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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Poor Man's Clean URLs vs. Mod_Rewrite
At the company where I work, we're getting ready to design a new web site, and there's some disagreement about how to do clean URLs. Over the past year we've been making small improvements to our ...
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Apache rewrite rules for development workstation and server
I've got developers editing pages for several sites on a WAMP stack and then uploading to the public servers running LAMP stacks. We're pretty happy with it, but we have this minor annoyance: we can't ...
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Force SSL and WWW in .htaccess
I'm looking for a way to force SSL and WWW.
I've been able to force both separately but together I keep running into redirection issues. The following code works when handling a URL in this format: ...
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What should I do to notify Google of a switch from “.php” to extension-free URL's?
I've implemented a simple mod-rewrite rule that internally rewrites urls without a file extension (that are not directories) to .php files and removed the .php extension from all our internal links. ...
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1answer
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How to pass GET parameters to rewritten URL?
I have an .htaccess rewrite rule like this:
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^search/(.*)$ search.php?q=$1
What this does is, if someone visits ...
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.htaccess two different rules but only one per time
I'm rather new to the whole .htaccess thing and I'm using the following right now to use 'pretty url's':
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
...
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5answers
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How to Remove Extensions From, and Force the Trailing Slash at the End of URLs?
Example of current file structure:
example.com/foo.php
example.com/bar.html
example.com/directory/
example.com/directory/foo.php
example.com/directory/bar.html
...
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votes
3answers
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How to remove trailing slashes from URL with .htaccess?
The situation
Across the entire domain, we'd like the URLs to hide file extensions and remove trailing slashes, independent of the domain name itself (as in, works on any domain).
Sample of our ...
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2answers
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Redirect/rewrite dynamic URL to sub-domain and create DNS for subdomain
I have created an application in PHP, I would like to re-direct the following URL to corresponding sub-domain.
Dynamic URL pattern:
http://mydomain.com/mypage.php?user_name=testuser
I wish to ...
4
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2answers
954 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?
4
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5answers
668 views
Site compromised .htaccess files everywhere
Some of the sites we're hosting are compromised by... I don't know what.
Every directory on the webserver contains a .htaccess file which redirects a user coming from a search engine to a page which ...
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“File does not exist” in apache error log
This is an example of an error in out log file:
File does not exist: /var/www/website/female, referer: http://www.website.com/female/dresses/A-Dress-Black
"/female" doesn't exist, because we use ...
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1answer
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How to internally rewrite a page when requested from specific HTTP_HOST
I have a Drupal site, site.com, and our client has a campaign that they're promoting for which they've bought a new domain name, campaign.com. I'd like it so that a request for campaign.com internally ...
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1answer
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Properly force SSL with .htaccess, no double authentication
I'm trying to force SSL with .htaccess on a shared host. This means there I only have access to .htaccess and not the vhosts config. I know you can put a rule in the VirtualHost config file to force ...
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1answer
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How to write a generic .htaccess file rule, regarding RewriteBase
The following rule in my .htaccess works just fine for routing calls to index.php:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
However, this does not ...
4
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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 ...
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votes
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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3answers
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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 ...
3
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1answer
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clean urls and differences in hosts
I am developing a relatively static website, where I want to be able to access each page without typing .html (or .htm or .xhtml ...) at the end (/about not /about.html).
I am developing using the ...
3
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1answer
327 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 ...
3
votes
1answer
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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 ...
3
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1answer
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Mod rewrite - redirecting url with certain parameter to new url
I need some help redirecting a url with particular parameter value to a new url. For example how can i redirect these two urls with id 123 and 345 to a new url?
Redirect
...
3
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2answers
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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 ...
3
votes
3answers
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mod rewrite condition !-f being violated
I am using Wolf CMS, which is served by PHP.
I want to redirect /index.html to /index.php.
I put the following in .htaccess:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
...
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votes
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 ...
3
votes
1answer
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mod_rewrite rule for wildcard subdomains?
Sorry if this has been covered, I can't find anything on this specifically.
I have wildcard subdomains on (*.mysite.com) I need a mod_rewrite expression for this rewrite:
bob.mysite.com => ...
3
votes
1answer
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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 ...
3
votes
1answer
102 views
Can I get IIS to treat some .shtml files as .php files?
I want to be able to get IIS to interpret SHTML files (only in a specific directory) as PHP, and interpret the rest as SHTML.
If so, then how?
3
votes
2answers
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Rewrite for robots.txt and favicon.ico
I have setup some rules in which subdomains (my users) will default to where I have located the robots.txt, favicon.ico, and crossdomain.xml
therefore if a user creates a site say
...
3
votes
1answer
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subdomains apache rewrite rules
Let's say I have my web folder as public_html. In there I have a sub folder. I can view the folder at:
www.mydomain.com/sub & mydomain.com/sub
What I want is:
sub.mydomain.com
This will show ...
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$2 [R=301,L]
This url: ...
3
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1answer
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redirect non-www to www while preserving protocol
I am aware of the fact that there are tons of questions in this section and in server fault dealing with re-directions from non-www to www URLs. But I couldn't find one dealing with this issue while ...
3
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1answer
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RewriteRule working local but not on remote server
I have a .htaccess file with one simple RewriteRule:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)$ ?site=$1
I want to have an url like http://www.example.com/imprint and forward it to ...
3
votes
1answer
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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" ...
3
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1answer
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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 ...
3
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2answers
321 views
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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1answer
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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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2answers
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htaccess execution order and priority
Can anyone explain to me in what order apache executes .htaccess files residing in different levels of the same path and how the rewrite rules therein are prioritized?
For example, why doesn't the ...
2
votes
1answer
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What's the “^” in RewriteRule Statements?
I keep seeing the ^ character in RewriteRule statements in a context that doesn't fit with the usage specified here.
For example: RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L,QSA]
What does it signify?
2
votes
3answers
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mod_rewrite works within directory not on root
I am having a problem with my RewriteRule for the querystring portion. What I am able to debug is that the rule is being triggered at least because the page "tags.php" is being rendered but without ...
2
votes
1answer
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How to redirect any URL to lowercase URL?
I have this .htaccess files:
ErrorDocument 404 /index.html
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) ...
2
votes
3answers
114 views
How to make parameters look more attractive
I'm making a blog site and instead of the users blogs being called /blog?display=username I would like it to just be a sub domain such as mysite.com/username
How would I be able to make the first ...
2
votes
2answers
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How can I test for a URLs existeance before redirecting to it?
I am using Apache's mod_rewrite to redirect mobile users to my mobile site based on their http_user_agent. However not all pages have a mobile equivalent. Also mobile pages end in .html and "full" ...
2
votes
2answers
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Virtual hosting
I want to use domains like xxx.abc.domain.tld.
The xxx is my folder to access. I tried it with the rewrite rules, but I can't get it working, because I don't know how to get the part xxx from the ...
2
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2answers
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HTACCESS Wildcard Subdomain forward to Domain
I know this may seem like a duplicate, but I am unable to find a solution.
Is it possible to setup wildcard subdomains with htaccess?
I have an example of
http://test.domain.ca I need to forward ...
2
votes
2answers
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apache rewriting url doesn't work(using godaddy hosting)
I'm using a framework to create my website(codeigniter) by default the urls are like this:mysite.com/index.php?/etc/etc/etc.
And I'm trying to remove the index.php?, I tried to remove it by doing ...
2
votes
2answers
208 views
Apache HTTP redirect from a URL list
One of my web applications will be completely replaced by a new system. All URLs will change and thus external links would break. I want to setup Apache httpd to answer with proper 301-redirects to ...
2
votes
1answer
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Optimal way to implement very big redirect list in Apache2
I have about 6000 URLs that need to be redirected after changing the CMS. All those URLs are stored in a DB table together with an ID that allows me to tell what is being referenced. Using this table ...
2
votes
1answer
115 views
Apache mod_rewrite problem
I try to use Apache mod_rewrite to redirect some pages on my customer's website to the homepage. The .htaccess file is the following:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
...
2
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2answers
877 views
How can I redirect everything but the index as 410?
Our site shut down and we need to give a 410 redirect to the users. We have a small one-page replacement site set up in the same domain and a custom 410 error page. We'd like to have it so that all ...
