Questions tagged [htaccess]
Directory-level configuration file found mostly on Apache web servers
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Password protect specific files on root of website
I have had a website running for a while and it has a small following. What I wish to do now is password protect some specific files that sit in the root directory. So I'd like the user not to see any ...
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How to add url slugs when we don't know the slug? [closed]
I am currently making a url shortener site where I will be able to shorten links and then get the shortened URL and its unique id stored on the database. This(it isn't wholly ready) is where I have ...
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Old alternative domain names -- is it actually worth setting DNS to resolve at the website?
Someone noticed a problem with a site I manage in that somewhere all the old alternative domain names which we keep paying for were in the Google search results. Some problem had come up somewhere ...
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Redirect URL if Only if Query String is Present with .htaccess Rule
I would like to redirect example.com/image.png?example, only if the ?example query string is present, to example.com/folder/folder/folder/new-image.png, and then for ?example to be removed from the ...
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Run .htaccess rule to remove trailing slash only if such a file exists
I have the following .htaccess rule but I would only like it to run it if a file exists without the removed trailing slash:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
I use ...
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How to redirect all pages of Site A to home page of Site B using .htaccess to track referrals using Google UTM
I want 301 redirect from all pages of SiteA.example to Home Page of SiteB.example using .htaccess rewrite rule, Since I am not PHP guy I am not sure if below rule is correct
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://...
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PHP file triggers on every page load?
I've got a WordPress website that has a script which seems to be triggering every time any user loads a page. This PHP script is very simple (less than 25 lines) and is meant to be an API endpoint, so ...
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Does adding a huge list of bots on .htaccess slow the site down?
This huge list of known bad bots is useful (GitHub)
The list is huge with over 1,800 "known" bots, and I think it's a good thing to add this - I mean - why not?
However, my main question is -...
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Password Protecting Specific Files With Litespeed .htaccess
I know how to password protect all files in a specific folder, but I am planning on setting up a separate subdomain just for storing password protected files in the root directory. I would like all of ...
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Hide previous folder in URL with .htaccess [duplicate]
I have a URL structure like this: example.com/prefix/folder/
and I want to achieve this : example.com/folder/
For instance, I have cleanly organized my authentication folders into a proauth main ...
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.htaccess Wildcard Passthrough Redirect
I use a LiteSpeed web hosting server on *.example.com and I am currently using this code in my .htaccess file for it:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.+)\.example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(....
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Rewrite three URL directories to corresponding PHP files and pass subdirectory as a parameter
I want to convert the following
https://example.com/download-file/xyz
https://example.com/download-code/abc
https://example.com/developer/mno
to
https://example.com/download-file?name=xyz
https://...
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Rules in .htaccess only if the requested URL is /wp-admin
I want these lines from my .htaccess to execute only if the URL is not /wp-admin:
Header add Content-Security-Policy "default-src 'self';"
Header add Content-Security-Policy "script-src ...
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Hide subfolders in URL with .htaccess
I have a URL structure like this: example.com/this/is/nice/index.php
and I want achieve this: example.com/this/index.php
How can I add a rule to hide the /is/ and /nice/ subfolders ?
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Apache htaccess detects disallowed method but does not return error page
I am trying to see if a custom error page can be sent to the browser when an invalid method is sent to the server.
In my .htaccess is this:
ErrorDocument 400 /errpages/httperror.php
ErrorDocument 401 /...
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Duplicate Homepage in search results with different hash-bang URLs
I just realized that my homepage is present in google with three different URLs.
https://www.example.com
https://www.example.com/#!/page/2/
https://www.example.com/#!sweat-shirts
So I guess I need to ...
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Create 301 redirects for subdomains from expired domain for SEO
I just bought an expired domains and there are lots of backlinks to different subdomains.
I am planning to make a new blog on the domain and I want to get all the link juice.
So I want to create a 301 ...
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How to 301 redirect site alias domain to a subdomain on the same hosting?
We have the following problem in Cpanel / htaccess file when trying to 301 redirect example.hu (alias) pages to example.com (subdomain) pages:
Cpanel example.hu to example.com redirection is working, ...
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Problem displaying 'includes'
I am having a hard time figuring this out. I hadn't changed anything on the site before this, however my webhost (BlueHost) sometimes messes with my files.
Anyway, I am not able to bring up anything ...
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custom 404 page not work Apache/2.4.51 if missing is in a virtual subdirectory (Debian)
this is my first question here, I hope to find a solution.
I have a problem with page 404 when the missing page is in a sub "virtual" directory, is used to pass a value to php, in ...
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Rewrite URL with one unnecessary parameter
I have the following URL examples. Example one is a URL without "amps" parameter:
https://multilang:8890/uk/seconddoc.html/ there I have a 404 error. And an other one with that amps ...
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Redirect AMP Parameter To Its Permalink caught in Redirect loop
I have the same issue as mentioned on Redirect AMP Parameter To Its Permalink, the solution given by Mrwhite solved my problem and everything went fine
# Redirect old "amp" URLs back to ...
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Unexplainable 301 redirect persists after redirect is deleted
I am using wordpress on a domain on my server and I am trying to configure redirects from a parked domain to my main domain.
My main domain uses wordpress. My parked domain uses nothing (no wordpress ...
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.htaccess security headers for IONOS
I need to implement security headers for a website hosted by IONOS. I've used the following code, which works on sites hosted elsewhere, but not here.
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header set ...
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I want to redirect 301 to an added query string
I do want to 301 redirect https://example.com/no/ and all the URLs from that catalogue with an added query string ?lang=no. For example will then url https://example.com/no/about/ be https://example....
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503 Service Temporarily Unavailable nginx [closed]
how to fix this issues: when i use www.dbahack.com it show me this message "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable nginx"
here is my DNS from cloudflare:
[![enter image description here][2]][2]...
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linking 404.htm to .htaccess
I have an old 2004 Dreamweaver website built on HTML. Tired of the analytics telling me I have a lot of 404s, I created a 404.htm page. How do I link the code in .htaccess to it so it will show up, ...
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Mapping category label url into new custom category permalink?
I migrated my old blog into WordPress, my old cms has a category URL structure like this one
https://www.example.com/search/label/health?m=0?&max-results=8
https://www.example.com/search/label/...
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Redirect AMP Parameter To Its Permalink
I have a similar situation as described in
Handle "amp" in URLs from a now removed WordPress plugin
the difference is I don't use custom post permalink /%postname%.html but just /%postname%...
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Handle "amp" in URLs from a now removed WordPress plugin
i used an amp plugin earlier but then I disabled it. Now variations of leftover amp path leave me with a thousand of "not found" or extra additional URLs with amp parameters.
https://www....
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Show Different content to different users of same post [closed]
Suppose https://example.com/how-to-learn-seo is a post which is published and i want it to show this post content only to bots (google, bing, etc.) not to users. If a user visit then they will see a ...
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Test website can't be reached despite setting up DNS in local hosts file and adding a virtual host to Apache config
I am trying to set up a domain on my development machine so that I cant test slightly more complex htaccess rules. I am trying to set up example.city domain. Following what I find by googling, I have ...
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Why rewrite to index.php is not working on a wordpress site?
So my rewriterule is like
RewriteRule ^test$ index.php [L]
I tested it on https://htaccess.madewithlove.com?share=b0a9904b-1ec4-49cd-917c-36426ff6150a it works fine.
I also tested it on live Joomla ...
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Can I have a generic rule to map subdomains to directories?
I have these rulesets which are working.
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.city$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://example.city/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
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How can I have either php or html file running - whichever exists
I have these two rules and they appear to be working. How can I combine them into one rule
#Force hmtl extn
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule ^(....
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.htaccess - Force SSL and dont show .html in URL
I have a website where i want to Force https to all visitors, and I also don't want the URL to show .html at the end.
In Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster tool i get an "Redirect errror&...
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htaccess for redirects and gone 410
I am facing a problem. THE Problem is that in google search there some spam links that are of type HTTP and I would like to return 410 for those urls that actually do not exist. but for people who ...
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How do I get .app TLD to work with my .htaccess
I have a number of domains hosted on one server. I tried them as sub-domains but that was a failure. So I obtained new certificates and I have them configured as Add-On_Domains.
They are all using ...
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I used a permanent 301 redirect and now want to use old domain again, is this bad SEO wise?
I have a blog that I wanted to professionalize it a bit more and moved from a personalized domain name (DomainA/subfolder) to a more professional domain name (DomainB).
The blog is from 2015 and I ...
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Wordpress - Ignore a server directory containing index.html if being viewed in preview mode
I have wordpress installed on a root directory. Wordpress was often so slow, I created a node script which will look at all pages on the website, and a create a static directory for each one with an ...
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.htaccess not redirecting me to correct place
I have a website which opens to /resources/Installer/index.php
but the path I need it to open to is /Installer/index.php.
I have asked my webhost to help but they have said they cannot help.
I have ...
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Why is a link to www.example.software not working?
I have looked at some posts here, but they dont answer my problem. I have subdomains and addon-domains and not all of them have a certificate yet. So I cannot use a generic solution.
my .htaccess is
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ahrefs site auditing reports a redirect chain that I cant't see. What's causing this?
ahrefs site auditing, reports a redirect chain that I cant't see. Surely, only the first ruleset should be activated. What's causing this ?
domain
http://www.example.software/
Redirect chain URLs
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How does the server remember logged in users on a password protected website via .htaccess?
So basically my question is just a technical one.
We password protect our development server so that no duplicated content appears to google if we mirror an existing website.
How does the server ...
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How are slashes added between htaccess mod_rewrite variables
I was looking at two different variants of redirects:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
And noticed that in the first ...
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htaccess - URL Rewrite to rewrite specific URLs but allow one subdir URL
We are using a CMS (Magento) where we are looking to have all of the current customer dashboard links redirect to the homepage, however when doing this with simple 301 rewrites, it unfortunately ...
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How do I prevent access to an add-on domain as a subdirectory of the main domain?
I have my main domain as example.software. I used to have example.kiwi configured as a subdomain, but the hosting company could not get the certificate to work.
They asked me to fork out more money ...
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Apache maintenance page htaccess without being overriden by subfolder
I want to perform a maintenance on my website, so wrote an htaccess (I do not own the server) to redirect users to a specific page.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{...
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Browser appends a '?' to links on page, but the '?' does not appear in the source [closed]
I'm a little puzzled with the following problem:
When I hover over a link a WordPress site I'm looking after, I can see that the URL is https://xxxxxxx.com/apply-now/?
All the links on the page have ...
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Where a domain is mapped onto a subdomain, can the redirected url be hidden from the browser
I now have my main domain working fine. I have 5 other independent domains that I am trying to map onto my main domain as sub-domains. I also have a wild-card certificate to cover the 4 of those ...
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