Remove Page Number from URL with .htaccess - apache

I need page numbers from URLs of the form:
http://mydomain.com/index.php?showtopic=XXXX&page=XXXX&#entryXXXX
so they become
http://mydomain.com/index.php?showtopic=XXXX&#entryXXXX
where XXXX are integers
I've previously tried:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)showtopic=([0-9]+)&page=([0-9]+)(.*) http://mydomain.com/index.php?showtopic=$1$3 [QSA,L,R=301]
but to no avail. So I shortened it to:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)&page=([0-9]+)(.*)$ $1&$3 [QSA,L,R=301]
but still nowt. Is there anything wrong with the regex at all?

You can't match against the query string in a rewrite rule, you need to match against the %{QUERY_STRING} var inside a rewrite condition:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^showtopic=([^&]+)&page=([^&]+)(&.*)?$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /index.php?showtopic=%1%3 [L,R=301]
The #entryXXXX part of the URL is a fragment, and the server actually never sees that. It's a client/browser-side only thing. Hopefully, the browser is smart enough to re-append the fragment after getting redirected.

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removing directory in apache mod_rewrite

I have a PHP site which replaces an ASP site, so the path structure is different.
In the URLs, I need to match http://apache.site/Cartv3/Details.asp & redirect to another location. What is the correct syntax to match that URL fragment?
I've already tried
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} CartV3/results1.asp?Category=60
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ home-study/A-Levels/1/page-1 [R=301,L]
and
RewriteRule ^CartV3/Details\.asp?ProductID=1004 home-study/A-Levels/1/page-1 [R=301,L]
You meed to read more about mod_rewrite. Remember RewriteRule doesn't match query string. You attempt needs to be rewritten as:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^Category=60$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^CartV3/results1\.asp$ /home-study/A-Levels/1/page-1? [R=302,L,NC]
Once you verify it is working fine, replace R=302 to R=301. Avoid using R=301 (Permanent Redirect) while testing your mod_rewrite rules.
PS: ? after page-1 is a special mod_rewrite syntax to strip original query string. If you want to keep original query string in rewritten URL then take out ? in the end.
The problem here is that you are trying to match the query string, which has to be done by a separate RewriteCond. If you want the match specifically "Category=60", then you can add it as a Condition:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} Category=60
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /CartV3/results1.asp
RewriteRule .* home-study/A-Levels/1/page-1?
This will match http://example.com/CartV3/results1.asp?Category=60 and redirect. The ? at the end of the rule stops "?Category=60" being to the resulting URI.
If you don't care about the value in the query string, then you can remove the first condition.

Subdirectories, slashes and single files

first if someone founds a better title...go for it!
The question is, i'm trying to setup mod rewrite so that all these are translated to
http:// mysite/phpnuget/nuget/metadata.php
preserving the query string parameters
http:// mysite/phpnuget/nuget/$metadata
http:// mysite/phpnuget/nuget/$metadata/wetheaverdirstructure
http:// mysite/phpnuget/nuget/$metadata/
http:// mysite/phpnuget/nuget/$metadata?wetheaver=parameter
http:// mysite/phpnuget/nuget/$metadata/wetheaverdirstructure?wetheaver=parameter
http:// mysite/phpnuget/nuget/$metadata/?wetheaver=parameter
I doged for hours through the internet with various tests but not one of the tenth i tryed worked...
(the space before mysite is only to allow posting on Stackoverflow... think it does not exists!)
Can someone give me some hint?
Thank you,
Enrico
(Changed the title)
You may try this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !metadata\.php [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/phpnuget/nuget/\$metadata [NC]
RewriteRule .* phpnuget/nuget/metadata.php [L]
It will map silently any URL like this one:
http://mysite.com/phpnuget/nuget/$metadata/anything
To:
http://mysite.com/phpnuget/nuget/metadata.php removing the last anything segment.
If the incoming URL holds a query, it will be appended to metadata.php automatically in query format. i.e. ?this=is&a=query
Just in case, there is NO need for the QSA flag.
To make the substitution URL permanent and visible, replace the last [L] with [L,R=301]

.htaccess rewrite rule for redirects

I've been fighting this for a while and can't seem to make it work. My old system used a lot of query strings to render pages but they are no longer necessary. My url is below:
OLD URL: www.example.com/links.php?section=5&catid=52
NEW URL: www.example.com/mhfs/links
The name links is coincidental and not necessarily from the old pages name. I need to check which section and catid is present and redirect them to the appropriate page from what it is. I tried the following but this just seems to do nothing. What am I doing wrong?
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^links.php$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^section=5$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^catid=52$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /mhfs/links? [R=301]
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
You must turn the rewrite engine on for it to work.
You probably don't want the regex start symbol on the replacement:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond ...
RewriteRule ...

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

Why is Apache mod_rewrite not behaving as expected

I want to redirect URLs from an old site that used raw URL requests to my new site which I have implemented in CodeIgniter. I simply want to redirect them to my index page. I also would like to get rid of "index.php" in my URLs so that my URLs can be as simple as example.com/this/that. So, this is the .htaccess file I have created:
RewriteEngine on
Options FollowSymLinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond $1 ^assets
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ example/production/$1
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} .+
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php? [R=301]
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|example|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1
It should also be noted that my index.php is actually a symlink to example/production/index.php.
Now, the first rule works as expected - all my styles and images show up just fine, it's the second two rules I'm having trouble with. The second rule is basically to destroy the query string and redirect to my index page (externally). So, I found this in the Apache manual:
Note: Query String
The Pattern will not be matched against the query string. Instead, you must use a RewriteCond with the %{QUERY_STRING} variable. You can, however, create URLs in the substitution string, containing a query string part. Simply use a question mark inside the substitution string, to indicate that the following text should be re-injected into the query string. When you want to erase an existing query string, end the substitution string with just a question mark. To combine a new query string with an old one, use the [QSA] flag.
However, when I try to access one of the old pages, instead of redirecting to my index page, I get a 404 page not found error. I have figured out a workaround by making it an internal redirect, but I would really like it to be external.
The next problem, and the one that has been baffling me the most is with the third rule. I would expect this to do something like the following. If I type in:
http://example.com/this/thing
I would expect it to re-route to
http://example.com/index.php/this/thing
Unfortunately, this does not work. Instead, no matter what I type in, it always routes to my index page as if nothing else was in the URL (it just goes to http://example.com/).
Furthermore, and even more confusing to me, if I replace that rule with the following:
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|example|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/this/thing
If I type in a URL such as http://example.com/other/thing, then it will go to http://example.com/index.php/this/thing as expected, BUT if I type in http://example.com/this/thing it goes to http://example.com/ (my index page). I can't make heads or tails out of it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
This should solve your index.php problem and it will simply detect if a robots.txt is available:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
hmmm - this doesn't seem to work either. The problem is my URLs aren't really asking for a filename or directory anyway. For example: example.com/index.php/this/thing should call the 'thing' method of the 'this' controller. – Steven Oxley
The condition is: If request is NOT a file and NOT a directory, so that was right, what you should have done is combine the appending of the request string:
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]