I have a standard Drupal site and need to add a redirection rule for SEO reasons
I need to redirect /salon/whatever to /salon-locator/whatever
This is what I have at the moment but I seem to get multiple redirects
RewriteEngine on
Redirect permanent /salon/ /salon-locator/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
You need to stick with mod_rewrite here because after mod_alias processes the Redirect directive, the URI continues through the path processing pipeline and mod_rewrite gets a hold of it and mangles it. If you use only mod_rewrite, you can tell the rewrite engine to stop after you've redirected using the L flag. So you want to replace:
Redirect permanent /salon/ /salon-locator/
with this:
RewriteRule ^salon/(.*)$ /salon-locator/$1 [L,R=301]
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I have a site which uses htaccess to rewrite all pages to the index page with a hash which is then used to serve up content. The file looks like this....
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^?]*)$ /index.php?urlpath=$1 [NC,L,QSA]
I am now moving some of the pages of the site, however if I add a redirect such as....
Redirect 301 /blog /new_location/blog/
I am running into problems with the resulting url looking like
https://mydomain/new_location/blog/urlpath=blog.php
Can anyone suggest a way that I get the page to redirect to mydomain/new_location/blog/ and then run the rewrite on the new url.
Many thanks
RewriteRule and Redirect are from different Apache modules, so run at different times in the processing, not in the order they appear in the configuration. You're best off sticking to one module or the other, by using the [R] flag to RewriteRule.
RewriteRule /blog(.*) /new_location/blog$1 [R=301]
OK, I managed to get this working using a combination of Redirect and Rewrite like so....
Redirect 301 /blog /new_location/blog
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/blog
RewriteRule ^([^?]*)$ /index.php?urlpath=$1 [NC,L,QSA]
Maybe not the neatest solution, but it work!
I have a rewrite rule for wildcard domains all requests are send to index.php on main domain. This is content for my .htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.us$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/domain\.us\/" [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^.*$ /index.php [NC,L]
And it works like it's supposed to work...perfect!
But recently I had to change the url structure of the whole website, that is fine old urls will simple show 404 though few old urls are important to me and I want to redirect them 301 to new url. For example:
somesubdomain.maindomain.com/oldcontent/
I want to reditect
somesubdomain.maindomain.com/importantdir/oldcontent/
Whatever I tried I ended up with a redirection loop (to many redirects at once).
I have like thousands of urls but only want to 301 redirect few of them.
all the urls in my website actually go through a PHP page that handles them by the page GET parameter (i.e. domain.com/sub/test is actually domain.com/page_handler.php?page=sub/test).
files or directories that exist don't go through the handler.
I've been trying to 301 redirect all www.domain.com requests to domain.com for improving SEO etc.
the problem is that this doesn't seem to work, no matter what rule I use and where I put it. this is the .htacess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#THIS IS THE DISCUSSED RULE:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule (.*[^\/])$ page_handler.php?page=$1 [QSA,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^/?$ page_handler.php?page= [L,QSA]
DirectoryIndex page_handler.php?page=
When I put the rule in the current line, it works ok with pages that are supposed to go through the handler BUT it makes existing resources go through it as well (e.g. domain.com/page_handler.php?page=js/script.js) which is not good.
When I put it after the other rules it redirects www.domain.com/something to domain.com/?page=something.
So, the question is: how to redirect urls that begin with "www." to the naked (non-www) domains without affecting the other rules?
Thank you!
The problem with your code is that you are applying the first two conditions only to the non-www rule. Conditions can only be tested for the rule that immediately follows them.
So, you'll need to move those down, and clean up a bit:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /page_handler.php?page=$1 [QSA,NC,L]
If this causes issues for you, then you may want to change the way your page is detected, by using the REQUEST_URI instead of a $_GET['page']. If you want to do this (which is actually a better method), the last rule can be changed to the following:
RewriteRule ^ /page_handler.php [QSA,NC,L]
I tried to use th URL Rewrite module, but it won't rewrite the URL for some reason. If I go to this website: http://localhost/projectredrum/foto.php it will show the correct page, but it doesn't rewrite the URL to what I want.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /projectredrum/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^foto\.php$ /Aquaria-Foto/Fotos
</IfModule>
Rewrite Module Tutorial
After looking at the tutorial mentioned above I figured I should try without
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
Because if you use this, it will only rewrite the URL when the URL doesn't match a file name or directory.
However when I did that I got a 404 page not found issue.
Does anyone know why the URL rewrite doesn't work?
Apache does local rewrite, because page is in same server it can load it on same request. Add [R,L] to end of RewriteRule line to rediret browser to wanted address.
R means temporally Redirect,
L means last rule.
R=301 is permanent redirect
eg [R=301,L] does permanent redirect and stops checking other rules.
In your case, you probably want to use this kind line:
RewriteRule ^foto\.php$ /Aquaria-Foto/Fotos [R,L]
Here is more info about flags: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/rewrite/flags.html
It is not working because of this condition:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
since http://localhost/projectredrum/foto.php is a valid file.
To fix the rule you can use this in /projectredrum/.htaccess:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /projectredrum/
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /foto\.php[?\s] [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /Aquaria-Foto/Fotos [L,NC,R=302]
R=302 is used to actually redirect the URL in browser.
In DocumentRoot/.htaccess you can use:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^Aquaria-Foto/Fotos/?$ /projectredrum/foto.php [L,NC]
References:
Apache mod_rewrite Introduction
Apache mod_rewrite Technical Details
Apache mod_rewrite In-Depth Details
working on a server that hosts multiple domains.
Somewhere in apache config is a rewrite rule that is set for ALL domains.
What happens is if a user goes to example.com/foo they are supposed to get redirected to example.com/foo_bar
However, in one domain, I want to override this behavior so that the url stays at example.com/foo and does not redirect. I've been searching and trying various rules and conditions to no avail. I don't have access to the apache config, but I am using .htaccess for some rewrite rules on this domain.
here's my rewrite rules in .htaccess:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
# this isn't working
# RewriteRule ^(foo)($|/) - [L]
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1
# this didn't work either
# RewriteRule ^/foo index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
Try redirecting /foo_bar back to /foo.
When Apache processes the rewrite rules it runs through them multiple times, which you can see when you turn on debugging. I think what's happening in your case is that you're trying to match the URI in the first pass, but Apache has already modified it to /foo_bar.
Also, as a matter of debugging, you should try to recreate the problem in an environment you control. Ask your sysadmin for a copy of the global configuration and mirror the set up you're constrained to.
You can create exception for one domain:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(?:www\.)?domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^foo(/.*)?$ /foo_bar$1 [L,R=302]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L,QSA]