FAQ: mod_rewrite, 301 redirects, and optimizing Apache.

Sorry Nintendo doesn't work?? Confused....

As mentioned before this below works but still takes the value after the '?'
RedirectMatch 301 property_details/viewimage.php.* h tt p://www.costaandsierra.com/ [R=301,L]

 

In that code I don't see any ? or value so I'm not sure how that works, unless it moves it to the new URL because it's not in the code for the old URL.

RedirectMatch 301 property_details/viewimage.php?imageID=([^.]+)&type=listing$ http://www.costaandsierra.com/ [R=301,L]

I'm not sure if ([^.]+) works in
RedirectMatch 301
stuff.

 

Hi Nintendo,

I was just wondering if you can help me rewriting a URL.

E.g. I get the following values from DB for the these variables:

catID: 67
itemID: 21
catName: flowers
itemName: rose

I want to rewrite the URL
http://www.site.com/detail.php?catID=67&itemID=21
to something like
http://www.site.com/flowers/rose.html

Please help

 

It just copes the information by using the .*

Correct it causes a 500 Error!

Could I add some code to the viewimage file that would redirect it in 301 style to the homepage?

 

Make a post in the php board about editing the file.

 

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^flowers/([^.]+)/rose/([^.]+)\.html$ detail.php?catID=$1&itemID=$2 [L]

Code (markup):

http://www.site.com/flowers/###/rose/###.html

And the script would need to be changed to tho new URLs.

 

Thanks for the quick response. By this:
http://www.site.com/flowers/###/rose/###.html you mean http://www.site.com/flowers/67/rose/21.html ?
I actually want it to be http://www.site.com/flowers/rose.html

 

Is this for just one URL, or a lot? If it's for more than one, you would have to have a .htaccess line for every single URL to have it that way with out the numbers.

RewriteRule ^flowers/rose\.html$ detail.php?catID=67&itemID=21 [L]

if there's only one URL.

 

Ah that will be pain since I have more than one URLs. phpLinkdirectory is acting that way so I thought it might be easy.

http://www.web-designers-directory.org/phpLD/Internet_and_Web_Services/

See the above example have no parameters in the URL

 

I won't be able to do it that way. The database is setup with the spaces. The + symbol works inbetween them, but not -. Is there a way through mod_rewrite to rename that %20 to something and then change the long url to a static one? Thanks again!

 

Internet_and_Web_Services is the part that changes and would be in the non_mod_rewrite version URL, along with all the other category names!!

Only the script can change the links.

 

Nintendo,

Is there anything wrong with this code:

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index2/17131.html$ /items/index2.php?item_id=17131

Code (markup):

Original address: http://www.domain.com/items/index2.php?item_id=17131

That should redirect here: http://www.domain.com/items/index2/17131.html ...right?

 

RewriteRule ^index2/17131\.html$ items/index2.php?item_id=17131 [L]

 

Nintendo, you're the man. Thanks soooo much for all the help! I worked on my site for about 4 hours last night changing my scripts around to work with .htaccess and now, every page looks like a static .html or a directory. AWESOME! Re-crawled my site, and sent in a new sitemap to google. Looking forward to having better coverage in G

 

Hi,
I wanted to make subdomains without CPanel using .htaccess .
What i want is to treat a subdomain like http://try.example.com] to http://www.example.com/try/ .
I dont want to use CPanel in this.
I tried a lot but no result.

I read ur tutorial and tried that also.

Here is the code that i tried:

RewriteEngine on  
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.example\.com$  
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com$  
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/%1$1 [P]

Code (markup):

I have also removed the $ sign after '.com' and tried but not working.

My present Host is using CPanel.Could he possibly disabled the thing.

Pls reply and help me out.

Thanks and have a good day.

 

Can a htaccess interfere with proper functioning of subdomains?

I have the following in my htaccess file

but when I try to add a new subdomain in cpanel, it shows the content of mydomain.com everytime instead of subdomain.mydomain.com

 

If you don't get an answer to that here, make a new thread with that question in the title. I'm a n00bie at sub-domain stuff.

 

thanks Nintendo

I could figure out the first 2 sections in the htaccess. but can you tell what does this stand for ?

Thanks

 

RewriteRule ^index\.(html|php|htm)$ /cgi-bin/cgi.php?index.$1 [L]

Extension can be html, php, or htm, though I don't see a (.*) spot for the stuff at $1 to show up, unless it's the html, php, and htm part.


RewriteRule ^aa\-(.*)\/(.*)$ /cgi-bin/cgi.php?$1/$2?%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

I'm not sure about the %{QUERY_STRING} stuff. I've never had it in a RewriteRule line.

 

actually, I was going to add sub-domain to an existing site and I found this in its htaccess file.
since it is an existing site with good rankings in google, I didn't want to mess up anything
have deleted the subdomain for the time-being.
will see if someone can post here a reply or else will start a new thread.

Thanks for your help, Nintendo