Directory-level configuration file found mostly on Apache web servers
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htaccess 301 redirect help needed(removing GET parameters)
Due to some issues in my site many pages are visible as duplicate using : www.example.com/page.html?task=view but it's content is exactly same as www.example.com/page.html.
One way is to use http 301 ...
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Redirecting subdomain to root index.php
I am new to this. Here is the situation and I'm wondering if someone can suggest the best solution to it:
I have a domain "www.mydomain.com" where I have a Magento website running, we are in ...
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302 Redirect causes garbage at end of Wordpress link in Facebook
When I try to link my Wordpress blog to Facebook, the url doesn't resolve properly. There's garbage appended at the end and Facebook is not able to retrieve information from the site. Happens in ...
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How to 301 redirect from old query string urls to CakePHP Canonical urls?
I currently have a .htaccess file that looks like this:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^action=view&item=([0-9]+)$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /index.php?url=item/%1 [R=301]
RewriteCond ...
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SEO - which URL's are the best?
I'm using .htaccess with RewriteRule to create SEO-friendly URL's. However, I have a few questions about this:
First of all, I noticed many websites end their URL's with .html (or another ...
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How do I block US users from my website without interfering with SEO?
My website uses Apache 2.2.14 (which forwards all requests to Tomcat underneath).
I need to block all US users from accessing the website (and potentially users from other countries). But importantly ...
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Can the .htaccess file slow down a website to a crawl? If so, are there better ways to solve these problems with different rewrite rules and such?
here is my htaccess file......
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/billing/FAQ_billing\.html$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/billing/getintouch\.html$
RewriteRule ...
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Installing a PHP framework to a host without public_html or www folders (ftp is DocumentRoot)
I've developed a PHP framework that operates with the directory structure of
/
/classes/
/templates/
/.../
/www/ (public_html)
But I've come across a host that only allows ftp to the ...
3
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2answers
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Not able to stop hotlink
I am using following htaccess code to stop hot linking my image files
Options +FollowSymlinks
Options +SymlinksIfOwnerMatch
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ...
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SEO Joomla URL to WordPress URL's
I am trying to migrate from Joomla 1.5 SEF URL's to WordPress SEF URL's.
The old links use this formatting: /site/sectionname/categoryname/id-titlename.html
I want to migrate it to ...
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How do I normalise a URL from a folder to a subdomain?
I have a mybb forum hosted at a folder inside my site, which can also be accessed via a subdomain.
I would like to configure it so that if someone would enter the folder it would automatically be ...
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301 redirects… www. > http … the entire sitemap
I submitted a duplicate sitemap some time back to incorporate the www. addresses when I saw my site was not directing there when I typed it directly in the address bar. As I have edited my site and ...
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URL hex characters in .htaccess
There is an old page with a space in the filename, and this is no longer found on the website. So I need to redirect this page to another page using a 301 redirect in .htaccess.
If I place the ...
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Disallow all user agents except one using .htaccess?
I've been struggling to get this .htaccess working. The aim is to disallow all user agents besides my app. The app sends a GET request with a user agent of lets say 'AcmeUpdater'.
Whenever I try to ...
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Block images on Russian domain .ru via htaccess?
I have a WordPress website which accepts anonymous comments and images. We are receiving spam in the form of Russian porn, with images hotlinked from websites on the Russian domain .ru
As we are ...
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Can I allow access to a HTML page only if the user comes from a specific site with .htaccess?
A website with two HTML pages, A and B.
Both can be accessed by typing the URL, of course.
However, can I disallow any access to page B, and only allow it if the user is coming from page A? As in, a ...
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prevent hotlinking of off-site content?
I have a www.example.com site where I serve all static content (e.g. http.//www.example.com/image.jpg) off a CDN with URLs like http://static.example.com/image.jpg
An Apache 2 .htaccess rule ...
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542 views
How to redirect specific url to 404 in htaccess?
I want to redirect only one specific URl (ex. mypage.com/1234/page/) to error page 404.
How to achieve it in htaccess?
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How can I redirect all files in a directory that doesn't conform to a certain filename structure?
I have a website where a previous developer had updated several webpages. The issue is that the developer had made each new webpage with new filenames, and deleted the old filenames. I've worked with ...
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Create friendly looking URL's with mod rewrite
I want to make the pages on my site more search engine friendly by turning the query strings into meaningful looking page names.
For example I have a page that is this:
/search.php?c=18
I want it ...
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How to set up a 403 forbidden
I've recently set up my first commercial website for someone, with godaddy hosting.
I want to set up a 403 forbidden on several directories (and their contents) that are referenced to through php ...
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How to create .htaccess to block access to a subdirectory that hosts a separate domain
So I am pretty noob at with creating code in .htaccess, but I know it is what I need to accomplish a pretty simple task. So here is what I want to do.
I have a main domain, (me.com), and I am hosting ...
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Redirecting WWW.website.com to website.com
I ranked my site at Nibble.com and i was going through everything, checking for ways to improve my website, and I noticed that www.website.com was classed as a duplicate of website.com. How do I ...
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using .htaccess to redirect .asp to .php?
Ahoy all! I've been racking my brain with this one.
I basically just converted all of my pages from ASP code to PHP code. Kept the same filenames.
So, here is the htaccess code I have so far, but ...
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301 redirect for a page with a space in it
I have some pages from a client's old template-based site which have spaces in them. For example, one of the pages looks like this:
example.com/page.php?domain_name=example.com&viewpage=Gallery ...
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Wild card redirect in htaccess giving error this webpage has a redirect loop
In my website I changed the directory name "vehicles-cars" to "vehicles-cars-for-sale". When I tried to redirect using a wild card redirect from my old directory name to new directory name in my web ...
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Removing .html and index.html from URL
I'm having some problems trying to
Remove the .html extension from URLs
Removing 'index.html' from an URL
1) To remove the extension I have tried using this in my htaccess file.
RewriteEngine on
...
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1answer
461 views
Redirecting a .co domain to a .co.uk with masking
This is my first post here, so be gentle...
A friend wanted a website and paid for one to be set up. For reasons unknown to me he ended up with hissite.co rather than hissite.co.uk, which is what ...
3
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1answer
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JS and CSS caching issue: possibly .htaccess related
I've been using the HTML5 Boilerplate for some web projects for a while now and have noticed the following issue cropping up on some sites.
My CSS and JS files, when loaded by the browser, are being ...
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RewriteRule not working for certain URLs
There are a few domains pointing towards the same server, and of course I need them all redirect to only one of them.
Redirects work, but only for certain URLs.
What works: http://www.domain.com, ...
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Share on Facebook does not show thumbnail images
I have a PHP application which has a "Share on Facebook" button that,
On the development server shows the thumbnail images correctly and allows the user to select between them
On the live server, it ...
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Will googlebot index my index.php even with an htaccess redirect?
Using a redirect statement in my htaccess file, people who type the following into the address bar...
http://example.com/index.php
...are redirected to...
http://example.com/
I also have a ...
3
votes
1answer
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URL not found after rewrite
Using this .htaccess file:
Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule matches/(.*)-v-(.*) matches/matchevent.php?event=$1%20v%20$2 [R=301,L]
This url: ...
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1answer
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Force fresh content, not from the browser cache
I used the following code in the htaccess to put my site under maintenance and show the visitors maintenance.html.
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ...
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301 redirect to 404 page?
Currently i'm migrating www. prefix from my urls and use htaccess to do the job.
Since we have new software and cleaned database some of the old urls doesnt exists anymore.
Therefore some requests ...
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How do sites avoid SEO issues and legalities with subdomain unique ids?
I was looking through a few websites recently and noticed a trend I'm not sure I understand. Sites are creating unique referral URLs for customers in the form of: http://customname.site.com
(If ...
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Subdomain In Addon Domain Is Not Working
I added a new addon domain to my cPanel hosting. With the new added addon domain, I try to make some subdomain of it. But, the subdomain is not working like subfolder does.
This is my situation:
...
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1answer
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Proper caching method with .htaccess [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
.htaccess and browser caching
There are a lot of snippets that enable caching on a website and I don't know which one should I use. The most popular is something like ...
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RewriteRule working local but not on remote server
I have a .htaccess file with one simple RewriteRule:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)$ ?site=$1
I want to have an url like http://www.example.com/imprint and forward it to ...
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votes
1answer
461 views
Rewrite img and link paths with htaccess and serve the file from rewritten path?
I have a static mockup page, which I want to "customize" by switching a variable used in image-src and link-href attributes.
Paths will look like this:
<img src="/some/where/VARIABLE/img/1.jpg" ...
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votes
1answer
585 views
Will adding “www.” to my domain setting in Google Analytics impact already collected data?
I have a profile in Google Analytics (GA) that has been collecting data for a year. The domain setting in GA is "http://example.com". The site, however, will redirect any non-www request, to ...
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votes
1answer
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How do I create a .htaccess file that would make my website work like adfly.
I need, but dont know how to make, an htaccess file that will send user, when looking for the home page for example, to index.php but not when look for a url like /7fg4/. Adfly, to the best of my ...
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Redirecting from a dynamic URL to a prettier/simple URL?
I am trying to redirect a page via my .htaccess, but it does not seem to be working.
Old page:
/dyn/?q=customer%20reference&f=1,1,1,1,1,1&c=10,10,10,10,10,10&s=1,1,1,1,1,1,1&st=1
New ...
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Looking for a step by step guide to URL re-writing with mod_rewrite and other methods
I'm looking for step by step resource about how to rewrite URLs and have a few specific questions.
I've read the documentation on mod_rewrite in Apache, but I still find myself a little lost.
If ...
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How do I redirect an English language URL to an Arabic language URL?
I have a link that's currently formatted like this:
http://site.com/news/view/1.html
I want to it redirect it to:
http://site.com/خبر/عنوان-الخبر
where خبر is equal to news and
عنوان-الخبر is ...
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Can I enable GZIP on Godaddy?
One of my sites lives on GoDaddy's bottom-of-the-line cheap hosting, I have the correct code in my .htaccess file, but it's not compressing because mod_deflate is not loaded.
How do I enable that?
...
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Using .htaccess for proper indexing/SEO of timthumb images
I don't know a whole lot about the intricacies of SEO so I was wondering if someone here could provide some insight to this problem.
When you use the php script timthumb on a website, it means images ...
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In Joomla In htaccess REQUEST_URI is always returning index.php instead of SEF URL
I have installed joomsef version 3.9.9 with the Joomla 1.5.25. Now I want to set https for some of the section of my site(e.g URI starts with /events/) while wanting rest of all urls on http.I am ...
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Password protect an alias virtual directory
I have a main domain being hosted through CPanel. I also have a sub-domain that I would like to appear as a path under the main domain instead of as a sub-domain. So I have:
http://example.com/ ...
