Rewrite rule not applying - apache

I'm really struggling getting to match this URL my htaccess rule and nothing I try seems to work.
This is the url I want to match
http://www.xyz.com/events/my-event-in-town/
RewriteRule ^my-event-in-([^/]+)/$ /new-url/$1/ [R=301]
Hope someone can point out my obvious mistake
I also need to remove the first /events/ part from the URL

It should be:
RewriteRule ^events/my-event-in-([^/]+)/$ /new-url/$1/ [R=301]
Or:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/events/
RewriteRule my-event-in-([^/]+)/$ /new-url/$1/ [R=301]
Your rule will only match to http://www.xyz.com/my-event-in-town/ because the ^ meant the start of line anchor.

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Modify query string value using htacces

I want to redirect
https://www.example.com/signup?plan=basic to https://www.example.com/signup?plan=basic-monthly and https://www.example.com/signup?plan=pro to https://www.example.com/signup?plan=pro-monthly .
How can I achieve this using htaccess ?
There are many questions related to this here. But, couldn't find an answer for this specific scenario.
This is the code I tried and failed:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)plan=pro(&|$)
RewriteRule ^signup /$0?plan=pro-monthly [R=301,L]
Also, while trying the same with "basic" instead of "pro", the word "basic" i shown in red color as if it is a keyword.
Could you please try following, written with shown samples. Please make sure you clear your browser cache before testing your URLs.
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(plan=(?:basic|pro))$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(signup)/?$ $1?%1-monthly [L]
2nd solution: Or you could try following too. Make sure you either put 1st solution rules OR this one at a time.
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/(signup)\?(plan=(?:basic|pro))\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1?%2-monthly [L]

Escape string within RewriteRule

I am currently chewing on this problem: I am reworking a sort of CMS system, the result will be that URLs will look entire differently, but I want to save links and bookmarks, so I scrathced this .htaccess file together:
RewriteEngine on
# Rewrite old links to match with new URL syntax:
# universal rewrite
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}~%{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*?\/*)? (viewuser|viewstory|reviews|news)\.php~(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+).php$ %1?action=redirect&source=$1&%3 [R=301,L,NE]
And it works, http://example.com/news.php?action=newsstory&nid=51 actually becomes http://example.com/?action=redirect&source=news&action=newsstory&nid=51
But you can see the problem, a double action. Using 'action' is not the most inventive term, but it is what the script I need to feed is working with, and also what I am getting from the old one, so I need to either:
replace the second 'action' with anything else
or serialize/escape the entire part which is defined by %3 from, the RewriteCond
In case you are wondering, the question mark required the use of a RewriteCond, couldn't get it to work any other way, so any solution that gets rid of it is just as welcome.
Well, thanks for looking into and maybe even shedding a light onto things, I just made my way into the whole regex thing, but havewn't entirely figured how variables are passed from chained RewriteRule to another, maybe that would have been the way to got, but try and error didn't get me anywhere.
Try removing the NE flag and use a B:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}~%{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*?\/*)?(viewuser|viewstory|reviews|news)\.php~(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+).php$ /?action=redirect&source=$1&%3 [R=301,L,B]
The only problem is that the %1 backreference will get encoded as well so I left that out. If you must have it there, you can try doing a two step rewrite:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}~%{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*?\/*)?(viewuser|viewstory|reviews|news)\.php~(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+).php$ /special-rewrite-here?action=redirect&source=$1&%3 [L,B]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\ (.*?\/*)?(viewuser|viewstory|reviews|news)\.php~(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^special-rewrite-here$ /%1 [L,R=301]
Fixed with help from Jon Lin:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}~%{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*?\/*)? (viewuser|viewstory|reviews|news)\.php~(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+).php$ /special-rewrite-here?action=redirect&source=$1&old_data=%3 [B]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}~%{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*?\/*)? (viewuser|viewstory|reviews|news)\.php~(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/.+$ %1 [L,R=301]
I had to do the RewriteCond again to preserve %1, and had to modify the second RewriteRule slightly, but he sure got me on the right track, so: problem solved, the rest will take place in PHP, that should be no problem then.

Why does mod-rewrite rule A work but not B?

This works, as in redirects:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _escaped_fragment_=([^&]+)
RewriteRule ^.*$ system/snapshot.php?project=%1
...but this doesn't (note removal of ^ and $ anchors):
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _escaped_fragment_=([^&]+)
RewriteRule .* system/snapshot.php?project=%1
Can anyone explain why, seemingly, I must anchor to the start and end of the path part of the URL?
Since the query string is what's important for this rule, not the path, I figured I could just say "run this rule regardless of what the path contains", hence .*.
Thanks in advance.

skip next rule if pattern is matched

I have a rule that looks like this
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?marker=$1
I need to skip this rule if the url is /admin
I tried
RewriteRule ^admin/?$ /maps/admin [S=1]
followed by the first rule above but that is giving a The page isn't redirecting properly error.
Try another approaching by using RewriteCond.
RewriteCond {REQUEST_URI} !^admin/?$
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?marker=$1 [L]
Also, don't forget to add the [L] (Last) flag to your rules where appropriate. Otherwise it will continue processing them into one large compounded rule.

mod_rewrite weird problem

I have a strange problem with mod_rewrite, the rules that are relevant here are:
RewriteRule ^(.*)\/igre\-(.*)\.php\?Page=([0-9]+)$ game.php?GameUrl=$2&Page=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)\/igre\-(.*)\.php$ game.php?GameUrl=$2&Page=1 [L]
And a corresponding URL might look something like this:
example.com/miselne-igre/igre-shirk.php?Page=2
example.com/miselne-igre/igre-shirk.php
The problem is that the first rule has no effect. If I use the first URL from the example I always get 1 into the Page variable, which shows that the second rule is used.
So what's wrong with the first one? And why is the second rule even matching a URL with ".php?Page=XYZ" at the end, if I said that the URL ends with ".php"?
ps: other rules in the .htaccess file are working fine...
The query string is not part of the URI path that is being processed by the RewriteRule directive. You have to use the RewriteCond directive to process the query string.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^Page=[0-9]+$
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/igre-([^/]+)\.php$ game.php?GameUrl=$1&%0 [L]
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/igre-([^/]+)\.php$ game.php?GameUrl=$1&Page=1 [L]
But you can still simplify this by using the QSA flag (query string append):
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/igre-([^/]+)\.php$ game.php?GameUrl=$1 [L,QSA]
mod_rewrite is not using the query in it's rewriting process. Therefor you first RewriteRule is ignored. You could combine it with a RewriteCond (haven't tested it though) like so:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} Page=([0-9]+)
RewriteRule ^(.*)\/igre\-(.*)\.php\?Page=([0-9]+)$ game.php?GameUrl=$2 [L, qsappend]
# qsappend appends the original query, in this case (Page=xx)
Ah, like Gumbo said; you can also use %1 to back reference to the page numer.
Is it just me or are your arguments back-to-front?
Do you mean:
RewriteRule ^(.*)\/(.*)\-igre\.php\?Page=([0-9]+)$ game.php?GameUrl=$2&Page=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)\/(.*)\-igre\.php$ game.php?GameUrl=$2&Page=1 [L]
You wanted to match miselne-igre not igre-miselne.
Obviously this doesn't address the main issue, but thought I'd throw that in.
Dom