Questions tagged [htaccess]
Directory-level configuration file found mostly on Apache web servers
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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 ...
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How to enable use of .htaccess in Apache on Ubuntu?
I'm trying to enable use of htaccess file in Ubuntu 14.04 (Apache 2.4.7).
I know that this question has many possible duplicates, but none of them helped me yet.
.htaccess
ErrorDocument 404 /404....
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How do I implement URL rewriting in my .htaccess file?
I'd like to do some URL rewriting (Why? See this question.) so that instead of users seeing addresses like
labouseur.com/course-compilers.html
they can instead see and use simply
labouseur.com/...
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Font blocked from loading by Cross-Origin Resource Sharing policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin'
we are experiencing this error in Google Chrome. We thought everything was set-up correct. But maybe not?
Font from origin http://skin.cdn.com has been blocked from
loading by Cross-Origin ...
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Removing non-www support
I'm not an advocate of the no-www movement. I like the www because it adds as a buffer to distinguish between our public and private/static sites.
The problem is that with one of our sites, our ...
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Is it better to have an ErrorDocument 404 redirect back to the homepage or a standard 404 error page?
We run an ecommerce site that was setup by a third party ecommerce software provider, basic shop with product pages, basket and checkout.
The third party vendor set up the htaccess file so that if a ...
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How to pass GET parameters to rewritten URL?
I have an .htaccess rewrite rule like this:
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^search/(.*)$ search.php?q=$1
What this does is, if someone visits http:/...
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How can I stop a bot attack on my site?
I have a site (built with wordpress) that is currently under a bot attack (as best I can tell). A file is being requested over and over, and the referrer is (almost every time) turkyoutube.org/player/...
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Can .htaccess slow down a site?
I'm working with a client on an e-commerce website. I implemented clean URLs using .htaccess. I also used .htaccess to solve canonical issues such as redirecting www to non-www and removing index.php ...
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Can the files robots.txt and sitemap.xml be dynamic through an .htaccess redirect?
I have a multilanguage and multidomain site. It runs through a unique CMS installation (Drupal), so I have a single root directory. So if I have a static robots.txt, there I only can show the files ...
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What are some resources for learning the ins and outs of .htaccess?
What are resources for learning the various things I can do with .htaccess?
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Forcing 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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Blocking referral traffic
I am currently getting a massive amount of referral traffic to my site (Spam), that can sometime generate 1-2 GB worth of traffic per a day (which kinda sucks, when you have a 10GB limit from the ...
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How are web applications like Tumblr, WordPress.com and Blogspot able to create subdomains for users so fast?
I am curious as to how web-applications are able to create sub-domains instantly for new users, for example, newuser.wordpress.com, or example.blogspot.com. If I need to create a new subdomain for a ...
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301 redirects for all except me
I want to have my site down for an hour and I was using
order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from my.ip.add.ress
but I don't like the default error page. Is there a 301 redirect where I can ...
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htaccess redirect non-www to www with SSL/HTTPS
I want a rewrite rule that redirects everything to https:// AND www.
For example http://example.com should be going to https://www.example.com
This is what I have:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{...
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Need to Stop Bots from Killing my Webserver
I am having EXTREME bot problems on the some of my websites within my hosting account. The bots utilize over 98% of my CPU resources and 99% of my bandwidth for my entire hosting account. These bots ...
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Homemade URL shortener redirect conflicting with 301 redirects
I have a website which was originally built using classic ASP. About a year ago it was rewritten in PHP. This caused file extensions to change and some pages were moved to new locations within the ...
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Alternative to .htaccess (due to bad performance)
I've been told that .htaccess should be avoided when possible, as it reduces the server performance and new servers disable it or just don't implement it any more. I don't know how true this is, but ...
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.htaccess rewrite URL leads to missing CSS
I am trying to make my url from this:
example.com/view.php?id=15
To this:
example.com/watch/15
My code in .htaccess is as follows:
Options -Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
...
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Where/how to put .htaccess files?
I am trying to update/create a .htaccess file for my apache2 server so that my webpages can be accessed without file extensions (e.g. www.example.com/whatis.php can now be accessed as www.example.com/...
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.htaccess redirect url without trailing slashes
In my htaccess I have some rewrited urls like these:
RewriteRule ^first-page$ /subdir/page.php?id_page=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^second-page$ /subdir/page.php?id_page=2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^third-page$ /...
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I bought a domain to do a 301 Redirect - do I need to host that domain?
I'm competent with setting up records for domains, things like CNAME, A Records, etc - but what about if I just want to redirect it?
Do I "have to" do this using a .htaccess file on a host?
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How to redirect / convert any URL to lowercase?
I am using:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
</...
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I want to test major changes on my website without hurting SEO
I want to replace all my website files for new ones on the server and to test if they work alright but I don't want to be crawled while this is happening or if I am,
I don't want the crawler to be ...
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How to verify what modules are active on my server?
While trying to solve a problem on my website, a recommendation about my .htaccess file I got was
First of all, please check on the
server for all the different modules
if they are enabled, and ...
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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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How to set up a 403 forbidden
I've recently set up my first commercial website for someone, with godaddy hosting.
I want to set up a 403 forbidden on several directories (and their contents) that are referenced to through php ...
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Extend depth of .htaccess to all subfolders and their children
I need to be able to use .htaccess in all subfolders for full depth. E.g. I have .htaccess in public_html folder:
\public_html\.htaccess
How I make it to work for the folder small as well?
\...
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Problem with .htaccess and mod_rewrite after moving site to new server
The site seems to draw the correct links but its not redirecting me to the correct view.
The same code works fine on the old server here http://ruse.systemio.net/q&a/.
The new server is here http:...
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Where do I create the file .htaccess, in order to serve my HTML5 cache manifest file correctly?
From a post on http://diveintohtml5.org/offline.html (Wayback Machine Copy)
Your cache manifest file can be
located anywhere on your web server,
but it must be served with the content
type ...
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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
example.com/cgi-bin/directory/...
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Is Checking For mod_write Really Necessary?
Recently I noticed that many people post .htaccess files here with:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Sometimes this even appears several times in the file! It obviously checks to see if mod_write is ...
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Allow access to WordPress site only by links in email newsletters
I send out a personal email newsletter, and have been looking into sending it via some service like MailChimp, or sendy.co. Many of these email services suggest, or require, the email newsletter ...
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Can I enable GZIP on Godaddy?
One of my sites lives on GoDaddy's bottom-of-the-line cheap hosting, I have the correct code in my .htaccess file, but it's not compressing because mod_deflate is not loaded.
How do I enable that?
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.htaccess permanent redirect to www
I have a WordPress installation that is not redirecting URLs not starting with www.
Example: http://example.com/dir/ doesn't send to http://www.example.com/dir/ instead goes to http://example.com/.
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Deny access to all PHP files using FilesMatch, but make an exception for one file
Currently, using htaccess I am denying access to any PHP file in a directory, but not the JS, PNG, CSS files in the same directory.
<FilesMatch "\.php$">
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</...
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In .htaccess files, is there any difference at all between “!=on” and “off”
I’m trying to better understand Apache’s use of a binary attribute. In an .htaccess file with the code
# Check if HTTPS is 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗻
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
Is there more processing occurring&#...
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home page of my site is not appear in google search, when I type site:example.com
I am totally confused, when I place site:example.com in google I see every page of my website in serp(search engine result page) except the home page. I don’t know why it’s happening but I check ...
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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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HSTS Preload section on .htaccess
Recently having moved a site to SSL, I looked into enforcing HSTS for eventual preload. The syntax is approved and the Chrome List allows it to be OK. However, not being a coder at all, a slight ...
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How to re-direct Wordpress posts with 301
All my WordPress post URLs generate sub directories with duplicate content and I do not know what regular expression to use to consistently 301 redirect domain.com/category/post/random-number/ to ...
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Restrict access to directories hosting different sites
My hosting provider requires that my primary domain (let's call it example.com) points to my public_html root. I also own several other domains (let's call them exampleA.com and exampleB.com) that are ...
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Removing the dot or period from htaccess files - A dangerous move?
Removing the dot or period from htaccess files (and thus making it unhidden) - A dangerous move?
I tried to search in Google with the string: Can I remove the dot htaccess But I didn't find anything ...
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SSL/https breaking when using www
Please don't close for being a duplicate, I have already tried the other answered questions and am still having issues.
First, I know why the certification for the site breaks when using www. The ...
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How to disable gzip compression using htaccess
I want to disable gzip compression in my site using htaccess.
I have the code below in htaccess:
php_flag zlib.output_compression off
But it is not working.
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.htaccess syntax multiple RewriteEngine on
I'm learning to maintain my own WP site.
After a lot of reading I ended up with my "complete" htaccess file that looks something like this
DirectoryIndex index.php
# Disable directory listings
...
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Properly force SSL with .htaccess, no double authentication
I am trying to force SSL with .htaccess on a shared host. This means there I only have access to .htaccess and not the main VirtualHost configuration. I know you can put a rule in the VirtualHost ...
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Is an .htaccess edit necessary when enabling Cloudflare SSL?
I have recently changed 3-4 of my sites to Cloudflare SSL. After that, I went to General Settings on WordPress and changed URLs from HTTP to HTTPS.
And it redirects from HTTP to HTTPS without any ...
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Rewrite up to three folders into three query string parameters to a PHP script
I'd like to use mod_rewrite within the .htaccess file to rewrite folders to a var string. Below is examples of current and what I would prefer.
Current URL: example.com/main/folder1/folder2/folder3
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