help with htaccess

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raaviraaj Reply #1, 19 years, 7 months ago

Currently my URIs look like this http://www.domain.tld/folder_name/filename_name.html (where the .html is suffixed to the alias).

I would like to remove the .html from the URIs. But, since the pages are indexed by search engines and have been linked by others I would not like to lose those referrals. I would like to redirect (with 301) all requests for http://www.domain.tld/folder_name/filename_name.html to http://www.domain.tld/folder_name/filename_name

Is the above possible with .htaccess directives or is there some other way to do this? I am fairly new with the server side and have no clue (just guessing) grin

Hope I have been able to clearly state my problem. FYI, I am hosted on linux.

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raaviraaj Reply #2, 19 years, 7 months ago

is there a possibility of my requirement being fulfilled with either htaccess directive or any other method. Or, will I lose all the backlinks once I remove the .html form the URIs.
thanks raavi.

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carlholmberg Reply #3, 19 years, 7 months ago

You should be able to do it with htaccess, but I’m not quite sure how – it’s been a while since I last wrote my own htaccess-files...

Something like this might work though. Add this line to your .htaccess-file:

RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ $1 [R,L]

between these two lines:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

So the result looks like:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ $1 [R,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

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raaviraaj Reply #4, 19 years, 7 months ago

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ http://domain/$1 [R,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

I tried the code above and it seems to redirect (with one small modification, where I added RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ http://domain/$1 [R,L]).

But now I do not seen any styles nor do I see any images. Any ideas why this is happening.

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carlholmberg Reply #5, 19 years, 7 months ago

I’m sorry I don’t why you don’t see any styles or images... Are you developing the site on your own server? Can you access the rewrite_log?

You may have to change the rule I gave you so that you escape the ".". Your new rule would be:

RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ http://domain/$1 [R,L]

Maybe that would help a little... Could you also check what the generated BaseHref is for your pages?

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raaviraaj Reply #6, 19 years, 7 months ago

Carl, thank you for your time and effort.

I am developing the site on my winxp home edition desktop with XAMPP.

I used the new rule, but the effect is the same as earlier. I still cant see styles nor images.

The basehref is generated correctly, as http://domain/

Also, when I tried to access the manager (like I always do) with http://domain/manager/ it gives me the MODx 404 page (without styles and images) and the url looks like this... http://ap/manager/?q=manager

All this is so confusing grin

Hope you can help solve this issue. Awaiting eagerly...

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carlholmberg Reply #7, 19 years, 7 months ago

Do you have some kind of log viewer so that you can se what the rewrite_log is saying? If so could you post a chunk of it where it is trying to access a css or image file?

Does it work if you only use $1 instead of http://domain/$1

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raaviraaj Reply #8, 19 years, 7 months ago

The log extract...

127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:19:30 +0530] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 3344
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:19:39 +0530] "GET /assets/images/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 1597
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:19:39 +0530] "GET /assets/templates/ap/a/print.css HTTP/1.1" 404 1597
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:19:39 +0530] "GET /assets/templates/ap/a/sitestyle_2007011901.css HTTP/1.1" 404 1597
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:19:39 +0530] "GET /assets/images/feed-icon-16x16.gif HTTP/1.1" 404 1597
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:19:39 +0530] "GET /assets/images/content/prj_clau_leha/0.jpg HTTP/1.1" 404 1597
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:19:40 +0530] "GET /assets/images/content/prj_lego_juarez/0.jpg HTTP/1.1" 404 1597
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:19:40 +0530] "GET /assets/images/content/prj_clau_uqam/0.jpg HTTP/1.1" 404 1597
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:19:39 +0530] "GET /assets/images/content/prd_mich_oyon/0.jpg HTTP/1.1" 404 1597
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:19:40 +0530] "GET /assets/images/submit_newsletter.gif HTTP/1.1" 404 1597
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:19:40 +0530] "GET /assets/images/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 1597
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:19:40 +0530] "GET /assets/images/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 1597
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:19:51 +0530] "GET /go/projects/art-ville.html HTTP/1.1" 302 386
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:19:51 +0530] "GET /go/projects/art-ville HTTP/1.1" 200 2772
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:19:51 +0530] "GET /assets/images/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 1597
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:19:51 +0530] "GET /assets/templates/ap/a/print.css HTTP/1.1" 404 1597
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:19:51 +0530] "GET /assets/templates/ap/a/sitestyle_2007011901.css HTTP/1.1" 404 1597
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:19:51 +0530] "GET /assets/images/content/prj_clau_leha/1.jpg HTTP/1.1" 404 1597
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:19:51 +0530] "GET /assets/images/feed-icon-16x16.gif HTTP/1.1" 404 1597
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:19:51 +0530] "GET /assets/images/content/prj_clau_leha/2.jpg HTTP/1.1" 404 1597
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:19:51 +0530] "GET /assets/images/tell_a_friend.gif HTTP/1.1" 404 1597
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:19:51 +0530] "GET /assets/images/submit_newsletter.gif HTTP/1.1" 404 1597
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:19:51 +0530] "GET /assets/images/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 1597
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:19:51 +0530] "GET /assets/images/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 1597

It gives a 404 but the files exist and if I disable the .htaccess rule, then it works fine.
No, it does not work as expected when http://domain/$1 id replaced with only $1

This is what the logs show, when the above replacement is made...

127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:25:21 +0530] "GET /go/projects/art-ville.html HTTP/1.1" 302 416
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:25:21 +0530] "GET /E:/xampp1.5.5/xampp/htdocs/ap/go/projects/art-ville HTTP/1.1" 403 1099
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2007:10:25:22 +0530] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 1597

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Ryan Thrash Reply #9, 19 years, 7 months ago

Looks like you need to tweak a base href setting. Please provide your:

web root folder,
MODx root folder,
.htaccess file contents (strip out the comments), and
base-href in your template.

Thanks!

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sottwell Reply #10, 19 years, 7 months ago

Did you try adding

Options +FollowSymlinks

just before the RewriteEngine On line?

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