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 Topic: Suppress a directory name in url (.htaccess) |
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Otomatic
Joined: 01 Sep 2011
Posts: 155
Location: Paris, France, EU
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 Posted: Thu 03 Feb '22 14:29 Post subject: Suppress a directory name in url (.htaccess) |
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Hi,
It is not for me so I could not check directly the result.
Following several restorations and the passage of a local site in VirtualHost, it remains in this site urls when it was used in folder of localhost ('http://localhost/wordpress/')
Let me explain:
The vast majority of the site's calling urls are of the style:
http://mysite/folder/page|js|css|img
but for some of them, an old non-existent folder name is interposed:
http://mysite/wordpress/folder/page|js|css|img
So I would like to remove, if it exists, '/wordpress' from all urls.
I'm not an expert on rewrite rules, but I did come up with this:
| Code: | RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(site|js|medias|css|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /wordpress/$1 [L]
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Do you think this is what is needed?
Wouldn't it be better to put this in the VirtualHost definition?
Thank you. |
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tangent
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Joined: 16 Aug 2020
Posts: 312
Location: UK
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| Posted: Thu 03 Feb '22 16:38 Post subject: |
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As written, your rule adds /wordpress as a prefix to each URL, not remove it. Believe the following rewrite rule should do what your want.
| Code: | RewriteRule ^/wordpress(/.*)$ $1 [L,NC,NE,QSA]
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The additional flags options are for a case insensitive match, no hexcode escaping of special characters, and appending any query string present to the rewritten URL. Basically, leave the rest of the rewritten request unchanged. See flag options here - https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule
If you need to qualify this rewrite for certain sub folders, you can precede it with a rewrite condition of the form:
| Code: | RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (site|js|medias|css|images)
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And yes, I would place this rewrite rule in the VIrtualHost context. The documentation describes how the pattern matching varies, depending on where the rule is placed. |
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Otomatic
Joined: 01 Sep 2011
Posts: 155
Location: Paris, France, EU
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| Posted: Fri 04 Feb '22 10:09 Post subject: |
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Hi,
Thanks a million.
It works perfectly and it allowed my friend to recover his entire site and make the necessary changes. |
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