Questions tagged [htaccess]
Directory-level configuration file found mostly on Apache web servers
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Redirect non-www to www ONLY for the home page with LiteSpeed .htaccess
I use a LiteSpeed web server. What is the .htaccess code for redirecting non-www to www ONLY if there isn't a URL path on the URL? I want to redirect the home page but not other pages because I have ...
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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
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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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Workaround to password protect new Google Sites with custom domain
I want to create a document and video library, and there are some conflicting constraints:
we want to keep the maintenance and updating of the library separate from the team that manages the main ...
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HTTP to HTTPS Apache redirect doesn't work when used with other redirects
I have been asked to help with an OpenCart 1.5.6.1 installation on shared hosting with some redirection requirements.
Some of the redirects were already present and I'm not sure if they are required ...
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.htaccess problem with people with identical usernames
I've recently set up a password protected area on a client's website, but there's an issue where several of the members of the organisation concerned have identical usernames, although, obviously, ...
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Why is this htaccess evaluating to 302 redirect instead of internal rewrite?
As an example, I was expecting this
https://example.software/credits
to evaluate to an internal rewrite
https://example.software?mode=credits
Why is it showing up on the browser url-bar as a 302 ...
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How do I redirect a subdomain blog to a subfolder without .htaccess?
I currently have a blog hosted with Squarespace on a subdomain, let's call it blog.example.com. I have my storefront hosted separately on www.example.com. My blog receives a good amount of traffic, ...
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Password protected directory [c-panel] - receiving no login prompt when the url is clicked in FB Messenger
The public_html folder is password-protected via the .htaccess file. I'm using an Apache web server and hosting on Godaddy.
It works fine if I use any browser on mobile and desktop/laptop devices.
But ...
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Google didn't update the search results after changing a URL with a permanent redirect
I have a simple personal webpage which I use to list my publications and link the corresponding PDFs (I work in academia). Until now, this webpage was hosted by my university:
http(s)://...
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Google Adsense is not accepting my Website with www
I have a local eCommerce site built in Wordpress/Woocommerce. If you visit HTTP://example.com it redirects to HTTP://www.example.com. I even tried to perm redirect www. to HTTP://example.com but did ...
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Updated htaccess to redirect, now receiving ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR when I access my site via Search
I made a couple of edits to my htaccess file today to redirect. htaccess now has this:
Redirect 301 / https://www.newsite.org
If I type my domain into the address bar, it redirects properly. However, ...
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