.htaccess rewrite engine help

[ryanmm]

my site is laid out like so:

public_html/index.php
public_html/everythingelse/(all other files here)

Im trying to figure out how to remove everything in the browser's url bar after the .com in my site. so,

http://mysite.com/everythingelse/blah.php

would be rewritten as:

http://mysite.com

and http://mysite.com/index.php

would also be rewritten as:

http://mysite.com

I also have a fixed ip and ssl, and would like to redirect all traffic to everything except mysite.com/index.php to https. so, everything inside of my everythingelse folder is not accessible via regular http, only via secure https

anybody know the htaccess rewrite engine well enough to be able to do this?

[MaestroFX1]

just remember this : filesystem takes the first precedence

and "everythingelse" is a directory as you have mentioned above.

[vv.bbcc19]

In Cpanle, you can directly put a redirect so that it writes to .htaccess.or
I can give you how I do a 301 redirect.That 301 thing should be replaced by your required file.

Redirect example.com/index.php to example.com/

Another snippet that I've heard is a good idea to make sure search engines don't give you a duplicate content penalty, this will also redirect example.com/folder/index.php to example.com/folder/.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
# index.php to /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]

If you need further help,read the following.



Method 1 - .htaccess 301 Redirect

The smoothest way to redirect your visitors is to use an .htaccess redirect. This has no delay since before a page is served to the browser the server checks first for an .htaccess file... if it sees this the old page never loads, instead visitors are sent directly to the new page.

These are a few .htaccess redirect codes that I've used that might come in handy for you. This is not a complete list by any means, but it took me ages to find how to do these so I'll save you the hassle and list them here. Oh, and please don't email me with questions about how these work, like I said, I found these with the help of others.. I have no idea in the slightest how to write this stuff and take no credit (or responsibility) for how they work.
mportant notes about htaccess redirection

Always be sure to upload .htaccess files in ascii mode, sending it up as binary will break it (and usually make your server very, very unhappy.)
.htaccess does not work if you're on a windows server.
Make sure you triple check your changes. Clear your cache and look, test the server headers to make sure you see a 301 (that means its permanent) not a 302 (temporary) unless you are absolutely sure you really mean temporary.
Since some operating systems don't allow you to make a file without something before the "." you may need to save it as something.htaccess, some may even have to save it as htaccess.txt and change it once you've uploaded it.
Make sure your ftp program will show .htaccess files (FileZilla does and is free) It is a bit hard to edit something you can't see ;)
Double check that you're not overwriting an old one (some servers already place one there for your custom 404 pages etc.)
Make sure you replace example.com with your own sites URL ;-)

Examples

Redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.example.com/newpage.html

or
Redirect 301 / http://www.example.com/

Hope this helps
Regards,
VVBB

[ryanmm]

I copied and pasted this into my .htaccess file in public_html.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
# index.php to /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]

Didnt seem to have any effect.

[misson]

The current virtual host setup requires you to set RewriteBase. In your document root, it should be "RewriteBase /".

Your question doesn't make much sense. You say you want "http://mysite.com/everythingelse/blah.php" and "http://mysite.com/index.php" to be rewritten to "http://mysite.com", meaning anyone who tried to go to either of the first two would wind up at the third. Do you want this rewrite to be external (i.e. result in a redirect)? Since requesting "http://mysite.com" would result in a directory index being returned, you'd have to be very careful not to have a rewrite loop.

[ryanmm]

There are a couple things im trying to do with the rewrite.
lets forget the https ssl and just focus on the url shortening

I want every page in my site to be shortened to just "mysite.com"
it is my understanding that shortening urls doesn't actually redirect the user anyway, and to the server, the long url
like "mysite.com/user/comp.php?ID=3678764&time=209894" will both still exist and be the page that is actually served to the user,
the only thing that happens is that apache changes the way the url appears in the clients browser.
So the server sees and understands and works with "mysite.com/user/comp.php?ID=3678764&time=209894"
and the user sees whatever is on the page "mysite.com/user/comp.php?ID=3678764&time=209894"
the only thing that has changed is the url in the browsers url bar or text field or whatever you call it,
will read "http://mysite.com"
so no, its not a redirect, unless i am confused, which has been known to happen, lol

as for RewriteBase, I'm not sure what you mean by document root.
would this work?:

RewriteBase /
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
# index.php to /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]

[descalzo]

That is not how rewrites work.

Url on the page example.com/foodle/boodle

click on it, and that is the URL that will stay in the address bar.

Rewrite can take /foodle/boodle and look internally for /boodle/foodle.php and return that, but the URL in the address bar will not change.

The only way you can make the address bar change is issue a redirect. But if you redirect to example.com , you loose /foodle/boodle and you just end up on the front page. If you redirect to example/boodle/foodle.php , that is what will end up in the address bar.

If you really want the address bar to read example.com for all your pages, use frames. The content of the display frame will change while the address bar will stay at the address of the parent frame.

[ryanmm]

hmmmm, so this guy just has no idea what he's talking about:

"not-so-simple rewriting ... flat links and more
You may have noticed, the above examples use regular expression to match variables. What that simply means is.. match the part inside (.+) and use it to construct "$1" in the new URL. In other words, (.+) = $1 you could have multiple (.+) parts and for each, mod_rewrite automatically creates a matching $1, $2, $3, etc, in your target (aka. 'substitution') URL. This facility enables us to do all sorts of tricks, and the most common of those, is the creation of "flat links"..

Even a cute short link like http://mysite/grab?file=my.zip is too ugly for some people, and nothing less than a true old-school solid domain/path/flat/link will do. Fortunately, mod_rewrite makes it easy to convert URLs with query strings and multiple variables into exactly this, something like..

a more complex rewrite rule:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^files/([^/]+)/([^/]+).zip /download.php?section=$1&file=$2 [NC]

would allow you to present this link as..

http://mysite/files/games/hoopy.zip

and in the background have that transparently translated, server-side, to..

http://mysite/download.php?section=games&file=hoopy

which some script could process."


from:
http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess2.php

[descalzo]

I don't see anything in that which relates to what you want.

[ryanmm]

look at the middle 2 links..

he completely changes everything after http://mysite/