I have a website that generates dynamic urls for all content.
It uses a function to show the content on index.php page and it's called by "action".
So, if the user wants to signup, there is a signup function calling it.
If the user want's to browse downloads page, there is a downloads function calling it.
Something like this:
index.php?action=signup
index.php?action=downloads
index.php?action=news&type=type&id=id
In the last case are the news.
The news are divided by type and ID, both numerics.
Type can be: article, update, etc.
My question is: HOW and WHAT must I do in order to transform it all on friendly URLs?
Presuming you are on an apache server, you will want to use a .htaccess file, and a method of using rules to rewrite URLs, not surprisingly called RewriteRule.
There's a ton of information through google if you search for .htaccess RewriteRule, but a great starting point is http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess2.php.
You will essentially end up by putting a file called .htaccess in your public web files folder, with something like this:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(?:/(.*)){1,3} index.php?action=$1&type=$2&id=$3 [R,NC]
Note: I've not tested the above, and it will differ depending on how you want your pretty link to look.
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I have a anchor tag in my html content like this class="list-content" href="/abcd/test.html".
and this is in a lot of places in my html for a list of some results.
I need to append all these URLs that are in "href" by appending a prefix.
For example: /abcd/test.html should be dynamically changed as newprefix/abcd/test.html
If i have another one like /xyz/some.html then this should be changed as newprefix/xyz/some.html
I have explored different solutions over the internet and I have not found something that would fit my problem.
To implement an external redirect to prepend /newprefix to these requests you could do something like the following near the top of the root .htaccess (or server config).
For example:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/[^./]+\.html$ /newprefix/$0 [R=302,L]
The above will redirect requests for /abcd/test.html or /xyz/some.html to /newprefix/abcd/test.html and /newprefix/xyz/some.html respectively. Anything that matches the pattern /<something>/<file>.html.
$0 is a backreference that contains the URL-path that is matched by the RewriteRule pattern.
Note that this is not "url-rewriting" since you stated in comments that you do not want to "hide" the /newprefix part of the URL from your users. An external redirect is therefore the only solution if you are intending to use Apache / mod_rewrite (as tagged).
Aside: This is not particularly good for SEO, your users or your server since the user is externally redirected everytime they click one of your links, potentially doubling the number of requests that hit your server and slowing your users.
I am able to reach my website at a certain ip address and I am going to implement a REST service. I have some PHP files that perform actions on a database and I am calling them from the client. I am using linux ubuntu as server and so far I can do this:
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/api/create/?id=someId&val=someValue
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/api/delete/?id=someId
I can do the above because inside /var/www/html I have a folder called api that contains another folder called create. The create cointains the file index.php so that I can omit it and execute the URL you can see above.
This works fine but I don't think this is the proper way to do it. I am new with this so I don't know what to do. After some researches I have found that my goal probably be achieved using an .htaccess file use url rewriting but I am not sure.
How can I do this? Do I have to place all the php files in a single folder and then use an htaccess file? (^)
(^) To be more precise: instead of having this
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/api/create/index.php?id=someId&val=someValue
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/api/delete/index.php?id=someId
//and so on with other actions...
Do I have to create a folder like
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/files/
containing all my php files (create.php, delete.php, view.php...) and the use an htaccess to redirect?
I see that websites offer their api using www.domain.com/api/something/?data=Value or www.domain.com/api/something/dataAbout/. Are they doing what I have said about the .htaccess? I hope I have well explained my problem.
htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^api/([\w-]+)/?$ files/$1.php [L,NC]
This is inside /var/www/html and I have api inside /home/username/api .
Thanks Emma
Do it like this:
Create php files in a folder files/ subdirectory as create.php, delete.php, view.php etc (by renaming each individual index.php file, you mentioned).
Move away api directory somewhere outside site root.
Once that is done use following .htaccess file in /var/www/html/:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^api/([\w-]+)/?$ files/$1.php [L,NC]
Then use new URLs as:
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/api/create?id=someId&val=someValue
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/api/delete?id=someId
In first, this is not the right way to create a RESTFUL API. My suggestion is to you read a best practices article.
You shouldn't create a CREATE and DELETE folder. You should use HTTP actions.
To create a new record you should use POST. In example, POST /user and in the body you pass the user's information.
In another example, you could use the same route by using different HTTP methods: DELETE /user/1 to delete a user and PATCH /user/1 to edit some already existent user's information.
Hope it's help you.
I've been searching, reading and spent the last 8 days trying to figure out converting dynamic links to "pretty" links.
I starting using .htaccess and rewrite rules.
I have this basic code in my .htaccess file:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^pc-download/([0-9]+)/([^/]*)\.html$ /cgi/pc_read\.pl\?show=$1 [NC]
This will internally redirect my links to the proper cgi file and returns the item.
The problem I'm having is for external links in search results. From what I've read & read & read, I should be using the RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} and then a RewriteRule.
Since I've changed how my links are structured, I don't know if what I'm looking to do is even possible.
In the RewriteRule for internal links, the first part is "hard coded" ie, I make pc-download part of the code. Next ([0-9]+) is the item ID which is the variable ?show=$1. Here is the tricky part, ([^/]*) is an asset name that is in the database but not in the original (old) url. In the internal links, I have it coded in the page so any links in my pages automatically get generated.
So, here is the way I would like the external link to go:
External link : www.xyz.com/cgi/script.pl?show=001
Landing page : www.xyz.com/pc-download/001/name-of-product.html
I looked at maybe using RewriteMap. I created a txt file with the " ID Name Of Product " inside but putting that in my .htaccess file kills the whole website without even having a RewriteRule active.
Am I just spinning my head for nothing or am I headed down the right path?
Wasn't able to figure out how to get the external link to go to a new page & get the new link structure/variable so I modified the .htaccess:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^pc-download/([0-9]+)/([^/]*)\.html$ /cgi/pc_read\.pl\?show=$1&mytemplate=Moved [NC]
Updated the old template page with a meta refresh:
<META http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.example.com/pc-download/[[gameid]]/[[assetname]].html">
This gets the 2 variables [[gameid]] & [[assetname]] from my database using the cgi script that runs my website and redirects to the proper URL structure.
Then, I created a new page that displays the old database information like before and all the URLs match up in the browser.
It isn't an ideal solution but it seems to work. I hope that the meta refresh lets the search engines know that is a permanent change/move and I'll be able to delete that step/page in a couple months.
We have created a bunch of landing pages on a Joomla CMS system, such that the URL for each landing page is www.domain.com/page1.html and www.domain.com/page2.html, and so on. Of course the page1.html isn't really an HTML file it is a dynamic CMS page, just rewritten with htaccess.
The goal is to have one of our other domains, something like www.uniquedomain1.com show the content of www.domain.com/page1.html. Or, another domain like www.uniquedomain2.html show the content of www.domain.com/page2.html.
This needs to be search engine friendly so we can't use URL masking. Also we can't use HTACCESS redirects as this actually changes the URL in the browser bar. Need to keep the www.uniquedomain1.com URL in the browser bar.
Tried Apache VirtualHost options without any luck. You can park in a directory but not from a URL.
Ended up parking the domains on one folder, and then creating a PHP script to detect the domain host and then use CURL to query the correct url and deliver content. This whole thing seems ridiculously over complicated, and of course CURL isn't the best option, but it is all we could get to work.
Any thoughts on how to do this, or a better solution?
You can use HTACCESS redirect rules to do it without performing a redirect.
Change the html file names to be the domain name of the desired domain like domain.tld and do something like this in an .htaccess file
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?([a-z0-9\.-]+\.[a-z]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ /%1.html [L]
A quick test of this worked for two of my test (sub)domains test.domain.tld and test2.domain.tld. Both properly redirected to files with the names test.domain.tld.html and test2.domain.tld.html without modifying the URL.
You could also just use your PHP wrapper script to grab the content of each of the miscellaneous html files and output them.
If you renamed all of your HTML files (as in my previous suggested answer) to be domain.tld.html you could do it fairly easily. Something might look like:
<?php
require($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] .'.html');
I'm managing an instance of Wordpress where the URLs are in the following format:
http://www.example.com/example-category/blog-post-permalink/
The blog author did an inconsistent job of adding categories to posts, so while some of them had legitimate categories in their URLS, at least half are "uncategorised".
I can easily change Wordpress to render the URL without the category name (e.g., http://www.example.com/blog-post-permalink/), but I'd like to create a mod_rewrite rule to automatically redirect any requests for the previous format to the new, cleaner one.
How can I use a mod_rewrite recipe to handle this, taking into account that I want to honor requests for the real WordPress directories that are in my webroot?
Something as simple as:
RewriteRule ^/[^/]+/([^/]+)/?$ /$2 [R]
Perhaps would do it?
That simple redirects /foo/bar/ to /bar.