I currently have css and javascript file calls (amongst other things) like the following:
href="/css/default.css"
src="/js/ui_control.js"
putting the preceding / in to make the files relative to the root.
This works great when my page is in the root of the domain.
However, I'm currently in the middle of transferring my site to a new hosting provider and as such have a temporary URL which is: HOST-IP/~username
As such, all file calls are trying to be called from HOST-IP/css/default.css etc instead of within the ~username sub-folder.
Of course I can wait until the domain name servers propagate but that's beside the point.
How would I go about writing a rule in the .htaccess file that would redirect all file calls that start with a /, from going to HOST-IP/FILE-CALL, and instead to go to HOST-IP/~USERNAME/FILE-CALL. ?
Any ideas?
I'd suggest changing the references in your HTML to the files to be relative, as this will work either in a sub folder or as the root of the domain.
This works great when my page is in the root of the domain. However, I'm currently in the middle of transferring my site to a new hosting provider and as such have a temporary URL which is: HOST-IP/~username
How would I go about writing a rule in the .htaccess file that would redirect all file calls that start with a /, from going to HOST-IP/FILE-CALL, and instead to go to HOST-IP/~USERNAME/FILE-CALL. ?
Unless you can put a .htaccess at HOST-IP/.htaccess on the new server, you can't do this with .htaccess. It sounds like you're on a shared host, so any approach that'd let you do this with .htaccess would allow you to hijack everyone else's site on the server.
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I set up a little Apache2 server on a Raspberry PI4. Now I’m looking for a way to hide the real directory path displayed in the URL. I read around that you should deal with a file called .htaccess but, I don’t even know what to actually look for on the internet. How can I display an arbitrary url in the address bar of the browser, Hiding file extension like .php and file path?
You make rewrite rules in an Apache config file, a .htaccess file for example. One way you could achieve this is to create re-write rules in a .htaccess file. Use to below link to test your rewrite rules, then once you have that part working implement on your live apache installation.
https://htaccess.madewithlove.be/
I am creating my whole application with .html extension, to play with the database I am using jQuery Ajax. I have created the project structure like WordPress, for each file I am having a folder and inside that folder I am having an index.html file.
In the above picture, I have created user/equipment/index.html, in this file all the equipment are being shown, now I want that if user clicks on an equipment then the URL should be like 'domain.com/user/equipment/equipment-title' and the file should be called user/equipment/details/index.html
I believe that this can be done with a .htaccess file.
Any solution for the problem would be much appreciated.
Well, you need to store the references in that index file the way you want them to be, request rewriting (wo which you refer as ".htaccess") cannot do that for you. Why you can do with request rewriting, so inside a distributed configuration file (".htaccess") is to the internally rewrite the incoming requests. For that you need a mapping from request URLs to your detail pages. If the mapping the simply the name as to be found in the "equipment" folder (this is unclear from your question), then you indeed can simply implement a rewriting rule.
This would be such an example:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?user/equipment/(.*)/?$ /equipment/$1 [END]
This will deliver the content of the file /equipment/equipment-title when the URL https://example.com/user/equipment/equipment-title gets requested and that file exists.
For this to work the rewriting module has to be enabled inside your http server and, if you want to use a distributed configuration file for this, the interpretation of such files also needs to be enabled for that location inside your http server. Usually the better alternative is to place such rules in the real http server's host configuration, though.
I am working with a custom website built in PHP running on Apache server. The client wants to move it to a new server. I moved everything including the .htaccess file, the homepage loads fine but all the other urls like site.com/register isn't working. I'm sure this is not handled by code in the old server because I renamed everything (including .htaccess) and it still works. If I create a file like test.php in the old server, I can access it like site.com/test. It doesn't even hit the index.php file. Also, not all the urls work like this, some are loading through files in other folders.
So my question is - what are the possible ways that Apache can let user access site.com/test without the .php extension. It must not be using .htaccess. Also, we should be able to add exceptions to this so that some urls can be loaded differently.
you can achieve same thing in hosts file if you are using Linux server. you need to define same rules in hosts configuration file.
Reason for Problem:
I'm working on a website and wanted to work on it without making edits to the live website. My hosting package allows for "infinite" domains. So instead of editing the live website I create a new domain, without purchasing the domain name and am trying to develop with this new domain.
Issue At Hand:
This issue is that the reference file paths don't work anymore and return 404 when trying to load the webpage. My original website directory structure looks like this
cgi-bin
config
public_html
->JSfiles
->CSSfiles
->PHPfiles
The new one is the same structure however when you open the "temporary web address" the URL looks like this
http://217.199.187.199/myTempAddress.com/"
instead of
http://myTempAddress.com/
so when my index.html file looks for /JSfiles/someJSfile.js its requesting
http://217.199.187.199/JSfiles/someJSfile.js
when it needs to be requesting
http://217.199.187.199/myTempAddress.com/JSfiles/someJSfile.js
Things I've Tried Unsuccessfully:
I would really like to fix this by redirecting with the .htaccess file in the root directory on the server. Ive tried using the following directives with no success.
Redirect /217.199.187.199/JSfiles/mustache.min.js http://217.199.187.199/myTempAddress.com/JSfiles/mustache.min.js
Redirect /JSfiles http://217.199.187.199/myTempAddress.com/JSfiles/
Redirect /JSfiles http://217.199.187.199/myTempAddress.com/
Redirect /JSfiles 217.199.187.199/myTempAddress.com/
Question:
How can I redirect the requests to the right location? I need all the the requests to be of the form http://217.199.187.199/myTempAddress.com/someDir/Somefile.ex
You need to read up a bit more on Virtual Hosting in particular name based virtual hosting.
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/vhosts/name-based.html
It sounds like your provider might support name based VHosts but what you're trying to do is not taking advantage of that. To do what you want ie have path that points to a different version of your site is best achieved using mod_rewrite. See this
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/rewrite/remapping.html
You need to make sure that your provided actually supports this.
I want to redirect all the queries from mobile.mydomain.net to web.mydomain.net, keeping the URL mobile.mydomain.net displayed in the address bar.
The directory structure in my service provider is the following:
/root
-/vrmd
--/homepages
---/myusername
----/mydomain
-----/subdomains
------/web
-------/public
------/mobile
In my service provider configuration the address www.mydomain.net points to /mydomain/, the address web.mydomain.net points to /mydomain/subdomains/web/public/ and the address mobile.mydomain.net points to /mydomain/subdomains/mobile/.
If I echo the value of the $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] constant in a simple PHP script (/mobile/index.php), it outputs /homepages/myusername/mydomain/subdomains/mobile.
I have some questions:
1) Where should I put the rewrite conditions and rules? In an .htaccess file under /mydomain or better under /mydomain/subdomains/mobile...?
2) Which conditions and rules should I write? For example, I want mobile.mydomain.net/blog to show only the contents of web.mydomain.net/blogs, but not the address.
Can anyone help me?
You can't silently redirect domains like that with the Apache rewrite engine - which is probably a good thing, since this could end up as a pretty nasty security breach if someone was able to upload a malicious .htaccess to your site somehow.
You would be better off implementing a front-facing controller in your mobile site that then included the content and libraries from your main website.