I've been fighting with mod-rewrite for a while.
Basically, I have a website that I'm moving to a difference namespace/directory.
What I'd like to do is change urls that look like this:
http://mydomain.com/index.php?a=xxxxxxxxxx
These urls will always have "index.php?a=". I have a different/new site that also has an index.php file, so it's important that I do a rewrite only when a= is in the URL.
The new url should be like
http://mydomain.com/ns1/index.php?a=xxxxxxxxxxx
Seems pretty simple, but i can't seem to get mod_rewrite to do it for me, here's what I have:
# rewrite old urls to new namespace
RewriteRule ^/index.php\?a=(.*)$ /gc1/index.php\?x=1&a=$1 [R=301,L]
See anything wrong?
You can use this rule to add a prefix to the path:
RewriteRule !^ns1/ /ns1%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
This rule prefixes the URI path with /ns1 if the path is not already starting with it.
I believe that RewriteRule is only valid for paths, (I.e. it won't take into account any query parameters that you add.)
You are probably better off doing this in the PHP file itself.
// On old site
if($_GET['a']=="xxxxxxx"){
header("Location: /ns1/index.php?a=".$_GET['a']);
die();
}
Thanks to both of you.
I was able to do it:
# rewrite old urls to new ns1 namespace
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^a=.*$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/ns1/.*$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ns1$1 [R=301,L]
Related
I'm trying to build some redirections with my .htaccess file to deal with some old forum url. I want the redirections to be made according to the PHP parameters (the topic ID).
For instance, something like
RewriteEngine On
RedirectPermanent /forum/viewtopic.php?t=123 /page1.html
RedirectPermanent /forum/viewtopic.php?t=345 /page7.html
RedirectPermanent /forum/viewtopic.php?t=89 /page3.html
The old and new URL are not related to each other (no PHP parameter has to be kept or something). I want to decide manually in my .htaccess file what to do for each topic ID.
But I can't manage to do that so easily. I tried many things, but nothing works.
Is this possible ? Any idea ?
Thanks a lot !
Edit : additional question : I want to add a global redirection of all the folder /forum to the root of the site ("/"). I guess I can place it after the others, so if no other rule is trigered, this one will be trigered.
I'm trying some things like
RewriteRule ^forum /? [L,R=301]
But everything I have tried so far redirects me to the "page1.html" (my first rule). Any idea why ? Thanks a lot !
You can't match against the query string using mod_alias's Redirect, RedirectMatch, etc. You need to use mod_rewrite and match against the %{QUERY_STRING} variable:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^t=123$
RewriteRule ^forum/viewtopic\.php$ /page1.html? [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^t=345$
RewriteRule ^forum/viewtopic\.php$ /page7.html? [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^t=89$
RewriteRule ^forum/viewtopic\.php$ /page3.html? [L,R=301]
NOte that RewriteEngine is a mod_rewrite directive, not mod_alias. So it has no affect at all on the RedirectPermanent directives.
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]
Launching a new website for a new client. Their old site has about 50 products and unfortunately, the old product names do not match up to the new URL pattern
Old URL Examples:
example.com/products.aspx?category=Foo&product=SuperLongNoBreakProductNameIDDescription
example.com/products.aspx?category=Foo&product=ProductNameDescription&var1=1293.123
example.com/products.aspx?category=Bar&product=ProductCategoryProdNameRandomNumbers
(The old URL's are sometimes hitting 150+ characters.)
New URL's:
example.com/products/category/actual-product-name
There's no set, recognizable pattern to go from the old product name to the new one. There is for the category.
I've tried simple mod_alias Redirects, but understand that I need a RewriteRule instead. But I'm having problems. All I need is a 1-to-1 redirect for each of these 50 URL's. I thought I could do something like:
RewriteRule ^/products.aspx?category=Foo&product=ProductName
/products/category/new-product-name/ [R=301,NC]
But that isn't working. I know this should be simple, but I am stuck. Any ideas?
Use the pattern below for the rest of your redirect urls. Note that you escape special characters e.g. ? , . and space by adding a \ in front of them
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /products\.aspx\?category=Foo&product=SuperLongNoBreakProductNameIDDescription [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /products/category/new-product-name/ [R=301,NC]
Have a look at the RewriteMap directive of mod_rewrite.
You can specify in a text file something like:
products.aspx?category=Foo&product=SuperLongNoBreakProductNameIDDescription /products/category/new-product-name
And in your httpd.conf
RewriteMap productmap /path/to/map/file.txt
RewriteRule ^(.*) ${productmap:$1} [R=301,NC]
Tip: If it's a permanent redirect you want, make sure you set an appropriate Cache-Control and Expires header to instruct browsers to cache the 301.
You can try something like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^category=Foo&product=ProductName$
RewriteRule ^products\.aspx$ /products/category/new-product-name/? [R=301,L]
Notes:
In per-dir (.htaccess) context, the per-dir prefix is stripped, so you can't start the RewriteRule pattern with ^/.
You have to use RewriteCond to match against the query string.
As stated in another answer, a RewriteMap solution might be suited to this situation, if you have access to httpd.conf / the vhost definition for this site. I'm not sure how that works with query strings though.
For something like this, it might be a better solution to rewrite all of these URLs to a server side script, and use the script to do the HTTP redirect for each URL.
Hey folks, I've migrated a site from WordPress to a new CMS, and I want to preserve the old URLs via a redirect.
The WordPress permalink structure was like so:
/2011/04/01/name-of-post
I've preserved the post slugs, so all I need to do is get rid of the date-based paths and redirect to my new directory structure:
/articles/view/name-of-post
My attempts thus far have looked like this (in my .htaccess file):
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/(.+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^/[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/(.+)$ /articles/view/$1 [L]
No luck yet. I tried %{PATH_INFO} in there as well, no dice.
Any help from those more versed in Apache rewrite rules than would be much appreciated.
Something like this should do.
RedirectMatch permanent ^/20../../../(.*)$ /articles/view/$1
It can be handled in one simple RewriteRule like this:
RewriteRule ^[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/(.+)$ /articles/view/$1 [L]
I have this old survey link that is has been superseded by another link, so basically I want anyone trying to access the URL:
http://mywebsite.com/survey/view_survey.php?surveyID=1
To be redirected to:
http://mywebsite.com/survey/view_survey.php?surveyID=2
Can I do this in the Apache configuration or htaccess file?
I tried the following rule in the Redirect section of my httpd.conf file:
Redirect 301 /survey/view_survey.php?surveyID=1 http://mywebsite.com/survey/view_survey.php?surveyID=2
But it doesn't work. I am suspecting that the GET parameters are not used when processing the rule.
Is my only option to hack my code to redirect on a specific surveyID?
Following the suggestion of using the Rewrite rules, I tried the following in my .htaccess file:
RewriteRule ^survey/view_survey\.php\?surveyID=1525$ /survey/view_survey.php?sur
veyID=1607
But that doesn't work. I do have the rewrite engine up and running, because I have another rewrite rule currently running.
Try this in a .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|.*&)surveyID=1525(&.*|$)
RewriteRule ^survey/view_survey\.php$ /survey/view_survey.php?%1surveyID=1607%2 [L,R=301]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^surveyID=1525$
RewriteRule ^/survey/view_survey\.php /survey/view_survey.php?surveyID=1607 [R=301]
Check out the QSA portion of the mod_rewrite.
It does GET string manipulation.
There might be a possible duplicate of this question and it is solved if this solution doesnt work for you:
Apache Redirect 301 fails when using GET parameters, such as ?blah=