I am using Mod Rewrite to create attractive URLs. I am trying to understand how it is possible to ignore parts of a URL?
For example, my original URL was:
/file.php?token=771736eb78bc3b6f96d5c066069567c0c219bf65/
And I have written a Mod Rewrite code to turn that into:
/file/771736eb78bc3b6f96d5c066069567c0c219bf65/
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^file/([^/]*)$ /file.php?token=$1 [L]
However, I would like to achieve a URL like:
/file/771736eb78bc3b6f96d5c066069567c0c219bf65/random-bits-here/
The random bits on the end serve no purpose (other than decoration). How do I tell Mod Rewrite to ignore this part of the URL?
Just tweak your regex like this
RewriteRule ^file/([^/]+)/?(.*)$ /file.php?token=$1 [NC,L]
You should add the second group of characters to your RewriteRule and ignore the caught expression, if you don't need it.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^file/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/$ /file.php?token=$1 [L]
Or, if you would like to have it passed to your script.:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^file/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/$ /file.php?token=$1&extra=$2 [L]
Simply leave out the $ sign, which forces the end of the string (path):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^file/([^/]*) /file.php?token=$1 [L]
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how can i make the following condition work if there is no number, so it can handle www.example.com/en/fourthcategory as well as www.example.com/en/fourthcategory/8562
RewriteRule en/fourthcategory/([0-9]+) ?l=en&c=c4&p=$1 [L]
i could use two rules, but would prefer using only one, since in the end there would be double as much rules and there will be quite a lot of categories in at least four languages...
RewriteRule en/fourthcategory/([0-9]+) ?l=en&c=c4&p=$1 [L]
RewriteRule en/fourthcategory ?l=en&c=c4 [L]
or is this not the right approach to create RewriteRules for every possible category separately?
You can try this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule en/fourthcategory/?([0-9]*) ?l=en&c=c4&p=$1 [L]
Be carefull, with http://www.example.com/en/fourthcategory/8562, you'll get a final URL like this:
/index.php?l=en&c=c4&p=8562
index.php can be any DirectoryIndex filename of your apache server.
I need page numbers from URLs of the form:
http://mydomain.com/index.php?showtopic=XXXX&page=XXXX&#entryXXXX
so they become
http://mydomain.com/index.php?showtopic=XXXX&#entryXXXX
where XXXX are integers
I've previously tried:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)showtopic=([0-9]+)&page=([0-9]+)(.*) http://mydomain.com/index.php?showtopic=$1$3 [QSA,L,R=301]
but to no avail. So I shortened it to:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)&page=([0-9]+)(.*)$ $1&$3 [QSA,L,R=301]
but still nowt. Is there anything wrong with the regex at all?
You can't match against the query string in a rewrite rule, you need to match against the %{QUERY_STRING} var inside a rewrite condition:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^showtopic=([^&]+)&page=([^&]+)(&.*)?$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /index.php?showtopic=%1%3 [L,R=301]
The #entryXXXX part of the URL is a fragment, and the server actually never sees that. It's a client/browser-side only thing. Hopefully, the browser is smart enough to re-append the fragment after getting redirected.
I have a PHP site which replaces an ASP site, so the path structure is different.
In the URLs, I need to match http://apache.site/Cartv3/Details.asp & redirect to another location. What is the correct syntax to match that URL fragment?
I've already tried
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} CartV3/results1.asp?Category=60
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ home-study/A-Levels/1/page-1 [R=301,L]
and
RewriteRule ^CartV3/Details\.asp?ProductID=1004 home-study/A-Levels/1/page-1 [R=301,L]
You meed to read more about mod_rewrite. Remember RewriteRule doesn't match query string. You attempt needs to be rewritten as:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^Category=60$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^CartV3/results1\.asp$ /home-study/A-Levels/1/page-1? [R=302,L,NC]
Once you verify it is working fine, replace R=302 to R=301. Avoid using R=301 (Permanent Redirect) while testing your mod_rewrite rules.
PS: ? after page-1 is a special mod_rewrite syntax to strip original query string. If you want to keep original query string in rewritten URL then take out ? in the end.
The problem here is that you are trying to match the query string, which has to be done by a separate RewriteCond. If you want the match specifically "Category=60", then you can add it as a Condition:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} Category=60
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /CartV3/results1.asp
RewriteRule .* home-study/A-Levels/1/page-1?
This will match http://example.com/CartV3/results1.asp?Category=60 and redirect. The ? at the end of the rule stops "?Category=60" being to the resulting URI.
If you don't care about the value in the query string, then you can remove the first condition.
I'm trying to rewrite from domain.com/page/soft-15/android-26/ to page.php?cat=15&os=26 with this code:
RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)\-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)/([0-9]+)\-([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)$ page.php?cat=$1&os=$2
I thinks it works fine but, how can i rewrite domain.com/page/ and domain.com/page (without the last forward slash) to domain.com/page.php keeping both rules working?
ok think i got it mixing Jimp & Jon code
RewriteRule ^page/?$ page.php [L]
RewriteRule ^page/(?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]*-)?([0-9]+)/(?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]*-)?([0-9]+)/?$ page.php?cat=$1&os=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^page/(?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]*-)?([0-9]+)/?$ page.php?cat=$1 [L]
This math with
domain.com/page
domain.com/page/
domain.com/page/soft-15
domain.com/page/soft-15/
domain.com/page/15
domain.com/page/15/
domain.com/page/soft-15/android-26
domain.com/page/soft-15/android-26/
domain.com/page/soft-15/26
domain.com/page/15/26
and so on...
Add a trailing /? to your pattern (before the $ anchor). The ? makes the / optional.
Additionally, your patterns seem backward, matching the digits before the characters. Try this:
RewriteRule ^page/(?:([a-zA-Z\d-]*)-)?(\d+)/(?:([a-zA-Z\d-]*)-)?(\d+)/?$ page.php?cat=$1&os=$2
That should match these variations like these:
domain.com/page/soft-15/android-26
domain.com/page/soft-15/android-26/
domain.com/page/15/android-26
domain.com/page/15/android-26/
domain.com/page/soft-15/26
domain.com/page/soft-15/26/
domain.com/page/15/26
domain.com/page/15/26/
Your backreferences don't seem to jive with the example that you're using:
/page/soft-15/android-26/
to page.php?cat=15&os=26
Your regex looks like it's matching:
/page/15-soft/26-android/
And rewriting to:
page.php?cat=15&os=soft
If you're going by your example, you'd want something like:
RewriteRule ^page/[a-zA-Z0-9-]*?-([0-9]+)/[a-zA-Z0-9-]*?-([0-9]+)/?$ page.php?cat=$1&os=$2
RewriteRule ^page/[a-zA-Z0-9-]*?-([0-9]+)/?$ page.php?cat=$1
RewriteRule ^page/?$ page.php
I have a strange problem with mod_rewrite, the rules that are relevant here are:
RewriteRule ^(.*)\/igre\-(.*)\.php\?Page=([0-9]+)$ game.php?GameUrl=$2&Page=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)\/igre\-(.*)\.php$ game.php?GameUrl=$2&Page=1 [L]
And a corresponding URL might look something like this:
example.com/miselne-igre/igre-shirk.php?Page=2
example.com/miselne-igre/igre-shirk.php
The problem is that the first rule has no effect. If I use the first URL from the example I always get 1 into the Page variable, which shows that the second rule is used.
So what's wrong with the first one? And why is the second rule even matching a URL with ".php?Page=XYZ" at the end, if I said that the URL ends with ".php"?
ps: other rules in the .htaccess file are working fine...
The query string is not part of the URI path that is being processed by the RewriteRule directive. You have to use the RewriteCond directive to process the query string.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^Page=[0-9]+$
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/igre-([^/]+)\.php$ game.php?GameUrl=$1&%0 [L]
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/igre-([^/]+)\.php$ game.php?GameUrl=$1&Page=1 [L]
But you can still simplify this by using the QSA flag (query string append):
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/igre-([^/]+)\.php$ game.php?GameUrl=$1 [L,QSA]
mod_rewrite is not using the query in it's rewriting process. Therefor you first RewriteRule is ignored. You could combine it with a RewriteCond (haven't tested it though) like so:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} Page=([0-9]+)
RewriteRule ^(.*)\/igre\-(.*)\.php\?Page=([0-9]+)$ game.php?GameUrl=$2 [L, qsappend]
# qsappend appends the original query, in this case (Page=xx)
Ah, like Gumbo said; you can also use %1 to back reference to the page numer.
Is it just me or are your arguments back-to-front?
Do you mean:
RewriteRule ^(.*)\/(.*)\-igre\.php\?Page=([0-9]+)$ game.php?GameUrl=$2&Page=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)\/(.*)\-igre\.php$ game.php?GameUrl=$2&Page=1 [L]
You wanted to match miselne-igre not igre-miselne.
Obviously this doesn't address the main issue, but thought I'd throw that in.
Dom