I want to redirect URL
domain/Family_He..
to
domain/Family_Health_insurance
using RewriteRule. I have tried with
RewriteRule /Family_He(.*)$ /Family_Health_insurance
and it is working. But I have some more page with urls like
domain/Family_Health_info
domain/Family_Health_quote
domain/Family_Health_child etc
When I tried as
RewriteRule /Family_He\.\.$ /Family_Health_insurance
then this won't works for me. Please help me out.
Are you aware that there are actually two spaces at the end of your subject string that would prevent \.$ (a literal dot at the end of the string) from matching?
To have it redirect (302) you need to add the R flag. To match the dot you need to escape it using \. like
RewriteRule ^/Family_He\.\.$ /Family_Health_insurance [R=302,L]
Note that the leading slash doesn't work in htaccess, only in httpd.conf
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I am using IBM HTTP server configuration file to rewrite a URL redirected from CDN.
For some reason the URL comes with a superfluous single question mark even when there are no any query string. For example:
/index.html?
I'm in the process of making the 301 redirect for this. I want to remove the single "?" from the url but keep it if there is any query string.
Here's what I tried but it doesn't work:
RewriteRule ^/index.html? http://localhost/index.html [L,R=301]
update:
I tried this rule with correct regular expression but it never be triggered either.
RewriteRule ^/index.html\?$ http://localhost/index.html [L,R=301]
I tried to write another rule to rewrite "index.html" to "test.html" and I input "index.html?" in browser, it redirected me to "test.html?" but not "index.html".
You need to use a trick since RewriteRule implicitly matches against just the path component of the URL. The trick is looking at the unparsed original request line:
RewriteEngine ON
# literal ? followed by un-encoded space.
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} "\? "
# Ironically the ? here means drop any query string.
RewriteRule ^/index.html /index.html? [R=301]
Question-mark is a Regular Expression special character, which means "the preceding character is optional". Your rule is actually matching index.htm or index.html.
Instead, try putting the question-mark in a "character class". This seems to be working for me:
RewriteRule ^/index.html[?]$ http://localhost/index.html [L,R=301]
($ to signify end-of-string, like ^ signifies start-of-string)
See http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/httpserv/manual60/mod/mod_rewrite.html (for your version of Apache, which is not the latest)
Note from our earlier attempts, escaping the question-mark doesn't seem to work.
Also, I'd push the CDN on why that question-mark is being sent. This doesn't seem a normal pattern.
RewriteRule ^categories/([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)/?$ /categories.php?c=$1 [QSA,L]
This is my RewriteRule, it deals with categories such as /categories/Family perfectly that URL displays the page as I would like it too, However with something such as /categories/Web%20Design I get an The requested URL /categories/Web Design was not found on this server.
This is a pain, I've even tried to use a space in the ReWriteRule after the 9 in [A-Za-z0-9-], what's the best way to handle spaces in URLs with the rewrites?
Thank You All.
Use this rule by including space in your character class:
RewriteRule ^categories/([A-Za-z0-9\s-]+)/?$ /categories.php?c=$1 [QSA,L]
try adding \s to the Regex...
That matches whitespace.
([A-Za-z0-9\-\s]+)
So, I have the following RegEx..
RewriteRule ^([-a-z0-9]*[A-Z\.]+.*)$ file.php?string=$1 [QSA]
The URL I want file.php to trigger for must either have capital letters or a period in it, then send the URL to the PHP script.
However, the problem I have is that this script is triggering on any URL, because of the not-truly-escaped Period.
I've tried escaping the period with a backslash, or two backslashes, or three... but none stop the generic interpretation.
What am I doing wrong?
Edit: As an example,
RewriteRule ^([-a-z0-9]*[A-Z\\.]+[-a-z0-9\/]*)$ file.php?string=$1 [QSA]
Doesn't work, but
RewriteRule ^([-a-z0-9]*\\.+[-a-z0-9\/]*)$ file.php?string=$1 [QSA]
does escape it.
Edit 2: Examples of URLs I want to redirect:
/some-page-goes-here.html
/heres-Robs/Old/Page/
And ones I don't:
/testing/one/two/
/an/actual-file.gif
EDIT 3: Old regex was:
RewriteRule ^([-a-z0-9]*[A-Z\.]+[-a-z0-9\/]*)$ file.php?string=$1 [QSA]
But while writing the post, I updated the question's regex to what you see above.
Try:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} [A-Z] [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.html$
RewriteRule (.*) file.php?string=$1 [QSA]
When using mod_rewrite and you have several URLs to match, it is always better to use RewriteCond to filter and then apply your RewriteRule.
I don't think your problem can be what you think it is: periods in a character class are supposed to mean literal periods, not "any character". If this really is the problem, somehow, then you could change [A-Z\.]+ to ([A-Z]|\.)+; but I doubt it. Some things to try:
what happens if you comment out this line? does that successfully disable this redirect? if not, then obviously the problem isn't with this line. :-)
what happens if you make this a real HTTP redirect, by changing QSA to QSA,R? Does the destination URL look like what you expect? Maybe there are some unexpected periods or uppercase letters? (Warning: this will very likely trigger an infinite redirect loop if you try it in a browser; it'll probably be easier to try submitting the request via port-80 Telnet and seeing the actual HTTP response.)
Also, your rule doesn't quite match how you describe it. For example, your rule wouldn't match a URL like a.b.c, because you only uppercase letters and/or dots to occur in a single "clump"; if they're separated by lowercase letters, no match will occur. Is that just because you didn't want to overcomplicate the description?
I am trying to setup my .htaccess file to do some nifty redirects for me.
Right now I have URLs like:
mysite.com/?video=1
I would like to have URLs like:
mysite.com/1/
Right now I have pieced together the following regex:
RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$ /index.php?v=$1 [L]
This works great if the URL is in the format
mysite.com/2
, but NOT if the format is
mysite.com/2/
, NOTE the trailing slash.
So what I really need help with is my regex! :)
Try to make the quantifier non greedy
^(.*?)/?$
otherwise the trailing slash is matched by the ., because its greedy and the explicit slash is optional.
Stema's idea should work. Or you could just make the regex more specific by e.g. only accepting numbers.
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?v=$1 [L]
or alpha numeric
RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/?$ /index.php?v=$1 [L]
I'm almost there with a mod_rewrite rule, but I've caved in :)
I need to rewrite
country/[countryname].php
to
country/[countryname]/
however, [countryname] may have an underscore like this: 'south_africa.php' and if it does I want to replace it with a hypen: 'south-africa/'
I also want to match if the country has numbers following it: 'france03.php' to 'france/'
Heres my rule, its almost there but its still adding a hyphen even if there is no second part after the underscore.
RewriteRule ^country/(.*)_(.*?)[0-9]*\.php$ country/$1-$2 [R=301,L]
so currently 'country/south_.php' becomes 'country/south-/'
Can someone please help me find the missing piece of the puzzle? Thanks.
Try this:
RewriteRule ^country/([^_]*)_([^_]*?)\d*\.php$ country/$1-$2 [R=301,L]
This rule will match urls with a single underscore - you'll need a different rule for more underscores or none.
If you want to make sure $2 contains only letter and isn't empty, change ([^_]*?) it to ([a-zA-Z]+).
Alternatively you could do it over several passes:
# If request is for something in "country/"
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^country/.+\.php$
# Replace underscore and digits with (single) hyphen
RewriteRule [_0-9]+ \-
# Remove extension (and possible trailing hyphen)
RewriteRule ^(.*)-?\.php$ $1
# Final rewrite
RewriteRule ^country/(.*)$ country/$1 [R=301,L]
Untested ... and not necessarily "pretty" :)