Comments on: What is htaccess and what does it do?

By: Amir

Amir — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:18:24 +0000

Hi guys,

I searched so many websites in these 2 days but still I couldn’t find a solution, I know it’s not a forum, but maybe you can help mewith this.

Actually I want to use mode rewrite for masking my URLs, thing is that I have URLs like http://www.mysite.com/index.php?page=news&newsID=23, I already created this in .htaccess:

RewriteRule (.*)-(.*) index.php?page=$1&newsID=$2

result: http://www.mysite.com/news-23

but the thing is that I want to pass title of that news to my URL instead of 23 (like http://www.mysite.com/first-news), I don’t know how can I do that.

I really appreciate any help in advanced

Cheers. (my email is amirrezaa.farhadi@gmail.com

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:00:07 +0000

You’ve got it – just remember to put the real domain in there and you are set to go.

By: Yael K. Miller

Yael K. Miller — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:47:59 +0000

Back again. So if I’m using www-canonicalization, the .htaccess file should look like this, correct? With my url in both domain.com spots, correct?

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.domain.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/[^\.]+[^/]$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/ [R=301,L]


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !..+$

# and does not end with a slash

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$

# then add a trailing slash and redirect

RewriteRule (.*) $1/ [R=301,L]

# BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] # END WordPress

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:30:02 +0000

Wow, blew me away with that one! You are so very welcome – I have enjoyed this learning experience for myself too as it is good to get this stuff out of my mind and on “paper.” Makes me push myself farther too. You have been awesome.

By: Yael K. Miller

Yael K. Miller — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:19:56 +0000

Thanks for answering all my questions, Kimberly. You’re one classy lady.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:03:20 +0000

You’ve got it! I put that there for the explanation but yes that is where you would put your domain/url that you are working on.

This is a great exchange – thanks Yael!

By: Yael K. Miller

Yael K. Miller — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:59:52 +0000

And for where you put in domain.com should I put in the url for my site?

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:24:20 +0000

Not really different – you have the which just signifies to look for any re-write rules, so you are good to go.

By: Yael K. Miller

Yael K. Miller — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:58:26 +0000

What the starting WP .htaccess I have is:

# BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] # END WordPress

Is that different from what you stated, which is:

# BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] # END WordPress

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:53:11 +0000

Correct. If you want it to be with the www, use

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/[^\.]+[^/]$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/ [R=301,L]

This will make sure the www is included if someone leaves it off