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Common Htaccess redirections #php #htaccess #redirection #rewrite #url

Redirect if !_DEBUG=1

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !_DEBUG=1 #RewriteRule ^/(.)$ /$1?_DEBUG=1 [QSA,R,L] RewriteRule ^/(.)$ /$1?_DEBUG=1 [QSA,L]

#301 Redirects for .htaccess

#Redirect a single page: Redirect 301 /pagename.php http://www.domain.com/pagename.html

#Redirect an entire site: Redirect 301 / http://www.domain.com/

#Redirect an entire site to a sub folder Redirect 301 / http://www.domain.com/subfolder/

#Redirect a sub folder to another site Redirect 301 /subfolder http://www.domain.com/

#This will redirect any file with the .html extension to use the same filename but use the .php extension instead. RedirectMatch 301 (.*).html$ http://www.domain.com$1.php

#You can also perform 301 redirects using rewriting via .htaccess.

#Redirect from old domain to new domain RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

#Redirect to www location RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc] rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

#Redirect to www location with subdirectory RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domain.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/directory/index.html [R=301,NC]

#Redirect from old domain to new domain with full path and query string: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.newdomain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,NC]

#Redirect from old domain with subdirectory to new domain w/o subdirectory including full path and query string: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/subdirname/(.)$ RewriteRule ^(.) http://www.katcode.com/%1 [R=302,NC]

Rewrite and redirect URLs with query parameters (files placed in root directory)

Original URL:

http://www.example.com/index.php?id=1 Desired destination URL:

http://www.example.com/path-to-new-location/ .htaccess syntax:

RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=1 RewriteRule ^index.php$ /path-to-new-location/? [L,R=301] Redirect URLs with query parameters (files placed in subdirectory)

Original URL:

http://www.example.com/sub-dir/index.php?id=1 Desired destination URL:

http://www.example.com/path-to-new-location/ .htaccess syntax:

RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=1 RewriteRule ^sub-dir/index.php$ /path-to-new-location/? [L,R=301] Redirect one clean URL to a new clean URL

Original URL:

http://www.example.com/old-page/ Desired destination URL: http://www.example.com/new-page/ .htaccess syntax:

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^old-page/?$ $1/new-page$2 [R=301,L] Rewrite and redirect URLs with query parameter to directory based structure, retaining query string in URL root level

Original URL:

http://www.example.com/index.php?id=100 Desired destination URL:

http://www.example.com/100/ .htaccess syntax:

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^([^/d]+)/?$ index.php?id=$1 [QSA] Rewrite URLs with query parameter to directory based structure, retaining query string parameter in URL subdirectory

Original URL: http://www.example.com/index.php?category=fish Desired destination URL: http://www.example.com/category/fish/ .htaccess syntax:

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/?category/([^/d]+)/?$ index.php?category=$1 [L,QSA] Domain change – redirect all incoming request from old to new domain (retain path)

RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example-old.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example-new.com/$1 [R=301,L] If you do not want to pass the path in the request to the new domain, change the last row to:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example-new.com/ [R=301,L]

#From blog.oldsite.com -> www.somewhere.com/blog/ retains path and query, and eliminates xtra blog path if domain is blog.oldsite.com/blog/ Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}/ blog RewriteRule ^(.) http://www.somewhere.com/%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,NC] RewriteRule ^(.) http://www.somewhere.com/blog/%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,NC]

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