I'm a newby on using the .htaccess file for making changes on my website.
I want to change a URL automatically by adding the "www." at the begining of the domain name. To do so I enter the following code on the .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.arnaldpedros.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.arnaldpedros.com/$1 [L,R=301]
I see allover the web that this is the proper way to do it but when I type arnaldpedros.com in my browser it takes me to:
http://www.arnaldpedros.com/public_html/
Whis is a 404 Not Found page, with the message:
Not Found
The requested URL /public_html/ was not found on this server.
What I want to do is to type arnaldpedros.com and to automatically go to www.arnaldpedros.com.
It's driving me crazy cause the same happens on many websites I mange.
Any help please?
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I developed a website and from SEO point of view, the homepage of a website is available under three or more different URLs which accordingly poses a risk of duplicate content, since the same content can be accessed via different URLs.
for eg.
my website is opening with below URL
https://www.insider.in/index.php
https://www.insider.in/
https://insider.in/
Exact URL which is needed be like
https://www.insider.in/
for achieving the same i am using an .htaccess file with code given below:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\ /([^/]+/)*index\.(php|html?)[#?]?
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*)index\.(php|html?)$ https://insider.in/$1[R=301,L]
I tried to redirect all duplicate URLs to one URL using the above .htaccess file code but it is not working, also i enabled all the file permissions in FileZilla but again no success.
Any help or reference will be appreciated, thankyou!
note- website is hosted in cloud server using FileZilla
for Reference I am sharing the screenshots
Image of development folder for your reference
Image of .htaccess rule which i have used
You can use the rules below to fix duplicate content issues on your site :
RewriteEngine on
#Redirect non-www domain to www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^insider\.in$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://www.insider.in%{REQUEST_URI} [NE,L,R=301]
#Redirect /index.php to /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/index\.php$
RewriteRule ^ https://www.insider.in/ [L,R=301]
Remember to put theses rules at the top of your htaccess.
I'm moving a blog from one site to another and repurposing the original site. I want to maintain all existing links that point to the site and hopefully maintain SEO page ranking.
Old URL: http://www.companyabc.com/2010/04/test.html
New URL: http://blog.companyabc.com/2010/04/test.html
The way I'd like to do it is to use a custom 404 error page on www.companyabc.com like this:
<html><meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://blog.companyabc.com/%1"></html>
where %1 is the original URI (/2010/04/test.html), but I don't know if that's possible.
Another option is to use an .htaccess file that redirects if the URL is not found, but I haven't gotten that to work either. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong in the rewrite condition:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-l
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ https://blog.companyabc.com/$1.html [R=301,L]
Any suggestions? Thanks for the help.
I got it working using the following .htaccess configuration:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://blog.companyabc.com/$1 [R=301,L]
I never tried the REQUEST_FILENAME value because I mistakenly thought it only applied to files that can be downloaded from the website. I didn't realize it also applies to the .html files in the blog.
With this solution all URLs that don't exist at www.companyabc.com will be redirected to blog.companyabc.com instead of showing a 404 error page, which is what I'm looking for.
Before i had my site written as .php and i could easily remove .php on end and connect to pages without typing .php on end, but now i got new page that is written as .html and i want to do same. It took me some time to find working code for .htaccess but sadly there is one problem. All pages work fine but when i try to access my help page i get "Error 301 - Access forbidden" for some reason.
For example i type:
example.com/help (original example.com/help.html)
but what it does it turn to:
example.com/help/ and give me that 301 error.
This is my .htaccess:
Options -Indexes
ErrorDocument 404 http://example.com/404.html
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{httpS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{http_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /([^.]+)\.html [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1 [NC,L,R]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}.html [NC,L]
So i'm not sure how to fix this (if it's possible), so if anyone has any ideas on how to fix it please let me know. If it's not possible for some reason are there any other pages that this won't work on? I'm still working on site so i can rename help page to helpcenter or something like that but i'm not sure if that effect any other files.
Thanks for help!
Apache2 has supported extension masking via the +MultiViews option for a while now. In my experience, it's much easier to implement than custom rewrite rules.
If you're set on using rewrites, however, make sure you don't have a help directory. -Indexes will give it a 401 if there's no index.html file inside.
Today I tried to write a .htaccess file for first time in order to remove .html extension from url bar along with some other things that I wanted to do. Since I was unfamiliar with all this I read several articles before coding.
I ended up with the following code. I also removed .html from all links. The problem is that when visiting my domain I get the following error.
//The resource you are looking for has been removed,
//had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
Is my code correct?
UPDATED .htaccess
//Rewrite to www
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
//Remove .html UNTIL NOW THIS IS THE ONLY PART
//OF THE CODE THAT ACTUALLY WORKS.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]
//Caching schema
<FilesMatch "\.(jpg|png)$">
Header set Cache-Control "private, max-age=160704000"
</FilesMatch>
//Prevent viewing of .htaccess file
<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>
In a separate .htaccess
//Prevent directory listings
Options All -Indexes
MAIN ERRORS
If I click on link like:
Home
Then I get the same error.
Thank you all in advance.
This is native in Apache without using mod_rewrite by using MultiViews option.
Documentation states:
The effect of MultiViews is as follows: if the server receives a request for /some/dir/foo, if /some/dir has MultiViews enabled, and /some/dir/foo does not exist, then the server reads the directory looking for files named foo.*, and effectively fakes up a type map which names all those files, assigning them the same media types and content-encodings it would have if the client had asked for one of them by name. It then chooses the best match to the client's requirements.
I finally managed to resolve a part of the problem. For starters I changed my server from windows to linux.
Then to remove html extension I used this code in .htaccess (the other codes didn't work well, giving me an error message)
//Remove .html
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]
I also removed any .html instances from all links.
Now it works like a charm.
I have a problem right now with visitors browsing to pages that used to exist on my server but no longer. This is due to my initially poor decision to use a subdirectory instead of a subdomain. Because of this, people posted direct links to the pages themselve instead of the directory to various message boards. So when people Google and find links to my site, they click what the people have linked and it directs them to a "Not Found" page.
To better explain, here is my best attempt at giving an example.
The main URL people were using to visit my site was hxxp://example.com/subsite/. Within that /subsite/ directory there were files such as welcome.html, about.html, contact.html. So what happened is that when people started spreading my website links around, they would spread a link such as hxxp://example.com/subsite/welcome.html instead of just hxxp://example.com/subsite/. As of right now, the subsite directory only has (mainly) an index.html file.
What I am trying to accomplish is that whenever someone tries to navigate to any webpage within that subdirectory that doesn't exist, it redirects them to the index.html file. I'd like to accomplish this via the .htaccess file.
I attempted to do this myself by using the below code, but apparently I'm too new to how the .htaccess and apache modules work and the below code causes a constant redirect loop.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ hxxp://example.com/subsite/ [L,QSA]
</IfModule>
If anyone has any input, or needs me to clarify any information just let me know. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
You can use:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(subsite)/.+$ /$1/ [L,NC,R=301]