I am trying to have a URL that would look like:
mysite.com/#username
Which would route to something like:
subdomain.mysite.com/user/#username
I'm terrible with RewriteRules and have been struggling to try to get this to work. Some of the things I have tried are:
RewriteRule subdomain.mysite.com/user/(.*) mysite.com/$1 [R=302,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.#)(.*) subdomain.mysite.com/user/$1 [R=302,NC]
RewriteRule ^(.#)([A-Za-z0-9_]+) mysite.com/user/$1 [R=302,NC]
I realize those probably make absolutely no sense. Every time I try to get my head around how the routing works, I get turned around and start writing crap like you see above.
Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks.
You can't route to a subdomain (using htaccess anyway) but you can redirect there.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule #(.*) http://subdomain.mysite.com/user/#$1 [L,R=301]
The # symbol should be okay https://stackoverflow.com/a/1547940/763468
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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=$1 [L,QSA,NC]
I have a sneaking suspicion this is not possible, but figured I would ask regardless.
Is it at all possible to take a URL passed to a server in the form of:
http://domain.com/index.php?Action=Controller/Action&one=1&two=2&three=3
And rewrite it to appear as:
http://domain.com/Controller/Action/1/2/3
I am trying to clean up an borderline ancient project to support "Pretty URLs" and I would really like to make the URLs display a bit nicer. I know I could setup a 301 header redirect to the new URL, but I would prefer to avoid that overhead if at all possible.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
To get
http://domain.com/index.php?Action=Controller/Action&one=1&two=2&three=3
To appear as
http://domain.com/Controller/Action/1/2/3
You will need to use %{QUERY_STRING} to capture the query string data. Your .htaccess file will look like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^Action=Controller/Action&one=(\d+)&two=(\d+)&three=(\d+)
RewriteRule ^.+ /Controller/Action/%1/%2/%3 [R=301,L]
This will set up a permanent redirect to the new page. You can play around and test .htaccess rewrite rules here: htaccess.madewithlove.be
You can use this code in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ index.php?Action=$1/$2&one=$3&two=$4&three=$5 [L,QSA]
I have wasted an entire morning trying to do something very simple.
I have a local server set up with WampServer. The rewrite module is ON in httpd.conf. I want to have something like
http://localhost/wordpress/assets/whatever.jpg`
point to
http://localhost/wordpress/assets/test/whatever.jpg`.
I have tried so many variations it is stupid, and I either get no effect, or a redirect loop, or a server error or a message saying that the file can't be found at a location I don't want it to be found at. How about this version, why doesn't this work?
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /wordpress/assets/
RewriteRule (.*) test/$1
It causes an internal server error. This one gets pretty close, it gets to the test directory but not the jpg:
RewriteRule . test/
EDIT: oh, I meant to say that this .htaccess file is in the assets folder. I tried things higher up as well. I thought rewriting wasn't happening at all until I figured out the RewriteBase thing.
You need to make sure you're not already rewrite the test folder. The rewrite engine loops so the second time around it'll get rewritten again. So something like:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /wordpress/assets/
RewriteCond $1 !^test/
RewriteRule (.*) test/$1
or
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /wordpress/assets/
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wordpress/assets/test/$1 -f
RewriteRule (.*) test/$1
Sorry to be the asker of yet another tedious mod_rewrite question but after having made no progress in the last few hours, I thought it was time to ask ;)
I am trying to redirect URLs like these:
/some/thing?a=1 --> http://something-else.com/blah
/some/thing?a=1&b=whatever --> http://something-else.com/blah2
No need to keep the param values - the new URL will be hard-coded for each one I have to be redirected.
Have tried a few different things from other posts but with no joy so I am back to square one so any suggestions would be most welcome.
Thanks! :)
You can use the following rule-set:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^a=1$
RewriteRule /some/thing http://something-else.com/blah [L]
This is indeed quite a common question, and people tend to overlook the QUERY_STRING variable. Have you tried it before?
This is what I used in the end:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(a=1&b=whatever)$
RewriteRule /some/thing http://something-else.com/blah2 [L,R=301]
I was adding the rules at the bottom rather than directly below the "RewriteEngine On" which was preventing it from working.
This solution does still append the params to http://something-else.com/blah2 which isn't exactly what I wanted but it will do.
I am not really familiar with apache mod_rewrite.
I have url parameters such as {domain}/index.php?blog=5
I simply want to make it {domain}/home.php?client=5
Is it a task as simple as it sounds and can anyone help?
The following might work, give it a try
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/home.php [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} client=([0-9]+) [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://%{REMOTE_HOST}/index.php?blog=%1 [L]
That seems pretty simple, to be honest — once you get your head into mod_rewrite, it's not that complex.
It sounds like you want to add
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/index.php?blog=(.+)$ /home.php?client=$1
to your configuration.
Some caveats:
If you are putting this in a .htaccess file, then remove the / from the RewriteRule line.
If you want to make this case-insensitive, add [NC] to the end of that same line.
If you want users to see the URL change (so sending a 302 Found redirection to the browser), then add [R] to the end of the RewriteRule line.
If you want both a 302 Found and for the URL to be case-sensitive, combine the two instructions as [NC,R] at the end of the RewriteRule line.
It's definitely worth reading the mod_rewrite docs, but the rule above should be all you need for this use-case.