For a client we have setup a multilanguage website that consists of an English and Dutch part. The urls look like:
www.example.com for the english website and www.example.com/nl/ for the dutch website
However, I want to change this www.example.comto www.example.nl instead of www.example.com/nl/
How to get this? We already have setup that both domains (example.com and example.nl) point to the same root. But we not yet able to have the /nl/ extension point to example.nl
Hope someone can help me.
Just define two virtual hosts with different DocumentRoot.
Apache Core Features / DocumentRoot Directive
You will need to set the /nl/ directory as root for your .nl Domain.
I've not tried this, but I believe the Move Homedirs to Different Webserver example is a good fit for this problem. First, the example:
On the old webserver we just redirect all /~user/anypath URLs to
http://newserver/~user/anypath.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/~(.+) http://newserver/~$1 [R,L]
And my thought on how this would work for you:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/nl/(.+) http://newserver.nl/1 [R,L]
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I have my website example www.example.com... I want that this should open with 2 urls.. Like if i open www.example.com or www.example.com/eu then it should open same page. If my url is www.example.com/products or www.example.com/eu/products then it must open same page...
means i want my website to work same on both base urls www.example.com and www.example.com/eu...
Please help me on this. Any hint or pointers will be appreciated..do i need to do changes in htaccess or some where else to make it work?
I assume this is what you are looking for:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?eu(/.*)?$ /$1 [QSA,END]
You obviously need the rewriting module to be loaded and activated for this to work. And you need to enable the interpretation of distributed configuration files (".htaccess") if you really want to use those instead of placing such rules into the actual http server's host configuration where they belong.
I have a shared hosting Apache server, and I'm trying to send visitors who come to the main domain URL to a specific page, with the URL replaced and a 303 redirect:
example.com
example.com/
to
example.com/subdirectory/page.html
Only the plain domain URL should get redirected, not:
example.com/page.html
example.com/otherdirectory
example.com/otherdirectory/
example.com/subdirectory
example.com/subdirectory/
example.com/subdirectory/otherpage.html
example.com/subdirectory/otherdirectory
example.com/subdirectory/otherdirectory/
example.com/subdirectory/otherdirectory/page.html
I'm not sure that RewriteEngine is allowed on this server, if there are alternative approaches possible.
The crude way I've thought of is to just use DirectoryIndex to send the visitor to example.com/index.php -- and have a PHP redirect in that file go where I want. But I'm not sure if this might produce a visible blip for some visitors, or how Google would feel about it.
I've found other instances of this kind of question on Stack Overflow, but the answers are failing for me in some way or another. As the behavior is not intuitive, testing before posting might be advisable.
Thanks
If mod_rewrite is not enabled you can use mod_alias based rule like this in your DocumentRoot/.htaccess:
RedirectMatch 303 ^/?$ /subdirectory/page.html
UPDATE: Equivalent mod_rewrite rule:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?$ /subdirectory/page.html [L,R=303]
I am attempting to redirect & rewrite some dynamic PHP URL's to pretty and SEO friendly URLs. I have manged to do this successfully through .htaccess with the following code:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^somevar=green&nodescription=([a-zA-Z0-9_-]*)$
RewriteRule (.*) /green\/%1\/? [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^green/([^/]*)/$ /script.php?somevar=green&nodescription=$1&rewrite=on [L]
This creates a somewhat pretty URL as follows:
http://www.mysite.com/green/aA43-/
As I say, this works absolutley fine. Apart from one thing. The parameter nodescription contains a non-descriptive random set of letters, numbers and other characters.
I would like to rewrite the nodescription parameter to a more descriptive one. I understand that I can do this with a rewritemap through Apache. However, I have no experience at doing soemthing like this, and I'm not entirely sure where to start.
Normally I would simply alter script.php so that it contains more descriptive parameters, but this time I have no control over the script; I am pulling it from another site using cURL.
Can anybody give me an example of how to pull this off?
Thanks!
Matt
Well, to answer my own question, to pull this off you need access httpd.conf file on your apache server. My shared hosting company didn't allow access to this file (I doubt any would allow you access).
So I bit the bullet and purchased a VPS. I will post the steps I took here in order to set the rewritemap up in the hope that it will help a lost soul :) Ok, here goes...
My VPS has WHM installed, so in WHM I went to:
Server Configuration >> Apache Configuration >> Include Editor
Pre Virtual Host Include >> All Versions
This feature takes any text you put in and includes it in your httpd.conf file without worrying that it will be overwritten at a later stage. If you don't have WHM on your server then you can add the text directly to your httpd.conf file; make sure it is outside and before any virtual hosts.
OK, so I included the following map declaration and rewrite rule:
#Map to redirect (swaps key and value)
RewriteMap rwmap txt:/home/*/public_html/rdmap.txt
<Directory /home/*/public_html/test>
Options All -Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^url/([^/]*)/$ /script.php?foo=${rwmap:$1|$1}&rewrite=on [L]
</Directory>
The actual map is a simple text file containing key/value pairs - you need to place this file in the directory declared in RewriteMap rwmap txt:/home/*/public_html/rdmap.txt.
And there you go. Apache now rewrites my URLs for me and I now have some nice and pretty SEO optimized links thanks to my rewrite map! Hoorah!
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^green/([^/]*)/(.*)$ /script.php?somevar=green&nodescription=$1&rewrite=on [L]
This rewrite will allow you to pass "arbitrary text" that has nothing to do with the rewrite. For example:
http://www.mysite.com/green/aA43-/some-seo-boosting-title
Will still reroute correctly to script.php; the latter part will simply be ignored by the rewrite.
How can I have the following setup in apache?
http://server/ABC/* should be served by /var/www/ABC/*
http://server/PQR/* should be served by /var/www/PQR/*
Every other request should be served by /var/www/Others/index.php (a single file).
Thanks,
JP
Use Alias:
Alias /ABC/ /var/www/ABC/
Alias /PQR/ /var/www/PQR/
Leave the document root pointing to /var/www/Others/index.php. It could do the trick. :)
You can do this with mod_alias, which is part of the apache distribution.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_alias.html
for serving everything else with the single file you would use mod_rewrite. This has many features and depending on your needs you might need to tweak that.. but something like this should work:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?path=$1 [L]
you would put that in a .htaccess file in the document root.
I am a newbie to ubuntu and apache. Can someone tell me how I could direct to
www.mysite.com/drupal6
when user address www.mysite.com?
Thanks a lot.
Cheers.
If you are running Apache and Ubuntu, there is actually a really easy way to force this redirect using a simple php script.
Create an index.php file in the root of your server and paste the following code into it
<?php header("location: drupal6/") ?>
This will cause the site to auto-redirect to the drupal6 folder whenever it is visited.
This should work. Create a file in the root folder of your server called .htaccess - the dot at the beginning is very important as this helps the server identify the file as a hidden / system config file.
Open the file and paste the following lines of code in :
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.mysite.com/drupal6/$1 [R,L]
This should force all traffic to the server to redirect to your custom folder.
A brief explanation of the .htaccess code
If you want rewrites to work, you have to enable the Rewrite Engine and tell the server to follow symlinks.
The second section establishes the rule - specifically applying it to all traffic on the standard web port of 80.
The final line tells the server to grab everything after the URL and append it to the new address (mysite.com/drupal6).
There's a lot more you can do with .htaccess files but you really need to Google for good examples to test out.
Look at Apache's mod_rewrite documentation. You will need a RewriteRule in your apache configuration at the minimum, you may also need RewriteCond's to define when the RewriteRule is used.
Your rewrite pattern will be rewriting the REQUEST_URI with something from: ^/$ to: /drupal6. The ^ and $ are essential to prevent Apache getting into an infinite loop while rewriting the base URI by only matching "/" and not "/anything-else".
I assume you're on a recent version of Ubuntu and Apache? If so, see the Apache 2.2 documentation on mod_rewrite.