Hi
I have a wordpress site, I cant see the referer in .htaccess. No matter what I do it wont show , it is always empty. I.e. visit from Google, or visit from another site, or going from link to link in the same site.

PHP does work, as it shows

[HTTP_REFERER] => http://abc.om

But there is not trace of the referer in any RewriteRule or RewriteCond I try

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !(.+)
#RewriteRule ^(.*) - [CO=emptyRef:%{HTTP_REFERER}:.abc.com/]

Or

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (.*)://(.*)/
RewriteRule ^(.*) - [CO=FullRef:$2:.abc.com/]



Any advice pease ?

You need to use %2 instead of $2 in the RewriteRule above.

And you should have posted that in your other thread, instead of opening a new one


Regards

Hi , thank you for your help.

I still have an issue with this. See the below works, a cookie is created called emptyRef and the value is set to the hostname, abc.com in this example.

RewriteRule (.*) - [CO=emptyRef:%{HTTP_HOST}:.abc.com]

However when using the below the cookie is not even created, I cant put my finger on it, but %{HTTP_REFERER} does not seem to work. I did check if this might be a typo and it is not. It is as if the variable does not exist. Is this some sort of Apache misconfiguration issue ? Thanks

RewriteRule (.*) - [CO=emptyRef5:%{HTTP_REFERER}:.abc.com]

Perhaps better to put this thread in the server section:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...nux-server-73/