I have a problem with redirect. Right now I have one page on address like:
http://localhost/Stella/Wiki/index.php
Also in the same directory I have my .htaccess file, which should redirect all requests to the index.php.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/Stella/Wiki/index.php
RewriteRule (.*)$ /Stella/Wiki/index.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
This redirection works really good, but I want to use it in relative way, like:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
RewriteRule (.*)$ /index.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
Like without absolute path, because I am going to have many subfolders, and I don't want to have long rules like: /xxx/xxx/xxx/xxx/index.php.
Can you help me to solve this problem? I don't know what to do, or if is it even possible?
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/Stella/Wiki/index.php
RewriteRule (.*)$ /Stella/Wiki/index.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
If the .htaccess is located at /Stella/Wiki/.htaccess then you can write these directives like:
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteRule (.*) index.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
As you suggested, this now uses relative paths. Note that relative paths don't start with a slash. If you use a slash prefix then that will be root-relative (ie. relative to the document root of the site).
When you use a relative path in per-directory .htaccess files then the directory-prefix (the filesystem path of where the .htaccess file is located) is added back at the end. So, index.php is in the directory where the .htaccess file is located. You can override this with the RewriteBase directive.
However, this a little different to your directives. Instead of a condition that only processes the directive if we are not already requesting the target URL. We have an exception that prevents any further directives being processed if that URL is already being requested.
Note, however, that this directs all requests to index.php (as your original directive does). Including requests for existing files and directories - if that is a concern?
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I am having another issue with .htaccess where I can't seem to find the right solution for it. What I am trying to accomplish is to redirect from a subdirectory to a specific html document within that same directory when you copy/paste the url displayed below
For example:
http://example.com/staging/test/ to http://example.com/staging/test/page.html
My (almost) working method:
Options -Indexes -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^test/(.*)$ test/page.html [L]
The problem with this code is that it does basically redirect to the correct page.html but if you want to click on any link on page.html it just redirects to page.html again instead of going to a particular link within subdirectory /test/ let's say /test/page-2.html
Important: This redirect should only affect the subdirectory "staging". All other sub-directories including root can not be affected.
Other info:
This code is also in my .htaccess file to remove the .html extension for the directory "staging"
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html [L]
The directory "staging" is not connected to any CMS and only consists of .html files.
I am on a shared hosting environment (Hostgator/cPanel).
Thank you.
Use below rule, you are using only L flag but I am modifying it for redirect as you mentioned.
Options -Indexes -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^test/$ /staging/test/page.html [R=301,L]
You want to redirect only the directoy, but not the files in it. The pattern in the rule says match the directory test/ followed by anything .*, including any files.
To match the directory alone, the pattern must stop at test, which is accomplished by an end of string anchor
RewriteRule ^test/$ /staging/test/page.html [R,L]
Instead of an absolute path, you can keep the relative path and add a RewriteBase directive
RewriteBase /staging
RewriteRule ^test/$ test/page.html [R,L]
If you want to rewrite only, leave out the R flag.
I've a domain that contains a subfolder with the web app structure. I added a .htaccess on my root domain to point the public folder on my subfolder web app. It works fine, but when I type www.example.com the browser URL changes to www.example.com/subfolder/public, but I would like that it doesn't change.
This is my .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^.*$ subfolder/public [NC,L]
EDIT
This first .htaccess is used to redirect on subfolder/public, where there is an other .htaccess that makes all the works.
Here the code of the second .htaccess located on www.example.com/subfolder/public/:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]
Sorry, just realised what is happening. It has nothing to do with the second .htaccess file in the subdirectory, as mentioned in comments.
RewriteRule ^.*$ subfolder/public [NC,L]
Since public is a physical directory on the file system, you need to include a trailing slash when internally rewriting to that directory. Otherwise, mod_dir is going to try to "fix" the URL by appending a slash - that is where the external redirect is coming from. (mod_dir implicitly triggers an external redirect from subfolder/public to subfolder/public/.)
So, try the following instead in your root .htaccess file:
RewriteRule .* subfolder/public/ [L]
The important thing is the trailing slash. The anchors (^ and $) on the RewriteRule pattern are not required, since you are matching everything. And the NC flag is also not required for the same reason.
As always, make sure the browser cache is clear before testing.
UPDATE#1: The single directive above rewrites everything, including static resources, to the directory subfolder/public/ which then relies on the second .htaccess file in the subdirectory to correctly route the request. In order to allow static resources to be rewritten correctly (represented in the HTML as root-relative URL-paths, of the form "/js/myjs.js") then you will need additional directives in order to rewrite these.
For example, to specifically rewrite all .js and .css files to the real location in /subfolder/public/...
# Rewrite static resources
RewriteRule (.+\.(?:js|css))$ subfolder/public/$1 [L]
# Rewrite everything else to the "public" directory
RewriteRule .* subfolder/public/ [L]
UPDATE#2: To make the above more general, and to rewrite any static resource (images, PDFs, .txt, etc...) we can check for the existence of the file before rewriting, something like:
# Rewrite static resources
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/subfolder/public/$1 -f
RewriteRule (.+) subfolder/public/$1 [L]
# Rewrite everything else to the "public" directory
RewriteRule .* subfolder/public/ [L]
This will mean that if any .css does not exist it will be passed through to subfolder/public/.
I know similar questions have come up, though often without a working answer. I'm hoping to have better luck!
I have an .htaccess file in my root directory adding "www" to everything:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} ^mysite.org
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.org/$1 [R=permanent,L]
This generally works fine. I have a subfolder (/myquiz/) in which the old index.html file has been replaced with index.php. I know there are external links to /myquiz/index.html, so I want to make sure those redirect. Leaving index.html in place and trying to redirect from that led to some odd behavior, but adding an .htaccess in that directory works for that:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.html?$ /myquiz/index\.php [NC,R]
Trying to load index.html redirects to index.php as hoped for, and the WWW gets added if needed. But requesting mysite.org/myquiz/index.php directly does not add the WWW.
I tried adding "RewriteEngine inherit", but that resulted in calls getting redirected to my root folder instead. A great trick if I want to make a subfolder inaccessible, but not helping here. I also tried just adding the code from my root .htaccess into the beginning of my subfolder's .htaccess, but that worked no better.
Any ideas?
You shouldn't need to add another htaccess file in the myquiz folder. This should work in the htaccess file in the root of the site. Remove the htaccess file in myquiz and try this.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite\.org
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.org/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^myquiz/index\.html$ /myquiz/index.php [R=301,L]
Also I wouldn't use %{SERVER_NAME} unless your are sure the name is set properly in the config file. Then it can be more reliable than HTTP_HOST, otherwise I would instead use %{HTTP_HOST}.
I think inherit would work if you add an L flag to the rule that you have in your myquiz folder:
RewriteRule ^index\.html?$ /myquiz/index\.php [NC,R,L]
So that it redirects first, then the inherited rule (the www) gets applied after.
You could also just put both rules in the same file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.org$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.org/$1 [R=permanent,L]
RewriteRule ^myquiz/index\.html$ http://www.mysite.org/myquiz/index.php [R=permanent,L]
How to get file directory trough .htaccess by using RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ?id=$1 [L,QSA]?
If .htaccess is located in http://localhost/some/dir/.htaccess and I'm opening http://localhost/some/dir/here/I/use/RewriteRule/, how I detect value /some/dir/ without using RewriteBase and without manual adding %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/some/dir/, like value localhost I get trough %{HTTP_HOST}?
If you do not use RewriteBase you need to tell mod-rewrite the real Directory Root /var/ww/mysite/some/dir in the rewrite rule. RewriteBase would take the location url and map it to the directory.
So you'll maybe end up with
RewriteRule /var/ww/mysite/some/dir/(.*)$ ?id=$1 [L,QSA]
And trying to map some internal variables it may be
RewriteRule %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/some/dir/(.*)$ ?id=$1 [L,QSA]
But I'm unsure, I rarely use mod_rewrite in .htaccess -- I prefer Directory tags, and the file path management can be different in .htaccess (auto removal and adding of directory prefixes). If you do not find a solution try to ask Servfault, plenty of admins other there.
Actualy Apache still does not have pathinfo($,PATHINFO_DIRNAME), function like has PHP.
So on now there are solution on using %{REQUEST_URI}, like this example:
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ /path-dirname/$1 [R=301,L]
may reset with:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.+)/$
RewriteRule ^.+/$ %1 [R=301,L]
How come this one works:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/book/blabla$
RewriteRule ^.+$ /book/?name=blabla [NC,L]
But this one doesn't?
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/book/blabla$ /book/?name=blabla [NC,L]
I've tried many things but it's confusing me.
If you’re using mod_rewrite in a .htaccess file, the contextual per-directory prefix of the URL path is removed before testing the rules:
As you will see below, RewriteRule can be used in per-directory config files (.htaccess). In such a case, it will act locally, stripping the local directory prefix before processing, and applying rewrite rules only to the remainder.
That means if you use mod_rewrite in the .htaccess file in the root directory (/), that path prefix is removed from the URL path. So /book/blabla is reduced to book/blabla. Your rule pattern must reflect that behavior:
RewriteRule ^book/blabla$ /book/?name=blabla [NC,L]