I run an Expression Engine site that will load an article page regardless of any made up sub directory names typed into the address bar.
For example all these addresses:
http://hellothere.example.com/health/mental/depression
http://cats.example.com/health/mental/depression
http://dogs.example.com/health/mental/depression
http://www.batman.example.com/health/mental/depression
http://www.1.2.3.4.5.6.example.com/health/mental/depression
Will load example.com/health/mental/depression
Obviously, this is less than ideal for SEO since I've got a potentially unlimited number of duplicate URLs.
I am trying to figure out how to use htaccess to strip anything before example.com and replace it with just www.
Any help would be appreciated!
You can not do this with htaccess. The way to do this is to set up a wildcard dns record so that all requests (*.example.com) are all directed to the same server.
See http://codex.wordpress.org/Configuring_Wildcard_Subdomains
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I have a little DNS Spoofing / Blocking system I setup for work. It simply uses a blacklist to spoof the dns records and simply points them to a BLOCK / DENY page.
If I go to the URL directly for instance http://www.redtube.com the system works as expected and displays my index.html and what it should
The problem arises if I go to http://www.redtube.com/video?/43 or anything other than the full domain I get a not found.
I need to to configure Apache so that it drops all the junk after the TLD and simply displays my page such as http://blocked.project.com
Another way to look at it would be to say redirect to index.html if the url entered is not known to the webserver.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Used an apache FallbackResource to achieve exactly what I was after. Had to make sure my image paths on the website were absolute but works a treat.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_dir.html#fallbackresource
I want to write an apache redirect rule to redirect if the provided url contains a particular substring. For example, say a user hits the server with the url http://bloop1.toop.com. I want to redirect them to http://bloop2.toop.com. From looking around online, I wrote a rule something like the following:
RewwriteRule .+bloop1 http://bloop2.toop.com
But that doesn't work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You can also create a DNS CNAME entry to point the bloop1.toop.com subdomain to bloop2.toop.com. This is probably preferable if you are going to see a lot of traffic to that particular subdomain, as it will shift the workload from your webserver to the client's DNS lookup.
I am working on a site overhaul. As a result I am moving several pages over to a new format. They aren't keeping the same file name as before so the migration is a little tricky.
Example:
news.alpinezone.com/93467/ is becoming
http://alpinezone.com/still-more-skiing-and-riding-at-whiteface/
The news subdomain has accumulated in several years over 3000 articles. Is it OK to put 3000 + 301 redirects into an .htaccess file?
On a side note, for proper SEO, should I also make sure I use http:// instead of http:// www and also make sure they are fully lower case and also close with a / at the end of the URL. I am redesigning into wordpress and any combination pretty much works but I understand that for Google they can be considered unique but similar URL's so I want to stick with one as much as possible.
Thanks!
Apache does have some stuff for this, like RewriteMap or RewriteProg. I think htaccess files are read on every request, so I wouldn't want to make the size of it explode with 3000 lines of text - although I gut tells me it would handle it just fine. I think RewriteMap is only loaded once per server start or somethign like that, so thats a benefit.
But personally, I think I would just do an internal rewrite of any request to the news subdomain to a serverside script like php, and then inspect the uri, query the database to get the most current/up to date url slug for the id, and then do an external 301 redirect to the new url.
Have you considered mod_authnz_ldap to offload the authentication and authorization lookups to another server? I use this particular module on several enterprise servers with no problems whatsoever. It easily allows you to set up access to pages by group etc.
I have the following URL format:
www.example.com/members/admin/projects/?projectid=41
And I would like to rewrite them to the following format:
www.example.com/avits/projectname/
Project names do not have to be unique when a user creates them therefore I will be checking for an existing name and appending an integer to the end of the project name if a project of the same name already exists. e.g. example.project, example.project1, example.project2 etc.
I am happy setting up the GET request to query the database by project name however I am having huge problems setting up these pretty url's.
I am using Apache with Nginx Admin installed which mens that all static content is served via Nginx without the overhead of apache.
I am totally confused as to whether I should be employing an nginx rewrite rule in my nginx.conf file or standard rewrites in my .htaccess file.
To confuse matters further although this is a rather large custom appliction it is build on top of a wordpress backbone for easy blogging functionality meaning that I also have the built in wordpress rewrite module at my disposal.
I have tried all three methods with absolutely no success. I have read a lot on the matter but simply cannot seem to get anything to work. I am certain this is purely down to a complete lack of understanding on with regards to URL rewriting. Combined with the fact that I don't know which type of rewriting should be applicable in my case means that I am doing nothing more than going round in circles.
Can anyone clear up this matter for me and explain how to rewrite my URLs in the manner described above?
Many thanks.
If you are proxying all the non static file requests to Apache, do the rewrites there - you don't need to do anything on nginx as it will just pass the requests to the back end.
The problem with what you are proposing is that it's not actually a rewrite, a rewrite is taking the first URL and just changing it around or moving the user to another location.
What you need actually takes logic to extrapolate the project name from the project ID.
For example you can rewrite:
www.example.com/members/admin/projects/?projectid=41
To:
www.example.com/avits/41/
Fairly easily, but can you map that /41/ in your app code to change it to /projectname/ - because a URL rewrite can't do that.
One of my clients (before I came along) decided to use htaccess redirects as their form of URL shortening/search engine friendly URLs. They have literally thousands of them.
The new version of the site now has friendly urls but they aren't equivalent to their redirects so they still need them.
My question to you all is: Is there another way than to populate this file with thousands of lines of "Redirects /folder1 /folder2"?
Thanks
If you cannot make simple rules to catch all of them as in the #chris henry solution you can use the RewriteMap utility of mod_rewrite. You'll be able to write these thousand rules in a text file, then make this text file an hash file, and mode_rewrite will try to match url in this file (if it's an hash file it's quite fast). After that mode_rewwrite can generate a redirect 301 with the [L,R=301] tag.
Yep, look at using the Apache config (httpd.conf or httpd-vhosts.conf) to set up site wide folder aliasing. Eg:
Alias /folder1 c:/www/folder2
Look at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#directory for more info.
Depending on how different the URLs being redirected are, one solution might be to come up with an rewrite rule that covers all of them, and maintain the short / long URLs in your application, or even a database.