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.
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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/$1 [R=301,L]
I never tried the REQUEST_FILENAME value because I mistakenly thought it only applied to files that can be downloaded from the website. I didn't realize it also applies to the .html files in the blog.
With this solution all URLs that don't exist at www.companyabc.com will be redirected to blog.companyabc.com instead of showing a 404 error page, which is what I'm looking for.
I'm trying to get rid of the .html in the url of pages, and I found that code in the .htaccess file is the only way doing so and I've tried nearly every method and code online but it just wouldn't work.
Made an .htaccess file and put it in the public_html file. The general code I'm using is:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]
But I've tried many many many other variations of the code so I think the issue isn't with the code but the way the file is getting loaded in to the website?
And yes, all my hrefs are shortened without the .html: ex/ <li>Contact</li>
The main error is in that I always get a 404 error - not found for when I try to go to a page, ex/ website.com/contact. But website.com/contact.html works fine or cannot get / error
I've tried this on both my hosted website and testing through vscode live server and I feel like it's an issue not with the .htaccess file somehow? Since this solution works for nearly everyone but me.
#remove html file extension-e.g. https://example.com/file.html will become https://example.com/file
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html [NC,L]
is what worked for me, from plothost , you seem to be missing a line.
I'm a newby on using the .htaccess file for making changes on my website.
I want to change a URL automatically by adding the "www." at the begining of the domain name. To do so I enter the following code on the .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.arnaldpedros.com$ [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?
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 ^([^\.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]
I also removed any .html instances from all links.
Now it works like a charm.
I'm trying to redirect several pages that all have question marks in the URL.
I essentially want to redirect:
www.example.com/?attachment_id=456 to www.example.com
There's a ton of pages with differend id #s also.
I've tried a few things in htaccess with no luck..
Any ideas?
This is what I tried:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^attachment_id=[0-9]
RewriteRule ^/$ http://www.example.com/? [L,NC,R=301]
Why can't you do this? This code should redirect a URL like this www.example.com/?attachment_id=456
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^attachment_id=[0-9]+
RewriteRule ^/?$ http://www.example.com/? [L,NC,R=301]
I made the / optional so that it can be used in Apache config or .htaccess. Also I kept the ? that you have in the redirect at the end of the RewriteRule to remove any query strings on redirect.
Your approach is next to perfect, just some minor corrections:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} attachment_id=[0-9]+
RewriteRule ^/$ http://www.example.com/ [L,R=301]
The above is the version for the host configuration. note that you have to restart the http server after having made changes to the host configuration for them to get effective. To debug refer to the http servers error log file, especially at restart time.
If you have to rely on .htaccess style files, then the syntax for the rule itself must unfortunately be slightly different:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} attachment_id=[0-9]+
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.example.com/ [L,R=301]
Such file has to be located in the main folder of the document root of the host. also the interpretation of such files must be enabled in the host configuration by means of the AllowOverride option.
In general you should always prefer the host configuration for such rules over .htaccess style files, but you need administrative access for that. .htaccess style files are notoriously error prone, hard to debug and really slow the server down.