I'm trying to make some more cleaner URL's for my website. I have allready found lots of questions regarding the removal of file extensions in URL's and managed to get that working. I want to take it a step further though by transforming an URL like http://www.site.com/news.php?id=1 into http://www.site.com/news/1/. I couldn't find an answer to this specific question so I'm asking it here. How could I achieve URL's like that?
Rewrite rules I allready have in my htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(([A-Za-z0-9\-]+/)*[A-Za-z0-9\-]+)?$ $1.php
There are plenty of questions out there that answer your question. There are two things you have to do:
Redirect the ugly url to the fancy url, so that the user sees the fancy url
Internally rewrite the fancy url to the ugly url, so that the server can actually execute it.
You can find the documentation for mod_rewrite here. This solution uses the [END] flag which is only available from Apache 2.3.9 and up. You can find the documentation here. The trailing ? in the first rule discards the query string.
#Redirect ugly url to fancy url
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=([^&]*)
RewriteRule ^news\.php$ news/%1/? [R]
#Internally rewrite fancy url to a usable url
RewriteRule ^news/([^/]*)/?$ news.php?id=$1 [END]
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You'd think I'd easily be able to find the answer to this on S/O, but I've tried everything and after a few hours of frustration I'm giving in and seeing what the real experts think.
I'm "sure" this can be done with mod rewrite, but I'll defer to you.
Problem: I'm attempting to turn a URL like this...
http://domain.com/new-cars/state.php?stateCode=al
Into this at minimum...
http://domain.com/new-cars/al-new-cars
Though, ideally I'd get it to look like this (yes, I'm willing to rewrite some code to use the full state name as the $stateCode variable to make it easier!)...
http://domain.com/new-cars/alabama-new-cars
Ultimately the plan is to be able to use URL's in links such as...
http://domain.com/new-cars/alabama-new-cars
And have .htaccess take car of associating this SEO-friendly URL with the dynamic version and displaying the page properly.
Either way, I haven't been able to figure out how to do this like I need.
Here's what I've tried.
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^new-cars/([^-]*)-new-cars/$ /new-cars/state.php?stateCode=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
And different variations that I've created using 2 different mod rewrite generators and various answers to other people's questions.
Absolutely nothing is working.
I expect when I go to
http://domain.com/new-cars/state.php?stateCode=AL
That it rewrites the URL to
http://domain.com/new-cars/AL-new-cars
...but it does not. Instead, it stays exactly the same dynamic URL I typed in. If I go to the "desired" rewrite URL I get a 404 error saying the page doesn't exist.
What am I doing wrong?
I thought maybe my .htaccess privileges weren't set right, but I can do a 301 redirect through .htaccess quite easily, so that's not it.
Maybe someone here can help. I've tried to so many permutations, even settling for the most basic rewrite just to see if I could get it to work - but nothing.
Any help is appreciated!
You can use:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
# external redirect from actual URL to pretty one
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+new-cars/state\.php\?stateCode=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /new-cars/%1-new-cars? [R=301,L,NE]
# internal forward from pretty URL to actual one
RewriteRule ^new-cars/([^-]*)-new-cars/?$ /new-cars/state.php?stateCode=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
I was just learning to rewrite urls but got error on my first step.
My current url is:
http://localhost/tutorials/blog.php?blogId=30
.htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^blogs/([0-9]+)/?$ blog.php?blogId=$1 [NC,L]
According to guide after this code my url should look like
http://localhost/tutorials/blogs/30/ but it's still same so where I am going wrong. Both .htaccess and blog.php are in same folder.
The code you have provides you an alternate way to work on URLs of the form http://localhost/tutorials/blogs/30/. It does not format the uglier URL to pretty/friendly one.
Use the following to achieve that:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ /(.*blog)\.php\?blogId=(\d+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1s/%2/? [R=301,L,NC]
RewriteRule ^blogs/([0-9]+)/?$ blog.php?blogId=$1 [NC,L]
URL rewriting can be one of the best and quickest ways to improve the usability and search friendliness of your site. It can also be the source of near-unending misery and suffering. Definitely worth playing carefully with it - lots of testing is recommended. With great power comes great responsibility, and all that.
Refer this article https://www.addedbytes.com/articles/for-beginners/url-rewriting-for-beginners/.
I've looked everywhere to find the proper solution/method but I can't seem to find anything that works for me.
I even asked friends and they helped but none prevailed.
What i'm trying to do is, changing the URL displayed in the browser but only that. (No rediraction, page re-loading).
I want to do this to make my UCP just cleaner looking when going through certain pages/files.
What am I trying to achieve?
Heres an example on a profile, the URL would be:
mysite.com/ucp/profile.php?player=Heartfire
However, I want it to look like
mysite.com/ucp/profile/heartfire
Or something else! I just want to get rid of the parameters AFTER the .PHP
I've tried various examples found with google and this website but none seems to work, could somebody please guide me along the way to achieve the result.
what have I tried so far?
Here are a few examples of what I tried before:
RewriteRule ^profile/([0-9]+)/?$ /ucp/profile.php?player=$1
RewriteRule profile.php?player=$1 profile.php [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^profile$ profile.php?player=$1
So what am I doing wrong that it isn't working?
Put the following in .htaccess file inside website's root directory:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ /ucp/profile\.php?([^=]+)=(\S+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ucp/profile\.php$ /ucp/%1/%2? [R=301,L,NC]
# Now, deal with internal rewrites (which will not cause redirection):
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^ucp/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /ucp/profile.php?$1=$2 [NC,L]
You can use internal redirects what will not change your url but map your request as your wanted.
What you want is impossible because:
Htaccess and rewrite is at server side. The request arrived to the server, need to rewrite at serverside and you need to change it in the clients url bar.
To achieve this the server should send a redirect with the url what you expected. This ia why redirect is mandatory. Server can't rewrite clients urls, just can send a redirect response.
Internal redirect can simulate you something like the request was what you expected but it is transparent at for the clients.
Btw, permanent redirect is the right solution here to notify the user and give the chance to let them know the resource has been changed and update the bookmark / api / whatever.
I'm trying to make my website display the other pages as a www.example.com/pageone/ link instead of www.example.com/pageone.html.
Problem is, i'm reading up on ways to do that using .htaccess and its getting me confused because i don't understand the commands.
I understand that the first step, however, is to write this in the .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
After this step, i have absolutely no idea whats !-d nor {REQUEST_FILENAME} nor ^(.*) and all that programming text. Is there a documentation that i can refer to?
Or can anyone provide me a simple explanation on how to configure the .htaccess file to understand that if i want to go to
www.example.com/pageone.html
, all i need to type into the URL is
www.example.com/pageone/
and PHP files, etc as well?
First of all, there's the Official Documentation. To solve your specific problem, I would go about this way:
RewriteEngine on #Turn on rewrite
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f #If requested is not a filename...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d #And not a directory
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ /$1.html [L] #Preform this redirect
The RewriteConds only apply to the next following rule. If you were to have multiple rules, you'd need to write the conditions for each one.
Now, the Apache server matches the requested path (everything after www.example.com/), to see if it matches any of the rules you've specified. In which case, there is only one:
^([^/]+)$
This regular expression matches any number of characters, which are not slash /, followed by an optional trailing slash. If the match was found, it will rewrite the request to the second parameter: /$1.html, $1 means "Whatever was matched between the brackets", which in our case is all of the non-slash characters.
The [L] flag, tells the rewriting engine to stop looking for rules if this rule was matched.
So to conclude, www.example.com/whatever/ will be rewritten sliently at the server to www.example.com/whatever.html
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ /$1.html
That should be all you need for this rewrite. It basically says "Anything that is not a forward slash will be assigned to the variable $1. So /foo would point to /foo.html
For official documentation you can look here Apache httpd mod_rewrite.
On Google you can search with keywords such as url rewriting tutorial.
The weird characters are called regular expressions. It's not an easy part to learn but there is a lot of tutorial about them.
PS: this is not a straight answer but some stuff to let you go further and understand how url rewriting works.
I’ve written some code on my .htaccess file which allows the use of SEO friendly URLs instead of ugly query strings. The following code rewrites the SEO friendly version in the browser to the query string version on the server.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^seo/([^/]*)/$ /directory/script.php?size=large&colour=green&pattern=$1 [L]
So that the ugly
http://www.mysite.com/directory/script.php?size=large&colour=green&pattern=striped
Is now beautiful
http://www.mysite.com/directory/seo/striped/
Just to explain the code a bit; seo is there to add more keywords to the URL, /directory/ is the directory in which the .htaccess file is located, parameters size=large and colour=green never change, while pattern=$1 can be many different values.
The above code works perfectly. However, the problem is I am now stuck with two URLs that point to exactly the same content. To solve this, I would like to 301 redirect the old, ugly querystrings to the SEO friendly URLs. What I have tried so far does not work - and Google is not being particularly friendly today.
Can anybody offer working code to put in my .htaccess file that redirects ugly to new URL, while retaining the rewrite? Thanks!
This should do the trick:
RewriteEngine On
## Redirect to pretty urls
# The '%1' in the rewrite comes from the group in the previous RewriteCond
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !seo
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^size=large&colour=green&pattern=([a-zA-Z]*)$
RewriteRule (.*) /directory\/seo\/%1\/? [L,R=301]
## Rewrite to long url, additional parameter at the end will cause
## the internal redirect not to match the previous rule (would cause redirect loop)
RewriteRule ^directory\/seo\/([^/]*)/$ /directory/script.php? size=large&colour=green&pattern=$1&rewrite [L]
You can also match the size and colour if needed, by changing those to regex groups as well, and using the corresponding %N
Hope this helps.
Not tested, but this may work...
RewriteRule ^directory/script.php?size=large&colour=green&pattern=(.*)$ /seo/$1/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]