FAQ: mod_rewrite, 301 redirects, and optimizing Apache.

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^nixism\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.nixism.com/$1 [R=301,L]

 

your amazing.. thanks!

 

Is it a good code with this one?
Options Indexes +FollowSymLinks Includes +ExecCGI
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^site\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.site.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

And is it better to change it directly in apache for google ex:
Apache as follows:

for "site.com":

Redirect permanent / http://www.site.com/

or to do it in .htaccess ?

Bobby

 

.htaccess is much easior to edit.

 

Here is my .htaccess file:

However this rule apparently redirects anything to index.php, even capital letters and symbols... What did I do wrong?

 

Post an example of the original URL and how you want it.

 

Ah... so this is the only thread where Nintendo replies...

I was wondering why he seems to ignore other threads requesting similar help

 

I'm trying to redirect ANY request that contains only lowercase letters, numbers, and / or the characters:

to /index.php

For example:
example.com/foo/bar-3.0
would be redirected,
example.com/foO/bar-3.0
would not be. But this:

^[a-z0-9\./-]+$

Code (markup):

seems to match any string, as far as I can tell... what did I do wrong?

[edit]

Ok, it looks like the problem is in this part:

\.

Code (markup):

If I remove that it works (except if there is a '.' in the URL obviously), so it appears that the '.' isn't getting escaped like I thought it was- how do I escape special characters then?

 

Afaik, within the [] notation, you do not need to escape metacharacters - other than the obvious ones that could be confused ([ ] and possibly -, depending on position).

Have you tried without escaping the period? I can't imagine why still escaping it anyway should cause problems but other than it looks perfect.

 

I have searched the forum but i didnt find the answer maybe i didnt search very good. Sorry if this question posted again.

I want to redirect my vbulletin forum from a dir www.domain.com/vbulletin to www.domain.com

Can i do that with mod_rewrite?

Thanks
coby

 

Options +FollowSymLinks +Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^vbulletin/(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

 

Thanks for your help, I removed the backslash that was escaping it but still no luck (Expression: ^[a-z0-9/.-]+$ ).

 

Thanks Nintendo!

I tried this one but it didnt work.
Where do i have to put this one? On root or in subdir?
Also i have an index.html which does the automatic redirection to the /vbulletin dir on root. Is this causing any problems?

After some thinking... I realised that my completed question would be:
How can i create permanent redirection to the vbulletin dir and rewriting the url showing only the domain name using .htaccess?

I have to say that i tried permanent redirection from a tutorial using htaccess but after that all my addon domains on server stopped working, so i used index.html...

 

domain.com/.htaccess

for just taking vbulletin/ out of the URL.

Is the index.html using meta redirect in the file? That wouldn't effect it.

 

why is the number giving me trouble?

RewriteRule ^dictionary-3.html http://www.hellhorror.com/demonology.html [L,R=301]

but

RewriteRule ^dictionary-.html http://www.hellhorror.com/demonology.html [L,R=301]
WORKS!!


Something wrong with the 3
RewriteRule ^dictionary-3.html http://www.hellhorror.com/demonology.html [L,R=301]

 

Options +FollowSymLinks +Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^dictionary\-3\.html$ http://www.hellhorror.com/demonology.html [R=301,L]

 

Same prob

RewriteRule ^dictionary\-3\.html$ http://www.hellhorror.com/demonology.html [R=301,L] DOES NOT WORK

BUT

RewriteRule ^dictionary\-\.html$ http://www.hellhorror.com/demonology.html [R=301,L] DOES WORK


That stupid numeral 3

Any other option to maybe escape it or something??

 

I created it in the root but nothing happened...
When i load the site www.domain.com the page starts reloading with no output.
Maybe its the index.html file that has the redirection on meta.(as you mentioned)
I deleted the index.html on root to see what happens and i saw the index of my server. I clicked on some dirs but reloads on the root.

Whats wrong?
Can we fix this?

Thanks.

 

Hi Nintendo,

It seems when I use more than 9 parameters at my RewriteRule, the server confuses and refers $10 as to $1 and a zero afterward, and for $11 as $1 and 1 afterward
So if $1 gets "hi" value,$10 would become "hi0" is there a way overcoming this problem?

 

I've enver tried having more than nine, so I'm not sure why it does that.

Do you have it like

whatever.php?wacko=$1&more=$2&soon=$3
or
whatever.php?$1=$2&$3=$4&$5=$6 ?