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Htaccess Mod Rewrite Practical Essential Important Solutions – Update

Hiroshi — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:11:59 +0000

I have been experimenting with .htaccess a lot regarding with mod rewriting and URL rewriting and had a lot of difficulty finding the solutions regarding to exact problem I faced. This stuff is such a headache. I am feeling headache right now as I am typing after messing with a lot of .htaccess codes. Here is an update regarding essential stuff which you will find useful if you are trying to change your URLS from index.php to index.html or index.php to index and if after putting RewriteEngine on images are not showing up at pages. Following exercises will answer these tasks in htacces mod rewrite:

1- How to enable RewriteEngine for htaccess and localhost
2- Images are not showing after RewriteEngine on
3- Images in second level directory are not showing after RewriteEngine on
e.g. images/1.jpg is showing but images/icons/2.jpg is not showing up
4- Want to change index.php into index or about.php into about
5- Want to change all pages.php to pages.html for site using htaccess
6- Want to Rewrite yoursite.com/user.php?username=xyz to yoursite.com/xyz
7- Want to Rewriting product.php?id=12 to product/ipod-nano/12.html
8- Want to change product.php?id=5 to porduct-5.html

Enable ReWrite Engine

Before rewriting do this in .htaccess file.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

and after that start rewriting

Images not showing after RewriteEngine on

Solve images problem which sometimes does not show if you enable rewrite engine in .htaccess. I was trying to change index.php to index and when I did that, images from first images directory were displaying (images/) but the second level images (images/icons/) were not displaying. Even when I tried the absolute path, images from images/icons/ directory were not displaying. The trick is that, you have to rewrite images directory as well and similarly sometimes css and js directories also. In this case when I tried the following code, my problem was solved.

RewriteRule ^images/(.+)?$ images/$1 [NC,L] 
# RewriteRule ^images/icons/(.+)?$ images/icons/$1 [NC,L]

First line in above example solved my problem and I did not need the second in my case.

There is problem with Browsers which don’t recognize that folders you typed are not real So there is problem with images and css style. In another case consider the following example.

All you have to do is mod rewrite all your image, css and js folders like below:

RewriteRule ^pictures/images/(.+)?$ images/$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^pictures/css/(.+)?$ css/$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^pictures/js/(.+)?$ js/$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^pictures/php/(.+)?$ php/$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^pictures/([0-9]+)?$ pictures.Php?year=$1 [NC,L]

Redirect index.php to index

Okay, you have to do this with all the pages separately. In the following case I have done these with two pages. Index.php and about.php. I don’t know yet what is the solution for doing it in single line for every page.

RewriteRule index index.php
RewriteRule about about.php

so on…

Important: You have implemented this code in .htaccess file. Now your like for yoursite.com/about.php will be yoursite.com/about. You will have to link the text with this modified call (with no .php) and .htaccess will do the magic where you have defined the rule to change about.php to about. That’s it.

Change .php URLs in .html

Now this one I know. Single line of code will do the magic. You have all the pages of site in php, but after writing this single line code in .htaccess, they will be changed into .html. I mean the URLs will be changed to .html. Link your pages with .html extension and write this code in .htaccess file and you are done.

RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1.php [NC]

For htm do this.

RewriteRule ^(.*)\.htm$ $1.php [NC]

Rewriting yoursite.com/user.php?username=xyz to yoursite.com/xyz

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ user.php?username=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ user.php?username=$1

Rewriting product.php?id=12 to product/ipod-nano/12.html

RewriteRule ^product/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([0-9]+)\.html$ product.php?id=$2

And change product.php?id=5 to porduct-5.html so that http://localhost/product-5.html calls product.php?id=5 automatically

RewriteRule ^product-([0-9]+)\.html$ products.php?id=$1

Done…

Please help me learn and do more with this htaccess stuff. If you know more about this, want to correct / improve these codes or offer more advanced codes to do the same what I have mentioned above, share with me in comments.

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Allow htaccess and Mod Rewrite in Wamp

Hiroshi — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:19:26 +0000

You must enable mod_rewrite before you can use it. If you want to enable it in httpd.conf, then use

Options FollowSymLinks Fileinfo
or
Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Fileinfo

If you wish to enable mod_rewrite at the .htaccess level (i.e. only in certain (sub)directories within each vHost and not for all (sub)directories of each vHost), then you must set allowOverride Options (at a minimum) in httpd.conf, and place one of

Options +FollowSymLinks
or
Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

in the .htaccess file(s) to enable mod_rewrite.

In the latter case, it is usual to set Options Fileinfo (and any others) in httpd.conf, and then set Options +FollowSymLinks in .htaccess along with +/-indexes, +/-MultiViews, etc. as desired. Take a look at the +/- add/subtract option syntax versus fixed Option declarations — You’ll likely want to establish fixed baseline Options in httpd.conf, and then use the add/subtract syntax at the .htaccess level. For security, don’t enable any Option unless you’re sure you need it.

If you did not get any clue what the crap was just above, just ignore it and do the following.

Go to Wamp -> Left click at icon in the taskbar -> Click Config files -> httpd.conf
A file will be opened.
Search rewrite in it.
You will get:

#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Remove hash from the beginning (Uncomment it) e.g.

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Save the file. Mod Rewriting is enabled.

Open Notepad or Textpad or Dtreamweaver.
Create new file.
Save it as .htaccess in the required directory or root directory of website.
Copy and paste the following in it.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

And you are done. Use this .htacces file now to code onward and it will work.
The above, when you uncommented the rewrite thing, you enabled mod-rewrite in wamp.

This case is important when there is involvement of redirecting and the use of .htaccess file at localhost. e.g. When you use WordPress at localhost for development purpose, then this method to allow .htaccess file and mod-rewrite for wamp is good. Its GoOoOOoOooD!

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Redirect WordPress RSS Feeds to Feedburner

Hiroshi — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:31:09 +0000

Feedburner is a very useful service for adding a visual user and search engine friendly rss with your blog. Every successful blogger uses Feedburner service. Feedburner also provide a way to know your subscribers and emails your subscribers when ever an update is available at your blog without causing any load at your own server. This service is free.

Using .htaccess, we can redirect WordPress RSS Feeds to feedburner. Each time someone will click on a link to http://www.yourblog.com/feed, he’ll be redirected to http://feeds.feedburner.com/yourblog.

Simply edit your .htaccess file which will be located in root directory of your blog by following method and paste the following code in that.

# temp redirect wordpress feeds to feedburner

 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner    [NC]
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedValidator [NC]
 RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/yourblog [R=302,NC,L]

http://feeds.feedburner.com/yourblog is the address of your feedburner feeds for your blog. Change it accordingly.

After saving your .htaccess file, all your rss link will be redirected to your feedburner feeds.

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PHP Magic Book - Free PHP Scripts, Tutorials and Downloads » Mod Rewrite

Htaccess Mod Rewrite Practical Essential Important Solutions – Update

Enable ReWrite Engine

Images not showing after RewriteEngine on

Redirect index.php to index

Change .php URLs in .html

Rewriting yoursite.com/user.php?username=xyz to yoursite.com/xyz

Rewriting product.php?id=12 to product/ipod-nano/12.html

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