Hi stackoverflow users!
I need to set an url rewrite via access to make these url requests:
this/kind/of/url
or
this/kind/of/url.php
point to this file:
this_kind_of_url.php
Basically I need to convert all "/" that I get in the url to a "_" and add a .php extension if not provided. I thought it was not too complicated at first but now I'm almost losing my head on it since I'm quite new to .htaccess.
Thanx in advance for your precious help.
Try:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)$ /$1_$2 [E=SLASH:Y,DPI]
RewriteCond %{ENV:SLASH} Y
RewriteRule ^([^/]+?)(?:\.php)$ /$1.php [L,R=301]
It's a little tricky to get your head around, but the first rule checks to make sure the request isn't for an existing file or directory. And if there' a slash in it, then replace it with a _ and set the environment variable "SLASH". This rule will loop until there are no more /'s in the URI.
That's where the second rule comes into play. If the environment variable is set, and there are no more slashes in the URI, then it redirects the browser and adds a .php to the end if there isn't one.
So:
/this/kind/of/url
is redirected to
/this_kind_of_url.php
Related
I have .htaccess file:
DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^play/([^/\.]+) index.php?task=view&name=$1 [L]
Show page game.
My problem: When I need to load some file (or access by address bar) with path: /play/Assest/file-name.swf. This return 404 error.
How I can access file but don't change RewriteRule above?
I tried redirect code but it's not working:
RewriteRule ^/play/Assets/file-name.swf ^/games/Assets/file-name.swf [R=301,L]
Your RewriteRule is missing an anchor to the end of the URL, so partial matches still get rewritten. Add a $like this:
RewriteRule ^play/([^/.]+)$ index.php?task=view&name=$1 [L]
Shahaf's answer may also help you (although it means the file system gets polled twice for every request, which affects performance), but with this above you are saying "only match play/ with anything but dots or forward slashes following it" which seems to be what you mean. Without the dollar it can have anything after it and still match, as you have found.
I also removed the escaping of the dot which is not necessary in a character class.
Before the rewrite rule you should add conditions if it's not a file or directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
So I have an htaccess file in a subdirectory and whenever I try to rewrite the url, it redirects to the document_root and not the subdirectory where the htaccess resides. Now, under normal circumstances, I'd rewrite it with the path to the subdirectory with path/to/subdirectory, but I won't know what the exact path will be. Is there a way either, through an Apache environment variable or something else, to write out that path?
Edit:
Here's the .htaccess file so far.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#RewriteRule (.*-file) a/b/c/$1.file
RewriteRule (.*-file) $1.file
So, I'm trying to, if the request contains the word file, I want to match the entire request prior to the word file and redirect there. This is so that if a request is to
example.com/a/b/c/file[any characters here].file
the request will be redirected to the right file. To reiterate, the problem is that I am trying to redirect within the subdirectory. So when I say Rewrite $1, I want that to include the entire request and not just what matched in the REQUEST_FILENAME. And the reason I need it to do that is because I can't simply put a/b/c/$1.file since I won't know for absolute certainty the a/b/c part.
Edit 2: Examples:
So, an example is that I'd send a request like:
example.com/a/b/c/fileacs.file
And want to redirect to:
example.com/a/b/c/file.file
Where I do not know a/b/c/. I have an actual regex and set of rules for the real-world use of this redirect, so don't mind the ridiculous nature of this example.
But currently it's redirecting to:
example.com/file.file
Which does not exist and even if it did, I do not want to redirect there. I've read about Rewrite Context, but can't find out anything substantial about it nor if it's the cause for this. Thank you, in advance.
You can use this rule to capture any path before fileacs.file and use that as bach-reference in RewriteRule:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond ^(.*)/file[^.]+\.file$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1/file.file [L,R=302]
The solution is to use the a RewriteCond on the %{REQUEST_URI} (thanks anubhava!) that checks matches the entire request except for the %{REQUEST_FILENAME} without capturing it, using a lookahead. Write out this with the %1 followed by the desired filename. See the following:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)-file(?!\.file) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1.file [L,R=301]
The %1 now holds the path up to the directory that the .htaccess is stored, plus any prefix to the filename. This doesn't match the remainder of the request, but rather looksahead to ensure you're not actually requesting the file you would like to redirect to (causing a loop).
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 just setup a subdomain with the following RewriteCond:
RewriteCond $1 !^search.php$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^/?([^/]+)$ search.php?q=$1 [L,NS]
I'm using the same rewrite condition on my main domain and it works perfectly. However, when I set it up on the subdomain, it simply outputs "index.php" when going to http://sub.domain.com
Every page on the subdomain outputs the page name in the body instead of processing the code, except for the search page, which appears to be working correctly.
What can I do to correct this issue?
I haven't played with your exact regex with mod_rewrite, but if I was looking at writing that regex in another engine, I would have to escape the slash. Also, given that $ is used to indicate a back reference, would that need escaping too (would your $ symbols in the regex be necessary as there is likely to be more text in the URI and it is not matched at the end of a string)?
I would try
RewriteCond $1 !^search.php$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^/?([^\/]+)$ search.php?q=$1 [L,NS]
One other thing. Normally $ at the end of a regex means "only match if this is the end of the string". So from that, if RewriteCond is matching on ^search.php$ but the URL is search.php?q=... then I would think that this wouldn't match because search.php is not the end of the string. So that would look like the following (assuming you don't need to change anything else from your original).
RewriteCond $1 !^search.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^/?([^/]+)$ search.php?q=$1 [L,NS]
In the main config the path always begins with / and you need an absolute path:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^search.php$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^/([^/]+)$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/search.php?q=$1 [L]
In an .htaccess you need a RewriteBase which is stripped from the url (no / in the Rule now) and the path is relative.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^search.php$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ search.php?q=$1 [L]
Several things come to mind here:
I have a few suggestions/comments/gotchas. Hopefully one of them is useful to you:
Make sure search.php isn't just echoing out its $_GET parameters. While this sounds obvious in retrospect, it's one of the more overlooked solutions.
RewriteRule works slightly differently when you specify it in a server configuration file than if you specify it in an .htaccess. Specifically, ^/ is wrong in a server config version as the entire URL is used (http://sub.domain.com/blah).
Make sure no other rewrite rules are being processed for this subdomain first, either in the main httpd.conf / apache2.conf or .htaccess.
Make sure RewriteEngine On appears in your configuration, as it is activated per-VirtualHost.
The NS flag will ignore redirects done using a relative Redirect or relative RewriteRule.
It sounds like the pattern '^/?([^/]+)$' may not be matching at all.
I'd activate RewriteLog, crank RewriteLogLevel to level 3 or above, and see if your pattern is matching at all. If not, start with a simpler pattern, and then work your way to a more complex pattern.
Or, something else is matching the pattern, so the request never gets to 'RewriteRule ^/?([^/]+)$' at all. You will see this in the RewriteLog.
I believe I recently had a problem where '^/' didn't match in certain cases on a Virtual Host. But '/' worked. The folks in the #httpd on Freenode.org helped me. If I can find this in my notes, I'll post it here.
I want to redirect URLs from an old site that used raw URL requests to my new site which I have implemented in CodeIgniter. I simply want to redirect them to my index page. I also would like to get rid of "index.php" in my URLs so that my URLs can be as simple as example.com/this/that. So, this is the .htaccess file I have created:
RewriteEngine on
Options FollowSymLinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond $1 ^assets
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ example/production/$1
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} .+
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php? [R=301]
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|example|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1
It should also be noted that my index.php is actually a symlink to example/production/index.php.
Now, the first rule works as expected - all my styles and images show up just fine, it's the second two rules I'm having trouble with. The second rule is basically to destroy the query string and redirect to my index page (externally). So, I found this in the Apache manual:
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.
However, when I try to access one of the old pages, instead of redirecting to my index page, I get a 404 page not found error. I have figured out a workaround by making it an internal redirect, but I would really like it to be external.
The next problem, and the one that has been baffling me the most is with the third rule. I would expect this to do something like the following. If I type in:
http://example.com/this/thing
I would expect it to re-route to
http://example.com/index.php/this/thing
Unfortunately, this does not work. Instead, no matter what I type in, it always routes to my index page as if nothing else was in the URL (it just goes to http://example.com/).
Furthermore, and even more confusing to me, if I replace that rule with the following:
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|example|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/this/thing
If I type in a URL such as http://example.com/other/thing, then it will go to http://example.com/index.php/this/thing as expected, BUT if I type in http://example.com/this/thing it goes to http://example.com/ (my index page). I can't make heads or tails out of it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
This should solve your index.php problem and it will simply detect if a robots.txt is available:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
hmmm - this doesn't seem to work either. The problem is my URLs aren't really asking for a filename or directory anyway. For example: example.com/index.php/this/thing should call the 'thing' method of the 'this' controller. – Steven Oxley
The condition is: If request is NOT a file and NOT a directory, so that was right, what you should have done is combine the appending of the request string:
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]