htaccess-demo

Project which describes thing we can do with .htaccess config file

Redirects

Redirect directive

Redirect [status] URL-path URL

Example:

Redirect 301 /page1.html /page2.html

It's good to mention that query string will be in redirect too. /page1.html?test=1 -> this will be redirected to /page2.html?test=1

Redirect without GET params:

Simply add question (?) mark to destination URL

Redirect 301 /page1.html /page2.html?

RewriteEngine & RewriteRule

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?category/(.*)$ /new_category.html [R=301,L]

To use mod_rewrite with Apache, the rewrite engine needs to be activated with the RewriteEngine on directive.

Regular expression:

^ - Beginning of string.
$ - End of string.
(.*) - A place holder for any string within a URL. The parentheses store the string in a variable.
$1 - A variable that allows access to cached values that are stored within parentheses.

Flags

[L] flag - stop evaluating any other rule
[R] flag - as R=301 which sends a 301 "Moved Permanently" code
[NC] flag - stands for non case sensitive, match both upper and lower case versions
[QSA] flag - query string append

Redirect only php files:

RewriteRule ^/?category/(.*\.php)$ /new_category_php.php [R=301,L]

RewriteCond

%{HTTP_HOST} == 'example.com'

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} example.com$

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