Our new website does not work in IE6 and honestly we wont make it work as its <1% of our traffic. I want to serve up a page that lives on the webserver that will be served up when a user comes to the site in IE6. What would be the best way to achieve this? It would be great if someone can provide a code snippet also.
I was able to get the redirect working by using this:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} MSIE\ 6
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /general/notsupported.html [L,R]
However, i wanted to also mask the url so if someone comes in on www.example.com/uri/querystring it will stay there but serve up a page saying "Sorry" ie6 is not supported.
Thanks in advance!
Something like this should do it:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} whatever_the_ie6_user_agent_string_is
RewriteRule .* /path/to/your/static/page [R]
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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=$2 [NC,L]
You can use internal redirects what will not change your url but map your request as your wanted.
What you want is impossible because:
Htaccess and rewrite is at server side. The request arrived to the server, need to rewrite at serverside and you need to change it in the clients url bar.
To achieve this the server should send a redirect with the url what you expected. This ia why redirect is mandatory. Server can't rewrite clients urls, just can send a redirect response.
Internal redirect can simulate you something like the request was what you expected but it is transparent at for the clients.
Btw, permanent redirect is the right solution here to notify the user and give the chance to let them know the resource has been changed and update the bookmark / api / whatever.
i really could use some advices related to subdomains.
recently we decide to make every subdomain of main portal to be available for blogs (something similar to lets say any blog platform)
so what i cant achieve is to make redirection to certain folder of main portal site or php file like:
xxxxx.domain.com/index.php?get=xx&get2=xx -> to be run by actual php file located on main portal account, lets say subdomains.php?get=x&get2=xx, alternatively - to be run by mainportal/subdomains/index.php?get=x&get2=xx
i tried with
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.domain\.pl$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) subdomain.php [L]
effect was almost correct but get parameters are missing:(
on the other hand it can be entirely wrong... i simply dont understand or that rewrite rules:(
thanks for any help/tips
You can try with QSA (query string append):
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*\.domain\.pl$ [NC]
RewriteRule . subdomain.php [QSA]
I know nothing about code sadly but i'm hoping that you can help. I've tried asking my web designer but he claims he doesn't know what a 301 redirect is and have noticed his own site has canonicalization issues.
I need to redirect the 3 urls below to www.mydomain.co.uk
www.mydomain.co.uk/index.html
mydomain.co.uk/index.html
mydomain.co.uk
I have never used ftp before, but have downloaded filezilla tonight so i can try fix this and have made a .htaccess file as my site didnt seem to have one.
I have browsed (almost) the whole internet looking for answers to this solution and have tried some codes suggested in previous posts on here but they didn't seem to do anything.
If you need to know, i think my server is apache.
I hope your site isn't built using HTML.. However, using your .htaccess you could try:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mydomain\.co\.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.co.uk/ [R=301,L]
This should be sufficient enough to force the www If you need to force the index.html you would do:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mydomain\.co\.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]
It's been a while, but both of these should sufficient to do what you want...
I think it's time to find a new developer, because the one you have sounds like a complete idiot.
My domain is meeting.com.
I work with PHP, jQuery, for the main part. No ASP.
When a user creates an account, I'd like a subdomain user.meeting.com to be created for REDIRECTION purposes only. I don't want the subdomain to exist for real.
When someone would load john13.meeting.com, I would like the website to redirect to meeting.com?user=john13 (I don't care if john13.meeting.com remains in the URL bar).
What is the most efficient and easy method of doing it automatically in PHP or Apache? Please consider performance too since I have many users.
You don't need PHP for that. The right Apache configuration with the rewrite module on, will do the trick.
For example (not tested):
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.meeting\.com?$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.meeting\.com?$
RewriteRule ^$ /user/%1 [L]
Or if you're not rewriting further for SEO, the rule could be
RewriteRule ^$ /index.php?user=%1 [L]
For more inspiration, check out the link Shef posted with another example of how to achieve this.
So I just inherited a site. The first thing I want to do is build a nice little standard, easy-peezy, CMS that allows for creating a page with any URL (for example: whatever.html).
Therefore, if user hits example.com/whatever.html, it should get any db info for whatever.html and display it. This is run of the mill stuff.
My problem is that there are quite a few pages on the site (all listed in the .htaccess) that need to continue to be accessible. For instance, /Promotions is linked to promotions.php via .htaccess, and I need it to stay that way.
Anyone know how I can construct the .htaccess file to allow specific rewrites to still work but to reroute all other requests through index.php?
Currently, I just have .htaccess show a custom 404 page which in turn checks the db for the url and displays it if it exists. This is an easy solution, but I know that some people have weird browser toolbars (dumb or not, they exist :) ) that autoredirect 404s, and I'd hate to annoy my users with these toolbars by not allowing access to certain pages.
Thanks so much for your help!
The RewriteRule for promotions should still work as it's not 404ing.
If the 404 handler is showing the page because it exists in the database then it should really be returning a 200 OK status (overriding the 404 one), so you should not get any issues with browser toolbars.
As for doing the rerouting you can do something like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*/(promotions|anotherone|somethingelse)($|/.*$) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?p=$1
Here is another variant:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/i/(.*)$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^/css/(.*)$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?p=$1 [L,QSA]