What I'm trying to do is as follows:
Redirect user to another address using htaccess.
Pass the given URL as a parameter to the new url
So when the user visits any page on http://domainA.com/
he should be redirected to: http://domainB.com/?referer=http://domainA.com/
What I keep failing on, is retrieving the full URL the user came from BEFORE the redirection.
One of the things I tried and failed miserably:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domainB.com/?referer=%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}
Thanks in advance!
Edit:
I tried to keep my question simple, as more complex questions tend to remain unanswered,
So I will sharpen my question, although there's a good answer to the original one.
So to be more specific about what I'm trying to achieve:
Both domains are hosted on the same host, and points to exact same files.
So domainA.com/file1.html and domainB.com/file1.html will display the same file.
What I want domainA to do, is to deliver all requests to a file called listener.php.
So that all requests to domainA should be like so:
User enters http://domainA.com/file1.html
Server request behind the scenes is actually: /listener.php?actualRequest=http://domainA.com/file1.html
I want this functionality to be on the server side so that the url will remain normal.
I went for 2 domains as I wanted to avoid redirect loops.
You can use this rule:
RewriteCond %{HTTPS}s on(s)|
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?domainA\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://domainB.com/?referer=http%1://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NE,R=302]
This handles both http:// and https:// URLs.
EDIT: As per edited question you can use:
RewriteCond %{HTTPS}s on(s)|
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?domainA\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule !^listener\.php$ /listener.php?actualRequest=http%1://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,QSA]
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I have heard this thread (.htaccess redirect all pages to new domain) very informative. However, my request is a bit different from this original request.
Above thread talks about redirecting from old domain to a new domain, however, I have requested to only forward main domain to a subdomain.
Here is a question - How do I automatically forward all the request from my main domain to subdomain. For example -
Landing URL: http://example.com
Forwarding URL: http://sub.example.com
Landing URL: http://example.com?var=foo
Forwarding URL: http://sub.example.com?var=foo
If someone lands on my forwarding URL, I do not want them to be again redirected with 301. In simple words, I do not want to use a rule which always redirects all the request which lands on http://sub.example.com if the landing URL is the same.
If I follow the advice from the above link, I believe that will happen in my case as I want to forward from the main domain to a subdomain.
Here is what I have so far and it is doing partial job. It only forwards my one domain to another subdomain. However, it does not work when there are any URL parameters, it just stays the same old URL.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule ^$ http://sub.example.com/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]
In simple words - my code does not react when there is http://example.com?var=foo and it remains as it is.
Any guidance would be great.
You need to remove a condition and change your regex.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$ http://sub.example.com/$1 [R=301,NE,NC,L]
Clear your browser cache then give that a try. Let me know how it works.
Background
I have a website that has several other alias domain names, in an effort to streamline and simplify I want all the domains to revert to the one domain name I now advertise -
Main name: www.explorerWorld.co.uk
Other names that load the same content but retain their own address:
www.exploreElsewhere.co.uk
www.exploitedexplodedexplorers.co.uk
what I have is that across the internet there are links in peoples blogs and elsewhere that go to specific pages on my site, but these will be under these different domains.
I have changed the domain Alises under cPanel and this works, for the base address only, but a domain for example www.exploreElsewhere.co.uk/trees.php does not redirect.
Question
I would like these pages to still work but to redirect to the main site -- www.explorerWorld.co.uk -- * but preserving their file path*
so: www.exploreElsewhere.co.uk/plants/trees.php gets seemlessly changed to www.explorerWorld.co.uk/plants/trees.php
My htaccess so far:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^exploreWorlds\.co\.uk$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.exploreWorlds.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]
But this seems to work in an endlessly repeating loop, How can I improve this htaccess ?
I have also looked here but this was not very helpful:
.htaccess change domain but keep path
I have found a solution to this problem was to use %{REQUEST_URI} which is the path given to the server.
(with a pointer from Arco444)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.)?exploreworlds\.co\.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.exploreworlds.co.uk/%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
This successfully rewrites the domain part of the URL to force alias URL links to be redirected to my base website address + path
You have a mistake in your RewriteCond. Try
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.exploreWorlds\.co\.uk$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.exploreWorlds.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]
instead, or remove the tilda from your original snippet
I have a PHP page, lets say /users/profile.php, and I need to make the URL more elegant, like /users/123 instead of /users/profile.php?id=123.
I defined the needed rule, that on /users/123 executes the /users/profile.php?id=123 with the following:
RewriteRule ^users/([0-9]+)$ /users/profile.php?id=$1 [L]
and everything works perfect, but search engines already familiar with the /users/profile.php?id=123 page.
How do I guide them, or any other users to switch to /users/123 when they ask for /profile.php?id=123?
Just to make sure, I need this to be done:
User asks for /profile.php?id=123
User is redirected to /users/123 with 301 status code
The server executes /profile.php?id=123 and returns the HTML to the user
Use .htaccess with:
RewriteRule ^users/(\d+)/?$ /users/profile.php?id=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=(\d+)$
RewriteRule ^users/profile\.php$ /users/%1 [R=301,L]
And to avoid loop, I would change the name of the page that normally no one needs to know (profile.php -> profileNEW.php)
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id\=(\d+)
RewriteRule ^users/profile\.php$ /users/%1 [R=301,L]
You need two rules:
Externally redirect /users/profile.php?id=123 to /users/123:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([0-9]+)$
RewriteRule ^/users/profile\.php$ /user/%1 [R=307,L]
Internally forward /user/123 to /users/profile.php:
RewriteRule ^user/([0-9]+)$ /users/profile.php?id=$1 [L]
I changed the /users to /user, since the URL describes a single user.
(This is all from memory, without actual testing. But the basic idea is the [R=307] flag in the first rule.)
I am trying to write rewrite code for my customer's site. I have no way of verifying if it's correct because I don't have access to the server yet. I know that sounds strange but it's what I have to accept and work around.
I plan to put this in the root htaccess file on the server. Bottom line is this URL does not work:
http://www.regions.noaa.gov/gulf-mexico/index.php/highlights/restore-act-passed/
So when the above fires, I want it to permanently redirect to:
http://www.regions.noaa.gov/gulf-mexico/highlights/restore-act-passed/
Here is what I have
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^regions\.noaa\.gov$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.regions\.noaa\.gov$
RewriteRule ^gulf\-mexico\/index\.php\/highlights\/restore\-act\-passed\/$ "http\:\/\/www\.regions\.noaa\.gov\/gulf\-mexico\/highlights\/restore\-act\-passed\/" [R=301,L]
I'd appreciate any feedback on this. Thanks.
UPDATE - thanks to all who replied. Here's what I don't understand. I found this code on my web hosting company's code generator. It seems to work:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^designerandpublisher.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.designerandpublisher.com$
RewriteRule ^services.html$ "http\://www.regions.noaa.gov/gulf-mexico/highlights/restore-act-passed/" [R=301,L]
I usually do like this and works fine.
IF user enter in the URL with highlights/restore-act-passed/ THEN will display contents from index.php/highlights/restore-act-passed/ in the browser.
# [NC] Means “No Case”, so it doesn’t matter whether the domain name was written in upper case, lower case or a mixture of the two.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^highlights/restore-act-passed/?$ index.php/highlights/restore-act-passed/ [NC]
IF the user enter in the URL with index.php/highlights/restore-act-passed/ THEN will display contents from _http://%{HTTP_HOST}/gulf-mexico/highlights/restore-act-passed/
RewriteRule ^index.php/highlights/restore-act-passed/?$ _http://%{HTTP_HOST}/gulf-mexico/highlights/restore-act-passed/ [NC]
You don't need to specify the HTTP_HOST, unless you will have multiple domains coming through here (add-ons, subdomains, parked domains, etc.). If you do want to specify it, it can be simplified to one line:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?regions\.noaa\.gov$
RewriteRule ^gulf\-mexico\/index\.php\/highlights\/restore\-act\-passed\/$ "http\:\/\/www\.regions\.noaa\.gov\/gulf\-mexico\/highlights\/restore\-act\-passed\/" [R=301,L]
Actually, a subdomain doesn't even need the www, but it doesn't hurt. Then, in the rewrite rule, you only need to escape specific metacharacters in the pattern, and none in the replacement string:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?regions\.noaa\.gov$
RewriteRule ^gulf-mexico/index\.php/highlights/restore-act-passed(/)?$ http://www.regions.noaa.gov/gulf-mexico/highlights/restore-act-passed/ [R=301,L]
I also made the last (trailing) / optional. Since you're going to the same domain, there is no need to repeat it:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?regions\.noaa\.gov$
RewriteRule ^gulf-mexico/index\.php/highlights/restore-act-passed(/)?$ /gulf-mexico/highlights/restore-act-passed/ [R=301,L]
The 301 code says to alert search engines that this URL or URI has permanently moved (it will show up changed in a browser address bar, too, so human visitors can choose to rebookmark it).
As this appears to be an SEO URI, presumably it will be translated into a dynamic format (/gulf-mexico/index.php?area=highlights&item=restore-act-passed). That means that the above rewrite has to be done before any SEO-to-dynamic translation. An alternative would be to directly translate it to dynamic format right here, but since you're giving a 301, presumably you want the SEO format to show in a browser or search engine result.
An external server (I'll call it "sub.origin.edu") redirects all traffic to my webpage. I want to take all traffic from this host, and redirect it to a different site (which I'll call "http://foo.target.edu/board/").
My .htaccess file is:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond ${HTTP_HOST} sub\.origin\.edu [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://foo.target.edu/board/ [R=302]
This doesn't seem to be working. I've confirmed (using PHP) that the host is indeed sub.origin.edu, and the .htaccess file is in the right directory, but this rule just doesn't come into effect. Any suggestions? Thanks.
(If I remove the RewriteCond, the redirect happens, so I can confirm that everything but the rewrite condition is working.)
Use this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} sub\.origin\.edu [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://foo.target.edu/board$1 [R=302]
You used the wrong substition character ($ instead of %)
I found this question while trying to complete a re-derict for specific hostnames.
This link was of great help to understand how RewriteCond and RewriteRule work.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/rewrite/intro.html
If sub.origin.edu is doing a 3xx redirect, then the browser will issue a new request to your server using your.server.edu as the host name. So this rule will never match that. If this is the case, there's no easy way to tell where the request was redirected from.
If they're using a CNAME, Femi has the correct answer.