I use the following .htaccess code to make my URLs cleaner:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [L]
It basically check if the requested URL points to a file or a directory and if it doesn't, it formats it in a particular way.
The problem is that my production server seems to ignore file extensions when it checks if the requested URL points to a file. For example, it would consider the URL /contact pointing to a file named contact.jpg if a file with that name existed on the root of the server.
What causes Apache to behave like that and what can I do to control it - make it strict about file extensions?
I believe it's because of MultiViews option.
Try Options -MultiViews in the .htaccess
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I'm trying to remove: "site.php" from my url:s, which look like
"example.com/custom-foldername/site.php", so the url:s would look like "example.com/custom-foldername"
Currently it's not working at all. Basically my site just doesn't change the url. I know that the .htaccess file is being read, because if i write junk code in it, it gives error 500.
Here is my current .htaccess code
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
Options -Indexes
RewriteRule ^site\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /site.php [L]
</IfModule>
The code you posted is a front-controller pattern - it rewrites every request for non-existent files to /site.php in the document root (not /custom-foldername/site.php).
And nor will a RewriteRule pattern like ^site\.php$ match a request like /custom-foldername if the .htaccess file is in the document root.
I'm trying to remove site.php from my URLs...
From all your URLs? Is site.php present in all your URLs? So, site.php is your front-controller?
If site.php really is your front-controller then try something like the following instead:
Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /custom-foldername
RewriteRule site\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^ site.php [L]
This rewrites everything that doesn't map to a physical file or directory to /custom-foldername/site.php.
UPDATE: I solved this my myself while ago, but forgot to update
So, i found the solution and here's my current .htaccess file, if someone is ever having the same problem
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
Options -Indexes
DirectoryIndex site.php site.html
When user "asks" for folder directory (example.com/cats) apache looks for "site.php or site.html" files inside it. (example.com/cats/site.php) If it finds either on of them it displays it to the user as (example.com/cats). If either file isn't found it gives normal "404 not found error"
I have a static website - a bunch of static html pages. I am trying to remove .html part from the URL of my webpages. I have used an .htaccess file with the following code to do that:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html
However, I am getting a 404 error. For example:
The requested URL /home/username/public_html/contact.html was not found on this server.
Ideally, it should redirect to /~username/contact.html.
Addition information
When I used "Options -MultiViews" line above the code it is giving the following error:
500 Internal Server Error: The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Apache/2.2.15 (Red Hat) server is used here.
Why I am facing this problem? Is root is automatically getting changed from public_html/ folder?
EDIT:
Directory Structure:
Username
.gnome2 (there are empty folders inside it)
.mozilla (there are empty folders inside it)
public_html (I have put css, fonts, js, etc folders and .htaccess, contact.html, index.html, etc files here.)
.bash_logout
.bash_profile
.bashrc
Username folder is under universitynameuniverse folder (whose other folders I cannot see).
Try this code in your .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]
That’s it! You can now link pages inside the HTML document without needing to add the extension of the page.
Try this:
Options +FollowSymLinks
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
RewriteRule !.*\.html$ %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
## Results
# ~user/contact => ~user/contact.html (only if file exists)
It only works if the ~user/ directory actually exists on the filesystem.
If you need an external redirect instead, append an R flag to the RewriteRule directive.
The problem with your rewrite rule is that it's appending a .html suffix to the whole %{REQUEST_URI} variable which will probably result in a 404.
Update
Re-reading your question I noted that you want to map the ~user part to somewhere out of the apache webroot. In this case, try this:
Options +FollowSymLinks
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/~(.+)/(.+)$
RewriteCond /home/%1/public_html/%2.html -f
RewriteRule . /home/%1/public_html/%2.html [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
## Results
# ~user/contact => /home/user/public_html/contact.html (only if file exists)
What I'm trying to do is to enable a 'dry' version of url rewriting in Apache only to check if it is working and actually do not rewrite anything yet.
The simplest .htaccess that I came up with is:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
But this still doesn't work. All files, all paths I'm trying to request, no matter if they exist or not return 403 Forbidden
What I need is any example htaccess that has redirection inside that must work, that is allow access to all existing files and folders and do it's job only when the file requested doesn't exit.
The problem was that I've not added these lines:
Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
or
Options +FollowSymlinks
I have to admit, creating mod-rewrite rules still confuses me! So, I'm after some help please...
I've taken on a site built in Laravel, but now need to add an existing forum into the domain. The forum is Ikonboard, which on the live site lives in the cgi_bin folder. When I copy this to the new site, I can't get access because the htaccess is rewriting ALL URL's to the public folder (where Laravel want's it).
So, how can I make any requests to the cgi_bin folder work as well as keeping the rewrite to public for Laravel?
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
# Rewrite to 'public' folder
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mydomain.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !public/
RewriteRule (.*) public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
Thanks
Simple:
RewriteCond {%REQUEST_URI} !^/cgi_bin
Add this above your other REQUEST_URI rule. If cgi_bin is in the URI, then it will stop rewriting.
Edit - Based on your response with regards to the directory structure, it seems to be wrong. Your www directory is your public directory. So, your structure should look like this:
/www/ (your public folder)
bundles/ (etc...)
cgi_bin/
.htaccess
index.php
/laravel/
(etc...)
Change your directory structure to look like that, and make sure that your .htaccess file has the following in it:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymlinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>
If you call a CGI document, it should pass through because %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f is set above. All assets should pass through as well. You do not need to specify whether or not the cgi_bin folder is being requested. If it does not work, then add the line as I had originally in this answer (except, you would put the rule just under RewriteEngine On.
So if the user types mydomain.com/dashboard, the document the server actually sends them is /launch.php?i=/dashboard.
The one caveat is that I would like to leave requests for
/flags
/people
/posters
/css
/icons
/images
/libraries
/patterns
alone, and they should request the actual folder.
How would I create such a mod_rewrite?
This is the .htaccess file for the CakePHP Framework.
Please replace the index.php and ?url= to fit your needs.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
The "!-d" tells Apache to follow existing folders and "!-f" to follow existing files.
Everything else is channelled through index.php
As suggested in a comment, you have to be aware that if it's not working it could be because mod_rewrite is not enabled and you'll not get an error stating that fact, you'll probably only have a HTTP 404.