redirect using htaccess file [closed]

Answer 1

Try This one

RewriteEngine    On
RewriteCond      %{QUERY_STRING}    ^location=1$
RewriteRule      (.*)               $1?     [R=permanent]

Answer 2

Location can be anything ...I tried follwoing code but its not working.

If you want to redirect from /location.php?location=sydney to /location/sydney, your RewriteRule is the wrong way around. Alas, you can't rewrite based on query parameters.

Answer 3

There are two possible problems you might have:

1) Is mod_rewrite enabled? Check with this command: apache2ctl -M | grep rewrite – you should see a line similar to rewrite_module (shared) if it's enabled. If not – enable it.

2) Do you have permissions to use .htaccess files? Check the configuration for your virtualhost – this should contain the line AllowOverride, similar to this:

<Directory "/var/www/your/site/">
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>

Now in my example mod_rewrite wouldn't work, because AllowOverride is set to None. Check what you need here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#allowoverride but you basically need to set it to any other valid option, that is not None, otherwise Apache will completely ignore .htaccess files.

Answer 4

Try this in your .htaccess file

RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]

Answer 5

Have you enabled mod_rewrite? sudo a2enmod rewrite

Also what's the output of tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log when you hit refresh?

Answer 6

Place an .htaccess file in the location directory with the following:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*) ../index.php?location=$1&e=1 [L,QSA]

This assumes that the index.php that you want to use for requests to /location is located in the directory above the location directory

If you also need the redirect (www.abc.com/?location=sydney to www.abc.com/location/sydney) to work then I think the best way to do that is to add the following to the (separate) .htaccess file located in the DocumentRoot:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)location=([^&]*)(.*) [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !&e=1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/location/%2?%1%3 [R=301,L,NE]