I am using a .htaccess file and attempting to write three different rewrite rules.
I am trying to turn http://e-innovate.co.uk/webstats/s.php to http://e-innovate.co.uk/webstats/ so i am hiding the "s.php"
#RewriteRule ^http://e-innovate.co.uk/webstats/s.php$ http://www.e-innovate.co.uk/webstats/ [R,NC,L]
In the below two rules i am trying to change the local the script is searching for the image.
#RewriteRule ^/cPanel_magic_revision_1391334393/unprotected/cpanel/images/login-whisp.png$ http://www.e-innovate.co.uk/images/failed_authentication.png [R,NC,L]
#RewriteRule ^/cPanel_magic_revision_1391334231/unprotected/cpanel/images/cpanel-logo.png$ http://www.e-innovate.co.uk/images/failed_authentication.png [R,NC,L]
I have tried the above rules but they are not working and there is no error messages generated, it just appears the rules are being ignored, have i written these wrong as i know i am missing something but i am not sure what i am missing ?
Thanks
Below rule will help you with the first condition.
RewriteRule ^/webstats/?$ /webstats/s.php [L]
In case if you need redirection then add R flag to the rule. If you need more debugging information on mod_rewrite you can enable it with below directive (trying this directive in production will slow down your apache response).
LogLevel info rewrite:trace5
Regarding your second and third condition they look perfect and should work. What is the error you are getting ?
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Here my problem, the site I'm working on has many 404 pages, but they used to be the same pages with a different path
/mens/designers/mens/wales-bonner
/mens/designers/casual-shirts/wales-bonner
/mens/designers/coats-and-jackets/wales-bonner
etc.
THe client wants the redirect to go to the category, so
/mens/designers/mens/
/mens/designers/casual-shirts/
/mens/designers/coats-and-jackets/
I'm pretty sure, there must be a way to have regex rule to cover them all, but I can't seem to find how
Something like
RewriteRule ^/mens/designers/(.*)/wales-bonner /mens/designers/(.*)
but it doesn't work, I don't know how to group the middle part of the URL
Can anyone help ?
I see several potential problems with your rewrite rule:
You have a capturing group in the output URL rather than using $1 to use the result of the capturing group from the input URL.
^/ won't work in .htaccess, only in Apache .conf files. I' would use ^/? instead which will work in either context. That makes the starting slash optional.
You don't include an [R] flag on the rule to make it a redirect.
You don't include an [L] flag on the rule to prevent any following rules from interfering with it.
You can also add "mens/designers" to the capturing group so that you don't have to repeat it in the output. I would suggest:
RewriteRule ^/?(mens/designers/.*)/wales-bonner /$1 [R=301,L]
I need to redirect an incoming request with the following URL:
http://mywebsite.com/abc/mapserv.exe?map=123
to
http://mywebsite.com/abc/mapserv.exe?map=C:\Mapserver\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\Mapfiles\123.map
I already managed to do simple mod_rewrites but the question mark is killing this one all the time. I am not able to adapt common Query String examples to my case so I need help with this exact case.
As though you did not show your try, you could test this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} map=([0-9]+)$
RewriteRule . %{REQUEST_URI}?map=C:\\Mapserver\\ms4w\\Apache\\htdocs\\Mapfiles\\%1.map [NE,L]
Rewrite flags used:
NE: Not Escape,
L: Last instruction to run.
I was still having trouble with the .exe url since it is not accessible if you dont deliver the parameters right when you send the request. And then the redirect wont fire. So I made a dummy mapserver.php file which allows setting a parameter like so:
http://mywebsite.com/abc/mapserver.php?map=123
After hours of trying I ended up with the following RewriteRule:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^map=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^mapserver.php?$ /cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=C://Mapserver//ms4w//Apache//htdocs//Mapfiles//%1.map
I've got an .htaccess rule like this:
RewriteRule ^z/([^/]+)$ y.html?$1 [NC,L]
This rule works fine. But if I change the rule slightly, to:
RewriteRule ^y/([^/]+)$ y.html?$1 [NC,L]
When I try to load y/anything I get a 404 and the following message in the error log:
File does not exist: /var/www/y.html/anything
The only difference I can see is that z.html does not exist, but y.html does. At first I thought maybe the initial transform was triggering a recursive re-write, but I don't see how this could be. It should rewrite:
`y/anything`
to
`y.html?anything`
Which does NOT have a slash in it. In fact, the only problem with the re-written URL is that it has a slash where I specified a question mark. What is going on here?
It gets stranger. If I change the rewrite URL, e.g. to
RewriteRule ^y/([^/]+)$ /q.html?$1 [NC,L]
it STILL is telling me /var/www/y.html/anything not found, not q.html..
If I move y.html to y.js on the server, then it tells me /var/www/y.js/anything is not found. It really seems like it is somehow matching /dir/ and changing it to an existing file. Is there a default rule somewhere in apache that might do this?
I tried a hard reload in the browser, which had no effect.
Update: I tried to use RewriteLog to see what was going on with the re-writing. However, to do this I had move my rewrite entries to the VirtualHost section of my main config. After I did this the pattern matching completely stopped until I changed my rule to:
RewriteRule ^/y/([^/]+)$ /y.html?$1 [NC,L]
After making this change, everything works as expected. So why can't I get it to work in the .htaccess file? Neither regex works properly there (with or without the leading slash).
For anyone who runs into this problem in the future, the issue I was having was that MultiViews was interfering with my URL resolution. When I removed "MultiViews" from the list of options for the <Location/> in the <VirtualHost> the issue went away.
Having the following in the htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^z/([^/]+)$ /y.html?$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^y/([^/]+)$ /y.html?$1 [NC,L]
will show the contents of y.html
You might want to do a hard refresh of the page because if it was previously redirected to /y.html/anything, but then changed to /y.html?anything it might still be in a cache on your browser. Double check with your other browsers that the same thing is happening on them.
The web server is Apache. I want to rewrite URL so a user won't know the actual directory. For example:
The original URL:
www.mydomainname.com/en/piecework/piecework.php?piecework_id=11
Expected URL:
piecework.mydomainname.com/en/11
I added the following statements in .htaccess:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?!www)([^.]+)\.mydomainname\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(w+)/(\d+)$ /$1/%1/%1.php?%1_id=$2 [L]
Of course I replaced mydomainname with my domain name.
.htaccess is placed in the site root, but when I access piecework.mydomainname.com/en/11, I got "Object not found".(Of course I replaced mydomainname with my domain name.)
I added the following statements in .htaccess:
RewriteRule ^/(.*)/en/piecework/(.*)piecework_id=([0-9]+)(.*) piecework.mydomainname.com/en/$3
Of course I replaced mydomainname with my domain name.
.htaccess is placed in the site root, but when I access piecework.mydomainname.com/en/11, I got "Object not found".(Of course I replaced mydomainname with my domain name.)
What's wrong?
Try using RewriteLog in your vhost or server-conf in order to check the rewriting process. Right now you just seem to guess what mod_rewrite does.
By using RewriteLogLevel you can modify the extend of the logging. For starters I'd recommend level 5.
PS: Don't forget to reload/restart the server after modifying the config.
Here's a quick overview of what's happening:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?!www)([^.]+)\.mydomainname\.com$ [NC]
First, the question mark is supposed to be at the end.
$1 would (should) match anything that is not 'www' 0 or 1 times.
$2 matches anything that is not a character 1 or more times, which theoretically would match a blank space there but likely would never match anything.
Then it requires '.mydomainname.com' after those two groupings.
Your first two conditions are looking for two separate groupings.
I'm not sure exactly how you're trying to set up your structure, but here is how I would write it based on your original and expected URL's:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mydomainname\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(\w+)\.mydomainname\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(\w+)/(\d+)$ /$1/%1/%1.php?%1_id=$2 [L]
Basically, your first condition is to make sure it's not the URL beginning with 'www' (it's easier to just make it a separate rule). The second condition makes it check any word that could possibly be in front of your domain name. Then your rewrite rule will redirect it appropriately.
Get rid of the last .htaccess line there in your question...
Someone please correct me if I typed something wrong. I don't remember if you have to have the '\' in front of '\w' and '\d' but I included them anyways.
You are doing it backwards. The idea is that you will give people the friendly address, and the re-write rule will point requests to this friendly, non-existent page to the real page without them seeing it. So right now you have it only handling what to do when they go to the ugly URL, but you are putting in the friendly URL. since no rule exists for when people put the friendly URL directly, apache looks for it and says "Object not Found"
So add a line:
RewriteRule piecework.mydomainname.com/en/(*.) ^/$3/en/piecework/$3?piecework_id=([0-9]+)(.*)
Sorry, that's quite right, but the basic idea is, if they put in the URL you like, Apache is ready to redirect to the real page without the browser seeing it.
Update
I'm way to sleepy to do regex correctly, so I had just tried my best to move your example around, sorry. I would try something more simple first just to get the basic concept down first. Try this:
RewriteRule www.mydomainname.com/en/piecework/piecework\.php\?piecework_id\=11 piecework.mydomainname.com/en/11
At the very least, it will be easier to see what isn't working if you get errors.
I hope I can explain this clearly enough, but if not let me know and I'll try to clarify.
I'm currently developing a site using ColdFusion and have a mod_rewrite rule in place to make it look like the site is using PHP. Any requests for index.php get processed by index.cfm (the rule maps *.php to *.cfm).
This works great - so far, so good. The problem is that I want to return a 404 status code if index.cfm (or any ColdFusion page) is requested directly.
If I try to block access to *.cfm files using mod_rewrite it also returns a 404 for requests to *.php.
I figure I might have to change my Apache config rather than use .htaccess
You can use the S flag to skip the 404 rule, like this:
RewriteEngine on
# Do not separate these two rules so long as the first has S=1
RewriteRule (.*)\.php$ $1.cfm [S=1]
RewriteRule \.cfm$ - [R=404]
If you are also using the Alias option then you should also add the PT flag. See the mod_rewrite documentation for details.
Post the rules you already have as a starting point so people don't have to recreate it to help you.
I would suggest testing [L] on the rule that maps .php to .cfm files as the first thing to try.
You have to use two distinct groups of rewrite rules, one for .php, the other for .chm and make them mutually exclusives with RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}. And make use of the flag [L] as suggested by jj33.
You can keep your rules in .htaccess.