I have a rewrite rule that looks like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ store [L]
That's the only thing in the .htaccess file.
It's supposed to allow someone to go to http://www.site.com/ and according to the server, they're accessing http://www.site.com/store .
But it's redirecting the user. In other words, you see "/store" in the URL. How do I avoid this?
By the way, there's not a redirect going on within /store/index.php (the index script in the store directory. I know this because I put a die statement in there and the "/store" is in the URL when the script dies on that script.
For some reason, I changed it from
RewriteRule ^$ store [L]
to
RewriteRule ^$ /store/ [L]
and it started working
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Im trying to rewrite url from long to short but cant wrap my head around this.
My survey rewrite works wonderfully but after completing my survet php redirects to www.example.com/survey_thank_you.php?survey_id=1
but I would like to show url like www.example.com/thank_you
Im not even sure if this is possible.
Im new with .htaccess and i have tried almost everthing
.htaccess
Options +FollowSymLinks
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^survey_thank_you.php?survey_name=([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/?$ Thank_you [L,NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/?$ survey_form.php?survey_name=$1 [L,NC,QSA] #works like charm.
Any help or directions will be highly appreciated.
Solution:
Options +FollowSymLinks
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^survey_id=([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/?$
RewriteRule ^survey_thank_you\.php$ /%1/thank_you [R,L,QSD]
RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/thank_you$ survey_thank_you.php?survey_id=$1 [L,NC,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/?$ survey_form.php?survey_name=$1 [L,NC,QSA]
but after completing my survet php redirects to www.example.com/survey_thank_you.php?survey_id=1
You need to "correct" the URL that PHP is redirecting you to after the survey. If the desired URL is /thank_you (or /Thank_you?) then PHP should be redirecting to that URL.
You then use mod_rewrite in .htaccess to internally rewrite /thank_you back into the URL that your application understands. ie. /survey_thank_you.php?survey_id=1. However, therein lies another problem, where does the 1 (survey_id) come from in the query string? Presumably you don't want to hardcode this? So this would need to passed in the requested URL. eg. /1/thank_you or perhaps /thank_you/1?
However, is this really necessary? The resulting "thank you" page is not a page that should be indexed or a page that is normally navigated to by the user, so implementing a user-friendly URL here doesn't seem to be a worthwhile exercise?
RewriteRule ^survey_thank_you.php?survey_name=([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/?$ Thank_you [L,NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/?$ survey_form.php?survey_name=$1 [L,NC,QSA] #works like charm.
You are using a survey_name URL parameter (referencing an alphanumeric value) in your directives, but a survey_id ("numeric"?) URL parameter in your earlier example? So, which is it? Or are these rules unrelated?
You state that the second rule "works like charm", but how? What URL are you requesting? That would seem to rewrite /Thank_you to survey_form.php?survey_name=Thank_you - but that does not look correct?
As mentioned in comments, the RewriteRule pattern matches against the URL-path only. To match against the query string you need an additional condition that matches against the QUERY_STRING server variable. This would also need to be an external 3xx redirect, not an internal rewrite (in order to change the URL that the user sees). Therein lies another problem... if you don't change the URL that your PHP script is redirecting to then users will experience two redirects after submitting the form.
You also need to be careful to avoid a redirect loop, since you are internally rewriting the request in the opposite direction. You need to prevent the redirect being triggered after the request is rewritten. ie. Only redirect direct requests from the user should be redirected.
So, to answer your specific question, it should be rewritten something like this instead:
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^survey_name=[0-9a-zA-Z]+/?$
RewriteRule ^survey_thank_you\.php$ /Thank_you [QSD,R,L]
The check against the REDIRECT_STATUS environment variable ensures that only direct requests are processed, not internally rewritten requests by the later rewrite. REDIRECT_STATUS is empty on the initial request and set to the string 200 (as in 200 OK status) after the first successful rewrite.
The QSD flag (Apache 2.4) is necessary to discard the original query string from the redirect response.
So the above would redirect /survey_thank_you.php?survey_name=<something> to /Thank_you.
But this is losing the "survey_name" (or survey_id?), so should perhaps be more like the following, in order to preserve the "survey_name":
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^survey_name=([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/?$
RewriteRule ^survey_thank_you\.php$ /%1/Thank_you [QSD,R,L]
Where %1 is a backreference to the value of the survey_name URL parameter captured in the preceding CondPattern.
However, you would then need to modify your rewrite that turns this back into an understandable URL.
(But you should probably not be doing this in the first place without first changing the actual URLs in the application.)
Im trying to make an apache(2) RewriteRule which is using a QUERY_STRING to redirect a user to a friendly to read URL, but it is causing a redirect loop.
What I want to achieve is that when a user requests for the index.php?layout=751&artnr=# URL, that this request gets redirected to /another/page/#.
And in a way the Redirect works, but Apache keeps redirecting the user once it has reached the /another/page page
The RewriteRule looks like this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/index.php
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^layout=751&artnr=(.+)$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ another/page/%1? [R=301,L]
I've been searching alot of issues about this situation but none of them really have the answer that solves my problem, since those problems don't use a QUERY_STRING.
I have also tried to add the RewriteOptions maxredirects=1 option, but this doesn't solve the problem either.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Use THE_REQUEST variable instead of REQUEST_URI like this:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php\?layout=751&artnr=([^\s&]*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ another/page/%1? [R=301,L,NE]
THE_REQUEST variable represents original request received by Apache from your browser and it doesn't get overwritten after execution of some rewrite rules.
This assumes a RewriteBase has been set above this rule.
Clear your browser cache or use a new browser to test this change.
I would like to move all content from /downloads/assets/ folder to /downloads/ folder.
How do I add redirect for /downloads/assets/{anystring} to /downloads/{anystring}?
Now I manually add every redirect like this:
RewriteRule ^downloads/assets/views?$ /downloads/views [L]
But it's a dream job. Can we use variables instead?
Spend some time with the RewriteRule documentation, as this is a very rudimentary usage. You will need to capture everything after assets/ in (.*) and rewrite it as $1.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^downloads/assets/(.*) downloads/$1 [L]
The above will perform a silent internal rewrite. If you need to redirect the browser rather than silently rewrite, use [L,R=301] instead of [L].
I'm trying to force an old URL to go to the new url and my code seems to have no effect
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^index2\.php?page=shop\.product_details&\.tabs\.tpl&product=310&category=71&Itemid=2$
RewriteRule .* /hunting/back-packs/multi-packs/black-2.5-pack.html [R=301,L]
my old url is
www.mywebsite.com/index2.php?page=shop.product_details&.tabs.tpl&product=310&category=71&Itemid=2
and my new one is
www.mywebsite.com/hunting/back-packs/multi-packs/black-2.5-pack.html
My code does not break anything but does not work either
Thanks in advance
As I understand you want redirect (301 Permanent Redirect) so the URL will change in browser. This will work for this URL ONLY /index2.php?page=shop.product_details&.tabs.tpl&product=310&category=71&Itemid=2:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} =page=shop.product_details&.tabs.tpl&product=310&category=71&Itemid=2 [NC]
RewriteRule ^index2\.php$ http://www.mywebsite.com/hunting/back-packs/multi-packs/black-2.5-pack.html [R=301,L]
If you want internal redirect (rewrite), then use these lines:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} =page=shop.product_details&.tabs.tpl&product=310&category=71&Itemid=2 [NC]
RewriteRule ^index2\.php$ /hunting/back-packs/multi-packs/black-2.5-pack.html [L]
PLEASE NOTE:
You need to put these lines in a proper order (order of rules matters) otherwise (if you put it at the end) some another rule will rewrite it to a different URL.
This needs to be placed in .htaccess file in website root folder. For any other location you may need to modify it a bit.
From my .htaccess file:
RewriteRule ^showPAGE.php page [NC,R=301]
RewriteRule ^page showPAGE.php [NC,L]
I want users going to url domain.com/showPAGE.php to be redirected to domain.com/page .
When domain.com/page is being entered, I want it to show the content of the file showPAGE.php.
Is that possible to do?
The above results an infinite redirection loop.
Thanks
You're trying to do something that's very tricky. The problem is that, by design, the RedirectRule directive always triggers again the complete set of rules. You can only get out of the loop when you obtain a final URL that does not match any of the rules and that's the tricky part since you are reusing the showPAGE.php name.
My best attempt so far involves adding a fake hidden string:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/showPAGE\.php
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^internal
RewriteRule ^ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/page [NC,R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^page$ showPAGE.php?internal [NC,L]
It works but it's not pleasant. Definitively, it's easier to handle the redirection from with PHP or to simply pick another name.
The redirect from showPAGE.php to page needs to have [L] so that it will stop processing and redirect at once, rather than going on and applying other rules (which at once map it back to showPAGE.php). Try this:
RewriteRule ^showPAGE.php page [NC,R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^page showPAGE.php [NC,L]