mod_rewrite RewriteRule

basher400 · 10-19-2014, 10:42 AM

hi

I need to redirect using mod_rewrite this type of url
http://mysite.com/user/index.php?id=23322

to this:
http://mysite.com/archive/old_user/index.php?id=23322

I need it to NOT display the destination url to the user's browser so the user thinks he is still in the previous one. (he needs to see "user" not "archive/old_user"

searching this topic I think this will do it:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule   ^/user/(.*) /archive/old_user/$1 [P,L]

or

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/archive/old_user/
RewriteRule   ^/user/(.*) /archive/old_user/$1 [P,L]

are those correct ? which one is better ? which one is safer ? which one will load less on the server/apache ?

also does anybody know a good online mod_rewrite tool that you can input the url, the mod_rewrite syntax and than it gives you result ?

keefaz · 10-19-2014, 04:23 PM

They are correct but the second will only apply if the URL doesn't starts with "archive/old_user"

I don't think you want this as it seems you want to keep the archive/old_user/* urls private, no?

Code:

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^/user/(.*) /archive/old_user/$1 [END]
RewriteRule ^/archive/old_user - [R=404]

This should send a 404 error page if one try to access http://mysite.com/archive/old_user/* directly

basher400 · 10-20-2014, 03:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by keefaz

They are correct but the second will only apply if the URL doesn't starts with "archive/old_user"

I don't think you want this as it seems you want to keep the archive/old_user/* urls private, no?

no , i don't want to keep them private.
i just want to redirect one to the other and I want it with less load on the server/apache as possible.

keefaz · 10-20-2014, 05:15 AM

Code:

RewriteRule ^/user/(.*) /archive/old_user/$1 [L]

Seems efficient enough (will certainly load the server much less than php script)

Or maybe use Alias if you have access to server config files (doesn't work in .htaccess)