I have tried the following:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^forum/profile$
RewriteRule http://example.com/example.htm? [L,R=301]
If the URL contains "forum/profile" I need it to redirect.
What am I doing wrong? I don't need to escape the forward flash do I?
Why are you using the ^ and $ operators? These operators means that you want match a string that must have the exact forum/profile on the entire string.
eg:
var query_string = forum/profile/something-here
var matches = string.match(^forum/profile$, string) // false because you have string before and after you pattern.
Also, you should check what exactly is given on QUERY_STRING.
Try to add the forward slash before the file name.
Eg;
"/forum/profile.php"
Or use "/?" Before you use "$"
You need to use an absolute path.
Hope this answered your question.
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I am trying to match part of a URL and then use the matched expression to append onto the end of a query string from the old URL.
I have the following line in .htaccess, once I've worked out what I'm doing wrong I'll be able to fix the rest so for now I will just focus on the following line:
RewriteRule ^league/([^/]*)$/matches/? index.php?page_id=1074&league=$1
I would like ([^/]*)$ to appear where $1 is
So essentially: /league/29/matches/ would point to index.php?page=1074&league=29
Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong? :)
RewriteRule ^league/([^/]*)$/matches/? index.php?page_id=1074&league=$1
The $ (end-of-string anchor) after the subpattern ([^/]*)$, in the middle of the regex, does not make sense here and will cause the regex to fail. You should also be using the + quantifier here (1 or more). You are also missing the end-of-string anchor ($) at the end of the regex (otherwise the trailing /? is superfluous). Although you shouldn't really make the trailing slash optional on the rewrite as it potentially opens you up for duplicate content. (You should redirect to append/remove the trailing slash to canonicalise the URL instead.) You are also missing the L flag on the RewriteRule.
Try the following instead:
RewriteRule ^league/([^/]+)/matches/?$ index.php?page_id=1074&league=$1 [L]
Although, if you are expecting digits only (as in your example) then you should be matching digits, not anything. So, the following is perhaps "more" correct:
RewriteRule ^league/(\d+)/matches/$ index.php?page_id=1074&league=$1 [L]
I am learning .htaccess
My URL string is
http://abc.bcd.com/company/abc
I do apply to redirect my page if the company name is abc, xyz etc. and my rewrite rule is
RewriteRule ^/company/(.*?)$ /hhhhh/ll/test_page.html?company_letter=$1 [L,PT]
Sometimes my url change to
http://abc.bcd.com/company/abc?locale=en
What will be query string condition to accommodate both the url and should work properly ?
I have tried this but not helping .
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^locale=(.*)$
The rewrite condition should help me like
if(locale="something")
/hhhhh/ll/test_page.html?company_letter=abc&locale=something
else
/hhhhh/ll/test_page.html?company_letter=abc
You just need to add QSA flag in your rule:
RewriteRule ^/?company/(.*)$ /hhhhh/ll/test_page.html?company_letter=$1 [L,QSA]
QSA (Query String Append) flag preserves existing query parameters while adding a new one.
The query string part of the incoming URL is a very specific thing. First you should know that classical rewriteRules are not managing the query string.
So, for example, you cannot make a RewriteRule with a check for a query string parameter value. Query strings parameters could be repeted several times, could appear in any order, and are not url-decoded (the location part of the url is url-decoded when mod_rewrite works on it).
This explains why some RewriteCond are sometimes used on the %{QUERY_STRING}, it cannot be done in RewriteRule but could be tested in rewriteCond, with all the previous probelsm ( repetition, order, url-encoding, etc).
But some rewriteRule tags can be applied for query string managment. Currently your tags are [L,PT], which also be writtent [last,passthrough].
You can add a qsappend or QSA tag which explicitly tells mod_rewrite to combine the original query string and the generated one.
So with
RewriteRule ^/company/(.*?)$ /hhhhh/ll/test_page.html?company_letter=$1 [last,passthrough,qsappend]
This:
http://abc.bcd.com/company/abc
Will go to
/hhhhh/ll/test_page.html?company_letter=abc
And this:
http://abc.bcd.com/company/abc?locale=en
Will go to
/hhhhh/ll/test_page.html?company_letter=abc&locale=en
I don't understand why I always have such a massive problem with rewrite rules, but I simply want to append to the query string if it exists and add a ? if it does not. I actually don't care if the URL is changed in the browser or not -- it just has to load the correct target page.
RewriteRule /cia16(.*)\?(.*) /cia$1?$2&CIA=16
RewriteRule /cia16(.*) /cia/$1?CIA=16
If I go to /cia16/steps.php?page=1 it actually gets rewritten to /cia/steps.php?CIA=16 -- that is it seems accept the query string part is not even considered part of the URL for the purposes of the rewrite.
What do I have to do to get the rewrite to work properly with an existing query string?
You can't match against the query string within a RewriteRule, you need to match against the %{QUERY_STRING} variable in a RewriteCond. However, if you want to just append the query string, you can just use the QSA flag:
RewriteRule /cia16(.*) /cia/$1?CIA=16 [QSA]
The URI: /cia16/steps.php?page=1 would get rewritten to /cia/steps.php?CIA=16&page=1. If for some reason, you need the page=1 before the CIA=16, then you can do something like this:
RewriteRule /cia16(.*) /cia/$1?%{QUERY_STRING}&CIA=16
I am having problems with mod_rewrite which is throwing me the same error 404 is as follows:
RewriteRule ^music.mp3?id=(.*)$ music.php?id= [L]
i need url /music.mp3?id=1 and real url /music.php?id=1
any idea??
I think something is misunderstood in the path RewriteRule
You can't match against the query string (everything after the ? in the URL) in a RewriteRule. But you're not really matching against it anyways, it looks like you just need to appended to your target URI, so:
RewriteRule ^music\.mp3$ music.php [L]
Should be good enough. Any query string parameters (like ?id=1) will automatically get appended at the end.
In your expression (the engine rule), what you want to say is:
"When the url starts with music.mp3?id=, take whatever is after the = and change the URL to music.php?id= and put the part after id="
In regular expressions the . character has special meaning. If you want to say "the dot character", and not give it special meaning, you need to escape it, but putting a \ behind it, like this:
^music\.mp3?id=(.*)$
#Jon Lin already gave you the other part, which is about query strings.
I have a website with joomla and I need to redirect (301) some links
They are in this form (index.php?Itemid= identify them - all links that doesn't have this part shouldn't be redirected)
/index.php?Itemid=544&catid=331:savona&id=82356:smembramento-dei-cantieri-baglietto-di-varazze-lopposizione-delle-maestranze&option=com_content&view=article
This should work
RewriteRule ^index.php?Itemid(.*)$ http://www.ligurianotizie.it/archive/index.php?Itemid$1 [L,R=301]
But the first ? (question mark) seems to cause problems.
In fact, if we suppose that the links are without the question mark
/index.phpItemid=544&catid=331:savona&id=82356:smembramento-dei-cantieri-baglietto-di-varazze-lopposizione-delle-maestranze&option=com_content&view=article
I would use
RewriteRule ^index.phpItemid(.*)$ http://www.ligurianotizie.it/archive/index.php?Itemid$1 [L,R=301]
and everything is perfect. But unfortunately real links has that question mark, and I have to find a solution.
What I have to do with that question mark?
Is the ? character escaped? try to add the NE (noescape) flag like this:
RewriteRule ^index.php?Itemid(.*)$ http://www.ligurianotizie.it/archive/index.php?Itemid$1 [L,R=301,NE]
The part behind the question mark is the query string. You can use RewriteCondto determine if it is not empty, and based on that make the decision to redirect.
Note: Query String
The Pattern will not be matched against the query string. Instead, you must use a RewriteCond with the %{QUERY_STRING} variable. You can, however, create URLs in the substitution string, containing a query string part. Simply use a question mark inside the substitution string, to indicate that the following text should be re-injected into the query string. When you want to erase an existing query string, end the substitution string with just a question mark. To combine a new query string with an old one, use the [QSA] flag.
Source: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html
This should help you:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} Itemid
RewriteRule ^index.php(.*)$ http://www.ligurianotizie.it/archive/index.php$1 [L,R=301]
Every link containing "Itemid" will be redirected, the others not.