I am moving a site from IIS to Apache and part of the transition requires a change in URL handling.
The current URL pattern is:
http://example.com/articles/tabid/110/ID/1691/simple_friendly_name_of_page.aspx
1691 is the unique id of the post. It consists of two or more digits.
I would like to use .htaccess so as to ignore the "simple_friendly_name_of_page.aspx". Please bear in mind that the aforementioned aspx page can contain UTF-8 characters above the ASCII range (Hebrew, Greek etc)
In essence, I would like to permanently (301) redirect requests for
http://example.com/articles/tabid/110/ID/1691/simple_friendly_name_of_page.aspx
to
http://example.com/articles/tabid/110/ID/1691
I imagine that this has to do with
RedirectMatch 301 http://example.com/articles/tabid/110/ID/(.*)/(.*)
but I cannot grasp the regex needed for the other part of redirect / mod-rewrite.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^articles/tabid/([0-9]+)/ID/([0-9]+)/(.*)$ articles/tabid/$1/ID/$2 [R=301]
or
RedirectMatch 301 ^/articles/tabid/([0-9]+)/ID/([0-9]+)/(.*)$ http://example.com/articles/tabid/$1/ID/$2
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I have a website that is generating dynamic URLs through categories and it outputs the same information on two separate URLs (In this example it's "buildings" and "houses")
I would like to redirect all URLs that have /buildings/ in the URL to the same one with /houses/ instead.
For example:
/buildings/united-states/arizona/tucson/
to
/houses/united-states/arizona/tucson/
There are many URLs like this and I would like to use a code that does this for all.
I have tried
RewriteRule ^buildings/(\d[^/]+) /houses/$1/ [R=301,L], but it didn't seem to work (it still pointed to the /buildings/ URL.
Appreciate all your comments and guidance, thank you!
RewriteRule ^buildings/(\d[^/]+) /houses/$1/ [R=301,L]
For some reason have a \d (shorthand character class) that matches digits 0-9 only, so this won't match the example URL. Also, [^/]+ would seem unnecessary if it can be followed by anything anyway.
Try the following instead:
RewriteRule ^buildings/(.*) /houses/$1 [R=302,L]
This matches /buildings/<anything>. The $1 backreference holds the <anything> part.
Test first with 302 (temporary) redirect to avoid potential caching issues and only change to a 301 (permanent) redirect once you have confirmed it works as intended. You should clear you browser cache before testing.
This needs to go near the top of your .htaccess file, before any existing rewrites.
I need a hand with some 301 redirects for my apache htaccess file. The old urls contain variables at the end and have structures like the following:
/furniture-248/category/570-shelves.html?lang=en
/all-products/furniture-248/shelves.html?page=2&lang=en
/store/product/asearch.html?path=7_632&lang=en&Itemid=284
The new urls don't contain parameters of this nature and would be simply of the form:
main-cat/subcat/sale.html
I tried a regular 301 redirect in the htaccess file which works for urls without parameters but those urls containing the ?lang=en simply don't work.
This is what I was trying:
Redirect 301 /furniture-248/category/570-shelves.html?lang=en http://www.domain.com/shelves.html
I'd be very grateful for any help and advice.
Many thanks in advance
You can't use the query string as part of a redirect like that. You have two options.
Option 1
Take the "?lang=en" part off and just redirect all instances of that URL, whatever the query string is.
Redirect 301 /furniture-248/category/570-shelves.html http://www.domain.com/shelves.html
This will leave the query string intact, so the new URL will include "?lang=en" if it is present, or any other query string.
But of course, you might need to only redirect it when it has the "?lang=en" part, or leaving the query string intact when redirecting might not be acceptable. In that case, it will need to be...
Option 2
Use mod_rewrite:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^lang=en$
RewriteRule ^furniture-248/category/570-shelves\.html$ http://www.domain.com/shelves.html? [R=301,L]
This does exactly what you asked for, redirecting /furniture-248/category/570-shelves.html?lang=en to http://www.domain.com/shelves.html and only that.
Note that..
The query string is matched separately.
The opening forward slash on the matching part is not used (because the fact you're in a website root level .htaccess file implies that opening slash).
The closing question mark on the redirect URL is important, as it tells the engine to drop the existing query string, which is what you want.
[R=301,L] means do a 301 redirect and don't process any more URL rewriting on this URL.
For the matching part in RewriteRule, the dot before "html" is escaped with "\" because dot has a special meaning in a regex.
Also for the matching parts, in both RewriteCond and RewriteRule, the ^ means the start of the string and the $ means the end of it, so that we are matching exactly that rather than it being possible for it to be part of a longer string.
And finally, if you're adding a number of these, you only need the "RewriteEngine On" part once, at the top. The other two parts are needed for each one.
Please be sure to test all redirects you add with this method as there is more to mod_rewrite than I have mentioned in this simple explanation.
I want to redirect my URLs to a new pattern. For this purpose, I used 301 redirect for every single URL but that are taking a huge time and my .htaccess file is going large and large as I have thousands of URLs.
So now Someone said to me to use .htaccess to use 301 redirect or rewrite engine option. Now I am new to .htaccess to use Pattern Redirect. First of all clear me out that is this possible to use 301 redirect in patterns? If yes then Can I do pattern 301 redirect in the below URLs? I want to redirect the below pattern so can you help me?
/search/label/XXXXXXXXXX to /category/XXXXXXXXXX
/year/month/XXXXXXXXXX.html/?m=0 to /year/month/XXXXXXXXXX.html
/year/month/XXXXXXXXXX.html/?m=1 to /year/month/XXXXXXXXXX.html
/search to /
/feed to /
XXXXXXXXXX means some text/no that are dynamic and changeable. year and month means only no that are also dynamic and changeable. / means site homepage. Rest are fixed text.
Please keep in mind that sometime there are many variables in every URL so we also want to avoid that that always start from ?variable=value&variable=value in the end of every URL.
After asking here, I keep trying myself too so I am able to do it and working on my side. I added below codes in my .htaccess file and after that I am able to redirect all upper URLs without any 404 error.
Redirect 301 /search/label http://www.example.com/category
Redirect 301 /search http://www.example.com
Redirect 301 /feed http://www.example.com
For 2,3 URL pattern, I did nothing because after checking, its not showing any 404 error as they are only variable in front of URL so no need to edit that.
I have been trying variations of the following without success:
Redirect permanent /([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/(.?).html http://example.com/($3)
It seems to have no effect. I have also tried rewrite with similar lack of results.
I want all links similar to: http://example.com/2002/10/some-long-title.html
to redirect the browser and spiders to: http://example.com/some-long-title
When I save this to my server, and visit a link with the nested folders, it just returns a 404 with the original URL unchanged in the address bar. What I want is the new location in the address bar (and the content of course).
I guess this is more or less what you are looking for:
RewriteEngine On
ReriteRule ^/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/(.?)\.html$ http://example.com/$3 [L,R=301]
This can be used inside the central apache configuration. If you have to use .htaccess files because you don't have access to the apache configuration then the syntax is slightly different.
Using mod_alias, you want the RedirectMatch, not the regular Redirect directive:
RedirectMatch permanent ^/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/(.+)\.html$ http://example.com/$3
Your last grouping needs to be (.+) which means anything that's 1 character or more, what you had before, (.?) matches anything that is either 0 or 1 character. Also, the last backreference doesn't need the parentheses.
Using mod_rewrite, it looks similar:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/(.+)\.html$ http://example.com/$3 [L,R=301]
I am struggling to create appropriate 301 redirects for a site that was originally built using query strings. The old URL structure looks like this:
http://www.oldsite.com/about/index.cfm?fuseaction=cor_av&artID=5049
I want to redirect the entire subfolder (named 'about') to a new page on the new domain. The new domain's URL looks like this:
http://www.newsite.com/info
So, I set up a redirect that looks like this:
redirectMatch 301 ^/about/ http://www.newsite.com/info
It is redirecting just fine, but it's keeping the original URL string attached, so the new URL ends up looking like this in a browser:
http://www.newsite.com/info/?fuseaction=cor_av&artID=5049
I'm definitely not enough of an Apache/301 expert ot know how to fix this. I just want to strip off everything from the ? on.
Really appreciate any help.
two options:
redirectMatch 301 ^/about/ http://www.newsite.com/info?
or:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^about/(.*) http://www.newsite.com/info? [L,R=301]
question mark at the end seems to be the critical bit. Second one looks a little cleaner (first leaves a question mark at the end of your URL)
Try to add this code into the .htaccess that specified for oldsite.com:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/about/index.cfm$
RewriteRule ^(.+) http://www.newsite.com/info/ [R=301,QSA]
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