i'm hosting a website through a hosting company [1] on a linux/apache server. until now i serve the different content through one script with parameters. an example url is
www.mydomain.com/pages.php?date=1-10-2008
now i want to change the scheme the url is composed of to something which looks completely like a path url. eg.:
www.mydomain.com/pages/date/2008/20/1
for this i need to switch off the normal mapping of url paths to directory folders in apache: all requests to all paths should go to one central script (pages.php), which than analyzes the path component of the url.
how do i tweak apache for this? i hope some .htaccess rules could the trick.
[1] btw, the hosting company is godaddy.com.
Something like:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . pages.php
should rewrite every request for a file or directory that doesn't exist to pages.php. This will allow you to keep static files (images, stylesheets, etc) in the same document root.
(Shamelessly stolen from WordPress :) )
You are looking for mod_rewrite. Example htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^pages/([^/]*)/(.*)$ pages.php?$1=$2
Rather than parse the url in your script, you should be able to handle the specific example above with Apache's ModRewrite module.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html
You can use these in the .htaccess file, assuming your host allows this.
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I've developed a website using Yii framework and now I need to move it to hostgator cheap hosting for a single site. It looks like it expects that the website must be placed into the root folder but my website has a www folder with index.php and resource files like js,css,images,etc. Also this folder contains a file htaccess with following content:
RewriteEngine on
# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php
But I suppose I have to add another htaccess into the root folder so all requests will redirect to the www folder. (I did it and tried different combinations of the rewrite rules but they didn't work properly). I'm guessing I should remove htaccess from the www folder and leave only one in the root folder.
Sorry guys, I always have problems with htaccess even after reading documentation.
Thanks in advance.
I think that you can configure your domain as an addon domain with the document root set in www as you prefer.
Of course I am presuming that you have cPanel on Hostgator.
I have a FuelPHP application that I'm trying to setup to extend an existing website (we'll call it example.com). The FuelPHP installation is in a directory called listings within the DocumentRoot. However, the main index.php file for the application is located in a subdirectory of listings called public, so the actual path to the index.php file is <DocumentRoot>/listings/public/index.php. The static assets (JavaScript, CSS and images) for the application are in subdirectories of the public directory as well.
I want people to be able to access the application at /properties. Also, there will be requests made for other pages (such as /properties/admin) as well as requests for static assets (such as /properties/assets/css/style.css).
I've got this thing about 90% working. The .htaccess file in the DocumentRoot looks like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^properties/?(.*)$ /listings/public/index.php/$1 [L]
Inside the public directory, there is another .htaccess file that looks like this:
Options +FollowSymLinks -Indexes
RewriteEngine on
# Send request via index.php (not if its a real file or folder)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
I set the $base_url in the FuelPHP config to http://example.com/properties/. All of the URLs for the static assets are appearing the way I would expect them to, for example, the path to my bootstrap.css file appears as http://example.com/properties/assets/css/bootstrap.css. This is what I expect. However, instead of Apache grabbing the static asset, it's running the request though the FuelPHP index.php file, resulting in a 404.
I think I need to add a RewriteCond to the .htaccess file that is in the DocumentRoot, but I'm not exactly sure if that's correct, or what that RewriteCond would look like.
How do I adjust my .htaccess file(s) so that I'm able to access static assets such as http://indyapm.com/properties/assets/css/bootstrap.css which is actually located at <DocumentRoot>/listings/public/assets/css/bootstrap.css?
I believe what you want is a RewriteBase
RewriteEngine On # after this
RewriteBase /properties/ # insert this
That, having your main config set up with the correct base url should do the trick.
I am working on a website that has a URL such as the following:
http://www.domain.com/directory/home.php
I was wondering if it is possible to set up the site so users can access it like so:
http://www.domain.com/directory/
And the browser will automatically find and render the home.php file?
Many thanks in advance!
Assuming you are using Apache, from the docs:
The DirectoryIndex directive sets the list of resources to look for,
when the client requests an index of the directory by specifying a /
at the end of the directory name. Local-url is the (%-encoded) URL of
a document on the server relative to the requested directory; it is
usually the name of a file in the directory. Several URLs may be
given, in which case the server will return the first one that it
finds. If none of the resources exist and the Indexes option is set,
the server will generate its own listing of the directory.
Add this to the httpd.conf file :
DirectoryIndex home.php
Then to remove the .php from the URLs, add this to the .htaccess file in the root folder.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule (.*) $1.php [L]
I want to redirect all incoming requests to a subdirectory, but can't figure out how. I looked here but that did not work for me.
So, if someone visits www.example.com/test, I want it to redirect to: www.example.com/test/subdirectory, but the URL still needs to be www.example.com/test
I also need the parameters to work, for example www.example.com/test/index.php?action=home must redirect to www.example.com/test/subdirectory/index.php?action=home.
I hope someone can help me!
So in fact what you ask for is not a redirect.
A redirect means the web server will send a new url containing the subdirectory, the browser will then request this new url, and show it in the url bar of the browser.
What you want is to tranparently map an directory structure to a real directory structure which differs. This is what Apache can do easily with the Alias instruction. Mod-rewrite could also do that, with RewriteRules not containing the [R] tag, this would imply an internal rewrite, not a redirect HTTP response. A [QSA] tag would also tell mod-rewrite to keep the current query string parameters on the rewritten url. But Mod-rewrite is not always simple to understand, and your problem is simple enough for a basic Alias, which is almost always included in Apache (more often than mod-rewrite).
this should be ok:
Alias /test /test/subdirectory
Try adding the following to the .htaccess file in the root directory of your site.
Query string parameters are passed through by default.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
#if not an existing file or directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# rewrite to subdirectory
RewriteRule ^(.*)(/[^/]+)?$ /$1/subdirectory/$2 [L,QSA]
I've never had a problem with cakePHP before, but something's odd about this server and is causing the redirects in the .htaccess files to behave oddly.
CakePHP uses mod_rewrite in .htaccess files to redirect requests to its own webroot folder. The problem is that the redirects are listing the wrong path and causing a 404 error. My CakePHP application, which is stored in the listings directory, has a .htaccess file as follows:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>
(*note that the R=301 causes an external redirect so we can see what is going on from our end. It should really omit this flag and do the redirect internally, transparent to end-users)
This is supposed to redirect any request from http://hostname.com/~username/listings/ to http://hostname.com/~username/listings/app/webroot/
However, rather than simply adding “app/webroot/” to the end as it is supposed to, it is adding the full server path ( /home/username/public_html/listings/app/webroot/ ) resulting in the final URL http://hostname.com/home/username/public_html/listings/app/webroot/ which is obviously incorrect and triggers a 404 error.
The hosting is on a shared hosting account, so that limits what I can do with the settings. I've never seen this happen before, and I'm thinking it's something wrong from the hosting side of things, but if anyone has some helpful suggestions then I can put them to the hosting company as well.
The solution to your question can be found towards the bottom of this page in the cakephp book:
For many hosting services (GoDaddy, 1and1), your web server is actually being served from a user directory that already uses mod_rewrite. If you are installing CakePHP into a user directory (http://example.com/~username/cakephp/), or any other URL structure that already utilizes mod_rewrite, you'll need to add RewriteBase statements to the .htaccess files CakePHP uses (/.htaccess, /app/.htaccess, /app/webroot/.htaccess).
I've deployed CakePHP from my profile's public_html folder as well. I had to change 3 the same .htaccess files mentioned above. Just add RewriteBase /~username/ to the .htaccess files just after RewriteEngine on!
Try removing .htaccess from main file... It worked for me
It was quite simple (using uolhost shared host):
Edit both .htaccess files:
/webroot/.htaccess
/.htaccess
Add the following line:
RewriteBase /
Here is the whole /webroot/.htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]