Questions tagged [htaccess]
Directory-level configuration file found mostly on Apache web servers
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How can I resolve htaccess causing social media bots to see 404 response even though the page displays correctly?
I use the below htaccess code which appears to function correctly to rewrite URLS, however when a page is shared to social networks or scanned by bots like AHREFs, they all return 404 yet the pages at ...
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Rewrite rule to give 410 Gone for a specific URL doesn't work
I'm French.
A week ago, my website was hacked with the old version (http). The hack created 404 spams and I want to ensure they have "410 Gone" status.
My problem on the site is: https://www.example....
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How to Redirect all subdirectory pages to another?
Due to duplicate content issue, I want to redirect all pages of /articles/* to newly created sub directory /article/*.
How do I redirect all pages of /articles to /article using .htaccess file?
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Using htaccess to redirect 301 for domain change
I am currently moving a domain from one to the other, this is not an HTTPS move but rather a move from exampleone.co.uk to exampletwo.co.uk. I am using this code:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
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Trying to create 1-1 redirects, exclude certain directories/files, and then redirect any other traffic to new website
I'm stumped on how to achieve this. The 1-1 redirects work fine as well as the global redirect to send anything to the new page that isn't contained in the code. But when trying to exclude one (or ...
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invoke a URL Perl script silently, without changing URL visible to client
I've been fighting the Google canonical page algorithm bug for 2+ months. Following various forum advice and suggestions haven't solved it yet, although for sure they've made our website better. One ...
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How to ignore/redirect all URLs matching a certain string
I am using the WordPress plugin, Timely All-in-One events calendar. Unfortunately it is creating a plethora of duplicate URLs which end in strings like
https://www.example.com/events/action~agenda/...
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How do I locate files that appear to be located before the webroot?
I'm now administering a site for a small professional organisation. The website is hosted with GoDaddy. Most of the links don't work as the site was migrated back from https to http. All of this work ...
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Could someone explain what these .htaccess rules and “.well-known” conditions are for?
I am confused about both the purpose of .well-known exceptions and so many conditions. Is this just something temporarily put in place by the host or is it best practice to keep it in place? Why are ...
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htaccess url rewriting 2 get values
I am using PHP 7.2 URL Rewrite Rules. i am making 2 links first link is "category.php?inventory_id=" and second links "show-subcategories.php?cat_id" but the result is always the first link is working ...
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Do search engines crawl links with query strings?
If I were to have a url like https://example.com/books, that contained several links to urls such as:
https://example.com/books?id=foo
https://example.com/books?id=bar
https://example.com/books?id=...
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301 Redirects what does ([a-z]+)-(.*) and ([0-9]+)-(.*) mean
I just checked an .htaccess file with some custom redirects. There are two redirects I don't fully understand:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/news/([0-9]+)-(.*) /blog
RedirectMatch 301 ^/news/([a-z]+)-(.*)/$ /...
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.htaccess rule to redirect entire site except for a couple pages is not working
I've been pulling my hair out for a couple of days over an .htaccess issue. I have a list of redirects which are all being done in this format:
Redirect 301 /my-page/ https://www.example.com/my-page/
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Is it safe to do a htaccess rewrite for mobile traffic to amp pages?
I have a requirement to use the same URL for both desktop and mobile devices. On mobile, I want to serve amp HTML while on the desktop I want to render normal HTML. In such case is it safe (from SEO ...
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Redirected too many times when I try to force https for all URLs
I want to redirect all website urls to https. I used the code below to do so. My website is built up using simple PHP. I don't use any opensource framework or CMS.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{...
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How to remove subdirectory and index.php from URL with htaccess?
I've got an apache website stored on the server at /var/www/website/ and it's the only one on that server. I'd like to adjust the URL accordingly. How can I make an .htaccess rule that would do this?
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regex on htaccess not working as expected
I have this rule on my .htaccess that doesn't work as I would expect:
RewriteRule ^/rg$ /download/file_1.pdf [NC,L]
I would like to redirect all the requests from www.example.com/rg to download this ...
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Does having a lot of 301 redirects noticably impact performance?
I just moved my website to Wordpress from another service. Unfortunately, this means that although I was able to import all of my previous content to Wordpress, the post permalinks are now entirely ...
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Website not working when adding .htaccess
I have my website hosted on a CentOS server. When I add the .htaccess file it stops working showing "Internal Server Error".
On a side note: when I remove the .htaccess file the website works only ...
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How to bulk redirect in htaccess from old site with parameters
I'm currently updating an old website, but I don't know much about htaccess redirects. I made a script to get all the pages of the website and here are some examples:
For pages:
Redirect 301 /index....
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Redirecting using rewrite rules from international top level domains to a language subdirectory doesn't change the domain name
I want to change from TLDs to TLD and language code.
Right now we have 4 TLDs for our webpage:
example.de
example.com
example.nl
example.fr
Now I want to change our settings of our CMS (Contao) to ...
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What does ^(.*) mean in a rewrite rule, is there a simpler alternative?
I have just copy and pasted a rewrite rule for a redirect from some website. It contains:
^(.*)
I want to know what it means. Why is it so complicated? Can it be simplified?
The whole .htaccess ...
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htaccess redirect all traffic to secure non www version of page
I'm having trouble with my .htaccess redirects.
I need to forward all URLs to the non www version of the URL using HTTPS and also forward any non secure URLs to HTTPS too. In both cases I need to ...
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Nginx subdirectory wordpress wp-login redirects to 404 not found
server {
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ @extensionless-php;
}
location /shop {
try_files $uri $uri/ /shop/index.php?q=$uri&$args /shop/index.php?q=$uri&$args;
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Password protect a website only if it is the dev site [closed]
I am trying to password protect a website only if it is the dev site using .htaccess and .htpasswd
I am using Apache 2.4.29 on Ubuntu 18.04
Here is what I have in the .htaccess file
<If "%{...
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Removing PHP Extension in sub directory
I use the following rewrite rule to remove the .php extension from my page urls:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]
This works great in the root directory of my ...
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Redirect to homepage based on server error code with htaccess
I just took over management of a small HTML website. I discovered the security on the website was almost non-existent because full directory browsing was possible.
I have since disabled directory ...
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Order of RewriteRules is affecting the result
This is my current .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([\w-]+)/([a-z0-9]+)/([a-z-0-9]+)$ index.php?p=$1&bay=$2&map=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^test/([\w-]+)/(\d+)$ index.php?page=$1&tab=$2 [...
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Apache rewrite to www. unless it is a dev domain
Here is my current rewrite code in my htaccess file:
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://www.%1%{...
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How to redirect from blog.example.org to example.com using htaccess
I have tried all means to do a 301 redirect from blog.example.org to https://www.example.com/post using .htaccess but the redirect doesn't seem to be working.
I'm using this code below;
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Redirect domain name to a specific page
I have theses domain names installed:
Main domain name: www.example.com
Others domains:
www.example.org
www.example.fr
www.animals.example
I first made a rule on my .htaccess to redirect all ...
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301 Redirection Help for Moving New Domain with New Directory
I have a WordPress website on example.com with 500+ pages.
I need to move this site to newsite.com/blog/
I searched this on Google the whole day, but couldn't find how to write 301 for my ...
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How to rewrite specific pages using mod rewrite?
Assuming that my website homepage is https://example.com/test-website/.
What I want to do is to add a query string at the end of the homepage URL and on all pages that start with https://example.com/...
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301 Redirect not working as expected
I am in the process of doing a website redesign. We have changed the domain name and hosting server for the new project. Following are the rules that I am using in my htaccess file to perform a 301 ...
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FrontController dosen´t work
i have a example FrontController, its really simple.
index.php:
if (isset($_GET['page'])) {
$requested_page = $_GET['page'];
} else {
$requested_page = 'home';
}
switch($requested_page) {
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I have a page with two domains and I want to redirect one of the domains to a specific page via htaccess
I am using the domains ergonomi.example and fysiarbejdsliv.example
I want fysiarbejdsliv.example to redirect to https://fysiarbejdsliv.example/dansk-selskab-for-fysioterapi-i-arbejdsliv.
I have ...
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Alias subdomain to subfolder (not redirect) with .htaccess (with HTTPS), error ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS
Well, I'm trying to accomplish this task by using this .htaccess:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
# HTTPS (not working: ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS)
# RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
# RewriteRule (.*)...
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Can I use a rewrite rule to send all requests to a single file?
Can I make a single regular expression for all my RewriteRules? I'm rewriting everything to a single file and this this acts like a front-controller.
My example:
RewriteRule ^de/kontakt/anfahrt$ ...
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redir everything in a folder, but not certain pages - htaccess
How can I edit my .htaccess file to redir everything in a folder, except 3 pages on that same folder
Redir everything here: /site/ but exclude /site/page-1.html /site/page-2.html /site/page-3.html
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Where to place 301 redirects in my Wordpress htaccess file?
I have about 25 301 redirects in my Wordpress htaccess file, that look like this:
Redirect 301 /store/index.html https://www.notesinspanish.com/store-home/
At the moment they are at the bottom of my ...
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Redirecting 404 pages to another active pages in .htaccess
I have one product page indexed on Google but that link does not exist anymore and hits 404 page.
What I want to do is to redirect that link in .htaccess to another product page since it ranks very ...
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How to redirect dynamically generated duplicate pages in .htaccess?
I have over 2000 dynamically generated duplicated pages like this:
https://www.example.com/subfolder/page1.html
and
https://www.example.com/subfolder/page1/
What i am trying to do is redirect all /...
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How to form redirect or rewrite where query string contains portion I want to extract to new query string
I've transferred an old custom-made site to Mediawiki and I have many internal and external links to my old pages that I want to redirect to the appropriate wiki page.
There are many links to the ...
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.htaccess: Redirect all HTTPS to a subdomain, but EXCLUDE one subdomain folder
In summary: (Notice the "https")
I have https://www.example.com
All need to be re-directed to https://sub.example.com
EXCEPT https://xyz.example.com/api
Here is my current .htaccess:
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After implementing HTTPS, “require valid-user” in subdirectory no longer asks for password, just gives 401 Not Authorized
I'm not very knowledgeable about server scripting, however I've only just installed SSL certificate for the domain.
The main website (hosted by GoDaddy) is now working fine on SSL/TLS and I've ...
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Adding a subdirectory to a URL using .htaccess
I am trying to achieve the following:
This URL: www.example.com/wis/9-3/1998/0.general
Redirected to this URL: www.example.com/9440/wis/9-3/1998/0.general
So I'm trying to add this subdirectory to ...
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Does hotlinking image protection hurt search engines indexing?
Several websites are hotlinking my images, I want to block and prevent hotlinking to my website images.
And, I was going to use standard hotlink prevention code in .htaccess:
RewriteEngine on
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mod rewrite with two parameters and loading folder
I have domain example.com, when someone go to this domain, I need to automatically redirect to example.com/en/ and need /en/ to be a parameter of variable lang.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
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Redirecting all subdirectories of a folder via htaccess [duplicate]
I've searched around and haven't found this specific question asked.
I need to redirect all the 'subfolders' of a directory to the parent directory.
For example, the parent directory is example.tld/...
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Rewritting .htaccess file to direct to files using a wildcard
Currently my html code points to
www.example.com/images/sub/ABCimage.jpg
www.example.com/images/sub/XYZimage.jpg
Due to a limit on number of files (9999) within the folder , I had to split images ...
