I have been using this rule:
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [L]
Which will turn
example.com/page/hello
...into
example.com/index.php?page/hello
However, if I have a file extension on the end of that, say,
example.com/page/hello/doc.html
...it doesn't work. How can I make that URL become:
example.com/index.php?page/hello/doc.html
...and
example.com/page/
...become:
example.com/index.php?page/
Thank you very much if you are able to help with this. I've tried fiddling with the regular expression, but I just can't make it work.
Thanks.
This section of your regex will match one or more characters that are anything except a full stop:
[^\.]+
If you want to match one or more of any character, then just write:
.+
instead
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I currently use the following recipe to route .rss files to a script that produces a rss feed dynamically:
RewriteRule ^(.*).rss$ /get-feed.pl?item=$1
It works perfectly for URLs like this:
www.example.com/articles.rss
What I would to like to do is change the URL to this:
www.example.com/rss/articles/
Everything I have tried doesn't work.
I just tried to put some slashes in the recipe but I'm not an expert in these recipes so they didn't work. Somethig like this didn't work: RewriteRule ^/rss/(.*)/$ /get-feed.pl?item=$1
("recipe" = regular expression / "regex" for short OR RewriteRule "pattern" from the Apache docs - At least I think that is what you are referring to? We are not baking a cake here! ;) )
That is very close, except that the URL-path that the RewriteRule pattern matches against does not start with a slash when used in a .htaccess (directory) context. So, it would need to be like this: ^rss/(.*)/$. If you had looked to see what your first rule was returning you would have seen that there was no slash prefix in the backreference that was captured (ie. the value of the item URL parameter).
However, there are other (minor) issues here...
The 2nd path segment cannot be empty, so it would be preferable to match something, rather than anything. eg. (.+) instead of (.*). However, this should be made more restrictive, so to match just a single path segement, instead of any URL-path (which is likely to fail anyway I suspect). eg. Presumably /rss/foo/bar/baz/ should not match?
Again, if you only want to match a string of the form articles then make the regex more restrictive so that it only matches letters (or perhaps letters + numbers + hyphens)?
You are missing the L (last) flag on this rule, which is a problem if you have other directives that follow.
So, if you are wanting to rewrite URLs of the form www.example.com/rss/articles/ (note the trailing slash) then try the following instead:
RewriteRule ^rss/([\w-]+)/$ /get-feed.pl?item=$1 [L]
Make sure the browser cache is cleared before testing.
And this would need to go near the top of the .htaccess file, before any existing rewrites.
Aside: A quick look at your original directive:
RewriteRule ^(.*).rss$ /get-feed.pl?item=$1
This is not strictly correct, as it potentially matches too much. The unescaped dot before rss matches any character. And the .* subpattern matches 0 or more characters of anything - it must be something. So, this should really be something like:
RewriteRule ^([\w-]+)\.rss$ /get-feed.pl?item=$1 [L]
I am trying to match part of a URL and then use the matched expression to append onto the end of a query string from the old URL.
I have the following line in .htaccess, once I've worked out what I'm doing wrong I'll be able to fix the rest so for now I will just focus on the following line:
RewriteRule ^league/([^/]*)$/matches/? index.php?page_id=1074&league=$1
I would like ([^/]*)$ to appear where $1 is
So essentially: /league/29/matches/ would point to index.php?page=1074&league=29
Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong? :)
RewriteRule ^league/([^/]*)$/matches/? index.php?page_id=1074&league=$1
The $ (end-of-string anchor) after the subpattern ([^/]*)$, in the middle of the regex, does not make sense here and will cause the regex to fail. You should also be using the + quantifier here (1 or more). You are also missing the end-of-string anchor ($) at the end of the regex (otherwise the trailing /? is superfluous). Although you shouldn't really make the trailing slash optional on the rewrite as it potentially opens you up for duplicate content. (You should redirect to append/remove the trailing slash to canonicalise the URL instead.) You are also missing the L flag on the RewriteRule.
Try the following instead:
RewriteRule ^league/([^/]+)/matches/?$ index.php?page_id=1074&league=$1 [L]
Although, if you are expecting digits only (as in your example) then you should be matching digits, not anything. So, the following is perhaps "more" correct:
RewriteRule ^league/(\d+)/matches/$ index.php?page_id=1074&league=$1 [L]
I have this .htaccess RewriteRules, that doesn't work.
RewriteRule ^(.+)\/(.+)\/$ /index.php?pg=$1&act=$2
What this code should do, is transofrm /somthing/other/ into /index.php?pg=somthing&act=other.
Making some test, I discovered that also the pg var is not passed.
I have another line like this, RewriteRule ^(.+)\/$ /index.php?pg=$1 an it work! So, I don't know why the first one didn't work!!
If you don't need to use any other characters than a-z and 0-9 I recommend you to use this:
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9-]+)/([a-z0-9-]+)$ /index.php?pg=$1&act=$2
It should work.
I know there are other questions that are similar to this.. but I'm really struggling with mod_rewrite syntax so I could use some help.
Basically, what I am trying to do is have the following redirect occur:
domain.com/1/ redirect to domain.com/?id=$1 (also should work for www.domain.com)
What I have so far (that isn't working):
RewriteEngine On
ReRewriteRule ^/([0-9])$ /?id=$1
A few issues.
First is terminology: if you want when a user types domain.com/1/ that the request is served by index.php?id=1, then you are rewriting /1/ to index.php?id=1, not the other way around as you said.
Second, simple typo: RewriteRule, not ReRewriteRule.
Second, [0-9] is the right way to match a number, but it'll only match a single digit. If you want to handle /13 then you should match one or more instances [0-9] by writing [0-9]+.
Third, the target of your rule should be the file you want to serve. / is not a file or an absolute URL, write out the index.php if that's what you mean.
Third, you say you want to handle /1/, but your rule says that the matched request must end in a number, not a slash. If you want to accept the slash whether it's there or not, put that in the rule.
RewriteRule ^/?([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?id=$1 [L]
Does that work?
You've three issues:
RewriteRule is misspelt as point out by Michael, you need to worry about the trailing slash, and you need to stop processing rules when you've found the match:
RewriteRule ^/(\d+)/?$ /?id=$1 [L]
You have misspelled RewriteRule. Otherwise, I think your syntax looks correct.
RewriteEngine On
ReRewriteRule ^/([A-Za-z0-9]+)$ /?id=$1
--^^^---------
Actually, you should probably remove the /:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9$_.+!*'(),-]+)$ /?id=$1
------^^^---------
EDIT Added the +. Look at all the answers here. You need a composite of them., including the + and the [L] in addition to what I have here.
EDIT2 Also edited to include alpha characters in the id.
EDIT3 Added special characters to regex. These should be valid in a URL, but it's unusual to find them there.
I have a problem that I cannot wrap my head around.
I'm using Apache and PHP
I need to get:
http://localhost.com/cat_ap.php?nid=5964
from
http://localhost.com/cat_ap~nid~5964.htm
How do I go about changing that around? I have done more simple mod rewrites but this is slightly more complicated. Can anyone give me a leg up or point me in the right direction
RewriteRule ^/cat_ap~nid~(.*)\.htm$ /cat_ap?nid=$1 [R]
The [R] at the end is optional. If you omit it, Apache won't redirect your users (it will still serve the correct page).
If the nid part is also a variable, you can try this:
RewriteRule ^/cat_ap~([^~]+)~(.*)\.htm$ /cat_ap?$1=$2 [R]
EDIT: As Ben Blank said in his comment, you might want to restrict the set of valid URLs. For example, you might want to make sure a nid exists, and that it's numerical:
RewriteRule ^/cat_ap~nid~([0-9]+)\.htm$ /cat_ap?nid=$1
or if the nid part is a variable, that it only consists of alphabetical characters:
RewriteRule ^/cat_ap~([A-Za-z]+)~([0-9]+)\.htm$ /cat_ap?$1=$2
Assuming the variable parts here are the "nid" and the 5964, you can do:
RewriteRule ^/cat_ap~(.+)~(.+).htm$ ^/cat_ap?$1=$2
The first "(.+)" matches "nid" and the second matches "5964".
If you want everything arbitrary:
RewriteRule ^/(\w+)~(\w+)~(\w+)\.htm$ $1?$2=$3 [L]
Where \w is equal to [A-Za-z0-9_]. And if you want to use this rule in a .htaccess file, remove the leading / from the pattern.