300 Multiple choices - html

I've got a problem with my website, or more specfically the navigation.
First off the problem;
300 multiple pages;
It does this to the url
http://mysite.co.uk/services.phpdiamond-plus.php
http://mysite.co.uk/services.phpdiamond/
should be;
http://mysite.co.uk/services/diamond-plus.php
http://mysite.co.uk/services/diamond.php
my file structure;
root/services/diamond-plus.php
root/services/diamond.php
Doesn't matter what direcory or level I am in when selecting diamond-plus.php, it just brings up this page with the url as it is above, I've got a similar url which happens to the both of them.
I include my navigation and use relative urls like so;
/services/diamond-plus.php
Orignally there was a services.php page in directory above, I've changed that. I didsabled my .htaccess file aswell to test, the problem still persists.
Any ideas?
--- Edit ---
Nav section is included -
a href="/services/diamond.php" >Diamond</a
.htaccess file
options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
Options +Indexes
AcceptPathInfo Off
RewriteEngine on
Redirect 301 /mysite-service-diamondplus.html http://mysite.co.uk/services/diamond-plus.php
Redirect 301 /mysite-service-diamondplus http://mysite.co.uk/services/diamond-plus.php
Having changed nothing, it's not giving me the error anymore..
Does changing the .htaccess sometimes take several minutes?

You can try this code in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.+?\.)php([^/]+)$ /$1/$2.php [L,NC,R=301]
RewriteRule ^(.+?\.)php(.+?\.php)$ /$1/$2 [L,NC,R=301]

No RewriteRules are required to fix this..
If you have index.html or index.htm as the first values in DirectoryIndex it will try to load those up first.. I put index.php as the first script to load up and the Multiple Choices 300 error went away. Although I never even had the Multiple Choices 300 error with my old configuration.. it has something to do with updating PHP to version v5.4.16 or higher.

Related

htaccess- only one page redirects from html to php

This is normal question, but i am very weak regarding .htaccess
I have one website in html.All Pages are in .html. Now only enquiry page is enquiry.php
So I want enquiry page from enquiry.php to enquiry.html in URL.
It should not affect other html files
Pls help
Provided you've already turned "RewriteEngine On" your rule might looks something like this:
RewriteRule ^enquiry.html$ /enquiry.php [QSA,L]
However depending upon your web host, that may not work out of the gate. For example, you might need to add a slash before the .html so it would read:
RewriteRule ^enquiry\.html$ /enquiry.php [QSA,L]
I've also seen where you may need to add "Options FollowSymLinks" to the top of the .htaccess file.

Removing the index.html from url

Ok, maybe a pretty dumb question but I can't find an answer on Google.
I am coding my site by hand. How do I make the index.html disappear from the url's? Do I use a piece of code in my html? Do I have to change my href's in my files?
Hope you guys can help!
EDIT:
I've tried this with a .htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ / [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/index\.html$ /$1/ [R=301,L]
It does work, but all my links aren't working anymore. I discovered I had to remove all the index.html from the href's in my documents. But that would be a lot of work. Is there an other code for .htaccess that just hides index.html?
A SIMPLE WAY TO DO THIS in Html:
(example in my case is a simple dual language site)
If your link looks like this:
Homepage
You should change it to this:
Homepage
If trying to link to another folder in your directory, like is my example:
English language
You should change it to this:
English language
Notice that "/" goes back to your root directory and automatically selects index.html, so that is why I used "en" for the English language site, because the name of the folder in that case is "en". You should also make sure that you have index.html in your English language folder, and not index-en.html.
Apache has .htaccess files and mod_rewrite,
In your .htaccess file, set:
DirectoryIndex index.html
You can also set this up in the Apache site config files too
You can specify a list of filenames, so if it doesn't find the first it moves to the next.
IIS has .config files
mod_rewrite module is responsible for all the rewriteEngine. Check on your server whether is module is present and enable.
You need to create a file called '.htaccess' in the root directory of your site containing the following code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]
And then make sure all the links on your site don't contain '.html' at the end, e.g.:
<a href="/Home.html">
should be replaced with:
<a href="/Home">
Hope this helps!
if you dont find .htaccess, you just need to create a new file using your text editor the same way you would any other html or css file, but save it as simply '.htaccess'
And save it into the root directory, so the same folder that you have your index.html file.
I think this is configured in IIS when you deploy the site, I'm not to sure on it but I'm sure you can specify a start point that your URL will use when you just enter the UL, that implies the Index.html page.
Sorry I'm not too helpful here, hopefully it will point you in the right direction.
Often these things such as Apache or IIS have this set up already, and it looks for the Index.html, Index.php first when you just put your URL in.
Great SEO idea! This is similar to nginx redirect loop, remove index.php from url and Apache .htaccess to hide both .php and .html extentions, as well as mod_rewrite not working htaccess — the idea here, for both Apache's mod_rewrite and nginx ngx_http_rewrite, depends on the differences between the external and internal URLs — in order for the redirect from /index.html to / work, yet not cause redirect loops when actually serving index.html, you gotta make sure you only issue the redirect for external index.html requests, but never for internal ones; this can only be accomplished by looking into the actual request_uri.
Here's the code for nginx ngx_mod_rewrite:
index index.html index.txt;
if ($request_uri ~ "^(.*/)index\.(html|txt)$") { return 301 $1; }
On Apache's mod_rewrite, it'll be something like the following:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/index\.html$
RewriteRule ^(.*/)index.html$ $1 [R,L]
Related:
nginx redirect loop, remove index.php from url
Apache .htaccess to hide both .php and .html extentions
mod_rewrite not working htaccess
References:
http://nginx.org/r/index
http://nginx.org/r/if
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html#RewriteCond
Change the link that goes to your homepage to the website address.
You may have:
Link Here
Change that to:
Link
Or try this
Simply don't type the index.html in your browser and don't advertise it as such.
You can set the 'default document' on the web server (whichever you happen to be using) to serve 'index.html' in the absence of a file part. This way, someone going to http://www.mysite.com would be served http://www.mysite.com/index.html

Redirect a large number of 404 pages

I have a large number of 404's due to a site structure design change that need redirecting.
Can someone tell me how I can do this with a pattern in htaccess
key-creative-wedding-photography/60-the-key-to-creative-wedding-photography-3/contact
key-creative-wedding-photography/090-the-key-to-creative-wedding-photography-3/contact
hayling-island-beach/img_7459-hayling-island-beach/contact
farbridge-wedding-photographers/_0287-farbridge-wedding-photographers-2/contact
Please note there is a page called ./contact
Any ideas?
Thanks!
You can try adding these rules to the htaccess file in your document root (preferably before any other rules that you have in that file):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.+)/contact$ /contact [L,R=301]
That takes anything that ends with /contact, with at least a folder before it, and redirects it to /contact.

How to link to pages without the .html extension?

I would like to link to pages inside my website, e.g:
Not: mywebsite.com/about.html But: mywebsite.com/about/
I've seen various websites doing this but it looks like they also react differently to things:
Apple.com:
apple.com/iphone/ works, apple.com/iphone/index.html works, apple.com/iphone redirects.
Opera.com:
opera.com/mobile/ redirects, opera.com/mobile works, opera.com/mobile.html does not work.
Mozilla.com:
mozilla.org/en-US/ works, mozilla.org/en-US redirects, mozilla.org/en-US/index.html does not work.
Which leads to another question: Are there different methods for this?
Edit:
It seems that Apple uses a folder for every page, e.g. a folder called 'iphone' with an index.html file inside it?
But Opera and Mozilla use something in the .htaccess file?
Removing Extensions
To remove the .php extension from a PHP file for example yoursite.com/wallpaper.php to yoursite.com/wallpaper you have to add the following code inside the .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]
If you want to remove the .html extension from a html file for example yoursite.com/wallpaper.html to yoursite.com/wallpaper you simply have to alter the last line from the code above to match the filename:
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]
That’s it! You can now link pages inside the HTML document without needing to add the extension of the page. For example:
wallpaper
They are using .htaccess and URL rewriting. This is part of server configuration. You can not do it with html only.
This page explains basics of URL rewriting.
You folder then has to contain a file: index.*.
Like: /iphone/index.html, which can be /iphone/ as well
Or work with .htaccess
In the .htaccess file in your sites root folder just add the following line:
# ---- Render pages without urls
Options +MultiViews
The most upvoted answer doesn't check whether the URL points to a directory, so you're going to get some mysterious 'not found' errors when it tries to append '.html' to a directory path. Easily fixed:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html [L]
The first condition will only pass if the path does not point to a valid directory. The second will only pass if the path points to a valid file when the .html extension is added. If both conditions pass, the rewrite rule simply adds ‘.html’ to the filename.
Notice that we can just match the entire path with .*. You can reject paths that contain a period character if you wish, but it's not really necessary since you've already checked that {REQUEST_FILENAME}.html is a valid file. In any case, it is unnecessary to escape a period character when it's inside a character class. I know you see this [^\.] everywhere, but the slash is redundant. [^.] is how to write it and look like a regex pro. 😎
This kind of redirect will be invisible to the user because, by default, mod_rewrite does the substitution internally, without informing the browser. If you wanted to do a permanent redirect, you would add the [R=301] flag at the end.
Alternatively, as Genus Amar said, you can just enable the Multiviews option on a per-directory basis by adding this Options Directive to the .htaccess file:
Options +MultiViews
It's worth adding that this will only work if the server administrator has enabled MultiViews with the AllowOverride Directive, and it won't allow you to perform additional redirects.
Neither of these solutions (on their own) will remove the .html if it’s part of the requested URL. If you want to do that as well, see my answer to this question.
Make your href attribute equal to the page you want to link or .. If you need to
move up a directory.
Ex: href="contact.html"
Ex: href="../links/contact.html"

Redirect website URL without the .html ending

So I have a URL that I want people to end up on www.website.com/folder/file
The problem is that the URL written on these flyers is something different, www.website/file.
I created a file for www.website/file with a working redirect but people must type in www.website/file.html for the redirect to work. I'd like them to able to type JUST www.website/file without the .html
Anyway this can work? As of now the redirect is using html and working fine. My other possibility is editing my .htaccess file. I am working for a company with coldfusion and I don't see a .htaccess file (hidden files visible) so I'm weary to throw one in there as I fear it might screw something up.
You could rename the file.html as index.html and that should suffice.
E-g; www.domain.com/folder/folder/file.html is same as www.domain.com/folder/folder/
if file.html is called as index.html
There are few different options to solve this, but one of them could be just making a separate folder named "file" and adding there a index.html file.
If possible, I would go for the .htaccess file:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/file$ /folder/file [R]
</IfModule>
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule