I've setup a rewrite rule in order to direct domain.com traffic to www.domain.com using the following rule:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>
From my limited understanding, the $1 in the RewriteRule should match anything after domain.com/ and then be placed at the end of my rewritten url www.domain.com/.
For example domain.com/abc should become www.domain.com/abc.
However this is not working. If I browse to domain.com/abc then this path isn't rewritten at all and I just get domain.com/abc without the www.
I've done lots of reading just to figure out that the $1 should be taking care of this, from my understanding.
Can anyone explain why it isn't working as I suspect it should be? Thanks.
It turns out that because I was using Wordpress AND W3 Cache plugin that I was simply putting the code in the wrong place in my .htaccess file.
The code should be placed within the # BEGIN Wordpress codeblock and before the existing rules that Wordpress already has in place.
The existing code should look something like this:
# BEGIN Wordpress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
#END Wordpress
I added my original code to this as follows:
# BEGIN Wordpress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
#END Wordpress
This fixes the issue I was describing above. Thanks to the commenters for sparking my thought process.
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I'm stuck with some .htaccess rules.
I've got the page /module/slug. I want, when I type slug to see content of /module/slug/ but not redirect to this page. Is it possible? I've tried this rule, but had no luck:
RewriteRule ^slug/$ /module/slug/ [L]
My .htaccess content:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^calculator/$ /sample-page/ [R=301,L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
That happens because you don't tell Apache to redirect (R=301).
Add the redirect flag R, and it should work. Also make sure that:
You have set the RewriteBase correctly.
There are not any other rules earlier in the file that match the same URL.
.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^slug/$ /module/slug/ [R=301,L]
I have a problem that I can't get to rewrite only root to file. For example example.com to example.com/landing-page/mypage.html but keep all other addresses like example.com/something/ intact.
Currently for test purposes I have managed to redirect /test/ and my .htaccess looks like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/test/.*$
RewriteRule . /wp-content/themes/mytheme/landing_page.html [L]
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
But now if I try to redirect only root and replace RewriteCond with
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
it doesn't work and it loads my Wordpress site.
UPDATE:
I tested on another server using just simple rule RewriteRule ^/?$ /mypage/landing-page.html [L] also keeping WordPress lines and it works there, but the same lines do not work on this server. So now the question arises what server settings might be preventing this simple rule.
Looks like you forgot to turn on the RewriteEngine in your second example .
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ /landing-page/mypage.html [NC,L]
Just launched a new site. Kept the old site, but assigned it to a subdomain.
I need to forward requests for old site URLs to the new subdomain.
Old site URLs all have this structure: "www.oldsite.com/BMT/xxxxxx" where the "/BMT/" directly follows the .com.
I need my .htaccess to forward URLs like that to "subdomain.oldsite.com" instead of "www.oldsite.com", keeping the same path after the "/BMT/"
Any URLs without the "/BMT/" should not be redirected.
From my research, I think this might work
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/BMT http://subdomain.oldsite.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
Am I on the right track?
If so, where should I add it in my current .htaccess?
Current .htaccess is:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Yes, you are right,
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/BMT [NC]
is a condition ,if it matchs the request uri string starting with /BMT then the rule will redirect the uri to http://sub.domain .
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/BMT [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://sub.oldsite.com/$1 [NC,R,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
I have a Wordpress site web in localhost with XAMPP. Now I have a URL like this:
http://localhost:82/subdirectory/images.html/nggallery/tags/[tagname]
Now I want this:
http:// localhost:82/subdirectory/images/nggallery/[tagname]
To remove tags, I've tried many codes, like this:
RewriteRule ^tags/(.+)/$ /$1 [R=301,L]
but doesn't work.
Help me, please.
I'm using WordPress, my htaccess file looks like this
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /subdirectory/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /subdirectory/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Before answering, a better idea than using htaccess for this is to use Wordpress' rewrite modules.
Anyway, you need to put your specific rules before Wordpress' main rule.
You can replace your current code by this one in your htaccess (which has to be in your subdirectory folder)
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /subdirectory/
# redirect /.../tags/XXX to /.../XXX
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /images\.html/nggallery/tags/([^\s\?]+)\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ images/nggallery/%1? [R=301,L]
# internally rewrite /.../XXX to /.../tags/XXX
RewriteRule ^images/nggallery/(.+)$ images.html/nggallery/tags/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
try
http:// localhost:82/subdirectory/images/nggallery/[tagname]
RewriteRule ^nggallery/tags/(.*)$ http://localhost:82/subdirectory/images/nggallery/$1
Trust me, I've searched all over for a solution to my problem, so I don't believe this is a duplicate question.
I need to do the following:
301 Redirect blog.example.com to blog.newexample.com.
What I have is close to working. When I go to the homepage of blog.example.com it will redirect perfectly to blog.newexample.com. However, if I go to blog.example.com/directory/page it does not direct me to blog.newexample.com/directory/page.
Here is what my .htaccess looks like:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !newexample.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://blog.newexample.com/$1 [L,R=301]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
I'm not sure to understand what your problem is, but this works just fine :
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !newexample.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://blog.newexample.com/$1 [L,R=301]
</IfModule>
The URL http://website.com/hello/world/ redirects me to
http://blog.newexample.com/hello/world/.