I'd like to let people access files on my root domain directory without having to specify the file extension.
So, for example, there is currently a z9.html that a browser can access with www.mysite.com/z9.html. I would like to let people put in www.mysite.com/z9 to get the file.
The pecking order would be to look for a file of the name submitted with a .php extension, and then, if none found, look for a file of that name with a .html extension.
I don't know why my question was downvoted. It seems like a perfectly reasonable question for the Apache group. The answer is to use Apache's mod_rewrite:
To map any filename without an extension to that filename + .html place the following in .htaccess:
RewriteRule ^/([^.]+)$ /$1.html [L]
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OK, it's very simple but it does not work. I have a wiki site where the root contains an index.php file and the subdirectories contains the content of the wiki (I use PMwiki, so no database is required)
I want to temporarity shutdown the website and make it unaccessible by using an nice HTML page to display the shutdown message. I could rename the index.php file, but the rest of the files in the subfolder will remain accessible.
The first thing that worked but which is not elegant is restricting the whole site with a password in the htaccess using "Require valid-user" and all it's other command. The problem is that I cannot display a nice shutdown message as an HTML file.
Else I tried renaming the index.php file to something else like site.php. Creating a index.html file as a message and using a script like this:
Order Deny, allow
Deny from all
<File "index.html">
Allow from all
</File>
In that case, the index.html file is accessible, but it must be manually typed in the URL, it will not use this file by default. I tried adding DirectoryIndex directive like this
DirectoryIndex index.html
But it still does not work.
So first is there a way to make the user only see 1 page in particular and block everything else.
Second, doing so makes the site unaccessible to me. So is there a way to passords restrict the whole directory structure except for a specific index.html file. So that I could type url/site.php and be able to enter my website using an htaccess password.
Thanks for any help
Just this rule in root .htaccess should be able to handle this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule !^shutdown\.html$ shutdown.html [L,NC]
Now you can keep custom HTML content in /shutdown.html. Keep in mind you need to use inline css/js since it will also rewrite css/js requests to /shutdown.html file.
I need to create a rewrite to take traffic going to mp3/mp4 files in a specific subdirectory and then route them to a PHP file that tracks download stats etc before routing them to the actual file location since iTunes requires your podcast RSS contain actual media file extensions (.mp3, .mp4, etc)
I have created rewrites before with no problem but now I am running into an odd issue on this company's server.
My .htaccess located at www.company.com/companytools/podcasts
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/(.*).mp3$ /test.php?file=$1 [r=301,L]
Right now it is partially working it does act upon the mp3 file but ends up including the full path to test.php after the domain, so I end up with a 404 page looking for this URL:
www.company.com/www/internal/docs/companytools/podcasts/test.php?file=test
basically I need the path, but only the /companytools/podcasts part.
Any help is appreciated.
You may not need R=301 here to hide actual PHP handler.
Try this rule with RewriteBase:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /companytools/podcasts/
RewriteRule ^(.+?)\.mp3$ test.php?file=$1 [L,QSA]
I have pages named help.php, about.php and the address will look like:
www.example.com/help.php
I would like to convert it to:
www.example.com/help/
Is there a way to do this without using .htaccess?
You could create a folder called help and move help.php into it as index.php. Do the same thing for about. So you end up with:
help/index.php
about/index.php
Which would both be reachable at just
www.example.com/help/
www.example.com/about/
No there isn't a way to do this without .htaccess.
You could change the 'associated extenstion' for php from .php to something like .p but you would have to update your apache conf file to reflect that (it would just tell the system that .p files should be treated as .php files).
Another alternative would be to stick your help.php file into /help/index.php, which would let you call it as http://domain.com/help/ as the index.php file would be default loaded.
But that isn't what you were asking for...
So short answer is no, cannot be done without .htaccess.
I have a site, running Linux + Apache.
I have a file in my root directory, let's say file.php.
I want the URL to the file to be "domain.com/newdir/file.php", but I don't want to actually create the newdir and move the file there because it would be a huge hassle to update many many links all over my site.
Is there a way to accomplish this, meaning making the file accessible by the new URL without moving it?
Thank you.
On this site: workwith.me, you can find information about .htaccess and mod_rewrite. For your example you have to make a file called .htaccess and put it in the root directory. The file should contain these directives:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^newdir/file.php$ /file.php [L]
You can do this for every file you want to rename.
Four possible solutions I can think of:
If your OS supports it, create a symlink:
mkdir /home/foo/htdocs/newdir
ln -s /home/foo/htdocs/file.php home/foo/htdocs/newdir/file.php
... and make sure Apache is configured to follow them:
Options FollowSymLinks
Create an Alias or AliasMatch (probably overkill)
Good old mod_rewrite:
RewriteEngine One
RewriteRule ^newdir/file\.php$ file.php [L]
Ugly: use a custom 404 error page with a PHP script that checks $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'].
I guess the standard solutions are #1 and #3.
I have a directory with a bunch of files in it & I don't want anybody to be able to access these files by either getting a directory listing or by guessing the file location & typing it in.... it should NOT allow them to download it.
I accomplished this by putting the below in my .htaccess file:
Options -Indexes
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
However, I want the user to be able to download the file ONLY IF they access it via a script (which is in a different directory) which will give them the download. At the moment with the above settings it doesn't work.
I thought of putting something like..
Allow from domain.com
But I'm not 100% sure what that means? Does that check where the REQUEST is coming from & hence it would work if the server requests access to that dir? ...or would it still not work as the user is still using the domain via the other script to access the dir?
If you dump the files with an "script" you can store your files outside the documentroot. So you need no htacces file.
Perhaps this is a better workaround.
One way is to redirect the user say to your home page when they try to access your downloadable files inside the folder sec_files in this example.
I researched on this when one of my clients who purchased secure download links a codecanyon product asked for a solution to protect a folder that contained images or downloadable.
the .htaccess code is below. this .htaccess file is placed inside the sec_files i.e downloadable files folder.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/~sec_files/ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.satyamtechnologies.net$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.satyamtechnologies.net [R,L]
See how it works when you access here, it will redirect you to home page but when you access it through a php script here it will let you download the same files.