i'm trying to achieve the following:
I have domain.it and domain.fr
domain.it contains a website localized in multiple languages, so for example if you go to www.domain.it/fr/somecontent.php it shows that content in french language. This works. This website is hosted on a dedicated server.
In domain.fr i have an empty space with only an .htaccess. What i want is that when the user go to www.domain.fr/somecontent.php the browser shows the content from www.domain.it/fr/somecontent.php but keeping www.domain.fr/somecontent.php in the URL. So basically www.domain.fr/* should show the content from www.domain.it/fr/* but keeping www.domain.fr/* in the browser address bar.
Using an iframe is not an option because is not good for the SEO.
I'm using the following code inside the .htaccess on domain.fr (which is hosted on an OVH shared hosting):
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.fr$
RewriteRule ^(.*) https://www.domain.it/fr/$1 [P]
But when i open www.domain.fr or www.domain.fr/somecontent.php in the browser it says "Forbidden: You don't have permission to access /somecontent.php on this server."
Instead, if i place [L] or [L,R=302] in place of the [P] in the last line of .htaccess, it correctly redirect to the www.domain.it/fr/somecontent.php showing it contents, but it shows the destination url (the it domain) in the browser bar.
So i think the rules are correct, but for some reason when i use the [P] flag which as far as i know is needed to mask the url, it doesn't work.
Have you any clues ?
Thank you!
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So, I have a fully working CRUD. The problem is, because of my file structure, my URLs were looking something like https://localhost/myapp/resources/views/add-product.php but that looked too ugly, so after research and another post here, I was able to use a .htaccess file to make the links look like https://localhost/myapp/add-product (removing .php extension and the directories), and I'm also using it to enforce HTTPS. Now, most of the views are working fine, but my Mass Delete view uses POST information from a form on my index. After restructuring the code now that the redirect works, the Mass Delete view is receiving an empty array. If I remove the redirect and use the "ugly URLs" it works fine. Here's how my .htaccess file is looking like:
Options +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /myapp/
RewriteRule ^resources/views/(.+)\.php$ $1 [L,NC,R=301]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/myapp/resources/views/$1.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.+?)/?$ resources/views/$1.php [END]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule .* https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
I didn't actually write any of it, it's a mesh between answered questions and research. I did try to change the L flag to a P according to this post: Is it possible to redirect post data?, but that gave me the following error:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator at admin#example.com to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Apache/2.4.52 (Win64) OpenSSL/1.1.1m PHP/8.1.2 Server at localhost Port 443
POST information getting lost in .htaccess redirect
You shouldn't be redirecting the form submission in the first place. Ideally, you should be linking directly to the "pretty" URL in your form action. If you are unable to change the form action in the HTML then include an exception in your .htaccess redirect to exclude this particular URL from being redirected.
Redirecting the form submission is not really helping anyone here. Users and search engines can still see the "ugly" URL (it's in the HTML source) and you are doubling the form submission that hits your server (and doubling the user's bandwidth).
"Redirects" like this are only for when search engines have already indexed the "ugly" URL and/or is linked to by external third parties that you have no control over. This is in order to preserve SEO, just like when you change any URL structure. All internal "ugly" URLs should have already been converted to the "pretty" version. The "ugly" URLs are then never exposed to users or search engines.
So, using a 307 (temporary) or 308 (permanent) status code to get the browser to preserve the request method across the redirect should not be necessary in the first place. For redirects like this it is common to see an exception for POST requests (because the form submission shouldn't be redirected). Or only target GET requests. For example:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} GET
:
Changing this redirect to a 307/8 is a workaround, not a solution. And if this redirect is for SEO (as it only should be) then this should be a 308 (permanent), not a 307 (temporary).
Aside:
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule .* https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
Your HTTP to HTTPS redirect is in the wrong place. This needs to go as the first rule, or make sure you are redirecting to HTTPS in the current first rule and include this as the second rule, before the rewrite (to ensure you never get a double redirect).
By placing this rule last then any HTTP requests to /resources/views/<something>.php (or /<something>) will not be upgraded to HTTPS.
I'm using .htaccess for URL redirection as below:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^x.php$ /y.php
Can the user know some how (even using some advanced tools) that the page was actually served from y.php instead of x.php?
Thanks
I have a site that's coded mainly in PHP, but I'm trying to rewrite my dynamic php URL's into static HTML URL's.
But I want the address bar to still remain as the static HTML link.
I'm trying to accomplish this through .htaccess (I have no access to httpd.conf as I'm hosted on a shared account). Here is what's written in my .httaccess file:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^inventory-search-([^.]+)-by-([^.]+).html$ http://www.pianostudiosandshowcase.com/inventory.php?search=$1&by=$2 [R]
But I can't get the address bar to remain as the static HTML link.
Here is a link to show you what I mean:
http://www.pianostudiosandshowcase.com/inventory.php?search=manufacturer&by=1
What am I missing?
You need to remove both the R flag in your rewrite rule as well as the protocol/domain name:
RewriteRule ^inventory-search-([^.]+)-by-([^.]+).html$ /inventory.php?search=$1&by=$2 [L]
Both will cause the server to externally redirect the browser, telling it "what you were looking for is not at that URL, you need to go to this entirely different URL". The forces the browser to display the new location in its address bar.
If you internally rewrite it, the browser has no idea the URI that it sent as a request had been changed, therefore the address bar remains unchanged.
Okay...i am doing something kinda strange and out of the ordinary. I will try to explain...
I have several domain names pointed to the same root directory on my webserver. I can access the entire website using any of the domain names (I know this is bad for SEO, but there are reasons). Additionally, none of the "pages" really exist...as they are all being built dynamically...so i have some mod rewrite rules set up to point all incoming queries to view.php and passing in variables to generate the page content...anyway...
What i want to do is set ONLY THE HOME PAGE of two of my domains to (invisibly) use content of an existing sub page. Here is an example:
These all are the same page:
www.domain1.com/process/
www.domain2.com/process/
www.domain3.com/process/
which is really doing something like: view.php?page=process/
I want this page to display for www.domain2.com (and still also be accessible at domain2.com/process)
Essentially, there is a sub page of the site that i want to serve as the "HOME" page for domain2.com and domain3.com but if domain1.com should still use the default (index.php) HOME page.
I am sure i will need to post clarifications to this once replies start coming in...but here is what i have at the moment:
# special rules to set other domain names default homepage as specific internal page
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain2.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)?$ /view.php?page=process/ [NC,L]
Currently this is sending ALL traffic to domain2.com to the "process/" page...so it is blocking out all other pages. I need to know how to have this rule ONLY apply to the base domain without any extra query string or url path. The key is that i DO NOT want to affect other pages within the domain...so i shoudl still be able to browse the whole site using this domain name...i just get started on a different view.
To only match the homepage, i.e. http://domain2com/ you need to match the empty path (as mod_Rewrite removes the leading /.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain2.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ /view.php?page=process/ [NC,L]
Cannot seem to get a mod_rewrite to work. We have a domain name that has already been printed here, there and everywhere when the website was Flash. It has a # in its trail /#login.php and we want so that when people put this in it redirects them to /login.php. I have already tried this rule but can't get it to work:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/#login.php$ /login.php
I have also checked that the rewrite engine is working by using a redirect to google. Just need the out of date #login.php to go to the new login.php
thanks
The # in the URL (or "fragment") is not sent to the server, it's purely for the client side to point to some part of the page. If you see http://hostname.com/#login.php in your address bar, the only thing the server gets is a request for /. You may need to employ some javascript on the page to look at the browser's address bar to find a fragment and maybe send that to the server as a query string.
Try :
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^#login\.php$ /login.php [QSA,L]
Mod_rewrite is enabled ? available ?