Having some issues understanding the .htaccess file and getting it to work properly. .htaccess is recognized....i entered plain test at the top and got the internal server error. And it appears mod-rewrite is working...because I downloaded a test php file and it works.
I am using Apache 2.4.23 with no php pages
However i cant seem to get this to work right.
I am trying to take this url
http://example.com/ProjectTest/index.shtml?dynContent=Content1
and rewrite it like this
http://example.com/ProjectTest/Content1
I am also trying to do this generically across the site since ?dynContent=whatever will be a constant.....and trying to keep the same path.....like the below example
Change this
http://example.com/ProjectTest/ProjectFolder/index.shtml?dynContent=Content1
to this
http://example.com/ProjectTest/ProjectFolder/Content1
I am not very good with the .htaccess files
UPDATE: Ok...I got this to work.....not really sure why it works....but when I type in the test-dev/ProjectTest/apples or test-dev/ProjectTest/oranges it calls up the appropriate content.
This is what I used
RewriteRule ^ProjectTest/([^/\.]+)/?$ ProjectTest/index.shtml?dynContent=$1 [L]
and then I rewrote it to be this and now it works for any directory
RewriteRule ^(.*)/([^/\.]+)/?$ $1/index.shtml?dynContent=$2 [L]
Try this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^dynContent=(.+)$
RewriteRule ^/(.+)+/index.shtml $1/%1 [PT]
This requires mod_rewrite to be activated. The value of the bracket in dynContent=(.+) is stored in %1 and the bracket's value in ^/(.+)+/index.shtml is stored in $1. Both together creates your target path http://example.com/ProjectTest/ProjectFolder/Content1
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I converted a website I'm building into a web view app in iOs.
I would like to track visitors that use the app instead of the website by adding a directory to my URL.
For instance, the "about" page URL would go from "https://example.com/about/" to "https://example.com/app-ios/about/"
My question is how to write an htaccess rule that tells my server to go to the path "/about/" and skip the "/app-ios/" directory?
Also, I'd like to add ?app=app-ios in my query parameters.
The most promising thing I found was this :
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^search/node/(.+)$ /search/node/?app=$1 [QSA,NC,L]
But I'd need to specify what comes before "foo".. In my case, "app-ios" is at the beginning of the request uri, always.
Plus I don't want a redirection. I just want my server to read /app-ios/something/other-thing/ as /something/other-thing/?app=ios.
First one question for tracking I would recommend to make this over a Query Parameter (as you wrote) like ?client=ios, but this might be an own opinion.
For rewriting the URL you could do the following:
to remove from the IOS from the URL (not tested):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*)ios/(.*) $1/$2?client_id=ios&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
I'm trying to create a rewrite rule for my .htaccess file. I want to include a single dollar sign within it. It is supposed to be something like this:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^\$$ "http\:\/\/domain\.com\/something" [R=301,L]
The problem is that it doesn't work with a single dollar sign, so if I go to domain.com/$ I get a 404. It works only with another letter, for example ^\$a$ - in such case domain.com/$a would redirect to domain.com/something.
The workaround is to create a new folder, rename it to $ and put the .htaccess file there, but I would rather avoid creating multiple folders with no content for such purposes. I couldn't find any reference on the Internet (the official Apache documentation for mod_rewrite was not very helpful). I tried using multiple slashes in different combinations but everything failed. Am I missing something or is it just impossible to make it work this way?
For me it works exactly as expected in htaccess with RewriteRule ^\$$ and requesting "$". Have you looked at the rewritelog / loglevel rewrite:trace8 yet?
I recently changed a directory /old_dir/ to be /new_dir/ using this:
RedirectMatch 301 /old_dir/(.*) /new_dir/$1
Which seems to be working perfect for the url:
http://www.mysite.com/old_dir/test.php?var=xxxx
goes to
http://www.mysite.com/new_dir/test.php?var=xxxx
where test.php is the filename. But in many places I use:
http://www.mysite.com/old_dir/test?var=xxxx
which comes up with:
The requested URL /old_dir/test was not found on this server.
not using the .php extension takes advantage of some sort of apache plugin that knows it's a php handler, which seemingly messes up redirect because it says it doesn't exist now.
I am not sure how to fix this issue.
Edit: All the solutions are for this special case, but note that i have about 1000 other files that may not be php, or named the same.
For right now I just made a symbolic link in the old_dir with the name "test" to point to the new_dir's test.php. But I am still looking for a non-specific solution that includes my scenario.
Have you ever tried using mod_rewrite?
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ $1/$2.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^old_dir/([^/]+)/$ new_dir/$1.php [QSA]
I am defining mod_rewrite rule that will rewrite all requests to my /application.php if requested file not exists, and won't do any rewriting otherwise. It is simple:
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule .* application.php [PT]
There is only one problem with the code. Assume I have foo.html file. Then requests like:
http://example.com/foo.html/some/other/string
will fall with 404 error.
Why?
will fall with 404 error. Why?
Because that URL doesn't exist. It's looking for the file string in the folder /foo.html/some/other and it's not there.
The behaviour that you want to exploit using the http://example.com/foo.html/some/other/string URL structure - treating the first entry as a file name, and the rest as a parameter to it - is called "pathinfo". It has nothing to do with mod_rewrite, but will be available if you enable the following in your Apache configuration:
AcceptPathInfo On
it looks like that setting is currently turned to "off" for you.
If you enable it, the part after the file name will be available to foo.html - in PHP, it would be in the
$_SERVER["PATH_INFO"]
variable.
Because this method doesn't require the rewrite module to be active, this is sometimes called "the poor man's mod_rewrite" - it works fine, but isn't quite as pretty as flexible as "real" rewriting.
How do I rewrite
www.sitename.com/thing/thing.php?otherthing=something-like-this
to
www.sitename.com/something-like-this?
please help me with this as I can't seem to succeed. My host uses apache 2.2. Many thanks for your help!
Update
No I don't need that trailing ? However, I used the Rewrite rule you offered me and it still ain't working. I also added a RewriteEngine On before the rules.
I have Linux hosting, .htaccess and the code is obviously semantically correct, cause otherwise I would get the all so popular 500 internal server error. I placed the .htaccess file in the folder thing and in the root of the site, but it still won't work.
There should be an option to display it in directory format instead of the PHP ? format. If not, you could use the .htaccess mod_rewrite rule to make that display in the /folder/ way.
The way I do it is that I just upload my files and each page name is index.html and then I create folders, and put each index.html in the folder. Like this:
/guidelines/
In that folder is index.html, so instead of it being /guidelines.html it's /guidelines/
Looks better without .html
You need to use mod_rewrite:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^otherthing=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^thing/thing.php$ /%1? [L]
No idea if you meant to have that trailing ? at the end of the rewrite, I don't think that's possible. Note that the ? at the end of the RewriteRule is to get rid of the query string, otherwise, the rewritten URL will still have the ?otherthing=something-like-this at the end.