I've been looking on various sites reading mod_rewrite examples for a few hours, and have used it many times before successfully... but I'm trying something new with it now and can't for the life of me get it working!
I'm using a PHP file manager tool called AjaXplorer, I have it in a subdirectory on the root of my server /ajaxplorer-core-4.0.4. When I go to the root of my site http://domain.com/ I want it to invisibly redirect to the /ajaxplorer-core-4.0.4 folder (but still show the root domain in the address bar).
I still want to be able to access the other files/directories on the root as normal just typing in the path.
I assume this is possible? Seems relatively simple but I just can't get it working.
AjaXplorer seems to load js files and images etc from /ajaxplorer-core-4.0.4/plugins, I have a feeling that's where it's tripping me up.
Any pointers would be massively appreciated! Thanks
Found it on another answer luckily :)
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?site.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subdir/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subdir/$1
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?site.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ subdir/index.php [L]
Here's the wiki of serverfault.com
The howto's htaccess official guide
The official mod_rewrite guide
And if that's not enough:
Two hints:
If you're not in a hosted environment (= if it's your own server and you can modify the virtual hosts, not only the .htaccess files), try to use the RewriteLog directive: it helps you to track down such problems:
# Trace:
# (!) file gets big quickly, remove in prod environments:
RewriteLog "/web/logs/mywebsite.rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 9
RewriteEngine On
My favorite tool to check for regexp:
http://www.quanetic.com/Regex (don't forget to choose ereg(POSIX) instead of preg(PCRE)!)
Related
I've got a CMS installed in a sub-directory of my webspace and I'm having a little trouble figuring out how to configure the htaccess file.
mysite.com contains a splash page that should stay there for now. The idea is that mysite.com/dev should open the index page of the CMS. I suppose I could go with a subdomain but I'll have to research what to do in this case. Either way all of this is just temporary so whatever works is good.
You can see from the below code I've been messing around and I've commented out a lot of stuff. (I've also not bothered to copy more that I think is probably nonsense.)
#Display PHP Errors
php_flag display_errors Off
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite\.com\dev [NC]
# For Friendly URLs
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /dev/index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
I should note that I'm with a hosting company any my root path is something like
/content/hosting/l/u/mysite.com/web
I've tried to add this (and truncated versions) to my htaccess file but without success.
If dev is your CMS and you want site/dev to open index.php in dev, your htaccess file for dev only needs this line:
DirectoryIndex index.php
I am trying to get an apache RewriteRule to take a url and return the url + .html
Ex: 'www.domain.com/about' should serve the page 'www.domain.com/about.html'
I have tried numerous solutions from SO already but I believe there are some complications due to the site layout.
I am hosting on Network Solutions, so it's shared hosting, and this is a development site so I currently have the dev.domain.com pointed to /htdocs/dev
Directory Structure
-htdocs
--(contains existing sites files)
--.htaccess
----dev
------(contains dev site files)
------.htaccess
So as you can see there is an existing .htaccess file that maybe doing something and there maybe a subdomain issue, I'm not entirely sure, this is my first time working with Apache.
Here's my existing .htaccess which resides in the /htdocs/dev folder
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /dev
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}.html -f [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}.html [L]
Thanks for the help!
You are instructing Apache to make a file check (-f), but it doesn't know where to look. Just change
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}.html -f [NC]
to
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI}.html -f [NC]
That way Apache has a fully qualified path from your filesystem's root.
I hope this was not asked over and over again before, but I didn't get further to an answer using google, w3schools and so on. So here is my question:
I'm writing a script that creates kind of an index of projects that I have on my homepage and makes a nice list with images and teaser text based on an info file. I mostly have my projects on github and the readme is in markdown so I thought I could dynamically generate the HTML from the markdown of the latest blob from github on demand using PHP so it gets updated automatically.
My directory structure looks like this:
projects
project1
.remoteindex
.info
project2
.remoteindex
.info
index.php
.htaccess
So when just domain.tld/projects/ is requested I get the info from .info and make a nice index of all projects. But if domain.tld/projects/project1/ is request it, I want to internally redirect it to domain.tld/projects/?dir=project1 to do my markdown parsing and so on. But domain.tld/projects/project1/image.png should not be redirected.
This is what I tried:
.htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ index.php?dir=$1 [R,L]
I made it redirect instead of rewrite so that I can see what the error is because I just got an 404. The URL that I get redirected to is domain.tld/home/www/web310/html/projects/index.php?dir=project1 so obviously there is something going wrong with the internal structure of the web server an paths an whatever.
I hope you can understand my problem an I would be very pleased if someone could help me, because I'm totally lost on .htaccess anyway.
Edit:
See my answer below for the used .htaccess.
The strange thing is that if I have an index.html in on of the subdirectories, my local web server (Apache with XAMPP for Mac OS X 1.7.3) does not rewrite and the index.html gets displayed, without one it works correctly.But on my real web server that serves my homepage it rewrites both with and without index.html (which is what I want). Any hints on that?
Thanks for all the help so far! You guys are just awesome!
I figured out that a symbiosis of both of your solutions works well for me:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /projects
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ index.php?dir=$1 [QSA,L]
Of course only without [R], this was my fault. (See my question edit for another question please).
You need to add a RewriteBase /projects to the htaccess.
That way the redirect will work properly.
Edit:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^index.php - [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ index.php?dir=$1 [R,L]
Following what you ask, this is important not to do a redirect, but let the rewriterule modify internally the URL i.e. the RewriteRule should not end with [R,L] but rather [L] and maybe the "query string append" directive to keep what's after the ? so this should probably be [QSA,L].
Now here's how I'd do to avoid rewriting static files: if it's not a file then (and only then) test it:
# if it's not a file...
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
# ... and it's a dir
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} -d
# ... then rewrite it internally and stop further processing:
RewriteRule projects/([^/]+)(/?)$ index.php?dir=$1 [QSA,L]
And now two hints:
Please try to use the RewriteLog directive: it helps you to track down such problems:
# Trace:
# (!) file gets big quickly, remove in prod environments:
RewriteLog "/web/logs/mywebsite.rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 9
RewriteEngine On
My favorite tool to check for regexp:
http://www.quanetic.com/Regex (don't forget to choose ereg(POSIX) instead of preg(PCRE)!)
I know the basics of .htaccess, but freely admit to being a non-expert when it comes to mod_rewrite.
The problem:
I have a sqlite db file in the document root (no, I can't move it out of here) called data.sqlite. This file is accessed internally by PHP files, however, I want to protect this file from being 'downloaded' by the user typing the db URL directly into their browser.
I have used .htaccess to create pretty URLs in the past, and thought using mod_rewrite would provide a nice solution to my problem. However, my rewrite rule does not seem to prevent access.
.htaccess
Options +FollowSymLinks
Options -multiviews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^www\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,NC]
##prevent access to any file data.sqlite by redirecing back to index.php
RewriteRule ^data.sqlite$ index.php [L,NC]
##my other rules follow - not shown here
Any ideas where I'm going wrong with the rewrite?? I'm sure it is something simple?
EDIT:
Ideally, I'd like to prevent direct URL access to all files ending in .sqlite, not just data.sqlite
Here's how you do it because I have also done it:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://*.webwarecollection.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://*.webwarecollection.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(sqlite)$ - [F,NC]
About "start with ." that is not true!. File must start on ".ht" to be blocked by default on appache.
httpd disables access to files that start with a . by default. Rename your file to .data.sqlite and it will be dealt with.
I think this is a pretty simple question.
How do you an apache rewrite to hide a folder.
EX: www.website.com/pages/login.php to www.website.com/login.php
or www.website.com/pages/home.php to www.website.com/home.php
The folder needs to alway be hidden. thanks
I assume what you want is for the browser to request /home.php but the server to actually use the file located at /pages/home.php, right? If so, this should work:
Make sure the apache mod_rewrite module is installed. Then, use something like this in your apache config, virtual host config, or (less desirable) .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /pages/$1
The rules use regular expressions, so you may want to look at a reference on that topic if you're unsure. Read the manual for more info on other directives (RewriteCond can be very useful) or rule options.
I know the original post here was from a couple years ago, but it's been coming up first in the search engine, so maybe this will help others looking to hide a folder name in the URL.
Not exactly what original poster wanted, but along the same lines.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomainname\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomainname\.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subfoldername/
RewriteRule (.*) /subfoldername/$1
The above example would redirect any request to mydomainname.com or www.mydomainname.com to the subfoldername directory in the root directory for the domain, and the subfolder name would not appear in the URL.
If your example actually reflects the files you need, then in your .htaccess file:
#Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/pages/(.+)\.php $1\.php [NC, L]
Also, if the directory has read permission, it cannot be, in reality "hidden". I assume you mean that it no longer appears in the url.