We moved a main site advancedbrain.com to a new site/server. The old site still serves up some older content. It can now be accessed at this subdomain: l.advancedbrain.com.
Many of the old pages on the old server are still looking for resources using paths like:
http://advancedbrain.com/components/com_ixxocart/images/buttons/en/buttonAddToCart.gif
http://advancedbrain.com/templates/abthome/images/abt_logo.png
http://advancedbrain.com/plugins/system/2j_tabs/2j_tabs.css
http://advancedbrain.com/components/com_ixxocart/content/ajax/xajax_js/xajax.js
etc. etc.
I am trying to write a rewrite in .htaccess where it will look for those resources on l.advancedbrain.com instead of advancedbrain.com.
I have tried a few things but they haven't worked.
Finally figured this out. Here it is in hopes it will help others.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule "^/components/com_ixxocart/images/(.+)" "http://l.advancedbrain.com/components/com_ixxocart/images/$1" [NC,L,R=301]
RewriteRule "^/templates/abthome/images/(.+)" "http://l.advancedbrain.com/templates/abthome/images/$1" [NC,L,R=301]
RewriteRule "^/plugins/system/2j_tabs/(.+)" "http://l.advancedbrain.com/plugins/system/2j_tabs/$1" [NC,L,R=301]
RewriteRule "^/components/com_ixxocart/content/(.+)" "http://l.advancedbrain.com/components/com_ixxocart/content/$1" [NC,L,R=301]
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I've been looking on various sites reading mod_rewrite examples for a few hours, and have used it many times before successfully... but I'm trying something new with it now and can't for the life of me get it working!
I'm using a PHP file manager tool called AjaXplorer, I have it in a subdirectory on the root of my server /ajaxplorer-core-4.0.4. When I go to the root of my site http://domain.com/ I want it to invisibly redirect to the /ajaxplorer-core-4.0.4 folder (but still show the root domain in the address bar).
I still want to be able to access the other files/directories on the root as normal just typing in the path.
I assume this is possible? Seems relatively simple but I just can't get it working.
AjaXplorer seems to load js files and images etc from /ajaxplorer-core-4.0.4/plugins, I have a feeling that's where it's tripping me up.
Any pointers would be massively appreciated! Thanks
Found it on another answer luckily :)
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?site.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subdir/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subdir/$1
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?site.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ subdir/index.php [L]
Here's the wiki of serverfault.com
The howto's htaccess official guide
The official mod_rewrite guide
And if that's not enough:
Two hints:
If you're not in a hosted environment (= if it's your own server and you can modify the virtual hosts, not only the .htaccess files), try to use the RewriteLog directive: it helps you to track down such problems:
# Trace:
# (!) file gets big quickly, remove in prod environments:
RewriteLog "/web/logs/mywebsite.rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 9
RewriteEngine On
My favorite tool to check for regexp:
http://www.quanetic.com/Regex (don't forget to choose ereg(POSIX) instead of preg(PCRE)!)
I need a little help with my .htaccess before I deploy it!
I want to 301 redirect almost everything from elementalthreads.com to ethreads.com, excluding blog/wp-content/uploads, and /pommo.
Am I doing this right?:
RewriteEngine on
#exclude old uploads folder and /pommo
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(blog/wp-content/uploads|pommo) [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://ethreads.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Will that transfer canonical pagerank?
Here's where I know I need help:
The old site has a wordpress blog, which I've cloned on the new domain. I'd love to preserve the permalinks, which are almost 1:1, eg:
http://www.elementalthreads.com/blog/ethreads-now-on-amazon-com/ redirects to
http://ethreads.com/ethreads-now-on-amazon-com/ (note /blog/ is missing here)
And the blog index http://www.elementalthreads.com/blog/ should redirect to http://ethreads.com/blog/, which seems like an exception to the above rule, since "/blog/" should only be preserved here?
I'm stumped about how to regEx or otherwise define these last two conditions/rules. Any help would be most appreciated!
That looks correct to me. However, you should not put this live without checking it, there really is nothing preventing you from being able to test it. One thing to bare in mind is that browsers can cache 301 response codes so when testing you should use [R,L] as your flags. Once you are happy add the [R=301,L] back in before deployment.
OK for points (1) & (2)
# only redirect the blog direcotry
RewriteRule ^blog/?$ http://ethreads.com/blog/ [NC,R=301,L]
# redirect all sub folders of blog to the new domain
RewriteRule ^blog/([\w-])/?$ http://ethreads.com/$1/ [NC,R=301,L]
I hope this was not asked over and over again before, but I didn't get further to an answer using google, w3schools and so on. So here is my question:
I'm writing a script that creates kind of an index of projects that I have on my homepage and makes a nice list with images and teaser text based on an info file. I mostly have my projects on github and the readme is in markdown so I thought I could dynamically generate the HTML from the markdown of the latest blob from github on demand using PHP so it gets updated automatically.
My directory structure looks like this:
projects
project1
.remoteindex
.info
project2
.remoteindex
.info
index.php
.htaccess
So when just domain.tld/projects/ is requested I get the info from .info and make a nice index of all projects. But if domain.tld/projects/project1/ is request it, I want to internally redirect it to domain.tld/projects/?dir=project1 to do my markdown parsing and so on. But domain.tld/projects/project1/image.png should not be redirected.
This is what I tried:
.htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ index.php?dir=$1 [R,L]
I made it redirect instead of rewrite so that I can see what the error is because I just got an 404. The URL that I get redirected to is domain.tld/home/www/web310/html/projects/index.php?dir=project1 so obviously there is something going wrong with the internal structure of the web server an paths an whatever.
I hope you can understand my problem an I would be very pleased if someone could help me, because I'm totally lost on .htaccess anyway.
Edit:
See my answer below for the used .htaccess.
The strange thing is that if I have an index.html in on of the subdirectories, my local web server (Apache with XAMPP for Mac OS X 1.7.3) does not rewrite and the index.html gets displayed, without one it works correctly.But on my real web server that serves my homepage it rewrites both with and without index.html (which is what I want). Any hints on that?
Thanks for all the help so far! You guys are just awesome!
I figured out that a symbiosis of both of your solutions works well for me:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /projects
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ index.php?dir=$1 [QSA,L]
Of course only without [R], this was my fault. (See my question edit for another question please).
You need to add a RewriteBase /projects to the htaccess.
That way the redirect will work properly.
Edit:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^index.php - [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ index.php?dir=$1 [R,L]
Following what you ask, this is important not to do a redirect, but let the rewriterule modify internally the URL i.e. the RewriteRule should not end with [R,L] but rather [L] and maybe the "query string append" directive to keep what's after the ? so this should probably be [QSA,L].
Now here's how I'd do to avoid rewriting static files: if it's not a file then (and only then) test it:
# if it's not a file...
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
# ... and it's a dir
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} -d
# ... then rewrite it internally and stop further processing:
RewriteRule projects/([^/]+)(/?)$ index.php?dir=$1 [QSA,L]
And now two hints:
Please try to use the RewriteLog directive: it helps you to track down such problems:
# Trace:
# (!) file gets big quickly, remove in prod environments:
RewriteLog "/web/logs/mywebsite.rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 9
RewriteEngine On
My favorite tool to check for regexp:
http://www.quanetic.com/Regex (don't forget to choose ereg(POSIX) instead of preg(PCRE)!)
Here's my situation. I have a web root and several subdirectories, let's say:
/var/www
/var/www/site1
/var/www/site2
Due to certain limitations, I need the ability to keep one single domain and have separate folders like this. This will work fine for me, but many JS and CSS references in both sites point to things like:
"/js/file.js"
"/css/file.css"
Because these files are referenced absolutely, they are looking for the 'js' and 'css' directories in /var/www, which of course does not exist. Is there a way to use RewriteRules to redirect requests for absolutely referenced files to point to the correct subdirectory? I have tried doing things like:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/$ /site1
or
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/js/(.*)$ /site1/js/$1
RewriteRule ^/css/(.*)$ /site1/css/$1
But neither of these work, even redirecting to only one directory, not to mention handling both site1 and site2. Is what I'm trying possible?
EDIT: SOLUTION
I ended up adapting Jon's advice to fit my situation. I have the ability to programatically make changes to my .htaccess file whenever a new subdirectory is added or removed. For each "site" that I want, I have the following section in my .htaccess:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} sitename=site1
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/site1/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /site1/$1 [L]
Index.php is a file that lists all my sites, deletes the "sitename" cookie, and sets a cookie of "sitename=site#" when a particular one is selected. My RewriteConds check,
If the request is not for /
If the request is not for /index.php
If the request contains the cookie "sitename=site1"
If the request does not start with "/site1/"
If all of these conditions are met, then the request is rewritten to prepend "/site1/" before the request. I tried having a single set of Conds/Rules that would match (\w+) instead of "site1" in the third Condition, and then refer to %1 in the fourth Condition and in the Rule, but this did not work. I gave up and settled for this.
If the RewriteRules are in your .htaccess file, you need to remove the leading slashes in your match (apache strips them before sending it to mod_rewrite). Does this work?
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^js/(.*)$ /site1/js/$1
RewriteRule ^css/(.*)$ /site1/css/$1
EDIT: To address the comment:
Yes, that works, but when I do RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /site1/$1, it causes Apache to issue internal server errors. But to me, it seems like that should just be a generic equivalent of the individual rules!
What's happening with that rule is when /something/ gets rewritten to /site/something/, and apache internally redirects, it gets rewritten again, to /site/site/something/, then again, then again, etc.
You'd need to add a condition to that, something like:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/site/
RewirteRule ^(.*)$ /site/$1 [L]
You need to set up symlinks, which the rewrite rules will use so your absolute links at the server level can follow the symbolic links to the central site hosting account.
Hey folks, I've migrated a site from WordPress to a new CMS, and I want to preserve the old URLs via a redirect.
The WordPress permalink structure was like so:
/2011/04/01/name-of-post
I've preserved the post slugs, so all I need to do is get rid of the date-based paths and redirect to my new directory structure:
/articles/view/name-of-post
My attempts thus far have looked like this (in my .htaccess file):
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/(.+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^/[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/(.+)$ /articles/view/$1 [L]
No luck yet. I tried %{PATH_INFO} in there as well, no dice.
Any help from those more versed in Apache rewrite rules than would be much appreciated.
Something like this should do.
RedirectMatch permanent ^/20../../../(.*)$ /articles/view/$1
It can be handled in one simple RewriteRule like this:
RewriteRule ^[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/(.+)$ /articles/view/$1 [L]