This website has a ton of extra domains (note: these are not subdomains; one of them, for instance, is http://eduard.fi) that the owner (or the SEO people, rather) wants to redirect to the main domain. Instead of listing them one by one, this is what I tried:
RewriteCond %{HTTPS_HOST} !^masetti\.fi$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://masetti.fi/$1 [R=301,L]
However this creates a redirect loop. Why is that? This does not produce a server error, so for that part the syntax is correct, but it does not do what I want.
You were close, but made a logical mistake. Take a look at this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^masetti\.fi$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://masetti.fi/$1 [R=301]
An alternative would be that:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^masetti\.fi$
RewriteRule ^ https://masetti.fi%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301]
The RewriteCond has been slightly altered: It is the variable %{HTTP_HOST} you want to check, not %{HTTPS_HOST}which does not exist.
PS: it is a good idea to start out with a 302 redirection and only change that to a 301 once everything works as intended. That prevents issues with client side caching.
Related
I am planning a domain change from example1.com to example2.com. To add a twist to it, I also want to change my permalinks at the same time. My current permalinks for posts have the date and I want to remove it.
I'm a bit hesitant to test and lose SEO so I was hoping someone could confirm this would work before.
Here is what I was thinking:
after changing domains I use this code in my htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example1.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example1.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^\d{4}/\d{2}/(.*) https://example2.com/$1 [R=301,L]
then I found this rule to change dates:
RewriteRule ^[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/(.*)$ https://example2.com/$1
I saw this one as well:
RewriteRule ^/(\d*)/(\d*)/([A-Za-z0-9-]*)$ https://example2.com/$4
I'm not sure what these rules specifically mean but I THINK I should be able to combine them like this?
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example1.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example1.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/(.*)$ http://example2.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]
It doesn't seem quite right.
Or would simply changing the permalink structure in WordPress affect the change so that
https://www.example1.com/2019/01/how-to-write-about-cars/
redirects to
https://www.example2.com/how-to-write-about-cars/
UPDATE
Using MrWhite's answer below. I added this code:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example1.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example1.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(\d*)/(\d*)/([A-Za-z0-9-]*)$ https://example2.com/$4
This is working now in the case of
https://www.example1.com/2019/01/how-to-write-about-cars/
which redirects to
https://www.example2.com/how-to-write-about-cars/
However
https://www.example2.com/2019/01/how-to-write-about-cars/
does NOT redirect to
https://www.example2.com/how-to-write-about-cars/
It just returns a 404. This likely isn’t an issue as nothing should be bookmarked but just in case, is there a way to fix that?
Or would simply changing the permalink structure in WordPress affect the change
I don't believe this would implement the redirect from the old to new URL structure, if that is what you are thinking. (At least not by default.)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example1.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example1.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/(.*)$ http://example2.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]
This looks OK. Although if the new URLs at example2.com don't contain the date (ie. /YYYY/MM/ prefix) then there wouldn't seem to be any need to check the requested hostname.
This rule must also go at the top of the .htaccess file, before any of the existing WordPress directives (ie. before the # BEGIN WordPress comment marker).
You should first test with a 302 (temporary) redirect to avoid potential caching issues.
Final Solution
This can, however, be tidied a bit. The following one-liner should be sufficient:
RewriteRule ^\d{4}/\d{2}/(.*) https://example2.com/$1 [R=301,L]
You do not need any of the RewriteCond directives. (Just the RewriteEngine On directive, if it doesn't already appear elsewhere in the .htaccess file.)
Note the https on the target URL. \d (shorthand character class) is the same as [0-9]. The trailing $ on the regex is not required since regex is greedy by default. The NC flag is not required either, since there is nothing case specific in this regex.
Aside: (Don't use this!)
I saw this one as well:
RewriteRule ^/(\d*)/(\d*)/([A-Za-z0-9-]*)$ https://example2.com/$4
This rule, however, is very wrong! Due to the slash prefix on the RewriteRule pattern this will never match in .htaccess and the rule will do nothing. But there are only 3 capturing groups in the regex, so the $4 backreference would always be empty (everything would be redirected to the homepage, which would likely be treated as a soft-404 by search engines).
I'm hosting different sites
http://example.nl/example.nl/_sites/byos/
http://example.nl/example.nl/_sites/eggbot/
http://example.nl/example.nl/_sites/hslab/
http://example.nl/example.nl/_sites/prolactin/
And yes there is a folder that has the same name as the domain, there is a reason for that.
And I want the links to become:
http://example.nl/byos/
http://example.nl/eggbot/
http://example.nl/hslab/
http://example.nl/prolactin/
This is one of the many attempts:
RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)example.nl/_sites
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ example.nl/_sites/$1 [L]
And this one:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^example.nl/_sites/(.*)$ /$1 [L,NC,R]
The last one brings me close, it changes the address in what I want it to be, but it also results in a 404 now.
I also tried it with renaming the example.nl folder so it is not the same as the domain name but the problem seems to be the same.
In case it is important for later, I also have folders with files here:
http://example.nl/example.nl/_misc/
http://example.nl/example.nl/_plugins/
But I don't care if those get renamed, since they won't appear in the url bar, unless the user goes directly to one of those files, but I don't care about that.
So how can I omit the example.nl/_sites/ part and still have the website working?
I have seen the similar questions on SO, but for me it looks like Chinese in another dialect.
---- edit:
using the following of the answer from anubhava:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}::%{THE_REQUEST} ^(?:www\.)?([^:]+)::GET\s/+\1/_sites/(\S*)\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%2 [R=301,NE,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/?$ %1/_sites%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
I don't get a 404 anymore.
But this files for example:
http://hslab.nl/hslab.nl/_misc/bna.js
It tries to load it as:
http://hslab.nl/_misc/bna.js
Which fails. In the code it was targeted as:
src="../../_misc/bna.js"
In case it helps here is a screenshot of the folder hslab.nl:
Without hardcoding host name, you may try these rules in your site root .htaccess:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}::%{THE_REQUEST} ^(?:www\.)?([^:]+)::GET\s/+\1/_sites/(\S*)\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%2 [R=301,NE,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/?$ %1/_sites%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
With your shown samples, could you please try following. Fair warning I have written this in mobile so yet to test it should work IMHO will test it in sometime too. Also since you mentioned there could be multiple domains so I have specifically put a condition to check if it's example.nl here in case you want to rewrite request for any domain then we could omit that condition too.
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.nl$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)/?$ %{HTTP_HOST}/_sites/$1 [L]
Note: in case you directories/folders are not necessarily starting with alphabets and could be anything then change regex in above from ^([a-zA-Z]+)/?$ TO ^([.*])/?$
I really hope you can help me out (it is driving me crazy).
I've tried dozens of setups and nothing seems to work, Googled myself dizzy and tried numerous different setups, but it all seems to result in a loop or a server error.
This is what needs to happen:
I have a site with multiple domains attached to it. What I need is that when someone visits the website via the "domain.co.uk"-domain, a redirect to the correct language parameters (among others) takes place.
To be very specific: when visiting via "www.domain.co.uk" the visitor must be redirected to "www.domain.co.uk?lang=en&noredir=1¤cy=3"
I've made sure that the www is present with this:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.domain.co.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]
The trouble is (I think) the redirect within the same domain without causing a loop.
I've tried stuff like this, but with no result:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.co.uk$
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.domain.co.uk/?lang=en&noredir=1¤cy=3 [L,R=301]
Hope you can help,
Cheers!
This will cause a loop:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.co.uk$
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.domain.co.uk/?lang=en&noredir=1¤cy=3 [L,R=301]
Because you're only checking the host header. Every time the redirect fires it will arrive back at the server with a host header of www.domain.co.uk and redirect again. You need to also check the query string and only redirect if it doesn't already match what you sent:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.co.uk$
RewrteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !lang=en&noredir=1¤cy=3
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.domain.co.uk/?lang=en&noredir=1¤cy=3 [L,R=301]
I am trying to write rewrite code for my customer's site. I have no way of verifying if it's correct because I don't have access to the server yet. I know that sounds strange but it's what I have to accept and work around.
I plan to put this in the root htaccess file on the server. Bottom line is this URL does not work:
http://www.regions.noaa.gov/gulf-mexico/index.php/highlights/restore-act-passed/
So when the above fires, I want it to permanently redirect to:
http://www.regions.noaa.gov/gulf-mexico/highlights/restore-act-passed/
Here is what I have
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^regions\.noaa\.gov$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.regions\.noaa\.gov$
RewriteRule ^gulf\-mexico\/index\.php\/highlights\/restore\-act\-passed\/$ "http\:\/\/www\.regions\.noaa\.gov\/gulf\-mexico\/highlights\/restore\-act\-passed\/" [R=301,L]
I'd appreciate any feedback on this. Thanks.
UPDATE - thanks to all who replied. Here's what I don't understand. I found this code on my web hosting company's code generator. It seems to work:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^designerandpublisher.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.designerandpublisher.com$
RewriteRule ^services.html$ "http\://www.regions.noaa.gov/gulf-mexico/highlights/restore-act-passed/" [R=301,L]
I usually do like this and works fine.
IF user enter in the URL with highlights/restore-act-passed/ THEN will display contents from index.php/highlights/restore-act-passed/ in the browser.
# [NC] Means “No Case”, so it doesn’t matter whether the domain name was written in upper case, lower case or a mixture of the two.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^highlights/restore-act-passed/?$ index.php/highlights/restore-act-passed/ [NC]
IF the user enter in the URL with index.php/highlights/restore-act-passed/ THEN will display contents from _http://%{HTTP_HOST}/gulf-mexico/highlights/restore-act-passed/
RewriteRule ^index.php/highlights/restore-act-passed/?$ _http://%{HTTP_HOST}/gulf-mexico/highlights/restore-act-passed/ [NC]
You don't need to specify the HTTP_HOST, unless you will have multiple domains coming through here (add-ons, subdomains, parked domains, etc.). If you do want to specify it, it can be simplified to one line:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?regions\.noaa\.gov$
RewriteRule ^gulf\-mexico\/index\.php\/highlights\/restore\-act\-passed\/$ "http\:\/\/www\.regions\.noaa\.gov\/gulf\-mexico\/highlights\/restore\-act\-passed\/" [R=301,L]
Actually, a subdomain doesn't even need the www, but it doesn't hurt. Then, in the rewrite rule, you only need to escape specific metacharacters in the pattern, and none in the replacement string:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?regions\.noaa\.gov$
RewriteRule ^gulf-mexico/index\.php/highlights/restore-act-passed(/)?$ http://www.regions.noaa.gov/gulf-mexico/highlights/restore-act-passed/ [R=301,L]
I also made the last (trailing) / optional. Since you're going to the same domain, there is no need to repeat it:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?regions\.noaa\.gov$
RewriteRule ^gulf-mexico/index\.php/highlights/restore-act-passed(/)?$ /gulf-mexico/highlights/restore-act-passed/ [R=301,L]
The 301 code says to alert search engines that this URL or URI has permanently moved (it will show up changed in a browser address bar, too, so human visitors can choose to rebookmark it).
As this appears to be an SEO URI, presumably it will be translated into a dynamic format (/gulf-mexico/index.php?area=highlights&item=restore-act-passed). That means that the above rewrite has to be done before any SEO-to-dynamic translation. An alternative would be to directly translate it to dynamic format right here, but since you're giving a 301, presumably you want the SEO format to show in a browser or search engine result.
We have a compliance issue with a supplier as if you type the URL with incorrect capitals their brand is wrong. We are on a private apache server so can edit htaccess etc as needed.
The URL is /example/Brand-Name
We would like all the following variations to resolve back to /example/Brand-Name/ (as 301 redirects)
/example/BRAND-NAME/
/example/brand-name/
/example/Brand-name/
/example/brand-Name/
etc etc.
All the htaccess things I have tried have lead to infinite loops.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} /example/Brand-Name/$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !/example/Brand-Name/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /example/Brand-Name/$ [R=301,L]
Have you tried the following two things? Your NoCase statement as just brand-name (not spelled exactly as your correct version) and, switching the order of the rules.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^/example/Brand-Name/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^/example/brand-name/$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /example/Brand-Name/$ [R=301,L]
I believe the way this works is like an AND statement in an IF. If Line1 AND Line2, then do rewrite rule. Try these adjustments and let me know. If that doesn't work I will do a bit of research for you.
Edit: A quick search and I see a lot of rewrites looking like this - !^/ - so perhaps you need to add the little roofy ^ guy after your !. I believe in rewrite this denotes the begging of where to match, and should probably be on the 2nd line as well.
Not sure how you got your rules to work at all, since your %{HTTP_HOST} var is never going to look like /example/Brand-Name/. You probably want:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/example/Brand-Name/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/example/brand-name/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^example/brand-name/(.*)$ /example/Brand-Name/$1 [L,NC,R=301]