I have a sneaking suspicion this is not possible, but figured I would ask regardless.
Is it at all possible to take a URL passed to a server in the form of:
http://domain.com/index.php?Action=Controller/Action&one=1&two=2&three=3
And rewrite it to appear as:
http://domain.com/Controller/Action/1/2/3
I am trying to clean up an borderline ancient project to support "Pretty URLs" and I would really like to make the URLs display a bit nicer. I know I could setup a 301 header redirect to the new URL, but I would prefer to avoid that overhead if at all possible.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
To get
http://domain.com/index.php?Action=Controller/Action&one=1&two=2&three=3
To appear as
http://domain.com/Controller/Action/1/2/3
You will need to use %{QUERY_STRING} to capture the query string data. Your .htaccess file will look like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^Action=Controller/Action&one=(\d+)&two=(\d+)&three=(\d+)
RewriteRule ^.+ /Controller/Action/%1/%2/%3 [R=301,L]
This will set up a permanent redirect to the new page. You can play around and test .htaccess rewrite rules here: htaccess.madewithlove.be
You can use this code in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ index.php?Action=$1/$2&one=$3&two=$4&three=$5 [L,QSA]
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the good old mod_rewrite. I can't seem to get it right.
Typical scenario: A user types in "http://domain.com/page"
I want that the user is being redirected to "http://domain.com/page/page2"
My htaccess file looks as follows:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /var/www/
RewriteRule ^/page/$ page/page2
RewriteRule ^/bla/$ page/page2/bla
The first rewrite rule works, the second on the other hand doesn't seem to have any effect. Any idea? Maybe a better way to do this?
And another question:
As I said the first rewrite works just fine, but the url is not pretty. "http://domain.com/page" changes to "http://domain.com/page/page2". Is there a way to keep the typed in url but still forward the user to the actual link?
I presume the .htaccess is in your DocumentRoot.
How does your /bla containing look like? This should not rewrite the URL in the browser.
Use this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(/?)page/?$ $1page/page2 [L]
RewriteRule ^(/?)bla/?$ $1page/page2/bla [L]
Launching a new website for a new client. Their old site has about 50 products and unfortunately, the old product names do not match up to the new URL pattern
Old URL Examples:
example.com/products.aspx?category=Foo&product=SuperLongNoBreakProductNameIDDescription
example.com/products.aspx?category=Foo&product=ProductNameDescription&var1=1293.123
example.com/products.aspx?category=Bar&product=ProductCategoryProdNameRandomNumbers
(The old URL's are sometimes hitting 150+ characters.)
New URL's:
example.com/products/category/actual-product-name
There's no set, recognizable pattern to go from the old product name to the new one. There is for the category.
I've tried simple mod_alias Redirects, but understand that I need a RewriteRule instead. But I'm having problems. All I need is a 1-to-1 redirect for each of these 50 URL's. I thought I could do something like:
RewriteRule ^/products.aspx?category=Foo&product=ProductName
/products/category/new-product-name/ [R=301,NC]
But that isn't working. I know this should be simple, but I am stuck. Any ideas?
Use the pattern below for the rest of your redirect urls. Note that you escape special characters e.g. ? , . and space by adding a \ in front of them
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /products\.aspx\?category=Foo&product=SuperLongNoBreakProductNameIDDescription [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /products/category/new-product-name/ [R=301,NC]
Have a look at the RewriteMap directive of mod_rewrite.
You can specify in a text file something like:
products.aspx?category=Foo&product=SuperLongNoBreakProductNameIDDescription /products/category/new-product-name
And in your httpd.conf
RewriteMap productmap /path/to/map/file.txt
RewriteRule ^(.*) ${productmap:$1} [R=301,NC]
Tip: If it's a permanent redirect you want, make sure you set an appropriate Cache-Control and Expires header to instruct browsers to cache the 301.
You can try something like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^category=Foo&product=ProductName$
RewriteRule ^products\.aspx$ /products/category/new-product-name/? [R=301,L]
Notes:
In per-dir (.htaccess) context, the per-dir prefix is stripped, so you can't start the RewriteRule pattern with ^/.
You have to use RewriteCond to match against the query string.
As stated in another answer, a RewriteMap solution might be suited to this situation, if you have access to httpd.conf / the vhost definition for this site. I'm not sure how that works with query strings though.
For something like this, it might be a better solution to rewrite all of these URLs to a server side script, and use the script to do the HTTP redirect for each URL.
I’ve written some code on my .htaccess file which allows the use of SEO friendly URLs instead of ugly query strings. The following code rewrites the SEO friendly version in the browser to the query string version on the server.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^seo/([^/]*)/$ /directory/script.php?size=large&colour=green&pattern=$1 [L]
So that the ugly
http://www.mysite.com/directory/script.php?size=large&colour=green&pattern=striped
Is now beautiful
http://www.mysite.com/directory/seo/striped/
Just to explain the code a bit; seo is there to add more keywords to the URL, /directory/ is the directory in which the .htaccess file is located, parameters size=large and colour=green never change, while pattern=$1 can be many different values.
The above code works perfectly. However, the problem is I am now stuck with two URLs that point to exactly the same content. To solve this, I would like to 301 redirect the old, ugly querystrings to the SEO friendly URLs. What I have tried so far does not work - and Google is not being particularly friendly today.
Can anybody offer working code to put in my .htaccess file that redirects ugly to new URL, while retaining the rewrite? Thanks!
This should do the trick:
RewriteEngine On
## Redirect to pretty urls
# The '%1' in the rewrite comes from the group in the previous RewriteCond
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !seo
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^size=large&colour=green&pattern=([a-zA-Z]*)$
RewriteRule (.*) /directory\/seo\/%1\/? [L,R=301]
## Rewrite to long url, additional parameter at the end will cause
## the internal redirect not to match the previous rule (would cause redirect loop)
RewriteRule ^directory\/seo\/([^/]*)/$ /directory/script.php? size=large&colour=green&pattern=$1&rewrite [L]
You can also match the size and colour if needed, by changing those to regex groups as well, and using the corresponding %N
Hope this helps.
Not tested, but this may work...
RewriteRule ^directory/script.php?size=large&colour=green&pattern=(.*)$ /seo/$1/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]
my .htaccess in the root folder includes the following lines :
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.htm$ http://example.com/?city=$1 [NC]
when I open the address http://example.com/bla.htm, my browser doesn't hide the GET values specified in the .htaccess, it redirects me to ?city=bla. eventhough I'm not using the [R] switch. This has always worked for me before (as I remember, haven't dealt with htaccess in a while). What's wrong here ?
When you redirect to an entire URL, it doesn't do URL rewriting (you can't exactly rewrite URLs on someone else's website).
Assuming both URLs are on the same server, you need to do something like
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.htm$ index.php?city=$1 [NC]
Also, I'd recommend getting into the habit of using the [L] switch whenever you can - it helps avoid bugs when you have a lot of URLs to rewrite.
I've been fighting with mod-rewrite for a while.
Basically, I have a website that I'm moving to a difference namespace/directory.
What I'd like to do is change urls that look like this:
http://mydomain.com/index.php?a=xxxxxxxxxx
These urls will always have "index.php?a=". I have a different/new site that also has an index.php file, so it's important that I do a rewrite only when a= is in the URL.
The new url should be like
http://mydomain.com/ns1/index.php?a=xxxxxxxxxxx
Seems pretty simple, but i can't seem to get mod_rewrite to do it for me, here's what I have:
# rewrite old urls to new namespace
RewriteRule ^/index.php\?a=(.*)$ /gc1/index.php\?x=1&a=$1 [R=301,L]
See anything wrong?
You can use this rule to add a prefix to the path:
RewriteRule !^ns1/ /ns1%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
This rule prefixes the URI path with /ns1 if the path is not already starting with it.
I believe that RewriteRule is only valid for paths, (I.e. it won't take into account any query parameters that you add.)
You are probably better off doing this in the PHP file itself.
// On old site
if($_GET['a']=="xxxxxxx"){
header("Location: /ns1/index.php?a=".$_GET['a']);
die();
}
Thanks to both of you.
I was able to do it:
# rewrite old urls to new ns1 namespace
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^a=.*$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/ns1/.*$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ns1$1 [R=301,L]