mod-rewrite

Even more advanced .htaccess question

Got a great answer earlier, but unfortunately, I didn't explain the WHOLE situation: I need to rewrite: blog.domainname.com/archives/YYYY/MM/postname/ and www.blog.domainname.com/archives/YYYY/MM/postname/ to www.domainname.com/blog/postname/ Thanks in advance! ...

SEO Friendly URL to Dynamic URL using PHP

Currently I have a url like this http://&lt;client_name&gt;.website.com/index.php?function_name&amp;cat=32 I want to set things up so that our Marketing people can publish url's like http://&lt;client_name&gt;.website.com/&lt;parent_category&gt;/&lt;category&gt; The "cat=XX" will be generated of the last <category> only. But m...

Rewrite query string "?x=y" style to "/x/y" style

I have a PHP MVC framework I've built from scratch which uses the traditional domain.com/controller/action URL routing. While I'm currently handling the below conversion in the router I'd like to replace them in the URL for cosmetic reasons. For example: controller/action?filter=bank Becomes: controller/action/filter/bank I've don...

trouble with utf-8 chars & apache2 rewrite rules

I see the post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2565864/validating-utf-8-in-htaccess-rewrite-rule and I think that is great, but a more fundamental problem I am having first: I needed to expand to handle utf-8 chars for query string parameters, names of directories, files, and used in displays to users etc. I configured my Apache...

.htaccess redirect question

I have a slight problem with .htaccess redirect. I have a dynamic site with 2 levels of variables - content="type -(alpha)" and ID="number" but this is very not seo friendly what I really would like to create is a rewrite rule that generates a "friendly" url for serach engines & users alike. Very much like WordPress does. Each ID is a...

Apache Mod Rewrite question

I am not really familiar with apache modrewrite I have url parameters such as {domain}/index.php?blog=5 i simply want to make it {domain}/home.php?client=5 Is it a task as simple as it sounds and can anyone help ? ...

Rewriterule end slash

Hi, I'm working on a Rewriterule in order to have URLs like these: http://www.myhost.com/var1/var2/ RewriteRule ^(.*)\/(.*)\/$ index.php?var1=$1&var2=$2 [L] What I would like to add is that when someone types myhost.com/var1/var2 (without the end slash), it still goes to the same page. Is there a better way to do it than this? Rew...

Django AND .htaccess rewrites/redirects, is this possible?

Is it possible to have Apache htaccess rewrites take effect before it hits django? I want to be able to specify RewriteRules in an htaccess file that take precedence over django, and if nothing matches then it gets dispatched to mod_wsgi/django. We're using apache2 with mod_wsgi and the apache vhost looks like this: <VirtualHost *:80>...

Convert to lowercase in a mod_rewrite rule.

I would like URLs like server.com/foo to be case-insensitive. But server.com/foo actually gets mod_rewrite'd to server.com/somedir/foo (Assume that all the files in "somedir" are lower case.) So the question is, how to accomplish a mod_rewrite like the following: RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ somedir/convert_to_lowercase($1) PS: Here's ...

htaccess redirect to subfolder with same path attached?

How can I go about redirecting my old URLs which would have been: http:// blah.com/some/post/name to the new URLs which would be: http:// blah.com/new/some/post/name Is this even possible? I don't want to simply redirect any requests for the blah.com domain to blah.com/new I want to make sure the subpath is still attached to the redi...

Mod rewrite urls with

Hey Guys, I'm at my wits end here , I normally like to work things out on my own but this has me well and truly beaten here.. I'm trying to mod rewrite my urls that contain pluses... /search.php?q=can+be+any+length to /can-be-any-length.html Any help would be really appreciated becaus rewriting the + php is not an option ...

match 'article' in url RewriteRule

hello there. building a site which has content for each section. urls range from; /work/ /work/print/ /work/print/folders etc. however, at any point a user can click on an article so; /work/article/1066 /work/print/article/1066 /work/print/folders/article/1066 using .htaccess i need to detect when there is 'article' in the url and ...

Zend Server CE Apache mod_rewrite REQUEST_FILENAME SCRIPT_FILENAME Problem

Hi,there! I use this .htaccess file in a project: RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L] It works well in Apache 2.2 Recently I started to use Zend Server CE , the ReWrite Rule didn't work ! And this works: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_F...

Old mod_rewrite (htaccess) rule still applies

I had a rule in the .htaccess file in my root directory that said: RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php I've completely rewritten the file since then, and the rule is still being applied. I tried restarting the Apache server and the physical server with no luck. I've also scoured the directory and there are no other .htaccess files in there or ...

Using altered RewriteCond to check if file exists in multiple locations

I want to use mod-rewrite to check for a file in two separate locations: at the requested URL, and at the requested URL within the "public" directory. Here's what I have so far: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/public/$0 !-f #this line isn't working RewriteRule ^(.*)...

help with .htaccess RewriteRule

What is the rewrite rule for following URL mysite.com/001234-some-keywords.html I want to capture the 6 digit reference number something like ([0-9]{6}) my indexed file is templates/default/index.php?ref=001234 One day I do a crashcourse regex.. I promise. ...

Rewrite URL to index.php but avoid index.php in the URL

I'm trying to internally redirect all requests to index.php and externally redirect all requests that contain index.php using a .htaccess file. So URLs like http://host/test should be processed by index.php and URLs like http://host/index.php/test should be redirected to http://host/test and then processed by index.php (without redirect...

Help mod_rewrite to Zeus

I just found out my host is on ZEUS.. Please can somebody help me with my rewrites: domain.com/001234 redirects to domain.com/001234-some-keywords.html Apache: RewriteRule ^([0-9]{6}+)/?$ includes/redirect.php?ref=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^([0-9]{6})-.*?\.html$ templates/default/index.php?ref=$1 [L] tried this in Zeus: match URL into...

Mod_rewrite on all website images

I'm designing an image repository. I want to uncouple the filename from the image html link. For instance: image in filesystem is called images/items/12543.jpg HTML is <img src="images/car.jpg" /> Does anyone strongly discourages me to rewrite all image requests using PHP so when retrieving images/car.jpg, Apache really replies conte...

mod rewritten directory shorten

I can only find mod rewrite examples/tutorials for query's, so can someone help me with this. I would like this http://website.tld/Folder1/Folder2/Folder3/Folder4/Folder5/File.exten to be transformed into http://website.tld/Folder4/File.exten Folder4 and Folder5 are multiple directories, while Folder 1-3 stay the same. Also File.e...