I am having problems doing a redirect for some URLS, the ones from the old site that have a ? sign, won't redirect, every other URL will do.
example:
OLD:
/laser-alignment-resources/presentations.cfm?pres=diaphragm
NEW:
http://www.acquip.com/en/presentations/47-presentation-internal-laser-diaphragm-alignment
Won't work, I am sure I did something wrong but I am a n00b when it comes to .htaccess
all the URLs are in the same format, 14 in total:
OLD:/laser-alignment-resources/presentations.cfm?pres=gas
New:http://www.acquip.com/en/presentations/48-presentation-gas-turbine-thermal-alignment
OLD: /laser-alignment-resources/presentations.cfm?pres=train
NEW:http://www.acquip.com/en/presentations/49-presentation-complete-machine-train-alignment
any help will be appreciated.
Your question isn't clear on how you're trying to perform the redirects in your .htaccess file, so for next time I'd recommend that you post some samples of the code that you've tried so that we can help you more easily.
Based on your Apache tag and the problem you're describing, I'm going to assume that you were using mod_alias though, trying to do something like this:
Redirect 301 /laser-alignment-resources/presentations.cfm?pres=diaphragm http://www.acquip.com/en/presentations/47-presentation-internal-laser-diaphragm-alignment
This doesn't work though, as the Redirect directive seems to only examine the path portion of the request, and not the query string.
If you have mod_rewrite available, you can setup rewrite rules for the URLs that you need to redirect based on their query strings. This would look something like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} =pres=diaphragm
RewriteRule ^laser-alignment-resources/presentations\.cfm$ http://www.acquip.com/en/presentations/47-presentation-internal-laser-diaphragm-alignment [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} =pres=gas
RewriteRule ^laser-alignment-resources/presentations\.cfm$ http://www.acquip.com/en/presentations/48-presentation-gas-turbine-thermal-alignment [R=301,L]
...and so on. You can keep your currently working Redirect statements, as they should work fine side-by-side with these rules.
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I have a sneaking suspicion this is not possible, but figured I would ask regardless.
Is it at all possible to take a URL passed to a server in the form of:
http://domain.com/index.php?Action=Controller/Action&one=1&two=2&three=3
And rewrite it to appear as:
http://domain.com/Controller/Action/1/2/3
I am trying to clean up an borderline ancient project to support "Pretty URLs" and I would really like to make the URLs display a bit nicer. I know I could setup a 301 header redirect to the new URL, but I would prefer to avoid that overhead if at all possible.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
To get
http://domain.com/index.php?Action=Controller/Action&one=1&two=2&three=3
To appear as
http://domain.com/Controller/Action/1/2/3
You will need to use %{QUERY_STRING} to capture the query string data. Your .htaccess file will look like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^Action=Controller/Action&one=(\d+)&two=(\d+)&three=(\d+)
RewriteRule ^.+ /Controller/Action/%1/%2/%3 [R=301,L]
This will set up a permanent redirect to the new page. You can play around and test .htaccess rewrite rules here: htaccess.madewithlove.be
You can use this code in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ index.php?Action=$1/$2&one=$3&two=$4&three=$5 [L,QSA]
i have a problem with a htaccess files and i cannot figure it what is the problem.
The site has url rewriting for seo purposes in place so:
www.website.com/page/seo-friendly-url
is rewritten to
www.website.com/page.php?seo=seo-friendly-url
this is done with the following
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
Rewriterule ^page/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ page.php?seo=$1 [NC,L]
Now the problem is that i have to redirect some pages that are already indexed by the search engines to their new destination as they are no more available, for example:
www.website.com/page/seo-friendly-url
has to be redirected to
www.website.com/page/another-seo-friendly-url
I have tried something like this but it is not working
Rewriterule ^page/seo-friendly-url$ page/another-seo-friendly-url [R,NC,L]
also this one is not working
Rewriterule ^page/seo-friendly-url$ page.php?seo=another-seo-friendly-url [R,NC,L]
This seems pretty stupid but i can't find the problem :-/
Thank you for your help
Ema
Edit, for anubhava:
Hi,
no i have already set the rewriting for that.
What i'm trying to achieve is redirect an already rewrited link.
Let me explain myself better:
At the moment i have this url that is indexed by Google (or any other search engine) in the form of a beautified url (seo friendly). The url has this form:
www.website.com/page/seo-friendly-url
I have already set a rule in the htaccess so the previous link is rewritten and goes to a php page with a query string that is used to display some content.
The page and the query are in this form:
www.website.com/page.php?seo=seo-friendly-url
So basically i'm using the last part of the first url as a query parameter for the second url.
This is achieved (and works) through the following code here below:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
Rewriterule ^page/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ page.php?seo=$1 [NC,L]
So far so good.
Now what i need to achieve is to redirect this url, that has been deleted:
www.website.com/page/seo-friendly-url
to go to a new page
www.website.com/page/another-seo-friendly-url
Of course the same rules applies to this new url (www.website.com/page/another-seo-friendly-url -->is already rewrited to--> www.website.com/page.php?seo=another-seo-friendly-url)
What do i need to do to do the reewriting right?
Thanks
You need this extra rule before your existing rule:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+page\.php\?seo=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /page/%1? [R=301,L]
Rewriterule ^page/([\w-]+)$ page.php?seo=$1 [NC,L,QSA]
Just add redirects like this:
RewriteRule page/seo-friendly-url /page/new-url [R=301,L]
Important: this rules have to be above your existing rewrites because of the L flag in your rewrites
The [L] flag causes mod_rewrite to stop processing the rule set. In most contexts, this means that if the rule matches, no further rules will be processed.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/flags.html#flag_l
Edit
You want to redirect the old URL to avoid duplicate content (rewrite=internal, redirect=HTTP 301)
Maybe you are open for solutions thinking in another direction.
I would try to handle this in the application, no through rewrites. Right now the GET parameter seo is handled in page.php. Isn't it an idea to extend this in that way one product can be identified through multiple seo aliases? If one product has to be taken off a similar one will then own this alias (simply a change of one row in the database).
As I don't know what software you are using this may be not possible.
I am having some problems constructing a rewrite rule. The url I want to rewrite and ultimately redirect has a search query in it and looks like this:
http://www.mysite.com/pages.php?category=fruit
I would like to redirect it to:
http://www.mysite.com/pages.php/fruit
The original address does NOT exist any more. I have tried to construct a rewrite but this is not quite working how I want it to work
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} =category=fruit`
RewriteRule ^pages\.php$ pages.php/fruit/ [L,R=301]
goes to
http://www.mysite.com/home/linux123/m/mysite.com/user/htdocs/pages.php/fruit/
Any advice on fixing the construction of the rewrite rule would be great. Thanks in advance.
The way URL rewriting works is that it takes non-existant URL and rewrites it to point to the one that exists. The non-existant URL is more of presentation thing rather than a functional thing. You are doing it the other way round, the links on your web pages should be like http://www.mysite.com/pages.php/fruit and when the user clicks on them they should internally be forwarded to something like this http://www.mysite.com/pages.php?category=fruit. The rewrite rule has to be written accordingly which would be
^pages\.php/([A-Za-z])*$ pages.php?category=$1 [NC,L]
if the category is strictly alphabetical otherwise for alphanumeric
^pages\.php/([A-Za-z0-9])*$ pages.php?category=$1 [NC,L]
You can even test your regex rewrite rules using this online validator;
Regex Validator
Hope this helps..
I’ve written some code on my .htaccess file which allows the use of SEO friendly URLs instead of ugly query strings. The following code rewrites the SEO friendly version in the browser to the query string version on the server.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^seo/([^/]*)/$ /directory/script.php?size=large&colour=green&pattern=$1 [L]
So that the ugly
http://www.mysite.com/directory/script.php?size=large&colour=green&pattern=striped
Is now beautiful
http://www.mysite.com/directory/seo/striped/
Just to explain the code a bit; seo is there to add more keywords to the URL, /directory/ is the directory in which the .htaccess file is located, parameters size=large and colour=green never change, while pattern=$1 can be many different values.
The above code works perfectly. However, the problem is I am now stuck with two URLs that point to exactly the same content. To solve this, I would like to 301 redirect the old, ugly querystrings to the SEO friendly URLs. What I have tried so far does not work - and Google is not being particularly friendly today.
Can anybody offer working code to put in my .htaccess file that redirects ugly to new URL, while retaining the rewrite? Thanks!
This should do the trick:
RewriteEngine On
## Redirect to pretty urls
# The '%1' in the rewrite comes from the group in the previous RewriteCond
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !seo
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^size=large&colour=green&pattern=([a-zA-Z]*)$
RewriteRule (.*) /directory\/seo\/%1\/? [L,R=301]
## Rewrite to long url, additional parameter at the end will cause
## the internal redirect not to match the previous rule (would cause redirect loop)
RewriteRule ^directory\/seo\/([^/]*)/$ /directory/script.php? size=large&colour=green&pattern=$1&rewrite [L]
You can also match the size and colour if needed, by changing those to regex groups as well, and using the corresponding %N
Hope this helps.
Not tested, but this may work...
RewriteRule ^directory/script.php?size=large&colour=green&pattern=(.*)$ /seo/$1/? [R=301,NE,NC,L]
Here is my setup :
I have a website located at www.cabsh.org/drupal
I want to use mod_rewrite to do 2 things :
Redirect www.cabsh.org to http://www.cabsh.org/drupal/index.php (I got this one)
Rewrite /www.cabsh.org/drupal/index.php to www.cabsh.org/site/index.php
I cannot figure how to achieve the 2nd point. I'm using .htaccess files since I cannot use the main server configuration. Can anyone help me getting this to work?
Thanks!
From what I get from your comment, you just want something like this:
RewriteEngine on
# Prevent a request directly to the /drupal folder
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\s/drupal/
RewriteRule ^drupal/(.*)$ /site/$1 [R=301,L]
# Change a request for /site/(anything) to /drupal/(anything)
RewriteRule ^site/(.*)$ /drupal/$1
Be careful though, since Drupal (being in the Drupal folder) might generate links that point to /drupal instead of /site, which is seemingly not what you want.