FAQ: mod_rewrite, 301 redirects, and optimizing Apache.

I have these pages

www. domain .com/index.php?page=Folder-Number-One
www. domain .com/index.php?page=Key-Phrase-One

I want to create a sub-folder for other files to be under with Folder-Number-One.php file becoming the index file

I want to create
www. domain .com/Folder-Number-One
www. domain .com/Folder-Number-One/Key-Phrase-One.html

I have this:

RewriteRule ^Folder-Number-One\/(.*)$ index.php?page=Folder-Number-One
RewriteRule ^Folder-Number-One/Key-Phrase-One/(.*)$ index.php?page=Key-Phrase-One

first rewrite ends up creating domain .com/Folder-Number-One.html but i would rather it be a folder not a file.
2nd rewrite is not working at all. What am i missing? Are my dashed file names causing troublems, or is my rewrite simply wrong?

I already have a rewrite rule in there that converts files to .html extension.


EDIT I figured out the folder part by removing the (.*)$ (also works with the $ still in it)
this now works www. domain .com/Folder-Number-One/

But i still cant get www. domain .com/Folder-Number-One/Key-Phrase-One.html

 

RewriteRule ^Folder-Number-One/(.*)/$ index.php?page=$1
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ index.php?page=$1

If Folder-Number-One changes....

RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/$ index.php?page=$2
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ index.php?page=$1

with $2 being Key-Phrase-One.

With

index.php?page=Folder-Number-One
and
index.php?page=Key-Phrase-One

both are exactly the same thing so why not just have

RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ index.php?page=$1

 

I think I have to abandon my attempt at making the other files go into the folder. I just cant get it to work.

I'll just have to use this RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ index.php?page=$1

and have them all as files off the root, i guess.

 

I can't get mod_rewrite to work on this site and it's frustrating the @#$3 out of me ... What am I doing wrong???

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ /pages.php?idpages=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ /description.php?iddesc=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/(.*)\.html$ /products.php?id=$1&lev1=$2&lev2=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)\.html$ /products.php?id=$1&lev1=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ /products.php?id=$1 [L]

Site is cellmansion dot com

 

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/([^.]+)/([^.]+)\.html$ products.php?id=$1&lev1=$2&lev2=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/([^.]+)\.html$ products.php?id=$1&lev1=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^products/([^.]+)\.html$ products.php?id=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^pages/([^.]+)\.html$ pages.php?idpages=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^description/([^.]+)\.html$ description.php?iddesc=$1 [L]

 

Hello,

I have a very simple question:

I have to redirect www.domain.com to www.domain.com/mycmsdirectory
because I installed my CMS inside the /mycmsdirectory to keep clean the root

I'm using this now
Redirect 301 /index.html http://www.site.com/directory/index.php

It's works but I think it's not correct (SEO Point of view) and I can do better. Nintendo can you please help me?

 

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ directory/index.php [L]

or

RewriteRule ^index\.html$ http://www.domain.com/directory/index.php [R=301,L]

for mod_rewrite. Get rid of index\.html for domain.com

 

Special thanks to Nintendo, I think he is the master of mod_rewrite
Best Regards !

 

hello again

I set up a test website based on Wordpress at www.domain.tld/dir

I used this code on /.htaccess to redirect all domain.tld requests to www.domain.tld:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^domain.tld [nc]
RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.domain.tld/$1 [r=301,nc]

and all went ok.
Problems started when I started to use permalinks under wordpress which create another .htaccess under /dir directory with this options:

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /dir/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /dir/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

This override my general htaccess so I tried to insert inside the previous code and i get:

# BEGIN WordPress

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^domain.tld [nc]
RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.domain.tld/$1 [r=301,nc]


<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /dir/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /dir/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

But the fix don't work
In particular when I try to access this url:

http://domain.tld/dir

I get:

Moved Permanently
The document has moved here (http://domain.tld/dir).

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Servage.net Cluster (Enhanced Apache) Server at domain.tld Port 80

This is a loop

I have a share account and the general config of the webserver redirect requests to domain.tld if you not use the trailing slash.

For example: http:www.domain.tld/dir point to domain.tld/dir/

I don't know how to resolve the problem so I'm asking again for help Super Nintendo

P.S.

I used also other htaccess code like:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.domain.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]


RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]


but the problems remains

 

RewriteRule . /dir/index.php [L]

doesn't look correct at all. Not even sure if...

RewriteRule ^.$ dir/index.php [L]

would fix it. For adding / to the URLs, right before the first $ on the

RewriteRule

lines, add a /

I got wordpress and the .htaccess file code it gave out is 49 lines.

You might want to make a post over on their message board.

 

thank you for your fast reply!

I'm using Wordpress 2.0.4 I tried to reinstall it and change themes but the code it give me is always that
My permalinks structure is: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%category%/%postname%/

 

I found something interesting here:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/71959?replies=3

I will do some tests and I will report my finding

 

The code works:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.tld$
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.domain.tld/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^dir/ /dir/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

The only problem is this:

If you call domain.tld/dir

it redirects to:

www.domain.tld/dir

and it redirects to:

http://domain.tld/dir/

then to:

http://www.domain.tld/dir/

and it finally reach the website

So it works but is there a cleaner solution?

 

Post your complete .htaccess code. I'm guessing you have more than one [R=301,L] code.

 

Redirect 301 /index.html http://www.domain.tld/dir/

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.tld$
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.domain.tld/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^dir/ /dir/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

 

Changing the order is all I can think of.

Redirect 301 /index.html http://www.domain.tld/dir/

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^dir/ /dir/index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.tld$
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.domain.tld/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

 

Perfect FAQ!!
It's seems that you are an expert on this,will be asking for help if needed
Thanks,Nintendo!

 

this is a very complete tutorial, thanx Nintendo!

ive learnt a few things

 

I am currently rewriting urls from
http://www.domain.com/index.php?page=page
to
http://www.domain.com/site/page/

I would like to redirect users who access the page from index.php?page= and redirect them to /site/page. How would I go about doing this without getting in some horrible mod_rewrite infinite loop?

 

This is just a guess. If it doesn't do it, you're toast.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=page(&page=[^&]+)?$
RewriteRule ^index\.php?page=([^.]+)$ http://www.domain.com/site/$1 [R=301,L]