How can I use mod_rewrite to send certain types of incoming urls to a particular file on the server?
Ideally any html requests would load a file (eg /var/www/sites/urlprocessor.php) which would then determine what is being requested and the display the appropriate content based on the url.
Example: Say I wanted a url to list some 'cars'. I would want the following URLs to load the urlprocessor.php file instead of loading the actual page and instead of doing a redirect.
http://www.mydomain.com/cars.html --> /var/www/sites/urlprocessor.php
http://www.mydomain.com/cars.htm --> /var/www/sites/urlprocessor.php
http://www.mydomain.com/cars --> /var/www/sites/urlprocessor.php
On the flip-side, non-html requests (jpgs, pdfs, etc) would continue on normally without loading the urlprocessor.php file.
I am currently using the last line of code in the following to accomplish this. It 301 redirects all html page requests to 'index.html' which then loads the urlprocessor.php file. I prefer to just load the file without the 301 redirect.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule !^.*(\.gif|\.GIF|\.png|\.mp3|\.m3u|\.js|\.jpg|\.JPG|\.css|\.swf|\.flv|\.ico|\.wav|\.doc|\.DOC|\.pdf|\.PDF|\.xls|\.XLS|\.txt|\.TXT)$ index.html [L]
Is there a way to go directly to a file without doing the redirect?
Thanks!!
Tom
Given that /var/www/ is the root folder then this would work:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule . /sites/urlprocessor.php [L]
Basically this will redirect any non-existent folder and file to the urlprocessor.php
For more information on how to handle the redirect with your PHP you can refer yourself to this answer.
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I'm using a php app called Yourls. It's a self-hosted url shortener and it's pretty great, I'm happy with its overall functionality. Due to the nature of its development however there isn't much in the way of support. Let's pretend the base url is af.to, where a shortened url would be af.to/goo that might redirect to whatever url is defined by 'goo'. The problem I'm facing is that if someone goes to af.to, they end up on a 403-Forbidden. I'd rather the client is redirected to a specific url instead. I have already picked up a plugin for Yourls which redirects to a url when a shortlink is not found or mis-typed, but this does not cover the base of af.to
I attempted to put in a 403 redirect in the .htaccess, but that broke the whole yourls script resulting in a 500 server error.
Current .htaccess looks like this:
# BEGIN YOURLS
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^.*$ /yourls-loader.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END YOURLS
Any help on what I need to do?
Thank you.
The RewriteCond blocks tell the RewriteRule to skip existing files / folders. When you go to http://af.to/, the root folder exists : no redirection. The apache server doesn't find any index.html (or index.php) file, isn't allowed to list the content of the folder, give up and returns a 403 Forbidden.
You can create the index.html file to show some content or you can add these lines to redirect to an other url :
# just after RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/$ http://my-compagny.com/ [L,R=301]
I've been having problems trying to set up my .htaccess for the site.
I am trying to remove a folder from the URL when a page accesses this. I managed to successfully remove the folder from the path using this post How can I remove this directory/folder from url with htaccess rewrite? but when I load the page up, none of the css, javascript or other resources are loaded correctly.
When I try to access the resource from the url it says 'The requested URL /modules/content/styles/default.css was not found on this server.'
Modules is the folder I am trying to remove when accessing a page, however it seems that when I added the code to htaccess, it's adding "modules" to all paths.
My file structure looks like this
I have a .htaccess file in the root directory with the code:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule !^/?modules modules%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NC]
I also have one in the modules folder with the code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+modules([^\s]*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R=301,L]
I have tried multiple solutions but all end with "Page not found", this is the closest I have gotten but now I am having a problem with resources.
Any help would be great!
You need to change this rule in root .htaccess:
RewriteEngine on
# If the request is not for a valid directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# If the request is not for a valid file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule !^modules/ modules%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NC]
I'm setting up URL rewrite rules for an application I'm developing so that I can use nice clean URLs. I want the URLs to look like http://app.com/page/agency/ and to be equivalent to http://app.com/index.php?p=page&agency=agency. The agency selector is optional, so I want the URLs to redirect, even if the agency is not present. I have created the following mod_rewrite rules for this purpose:
RewriteRule ^/?([a-z]+)/$ /index.php?p=$1 [PT]
RewriteRule ^/?([a-z]+)/([a-z]+)/$ /index.php?p=$1&agency=$2 [PT]
This is working fine for redirecting the pages. However, it seems to me that my javascript files are being re-loaded with each page, as if the browser thinks that it's in a different directory and needs to re-load the JS files. The JS files are linked using a hard-coded URL, such as http://app.com/scripts/dostuff.js.
Is it possible that the browser is reloading the javascript files each time? If so, have I done something wrong?
Try this code:
RewriteEngine On
# skip rewrite rules below it is a valid file or a valid directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
# write single path
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)/?$ /index.php?p=$1 [L,QSA]
# write 2 paths
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)/([a-z]+)/?$ /index.php?p=$1&agency=$2 [L,QSA]
How can i change my site URL using mod_rewrite my problem is when i open my site's admin section i have to write www.example.com/index.php/admin
what i want is i directly open my site like www.example.com/admin please help
thanks
Here's a .htaccess file copied from the CodeIgniter PHP framework:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
This redirects everything that isn't index.php, robots.txt or anything in the images folder to index.php/$1, where $1 is the URL the user entered.
You need these rules as:
Redirecting index.php would cause an infinte loop - http://localhost/index.php/index.php/index.php/...
robots.txt is an important file that search engines use. It is just plain text; you don't want it handled by your code.
You obviously want to keep having access to your images. Adjust this path as necessary for where your static assets are located.
Try this rule:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule !^index\.php/ index.php%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
The condition is to exclude requests of existing files to be rewritten.
I am setting up some rewrite rules on an Apache server using mod_rewrite. I was wondering if it was possible to write a rule that will basically re-direct the user to the home page if the page is not found i.e.
http://example.com/test <-- does not exist
However, I would like if the user was to navigate to this domain they are automatically re-directed to:
http://example.com/
With this in mind, I don't want the URL to still display "http://example.com/test" I would like the URL to update itself to become "http://example.com/".
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ http://domain.com/ [L,R=301]
Essentially, "if the requested filename is not a file or directory, redirect".
I wouldn’t use a HTTP redirection but instead send an error document together with the proper error status code.