url-rewriting

Need to have either example.com/username or username.example.com, but how?

Hey guys, I'm almost finished developing my large project, however I would love it if I could make it so instead of having the users profile pages at: http://example.com/profile/username/USERNAME (i'm currently using .htaccess to rewrite the GET data into forward slashes and profile(.php) being read as just 'profile' profile.php also ...

Wordpress static home page dynamic posts page url rewrite

Hi I have a Wordpress installation with a static main page and posts page with the name articles. My custom permalink string within Wordpress is set to /%postname% and my htaccess file is set as follows: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !...

SEO: Duplicated URLs with and without dash "/" and ASP.NET MVC

Hello guys, after reading this article "Slash or not to slash" (link: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.html) on Google Webmaster Central Blog (the oficial one) I decided to test my ASP.NET MVC app. For example: http://domain.com/products and http://domain.com/products/ (with "/" in the end), re...

URL Redirection

How do I set it up so that when someone goes to www.example.com/file1.mp3, they get redirected to www.example.com/file2.mp3, but the address in the browser bar stays the same? ...

Redirecting all dynamic URLs from an old site to a single static url

We had an old coldfusion website a couple of years ago and I recently realized there are some old links still floating around causing 404 errors. I don't know what was on any of the pages and I just want to redirect them to a new static page. Our new site is a Joomla 1.5 site with SEF URLs turned on. An old URL would look like this: htt...

How to rewrite to a virtual directory with a different application

Hi, I have a CMS application that manages multiple websites, today whenever i change the codebehind of one of these websites - i have to rebuild the dll for all websites, deploy it - this disconnects all current sessions and is really bad. The iis is configured to listen to all domain requests, if the request is to one of the websites'...

Use Mod_Rewrite to Rewrite ROOT to Another Path

Note: I have tried the suggestions under this question but they either don't work or give me an infinite redirect loop error. I have the following in my .htaccess file: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / # Rewrite old links to new Redirect 301 /howitworks.php /ho...

Creating user/search engine friendly URLs

I want to create a url like www.facebook.com/username just like Facebook does it. Can we use mod_rewrite to do it. Username is name of the user in a table. It is not a sub directory. Please advise. ...

Apache friendly urls

Hi everyone. I've got a small CMS system written in PHP and running on Apache. The format of the URLs this CMS system uses/generates is: /display.php?PageID=xxx where xxx is just some integer number. As you can see, those URLs are not very friendly, neither for users nor search engines. I believe that using mod_rewrite (or something...

mod_rewrite if file exists

Hi everyone, I already have two rewrite rules that work correctly for now but some more code has to be added to work perfectly. I have a website hosted at mydomain.com and all subdom.mydomain.com are rewrited to mydomain.com/subs/subdom . My CMS has to handle the request if the file being reached does not exist, the rewrite is done li...

WordPress Media URL conflicts with Page URL

If I upload a file foo.pdf to WordPress I can access it at http://example.com/foo/. (There is a simple HTML page with a link to the PDF file). If I then create a Page named foo I cannot view or preview the Page because the default URL, http://example.com/foo/, will resolve to the page for the PDF. How can I resolve this URL conflict? ...

How to implement URL rewrite in classic ASP using custom 404 page?

My web host told me that they are using Windows IIS (not sure about the version) and are unable to implement a URL rewrite for me. I am now looking at alternative ways to do this. Obviously, I don't have access to the IIS server. I read somewhere that using a custom 404 page, I am able to implement a URL rewrite from my end using classic...

ASP.NET MVC Url Masking/Rewriting

Let us say I have a url of subdomain.domain.com. Is there a way in ASP.NET MVC to have a url of say otherdomain.com/gotothesubdomain that takes you to subdomain.domain.com? I know that a simple redirect could do it, but I want the url to stay as otherdomain.com/gotothesubdomain. Any advice would be greatly appreciated and thanks! ...

apache htaccess rewrite rules make redirection loop

Hi guys, Have a very strange problem with Apache .htaccess URL Rewriting and Redirection. Here's my setup: I have a zend application with a single point of entry (index.php) directly under my apache document root (call this the "public" folder). I also have all other public files (images, js, css, etc.) under the public folder. Here, ...

url rewrite for aspx page

I have a page, called foo.aspx and i d like to rewrite the url as bar.something How to do this? How does url rewrite happens in asp.net Should i create a generic handler? or should i get some url rewrite modules and add to app? ...

Ko3 - URL Rewriting problem - Removing index.php

Hi there. I'm developing a website using Kohana 3 (1rst time I use a framework). Locally, everything works perfectly. At the moment, I have a default template controller, a multi-language support and my 'index.php' is correctly removed. So before going further, I tested if it worked on my server and I got an endless loop. I followed the...

Creating subdomain in URL alaising

I am creating a social networking site and one of the requirements is to have the subdomain like URL for each user. For example, for the user1 his profile page will be user1.mysitename.com and for the user2 profile page will be user2.mysitename.com. Can it be done using url aliasing? basically user1.mysitename.com should be www.mysitena...

How to beautify the URL?

I am sick of this kind of URL: www.domain.com/something/?id=person&photos=photoID&variable1=others&... I am using apache, learning to write .htaccess now. Can anyone show me the basic code for this one? Ugly: www.domain.com/something/?id=person&photos=photoID Goal: www.domain.com/something/person/photoID ...

Hiding file in address bar

Hi, I've created a PHP pagination system, but I want to hide the _GET variable in the address bar. At the moment mine looks like this: http://example.com/images.php?page=1 But I've seen a few site that have http://example.com/images/1/. Just wondering how they go about this? Can anyone point me in the right direction? Cheers ...

URL Rewriting for Silverlight 3.0 on IIS 7

Hi, I am trying to use URL rewriting to convert a URL like http://localhost/Pine/Default/ABCD/ to http://localhost/Pine/Default.aspx?Code=ABCD I am using Intelligencia.UrlRewriter and it is working fine. But since I have a Silverlight application, when the .xap file is loaded it tries to load from .../Default/ABCD instead of /Pine/ I f...