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Ar Megatox
Ar Megatox

Reputation: 57

add timestamp at end of url with .htaccess

i have a wordpress site and want to add a timestamp in url like this:

date,hour,minutes at end of my url (?201503291854) example:

example.com/pagename?201503291854 

example.com/page/2/?201503291854

but if user visit the url with 1854 at end and if time now is 19:00 link will be 

example.com/pagename?201503291900

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3087

Answers (1)

Alex Werner
Alex Werner

Reputation: 360

I had to find a way to do that in order to avoid the caching system of Facebook and Twitter (for their og:tags), while reaching a dynamically generate picture (so their cache system didn't trigger the change).

Here is how I done that.

You will, of course, need Apache mod_rewrite.

Here is what I put in my .htaccess :

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://stuff.com/profile.php?customURL=$1&ts=%{TIME_YEAR}%{TIME_MON}%{TIME_DAY}_%{TIME_HOUR} [NC,L]

And here is what you can insert :

Year:

%{TIME_YEAR}

Month :

%{TIME_MON}

Day :

%{TIME_DAY}

Hour :

%{TIME_HOUR}

Min :

%{TIME_MIN}

Sec :

%{TIME_SEC}

When tested on the twitter validator, I then successfully got :

profile.php?customURL=testing&ts=20160913_16

or (with min and sec)

profile.php?customURL=testing&ts=20160913_164108

Here you can find good cheatsheet for modrewrite : http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/mod_rewrite-variables-cheatsheet.html

In case the above link goes down, here it's on webarchive (at today date) : http://web.archive.org/web/20160821181903/http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/mod_rewrite-variables-cheatsheet.html

Upvotes: 2

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