You'd think I'd easily be able to find the answer to this on S/O, but I've tried everything and after a few hours of frustration I'm giving in and seeing what the real experts think.
I'm "sure" this can be done with mod rewrite, but I'll defer to you.
Problem: I'm attempting to turn a URL like this...
http://domain.com/new-cars/state.php?stateCode=al
Into this at minimum...
http://domain.com/new-cars/al-new-cars
Though, ideally I'd get it to look like this (yes, I'm willing to rewrite some code to use the full state name as the $stateCode variable to make it easier!)...
http://domain.com/new-cars/alabama-new-cars
Ultimately the plan is to be able to use URL's in links such as...
http://domain.com/new-cars/alabama-new-cars
And have .htaccess take car of associating this SEO-friendly URL with the dynamic version and displaying the page properly.
Either way, I haven't been able to figure out how to do this like I need.
Here's what I've tried.
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^new-cars/([^-]*)-new-cars/$ /new-cars/state.php?stateCode=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
And different variations that I've created using 2 different mod rewrite generators and various answers to other people's questions.
Absolutely nothing is working.
I expect when I go to
http://domain.com/new-cars/state.php?stateCode=AL
That it rewrites the URL to
http://domain.com/new-cars/AL-new-cars
...but it does not. Instead, it stays exactly the same dynamic URL I typed in. If I go to the "desired" rewrite URL I get a 404 error saying the page doesn't exist.
What am I doing wrong?
I thought maybe my .htaccess privileges weren't set right, but I can do a 301 redirect through .htaccess quite easily, so that's not it.
Maybe someone here can help. I've tried to so many permutations, even settling for the most basic rewrite just to see if I could get it to work - but nothing.
Any help is appreciated!
You can use:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
# external redirect from actual URL to pretty one
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+new-cars/state\.php\?stateCode=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /new-cars/%1-new-cars? [R=301,L,NE]
# internal forward from pretty URL to actual one
RewriteRule ^new-cars/([^-]*)-new-cars/?$ /new-cars/state.php?stateCode=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
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I have a sneaking suspicion this is not possible, but figured I would ask regardless.
Is it at all possible to take a URL passed to a server in the form of:
http://domain.com/index.php?Action=Controller/Action&one=1&two=2&three=3
And rewrite it to appear as:
http://domain.com/Controller/Action/1/2/3
I am trying to clean up an borderline ancient project to support "Pretty URLs" and I would really like to make the URLs display a bit nicer. I know I could setup a 301 header redirect to the new URL, but I would prefer to avoid that overhead if at all possible.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
To get
http://domain.com/index.php?Action=Controller/Action&one=1&two=2&three=3
To appear as
http://domain.com/Controller/Action/1/2/3
You will need to use %{QUERY_STRING} to capture the query string data. Your .htaccess file will look like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^Action=Controller/Action&one=(\d+)&two=(\d+)&three=(\d+)
RewriteRule ^.+ /Controller/Action/%1/%2/%3 [R=301,L]
This will set up a permanent redirect to the new page. You can play around and test .htaccess rewrite rules here: htaccess.madewithlove.be
You can use this code in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ index.php?Action=$1/$2&one=$3&two=$4&three=$5 [L,QSA]
I am trying to have a URL that would look like:
mysite.com/#username
Which would route to something like:
subdomain.mysite.com/user/#username
I'm terrible with RewriteRules and have been struggling to try to get this to work. Some of the things I have tried are:
RewriteRule subdomain.mysite.com/user/(.*) mysite.com/$1 [R=302,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.#)(.*) subdomain.mysite.com/user/$1 [R=302,NC]
RewriteRule ^(.#)([A-Za-z0-9_]+) mysite.com/user/$1 [R=302,NC]
I realize those probably make absolutely no sense. Every time I try to get my head around how the routing works, I get turned around and start writing crap like you see above.
Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks.
You can't route to a subdomain (using htaccess anyway) but you can redirect there.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule #(.*) http://subdomain.mysite.com/user/#$1 [L,R=301]
The # symbol should be okay https://stackoverflow.com/a/1547940/763468
Please excuse me as I'm pretty new to using .htaccess, and am having a few issues with it as the setup I need is, despite being simple, seemingly rare.
Basically, I'm working on a secondary domain trying to hide .php extensions from pages, but whilst also redirecting requests for nonexistent pages to a custom search page. The overall desired effect is:
realpage => realpage.php
and
falsepage => search.php?q=falsepage
So far, the code I have (see below) seems to apply the latter correctly, but rather than returning 'realpage.php' for 'domain.com/realpage' it returns a 404 error.
I've found variations which also move realpage to 'search.php?q=missing' in case that gives any indication what might be going wrong!
My .htaccess file at the moment:
Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [L]
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php$ search.php?q=$1 [L]
Thanks for any help you can offer! It's very much appreciated!
I think for your first rule, you want something along the lines of:
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.php [L]
I ran that through the rewrite rule tester, and it will direct 'realpage' to 'realpage.php'. If that doesn't work, I would suggest disabling your second rule, making sure the first one works well, then adding the check for missing files in later.
sorry, but i'am less understand about url rewrite...
i want to rewrite my url from :
http://localhost/controller/index.php/user/edit
to
http://localhost/controller/user/edit
i can make it with this .htaccess :
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /controller/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [PT,L]
but, the rewrite works if there is no file exist at controller/user/edit.php
i want every request to under my controller/xxx is rewrited to controller/index.php/xxx whether the file is exist or not....
i have remove the RewriteCond so my current one is like this :
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /controller/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [PT,L]
but, it shown internal service error..
There are a lot of things that don't make sense to me. Mainly, your question says to want to rewrite a URL having index.php in it to one that does not, but your rewrite rule, which you say works in some cases does the opposite, it pre-pends index.php to requests.
If you have access to your apache error and access log, you might see if there's more information about exactly at what point the error occurred -- was it when the .htaccess file was processed, or was it from within your php program?
I will assume that the goal here is to take "pretty" urls like /controller/user/edit and have the index.php program actually process the /user/edit part of the path.
If so, I think you may want to set the RewriteBase to /, and change your .htaccess to
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ controller/index.php/$1 [PT,L]
The RewriteBase / directive says that all requests are relative to the server's DOCUMENT_ROOT setting. The change to the rewrite rule instructs all requests to go to the directory controller and file index.php, appending the original requested path afterwards.
(Note: I don't think you want to use the PT flag in this case, and it would be better form to escape the . which is a regex operator as index\.php, but I think neither of these are relevant to the problem here)
It is not clear if you do want the / before the $1. If your PHP program (index.php) is getting called with it present, and knows how to handle it, then it's fine, but it's a little unusual, and there may be cases where you end up with multiple /'s from within the php program.
But do you really want to do this? The typical use of the RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f is to handle cases such as image files and css or javascript files that are static and need not be handled by your controller. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d depends on your system (but it's purpose to see that the request is not for a directory).
Anyway, the basic change as I proposed might help, but if not, perhaps you can clarify your intent and provide some actual URLs and a look inside index.php
I’ve written some code on my .htaccess file which allows the use of SEO friendly URLs instead of ugly query strings. The following code rewrites the SEO friendly version in the browser to the query string version on the server.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^seo/([^/]*)/$ /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]