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I would like to rewrite:
http://www.example.com/vienna*
http://www.example.com/vienna*/
http://www.example.com/visit/vienna* - only this works, going to the right directory
http://www.example.com/visit/vienna*/
* - means any character
to
www.example.com/visit/index.php?cat=19 (showing one of the urls above)
My rewrite script (first two lines should apply)
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(visit/)?(vienna安ien)(.*)/?$ /visit/index.php?cat=19&main [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?example.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?example1.com$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^id=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/?$ /index.php?id=$1$2 [QSA]
PROBLEM
When I use [R,L] at the first line, everything works perfectly for all 4 urls (as it is a redirection). But when I use [L] relative paths for style and images in coppermine gallery are not found properly.
How to avoid this? Is it possible? It may work with RewriteBase, but I wasn't able to solve it successfully. Rest part of the htaccess script is for another purpose which is working fine and I hope it doesn't influence the first line. I cannot change relative paths as the simplescript.com security updates always change the installation to the previous state (using relative paths everywhere in coppermine gallery).
Any help really appreciated.
[edited by: jatar_k at 3:14 pm (utc) on June 30, 2008]
[edit reason] please use example.com [/edit]
It is the client (e.g. robot or browser) which resolves relative links, based on the URL in its address bar. That is why relative links will work when using an external redirect, but not when using an internal rewrite -- because a redirect sends the new URL to the browser, which then constructs and requests the correct URL-paths.
If you cannot use server-relative <img src="/path-to-image"> or canonical <img src="http://www.example.com/path-to-image"> links, then your only choice will be to rewrite the image paths to correct them. This will create multiple URLs for each image, since either the correct URLs or the incorrect URLs will then work. All other solutions will 'expose' your rewritten URLs.
Jim
No I cannot use canonical urls like 'http://www.example.com' neither server relative ones and now I understand the internal rewrite problem.
My another idea was using a redirect (R=301, which works) when someone types 'http://www.example.com/vienna'
and redirect it with main .htaccess file to
'http://www.example.com/visit' directory
and then REWRITE all requests in this subdirectory (with second subdirectory .htaccess file)
where I rewrite
http://www.example.com/visit/vienna
to
/visit/index.php?cat=19&main [L]
Do you think this would work? I tried and it works but not with urls ending with slash. Do you think, that a symbolic links inside the visit directory can solve the end slash problem? Regular expression /? is not helping :(, perhaps my two .htaccess files scenario is not correct.
Thanks for your help.
Andy
[edited by: jdMorgan at 2:09 pm (utc) on July 1, 2008]
[edit reason] No URLs, please. [/edit]
As for the trailing slash problem, I can't answer that without seeing the code...
Jim
Let's say I agree with search engine confusion and I want to have only www.example.com/visit/vienna and www.example.com/visit/vienna/ accessible. I still can point another domain directly to visit/ subdirectory so www.exampleX.com/vienna should work then.
After you smart tips I still have this trailing slash problem:
I would like to rewrite:
http://www.example.com/visit/vienna*
http://www.example.com/visit/vienna*/
to
www.example.com/visit/index.php?cat=19
It's working without slash. With slash it's still wrong and can be tested at www.<myloginname>.com/visit/vienna/ .
Problem is that internal rewrite and image/css path is www.example.com/visit/vienna/pathtoimage while it should be www.example.com/visit/pathtoimage
Code (one .htacess scenario)
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(visit/)(vienna安ien)(.*)/?$ /visit/index.php?cat=19&main [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?exampleX.com$
RewriteRule ^(vienna安ien)(.*)/?$ /visit/index.php?cat=19&main [L]
Is there a solution outthere? :(
http://www.example.com/visit/vienna
http://www.example.com/visit/vienna/
Jim
Really anxious to hear your solution.
Thanks in advance for you expeditious answers.
Andy
RewriteEngine on
#
# Redirect to remove trailing slash on vienna/wien URLs
RewriteRule ^((vienna安ien)/.+)/$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
#
# Redirect all non-canonical domain requests to canonical domain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
#
# Internally rewrite URLs to script
RewriteRule ^(visit/)?(vienna安ien)/ /visit/index.php?cat=19&main [L]
Replace the broken pipe "¦" characters above with solid pipe characters before use; Posting on this forum modifies the pipe characters.
Jim
Internal rewrite (last line) is not working, but when I remove / after "wien)" internal rewrite works fine (for www.example.com/visit/vienna).
But redirecting www.example.com/visit/vienna/ throws page without style & images. I tried to check whats wrong with redirect and I think the first RewriteRule:
"RewriteRule ^((vienna安ien)/.+)/$"
is somehow wrong. It does nothing with www.example.com/visit/vienna/
but surprisingly it does with www.example.com/vienna/visit/ (vienna & visit switched) - and it throws last slash away.
I was not able to repair this part by myself. Your code is online (with internal rewrite unchanged), can you please check and help what I should change to redirect it successfully?
It still can be checked at "my login name dot com"
You could make that path info optional by using something like:
RewriteRule ^((vienna安ien)(/.+)?)/$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
To be clear, you must use <img src="/images/logo.gif"> or <img src="http://example.com/images/logo.gif">, and you cannot use <img src="images/logo.gif">
Jim
You solution doesn't work for me, nevertheless I was so frustrated that I find a solution somehow (not very good looking though):
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule (.*) $1\.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ /$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(vienna安ien)(.*)$ http://www.example.com/visit/vienna [L]
RewriteRule ^(visit/)(vienna安ien)(.*)$ /visit/index.php?cat=21&main [L]First 6 lines - removing slash at the end
Last 2 lines - not very goog looking redirect if URI doesn't contain "visit" and if it contains "visit" string, rewriting to photogallery
Just let me know if you know how to simplify last 2 lines. Or if you have anything on your mind.
Thank you for your help, answers and your time.
Andy
[edited by: jdMorgan at 6:31 pm (utc) on July 21, 2008]
[edit reason] example.com [/edit]
Also, if a full URL is included in the rule, then [R=301] or [R=302] should be specified (in your fourth rule) -- both to be explicit, and because a 302 redirect is the default, and 302 redirects cause problems with search engine indexing.
So, the two recommended rule forms are
Internal Rewrite : RewriteRule <requested_local_path_pattern> <new_local_path> [L]
External Redirect: RewriteRule <requested_local_path_pattern> http://example.com<new_local_path> [R=301,L]
Jim
[edited by: jdMorgan at 6:37 pm (utc) on July 21, 2008]
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule (.*) $1\.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(vienna安ien)(.*)$ http://www.example.com/visit/vienna [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(visit/)(vienna安ien)(.*)$ /visit/index.php?cat=21&main [L]
Jim
Andy
I am currently having a problem with a php script that initially generated urls like this:
index.php?pic=1.jpg
I used an this rule to rewrite to clean urls.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ index.php?pic=$1
this generates urls like this:
/1.jpg/
but if the user types in /1.jpg
without the trailing slash, they receive a 404 error.
I can add another rule to add the trailing slash automatically:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+\.(jpg¦gif¦png¦jpeg))$ /$1/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ index.php?pic=$1
So that /1.jpg becomes /1.jpg
The problem is that I need move this particular php file (and its corresponding images) into a variety of different folders, and give it to less technical people, along with the htaccess file, to drop into folders and run. I can't exactly have them rewrite the htaccess file to the absolute path everytime. Unfortunately, with the new rewrite rule, if I type in
/commercial/test/1.jpg
it goes to /1.jpg/
is there a way to make this a relative path redirect, so that
/commercial/test/1.jpg goes to /commercial/test/1.jpg/
but relative, such the same htaccess file would redirect
/commercial/live/1.jpg goes commercial/test/1.jpg/
See this thread [webmasterworld.com] in our forum library for more detail. Having reviewed and considered that, I think we'll be in a better position to discuss what you might want to do. As it stands now, the implementation is somewhat upside-down and inside-out -- and therefore may seem complicated and impossible.
Jim
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^[^/.]+\.(jpg¦gif¦png¦jpeg)$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ index.php?pic=$1
The only problem I'm having now is if you go to
commercial/test/
when I tries to load the image, for some reason it thinks its in commercial, not test, and tries to load the image
commercial/test/img/1.jpg
instead it tries load the image
commercial/img/1.jpg
which of course does not exist.
Also, the links it tries to go are:
commercial/2.gif/
instead of
commercial/test/2.gif
I do not have these problems if I start out at
commercial/test/1.jpg/
or commercial/test/2.gif/ etc
The server using mod_rewrite does not "try to go to" links, it externally redirects requested URLs to other URLs, or it internally rewrites requested URLs to filepaths (plus a query string). A rewrite to a script says, "If the client requests this URL, generate and/or serve the content by running the script at this filepath, using this query string."
I have no idea why you would want to redirect /1.jpg to /1.jpg/ since the latter is a malformed URL at best, and may confuse search engines (I don't know if image search is important to you, though).
Please give some more example URLs as requested by a browser clicking a link or loading an image from an <img src> link on your pages, and specify what filepath(s) and query string(s) they should resolve to on your server. As an example -- and I doubt that this is correct, it's just an example:
URL in <img> tag on page --> Path on server and query string
/commercial/test/1.jpg -------> /commercial/index.php?pic=test/1.jpg
.
Giving several examples, so that it is clear which 'pieces' of the URL need to go into the script filepath and the query string, and which pieces should be discarded, will be very helpful.
Also, please explain why you'd ever want a slash on your .jpg URLs?
Jim
You go to
/commercial/test/
(which is really commercial/test/index.php)
or whatever folder they are in, and it displays image1, which is in the folder
/commercial/test/img/
When you click on image 1 it goes to image 2. When you go to image 2 however, the url is displays is
/commercial/test/?pic=2.jpg
Which is ugly and my designers hate. The .htaccess rewrite I did initially
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ index.php?pic=$1
allowed me to go to commercial/test/1.jpg/
and then click on the image and have it take me to
commercial/test/2.jpg/
etc.
Unfortunately, if the user left off the slash mark, they got a 404 error.
I updated my .htaccess file to
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^[^/.]+\.(jpg¦gif¦png¦jpeg)$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ index.php?pic=$1
So that if the slash mark was left off, the user would be redirected to the proper url.
This is working fine. The only problem I have is that if you go
commercial/test/,
(which is really commercial/test/index.php)
instead of loading the image /commercial/test/img/1.jpg
it says it tried to load the image /commercial/img/1.jpg
and gives me a 404. Also, if you try to click on the image, instead of going to
/commercial/test/2.jpg/
it goes /commercial/2.jpg/
*This problem still occurs if I take out the slash mark rewrite part (line 2)
Please give some more example URLs as requested by a browser clicking a link or loading an image from an <img src> link on your pages, and specify what filepath(s) and query string(s) they should resolve to on your server. As an example -- and I doubt that this is correct, it's just an example:
URL in <img> tag on page --> Path on server and query string
/commercial/test/1.jpg -------> /commercial/index.php?pic=test/1.jpg
The "thing on the left" is the URL-path (domain omitted). The "thing on the right" must be the filepath from DocumentRoot to the script, plus the desired query string.
Also, is your server Apache1.x or 2.x? If 2.x, do you have AcceptPathInfo enabled?
I think the problem may be that your internal rewriterule is non-specific: It puts the entire path into the query string, and it may be that you only want the image filename, or part of the path plus the image filename in that query string.
I also think you can do away with the appended-slash junk entirely, and move the "image-format filetype test" into the rewrite. But I cannot offer a solution without knowing what the correct URL-to-script_query mapping is supposed to be.
Again, this is probably not the right solution, but illustrates the URL-parsing:
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*)([^/.]+\.(jpe?g夙if如ng))$ /$1index.php?pic=$3
Change all broken pipe "¦" characters in code to solid pipes before use; Posting on this forum modifies the pipe characters.
Jim
Are you saying I should add that RewriteRule below my current code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^[^/.]+\.(jpg夙if如ng夸peg)$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ index.php?pic=$1
So that my .htaccess file would read
2x. I don't know if AcceptPathInfo is enabled.
Are you saying I should add that RewriteRule below my current code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^[^/.]+\.(jpg夙if如ng夸peg)$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ index.php?pic=$
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*)([^/.]+\.(jpe?g夙if如ng))$ /$1index.php?pic=$3
I'm not sure I fully understand your initial question but I believe the answeer ist
/commercial/test/img/1.jpg -------> /commercial/test/index.php?pic=1.jpg
If your "map specification" of "/commercial/test/img/1.jpg -------> /commercial/test/index.php?pic=1.jpg" is correct, then the rule I provided will do exactly that -- without the unnecessary and deleterious trailing slash stuff.
Don't forget to edit the pipe characters, as noted above.
Jim
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*)[b]img/[/b]([^/.]+\.(jpe?g夙if如ng))$ /$1index.php?pic=$3
Otherwise I can't see what the problem could be.
/commercial/test/1.jpg/
or
/commercial/test/1.jpg
and the image doesn't load if i go to
/commercial/test/
/commercial/test/img/1.jpg
If not, review the code supplied by jd again, and drop the bolded img part from the rule.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*)/([^/.]+\.(jpe?g¦gif¦png))$ /$1index.php?pic=$3
