mod_rewrite condition for existing folder - apache

I'm trying to set-up an .htaccess file that will pass every request URL as GET into a file called index.php. The only exception is, when the request URL points to a directory res.
Examples:
/wiki/cool-stuff => index.php?uri=/wiki/cool-stuff
/wiki/cool-stuff?news=on => index.php?uri=/wiki/cool-stuff&news=on
/res/cool-photo.jpg => res/cool-photo.jpg
Two problems:
The GET variable passed to /wiki/cool-stuff in the second example is not passed to index.php
Accessing /res (not /res/!!) suddenly shows me /res/?uri=res in my browser and index.php with uri=res/. Accessing /res/ instead, shows me index.php with uri=res/ and the URL in the browser stays (which is okay).
The .htaccess:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /subthing/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/res/(.+)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index.php
RewriteRule (.*) index.php?uri=$1
How can I achieve the desired behaviour?

Try using the Query-String-Append flag, QSA
Make the trailing slash optional - in Regex, this is achieved by adding ?.
New .htaccess:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /subthing/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/res(/.*)?$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index.php
RewriteRule (.*) index.php?uri=$1 [QSA]
Note that I have tweaked the Regex on the /res folder to cause /resabc to be redirected (if the slash was the only optional piece, anything beginning with res would match.
Apache Mod_Rewrite Documentation

Related

htaccess rewrite root url to subfolder with accessing other folder?

I have following folder structure in apache server.
Public_html
-->admin
--->admin_login.php
-->website
--->index.php
since the index.php inside the website folder,
i have given following code in .htaccess
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/website/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /website/$1 [L,NC]
so that the when the user enter root url , it will appear "www.myurl.com" instead of "www.myurl.com/website/"
but the issue is, i could not be able to access admin_login.php.
is there anyway to modify .htaccess, to come website/index.php in main url and able to access admin_login.php(both)?
Thanks in Advance
You need to add an exception to existing rule like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(website|admin)/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* website/$0 [L]
Negative condition %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(website|admin)/ will match every URI except URIs that start with /website/ or /admin/. This will allow you to directly open www.myurl.com/admin/admin_login.php.
With your shown samples and attempts please try following .htaccess rules file. Please make sure to clear your browser cache before testing your URLs.
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteRule ^index\.php/?$ website/index.php [QSA,NC,L]

Convert Query Parameters to Pretty URL

I have script file post.php which I'm using without .php extension using code below
Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [NC,L]
I want to use a pretty URL. For example, when I request the URL /post/12 it should give me $_GET parameter 12 like I'm using with a query string: post?id=12.
Is it possible? Also, I don't want to direct all requests to index.php. Only requests that are made to posts.php script.
Handle requests of the form /post/12 with a separate rule, before your generic rewrite that appends the .php extension.
Try it like this:
Options -Indexes -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
# Remove trailing slash if not a directory
# eg. "/post/" is redirected to "/post"
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*)/$ /$1 [R=301,L]
# Rewrite "/post/<id>" to "/post.php?id=<id>"
RewriteRule ^(post)/(\d+)$ $1.php?id=$2 [L]
# Rewrite "/post" to "/post.php" (and other extensionless URLs)
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1.php -f
RewriteRule (.*) $1.php [L]
Notes:
MultiViews needs to be disabled for the second rule to work.
Your initial rule that appends the .php extension was not quite correct. It could have resulted in a 500 error under certain conditions. However, the first condition was superfluous - there's no point checking that the request does not map to a file before checking that the request + .php does map to a file. These are mutually inclusive expressions.
Without the first rule that removes the trailing slash (eg. /post/ to /post) it raises the question of what to do with a request for /post/ (without an id) - should this serve /post.php (the same as /post) or /post.php?id= (empty URl param)? Both of which are presumably the same thing anyway. However, these would both result in duplicate content (potentially), hence the need for a redirect.

Htaccess rules get overriden

I want my .htaccess in the web server's root dir to redirect any request starting with ^assets/(.*)$ to the folder public/$1. All other requests have to go to index.php?request=$1. I also want to keep get parameters (L flag does it) in this case.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^assets/(.*)$ public/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(?!assets)(.*)$ index.php?request=$1 [L,QSA]
The only problem is that the last line overrides the previous :/
I also tested with (.*) but without success.
Thanks for your help.
Try this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule "^/assets/(.*)$" "/public/$1" [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} "!^/assets/"
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} "!^/index.php"
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} "!^/public"
RewriteRule (.*) "/index.php?request=$1" [L,QSA]
QSA: appends the parameters to the rewritten part
L: last. Which means if it matches, do not process any other rewrite.
Rewrites start at /
To apply a condition on a RewriteRule, use RewriteCond
References:
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/rewrite/flags.html
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html
The first rule says:
if it starts with "/assets/", anything following the second / will be rewritten as "/public/$1".
The RewriteCond and RewriteRule says:
if it does not start by "/assets/", take whatever you received, add it at the end of "/index.php?request=".
So http://www.example.com/directory/somepage.html will go to http://www.example.com/index.php?request=/directory/somepage.html.
If there are parameters in the request, they are appended at the end like so:
http://www.example.com/directory/somepage.html?a=1&b=4 will go to
http://www.example.com/index.php?request=/directory/somepage.html?a=1&b=4
EDIT Nov 19 1115
Added a second RewriteCond to make sure "/index.php" does not rewrite to itself. And a third, in case you want "/public" to also not redirect to "/index.php".

Redirect URL (including port) with params using .htaccess

I am trying to redirect from
http://www.example.com:81/my/api/search?query=test
to
http://www.example.com:81/my/php/api.php?query=test
using
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^query=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^api/search(.*)$ /php/api.php?%1 [L]
However, it doesn't work for me. Additionaly for testing htaccess rules I use http://htaccess.madewithlove.be/.
Possibly even better would be to check if request starts from ^api and it's GET type (I guess using RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD}) then redirect to /my/php/api.php?[query params here]
Anyone can point me into right direction?
If your .htaccess is located in /my/ directory then you can use:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /my/
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^query=.
RewriteRule ^api/search/?$ php/api.php [L]
QUERY_STRING will be automatically carried over to target URL.

Apache htaccess sending URLs in a URL

I'm trying to send a URL in a URL, and there's ModRewrite in the middle.
Here's the Rewrite Rule. It's used to search for a user's profile.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(query)/(profile)/([a-z0-9:.()\-\ ]+)/?$ search/index.php?scope=$2&query=$3 [NC,L]
And this is the URL
http://www.example.com/query/profile/http://www.facebook.com/example
No matter how I do the rewrite rule, I keep getting NetworkError: 500 Internal Server Error or NetworkError: 404 Not Found if it's a URL I put there.
How can I do this right? I'm on Windows 7 Home Premium. Am I missing something?
The URL above is passed using ajax.
Edit:
#htaccess in site1 folder
RewriteRule ^resources/?(.*)/?$ /control/$1 [NC,L]
#htaccess in control folder
RewriteRule ^(query)/(profile)/([a-z0-9:.()\-\ ]+)/?$ search/index.php?scope=$2&query=$3 [NC,L]
next folder is `search` which has `index.php`
URL used
http://www.example.com/resources/query/profile/http://www.facebook.com/example
EDIT:
I redid the RewriteRule like below, and don't get any error messages now, but Apache seems to be taking off one / from the url after the http://. So I get only http:/www.facebook.com/example. Any help with that will be appreciated.
RewriteRule ^(query)/(profile)/([a-z0-9\/:.()\-\ ]+)/?$ search/index.php?scope=$2&query=$3 [NC,L]`
You need to capture URL from RewriteCond otherwise Apache will trim multiple // into a single one.
Change this rule in root .htaccess:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /resources/(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /control/%1 [L]
Have this in /control/.htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /control/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /(query)/(profile)/(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /resources/search/index.php?scope=%2&query=%3 [QSA,L]