Here's the documentation for mod_spelling:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_speling.html
Found some interesting solutions here: http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/rewrite-uppercase-lowercase.html.
Personally, I'd go with the second solution, by adding the following in the .conf file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteMap lowercase int:tolower
RewriteCond $1 [A-Z]
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ /${lowercase:$1} [R=301,L]
As a side note, R=301 helps you from a SEO perspective, as search engines will update the links for your side and your pages will not be marked as duplicate content.
i have a problem with a htaccess files and i cannot figure it what is the problem.
The site has url rewriting for seo purposes in place so:
www.website.com/page/seo-friendly-url
is rewritten to
www.website.com/page.php?seo=seo-friendly-url
this is done with the following
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
Rewriterule ^page/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ page.php?seo=$1 [NC,L]
Now the problem is that i have to redirect some pages that are already indexed by the search engines to their new destination as they are no more available, for example:
www.website.com/page/seo-friendly-url
has to be redirected to
www.website.com/page/another-seo-friendly-url
I have tried something like this but it is not working
Rewriterule ^page/seo-friendly-url$ page/another-seo-friendly-url [R,NC,L]
also this one is not working
Rewriterule ^page/seo-friendly-url$ page.php?seo=another-seo-friendly-url [R,NC,L]
This seems pretty stupid but i can't find the problem :-/
Thank you for your help
Ema
Edit, for anubhava:
Hi,
no i have already set the rewriting for that.
What i'm trying to achieve is redirect an already rewrited link.
Let me explain myself better:
At the moment i have this url that is indexed by Google (or any other search engine) in the form of a beautified url (seo friendly). The url has this form:
www.website.com/page/seo-friendly-url
I have already set a rule in the htaccess so the previous link is rewritten and goes to a php page with a query string that is used to display some content.
The page and the query are in this form:
www.website.com/page.php?seo=seo-friendly-url
So basically i'm using the last part of the first url as a query parameter for the second url.
This is achieved (and works) through the following code here below:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
Rewriterule ^page/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ page.php?seo=$1 [NC,L]
So far so good.
Now what i need to achieve is to redirect this url, that has been deleted:
www.website.com/page/seo-friendly-url
to go to a new page
www.website.com/page/another-seo-friendly-url
Of course the same rules applies to this new url (www.website.com/page/another-seo-friendly-url -->is already rewrited to--> www.website.com/page.php?seo=another-seo-friendly-url)
What do i need to do to do the reewriting right?
Thanks
You need this extra rule before your existing rule:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+page\.php\?seo=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /page/%1? [R=301,L]
Rewriterule ^page/([\w-]+)$ page.php?seo=$1 [NC,L,QSA]
Just add redirects like this:
RewriteRule page/seo-friendly-url /page/new-url [R=301,L]
Important: this rules have to be above your existing rewrites because of the L flag in your rewrites
The [L] flag causes mod_rewrite to stop processing the rule set. In most contexts, this means that if the rule matches, no further rules will be processed.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/flags.html#flag_l
Edit
You want to redirect the old URL to avoid duplicate content (rewrite=internal, redirect=HTTP 301)
Maybe you are open for solutions thinking in another direction.
I would try to handle this in the application, no through rewrites. Right now the GET parameter seo is handled in page.php. Isn't it an idea to extend this in that way one product can be identified through multiple seo aliases? If one product has to be taken off a similar one will then own this alias (simply a change of one row in the database).
As I don't know what software you are using this may be not possible.
I have the following re-write rule which directs krmmalik.com to krmmalik.com/me
How do i make sure this rule is a 301 re-direct, and if it isnt one already, how can i turn it into one?
I've tried using the mixing and matching the tips from this site
http://www.webweaver.nu/html-tips/web-redirection.shtml
as well as Google's Support Articles and existing SO questions, but not having much luck. Note the re-write rule in itself so far has been working fine.
I've also added a CNAME for "www" to "krmmalik.com" in my DNS file. Is that good enough, or do i need to add a specific 301 redirect for that as well?
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?krmmalik.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ me [L]
Try the following:
RewriteRule ^/?$ /me [L,R=permanent]
The R=permanent flag instructs a 301 status redirect (and you can use R=301 if you prefer, but I think that "permanent" is more readable).
Putting a forward-slash at the start of the /me target URL will tell Apache to redirect the user to the directory named "me" at the web server's public root directory. So in your case it should redirect the user to krmmalik.com/me (or www.krmmalik.com/me).
Also, you don't need to wrap the match pattern in parentheses, because you don't need to capture the slash for later use. So ^/?$ will do the job fine.
I’ve written some code on my .htaccess file which allows the use of SEO friendly URLs instead of ugly query strings. The following code rewrites the SEO friendly version in the browser to the query string version on the server.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^seo/([^/]*)/$ /directory/script.php?size=large&colour=green&pattern=$1 [L]
So that the ugly
http://www.mysite.com/directory/script.php?size=large&colour=green&pattern=striped
Is now beautiful
http://www.mysite.com/directory/seo/striped/
Just to explain the code a bit; seo is there to add more keywords to the URL, /directory/ is the directory in which the .htaccess file is located, parameters size=large and colour=green never change, while pattern=$1 can be many different values.
The above code works perfectly. However, the problem is I am now stuck with two URLs that point to exactly the same content. To solve this, I would like to 301 redirect the old, ugly querystrings to the SEO friendly URLs. What I have tried so far does not work - and Google is not being particularly friendly today.
Can anybody offer working code to put in my .htaccess file that redirects ugly to new URL, while retaining the rewrite? Thanks!
This should do the trick:
RewriteEngine On
## Redirect to pretty urls
# The '%1' in the rewrite comes from the group in the previous RewriteCond
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !seo
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^size=large&colour=green&pattern=([a-zA-Z]*)$
RewriteRule (.*) /directory\/seo\/%1\/? [L,R=301]
## Rewrite to long url, additional parameter at the end will cause
## the internal redirect not to match the previous rule (would cause redirect loop)
RewriteRule ^directory\/seo\/([^/]*)/$ /directory/script.php? size=large&colour=green&pattern=$1&rewrite [L]
You can also match the size and colour if needed, by changing those to regex groups as well, and using the corresponding %N
Hope this helps.
Not tested, but this may work...
RewriteRule ^directory/script.php?size=large&colour=green&pattern=(.*)$ /seo/$1/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]
my .htaccess in the root folder includes the following lines :
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.htm$ http://example.com/?city=$1 [NC]
when I open the address http://example.com/bla.htm, my browser doesn't hide the GET values specified in the .htaccess, it redirects me to ?city=bla. eventhough I'm not using the [R] switch. This has always worked for me before (as I remember, haven't dealt with htaccess in a while). What's wrong here ?
When you redirect to an entire URL, it doesn't do URL rewriting (you can't exactly rewrite URLs on someone else's website).
Assuming both URLs are on the same server, you need to do something like
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.htm$ index.php?city=$1 [NC]
Also, I'd recommend getting into the habit of using the [L] switch whenever you can - it helps avoid bugs when you have a lot of URLs to rewrite.