mod_rewrite is a URL rewriting module for the Apache web server. It is commonly used for so-called "pretty" URLs because of its ability to redirect on the server side (transparent to clients and their browsers), but also provides the power and flexibility to perform various request handling tasks ...
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dynamically rewrite URLs upon the user's selection - is it possible?
In my PHP based web application, there's a form that generates a URL according to the user's selection.
The form has 7 different fields, each one of them affects the final URL, none of them is ...
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Beginner's Apache mod_rewrite - use custom file for website root
Plain and simple - I want user to get main.php file instead of index.php, when he enters website. Such a straightforward task has caused me a lot of pain, and couple of hours googling. Following does ...
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Url rewrite subfolder to root and forbid accessing subfolder
I have drupal installed in a subfolder drupal, but I want to access pages as it is in root folder: http://www.example.com instead of http://www.example.com/drupal
I'm able to have this working, but ...
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Google Analytics when 404 handler is used as 'mod_rewrite'?
I'm consulting on a web site which in order to provide clean URL's uses the 404 handler to catch what would otherwise be a 404 and serve the correct content.
In case that's not clear the 404 handler ...
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Apache rewrite returns error 500
I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong with this .htaccess rewrite:
Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /test/site/
RewriteOptions MaxRedirects=10
RewriteCond ...
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Kohana with cherokee
How to setup kohana's index.php with cherokee webserver?
Should i add a rule to redirect all to index.php?
These settings don't work
Rule RegExp ^.*index.php.*$
Redirect ^(.*)$ => index.php$1
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Infinite redirect loop in cpanel-purchased script
I am installing a script (that I bought on cpanel) in the root directory of my web site.
When I try to install it, it gives me an error. I found that it starts an infinite URL redirect loop containing ...
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Need some help on tomcat URL mod_rewrite or mod_jk
I am trying to remove the context name from the URL of my server.
Current URL - http://www.domainname.com/MyApp/
What I need to make is to make it available at - www.domainname.com/
So it is only ...
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wrestling with some rewrites for Apache
I have upgraded my gallery2 to gallery3, and notice that some links no longer resolve correctly. Since the proper way is to redirect these with a 301, that is the way I'm going. The following series ...
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just another mod_rewrite question
from the url
xxx.yyy.site.com
just need to redirect to
xxx.site.com
Thanks for the help, sorry I have no regex/rewrite foo.
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Rewrite URL to a PHP script with parameters
I'm trying to create a service that you give it a URL like http://myhost.com/34.png and it will return the result of the script http://myhost.com/create_image.php?count=34.
I know this is possible ...
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Using mod_rewrite to rewrite URLs with question marks in them
This is probably a mind-numbingly simple question, but for some reason mod_rewrite always manages to completely befuddle me every time I interact with it.
A long time ago when I set up my blog and ...
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Link to pages on site without .html extension appearing in browser?
I've modified my .htaccess file to allow access to html files without having to include the extension on the end, for example:
www.mysite.com/document
directs to
www.mysite.com/document.html
...
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2answers
926 views
.htaccess rule not working without HTTP redirect [R]
I am using the following .htaccess with Wordpress to remove index.php from the visible URL. This works but forces an http redirect so the URL changes in the browser window. If I remove the [R] it no ...
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How can I point a subdomain at another server? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to point a domain to another subdomain?
Is it possible to set up a subdomain to render content of another server?
Let's say I wanted google.domain.com to render ...
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116 views
Switch to https
I'm looking to use an .htaccess file to use mod_rewrite to switch the protocol from http:// to https:// when someone hits my website.
For instance, once someone goes to:
http://www.mywebsite.com/
...
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htaccess 301 Redirect with URI
How can I write a .htaccess mod_rewrite rule to redirect all traffic to a specific subfolder to a different subdomain, but include all the trailing URI and url structure and in a SEO friendly way.
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291 views
How to use apache mod-rewrite to remove trailing semi-colon on cookie?
We have the following cookie set by a product:
Set-Cookie: SSOCookie=T7ngsCmzC2FEq5p2a7o%3D; path=/; domain=.demo.com;
We would like to use Apache to remove the trailing ; which doesn't match the ...
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466 views
.htaccess rules to rewrite URLs to front end page?
I am adding a new application to my site at example.com/app. I want views at that URL to always open myapp.php.
E.g.
example.com/app -> example.com/app/myapp.php and
example.com/app/ -> ...
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RewriteRules targeting a directory result in a gratuitous redirect
I have a standard CMS-like RewriteRule set up in my .htaccess:
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?slug=$1
Let's say I have a directory called "foo" in the root directory. For some reason, if you hit the ...
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354 views
Force www. on multi domain site and retain http or https
I am using CakePHP which already contains an .htaccess file that looks like:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) ...
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Capitals in URL subdirectory not changed by htaccess
Within my WordPress website I am redirecting sub directories to internal and external links. Now, when you place a CAPITAL letter in the sub dir it does not work anymore and the website does not show ...
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116 views
mod_rewrite and SEO friendliness
My website has an atypical structure and I'm not sure if this could create problems in the long run, specially for SEO positioning purposes.
I have a unique, large PHP script, and I use the Apache ...
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265 views
help redirecting IP address
Google has indexed the IP address of my site rather than the domain, so now I'm trying to set up a 301 redirect that will redirect the IP address and all subsequent pages to the domain.
I currently ...
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When using Mod_rewrite does google bot see the original url or the rewritten url?
If i use the bellow code in my .htacess file would google bot (or any other search spiders) see the example.tumblr.com url or would they see the same url as the user ie. example.co.uk/blog ?
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htaccess - “detect” url and redirect
Idea is:
if URL = "http:/localhost/site/"
else if URL = "http:/localhost/site"
redirect to
"http:/localhost/site/index.html"
Can this be done with .htaccess / Apache mod_rewrite and how?
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short and friendly URL for affiliate links
This is my first question here on Pro Webmaster... I'm really glad to be here!
I believe this question will have a simple answer but I'm starting with htaccess and I want to learn something about ...
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.htaccess rewrite www to non-www and remove .html
I need rewrite rules to redirect the following:
http://www. to http://
/file.html to /file
I've tried using a combination of these but each time it results in a redirect loop on one of the ...
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1answer
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Verify 2 cookies with mod_rewrite before serving images
I have the following mod_rewrite rule, which works fine in my Apache 2.x on CentOS 6 Linux machine, but is not complete:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !id
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ...
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573 views
Override .htaccess from parent directory
I have a local LAMP stack (without the MySQL. LAP stack? Anyways..) and I am using this as a development environment for a production website. The site is placed in a sub-directory of the Apache2 ...
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mod_rewrite prevent repeating backreference
I am trying to match a single reference in a URL to pass to a script, while retaining the rest as the path to the script. For example:
#/scripts/paramater/foo/bar.php should call
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Redirect all urls to a subfolder
I have several old, broken urls that looked like this:
http://www.easyjob.net/partners/whatever.html
I would like to redirect them all to http://www.easyjob.net/partners/general/
The following rule ...
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How to make mod_rewrite work transparently?
Following is the content of .htaccess file
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ...
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.htaccess mod_rewrite domain to subdomain
I need to redirect any domain to a sub-domain. I know this has got to be possible but for the life of me i can not figure it out. Any help is appreciated.
For example:
domain1.com
domain2.com
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Changing mod_rewrite “file exists” checks to not see directories as files
I have the following mod_rewrite rules set up:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php
This works fine, allowing me to ...
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Mod RewriteRule not working on all URL's
this is my .htaccess
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteRule ^(.*)wp-content/uploads/(.*) $1watermark.php?src=wp-content/uploads/$2
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
...
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2answers
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Apache mod_rewrite rule to convert URL of page, keeping parameters same
I sent out a link in an email that had a typo in the URL. I need to make a quick change for tracking purposes so that any incoming hits to the URL are instead parsed to another URL.
From the link ...
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mod_rewrite change . to -
I'm moving my site and the URL structure has changed because of the new CMS. The urls would be similar to http://www.example.com/my.products.htm on the new site we are changing the URLs to this ...
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How to block access to a sub-site with mod_rewrite?
Let's say I have the sites siteA.com and siteB.com. They are hosted such that siteB.com actually points to siteA.com/siteB.
How can I block someone from visiting siteA.com/siteB using mod_rewrite?
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2answers
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Help with Apache mod_rewrite rules
I want to change some legacy URL's like this:
/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=600
to this:
/news/story/600/
This is what I have tried:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond ...
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2answers
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Is it possible to mod_rewrite BASED on the existence of a file/directory and uniqueID?
My site currently forces all non www. pages to use www.
Ultimately, I am able to handle all unique subdomains and parse correctly but I am trying to achieve the following:
(ideally with ...
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1answer
575 views
.htaccess: Redirect Hotlink Flash --> Site with embed Flash
I have some PHP sites that embeds SWF files. These SWF files are now linked to by some other guys. And I don't want them to simply open the SWF, I want them to force being redirect to the page where ...
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2answers
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Apache mod_rewrite for multiple domains to SSL
I'm running a web service that will allow people to create their own "instances" of my application, running under their own domain. These people will create an A record to forward a subdomain of their ...
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Move a website to subdomain while preserving (rewriting) URLs
I'm considering to move the (Confluence) wiki content of www.site.com to the subdomain wiki.site.com to make room for a well-designed landing page (Wordpress) which should take the wiki's place on ...
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Can I keep domain directed with DNS as the URL showing to another hosted domain? [closed]
Can't find the answer to this. Have a hosted account with www.myhosteddomain.com with the www.maindomain.com directed by DNS to it. The www.maindomain.com is what I want displayed as the URL. It works ...
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Rewritten URLs stopped getting indexed a month ago
I'm working on a website for someone which sells their products on their web site. There is an item.php page which displays the item for sale. I switched all item pages/inks from dynamic URLs to ...
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Issue with Apache redirection [duplicate]
I want to redirect mysite.com or http://mysite.com or www.mysite.com or any other format given my user to http://www.mysite.com, I'm able to achieve this by rewriting following lines in my .htaccess ...
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URL rewrite with mod_rewrite
I have rewrite rule in parent directory which rewrites URL:
From example.com/index.php?id=test&cat=category
To example.com/index?test&cat=category
Here is my .htaccess file:
Options ...
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1answer
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Redirection transparent to Google and other SE [duplicate]
I am not experienced technical person, and still learning but will try to explain what I have done so far and what my query is.
I have a (hypothetical) domain az-studios.com
On that domain I have 3 ...
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How to allow a Subdirectory to work and stop redirecting?
I run Drupal on a webserver in the root www directory.
I have added another application in a www subdirectory (Piwik). When I try to navigate to the subdirectory app, I get this error message "The ...
