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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SEO on multilanguage website URL
I'm setting up a multilanguage website and I would like to have your help to take the best decision as regard SEO. After reading this.
I would like to change my URLs from this form ...
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mod_rewrite problems - redirect subdomain to different domain
I must have a brain freeze as I can not get my rewrite rules working.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^otherdomain\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.otherdomain.com/ ...
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2answers
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How do I redirect a URL using rewrite in .htaccess that has a question mark and forward slash where page.html is the variable?
Hello and thanks to all who contribute to this seemingly mind boggling puzzle. I apologize in advance if .htaccess questions belong on server fault.
So I have to move a domain to our hosting servers, ...
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1answer
226 views
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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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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1answer
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Google Analytics shows visits to pages redirected in .htaccess
Yesterday, I switched on a section of pages in our site that replaces a really old collection of pages. In our .htaccess file, I have rules that redirect a request for any page in the old section to ...
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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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2answers
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WordPress .htaccess preventing subfolder access
This is sort of a goofy setup, but it's not in my power to reconfigure it at this time. I'm running in a shared hosting environment.
The domain is example.com. This is an add-on domain on the host ...
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1answer
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Rewrite catalog/index.php to www.domain.co.uk
We have an online shop with a welcome page. Our SEO company has asked us to get rid of the welcome page with a rewrite. I am struggling to get this to work. Can you help please?
I want to rewrite ...
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2answers
593 views
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 ...
2
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1answer
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mod rewrite doesn't work when i added multiple domains
i have redhat linux server and i was using /var/www/html to display my site.
By using the following directive rewrite mod was working fine.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
# Enable mod_rewrite ...
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how to fix .htaccess - redirect http://408.111.1111.domain.us/ to http://domain.us/index.php?w=408.111.1111
We want to use mod_rewrite and .htaccess to do a redirect. How do we redirect http://408.111.1111.domain.us/ and www.408.111.1111.domain.us/ to http://domain.us/index.php?w=408.111.1111 ? If the ...
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1answer
28 views
Silent redirection not working with mod_rewrite
I'm trying to grasp apache mod_rewrite
When I add this to my .htaccess it silently (url doesnt change) shows page bob.htm
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule index.htm bob.htm
I.e. If I type this in the ...
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1answer
399 views
htaccess and 301 redirects - multiple domains
I have the following which redirects mydomain1.co.uk and mydomain1.com to www.mydomain1.com perfectly.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(.*)\.mydomain1\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ...
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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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2answers
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case-specific mod rewrite on Wordpress subdomain multisite
I have split a Wordpress blog into multiple category-specific blogs using subdomains, as the topics in the original blog were too broad to be lumped together effectively.
Posts were exported from the ...
4
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2answers
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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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1answer
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Simple RewriteRule [duplicate]
I'm trying to write a RewriteRule to make a simple url. I want users to be able to type enter
www.example.com/somepage
and have it take them to
www.example.com/abc/somepage.php
How can this be ...
3
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1answer
102 views
Remove dynamic generated end of URL
I have a Joomla 2.5 website with joomshopping and AceSEF extension component.
SEF URL generation works just fine except one issue.
For some reason, there are dynamic parts generated in the end of ...
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optimize htaccess
I have two condition which are conflict
RewriteRule ^patients/findadoctor/(.*)\.html$ subcategorydoctor.php?id=$1 [L,NC] and
RewriteRule ^patients/findadoctor/(.*)\.html$ ...
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2answers
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“File does not exist” in apache error log when mod_rewrite is using
I am getting below error in server log, when re-writing the urls.
[Fri Jan 25 11:32:57 2013] [error] [client ***IP***] File does not exist: ...
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2answers
499 views
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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1answer
47 views
RewriteRule for URLs with spaces
My site's pages are in multiple languages whereby each language version shares its media (images) with the other language versions. I place all versions and the media in a single directory with the ...
2
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1answer
118 views
Internal CDN and setting up subdomain to increase maximum parallel connections
I've heard that browsers can have around maximum of 6 parallel connections per domain at a time.
So I decided to have another subdomain "cdn." then use mod_rewrite to point to media folder then ...
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1answer
148 views
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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1answer
187 views
Using mod_speling with multi-level htaccess and rewriterules
We recently switched formats for managing our 301s. For the most part, everything went well, but it seems to have stopped mod_speling from working properly. Here's what we changed:
old ...
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1answer
23 views
Redirecting previous domain subfolder links
I've recently bought a domain that was unregistered. After looking in Google webmaster tools, Google is trying to crawl random pages that don't exist. Turns out it did have a previous owner.
The ...
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3answers
101 views
Question about mod_rewrite rule for redirecting failing pages
I'm setting up a mod_rewrite rule that redirects failing pages to a custom Page Not Found page. This is with WordPress. I've used a online tutorial at the Apache and so far my rules look like this:
...
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0answers
41 views
Mapping different users to folders with mod_rewrite
I'm setting up a DAV server with Apache 2.2 and would like, if at all possible, to be able to redirect a user to their own folder without having per-user URLs, if at all possible.
So I point a user ...
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1answer
57 views
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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2answers
143 views
Have UserDir enabled but also want to rewrite url if called differently
I am setting up a new server for our users to use have have personal webspace on. I have in my httpd.conf of apache the directives for UserDir as follows
UserDir disabled root
UserDir public_html
...
2
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1answer
51 views
.htaccess redirect with mod_rewrite
I moved my wiki from
http://jklatex.square7.de/wiki/doku.php/start
to
http://logicpuzzle.square7.de/start
and now i want to redirect the URL with mod_rewrite. My .htaccess is as follows:
# BEGIN ...
3
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4answers
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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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2answers
154 views
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 ...
2
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1answer
156 views
Apache rewrite rule that matches a specific query string
I need to rewrite a specific wordpress url to a 404 error:
?page_id=15 => 404
How can I match the query string? Apparently Apache doesn't feed that to the rewrite mod...
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1answer
123 views
How do I get rid of the “www” with mod_rewrite?
I want to get rid of the "www" in front of my domain, and I'm trying the following, but it's not working:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_POST} ^www\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*) ...
4
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2answers
968 views
URL rewriting removing question mark and replace it with slash
How can I rewrite my URL from edit.php?id=2 to edit/id/2?
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2answers
41 views
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 ...
2
votes
2answers
28 views
Need to remove www for only one sub directory from a domain
I have a domain like www.example.com. I need to remove www. from specified sub folder by using a .htaccess file.
Example :
www.example.com/blog should redirect to example.com
All other sub ...
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0answers
36 views
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
38 views
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 ...
3
votes
3answers
109 views
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 ...
1
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0answers
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Apache Rewrite to folder no longer working after server upgrade [closed]
The following were both working perfectly for the last 2 years but after a server upgrade the first, with an extra folder is no longer working:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mayoaccommodation\.com$ ...
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3answers
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How to remove a file from url using mod_rewrite
I want http://www.foo.com/ to internally point to /var/www/home.php and http://www.foo.com/home.php to be redirected to http://www.foo.com/.
Thus, I would like to fix the old ...
1
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1answer
67 views
Don't $_GET value on link rewrite with .htaccess
I config enable htaccess on my server (i enable mod_rewrite and do like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11064005/enable-htacess-error-on-ubuntu-12-04-with-apache2)
But on localhost is run ...
3
votes
1answer
328 views
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 ...
2
votes
2answers
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getting 500 intenal error when setting 301 redirect using .htaccess
I am trying to use a 301 redirect to direct users and bots to my new site but when I put the .htaccess live i keep getting a 500 internal error shown.
The site is actually a subdomain which i want ...
2
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3answers
2k views
.htaccess mod_rewrite 500 internal server error
Whenever I place my .htaccess file in my web directory I receive a 500 internal server error and within the error.log file specifying:
[Sat Jan 21 13:46:07 2012] [error] [client xx.xx.xxx.xx] Request ...
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3answers
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What's wrong with my htaccess ? (500 Error)
I've written a small htaccess file to redirect Internet Explorer users to a specific page
Here are the contents :
# MS Internet Explorer - Mozilla v4
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ...
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1answer
229 views
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 ...
