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Marco Demaio
Marco Demaio

Reputation: 34407

Apache mod_rewrite: can these simple RewriteRule be improved? And suggestions!

I started finally to understand Apache mod_rewrite. It's pretty GREAT!

Plz have a look at the followings:

1) Permanent redirects http://www.domain.com/folder_name/ (with or without final slash and with or without the www) to http://www.domain.com/some/path/some_page.html

RewriteRule ^folder_name[/]*$ "http\:\/\/domain\.com\/some\/path\/some_page.html" [R=301,L]

2) Permanent redirects all requests to www.domain.com... to same path and file request but without www in domain

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^domain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http\:\/\/domain\.com\/$1" [R=301,L]

They all work as expected and do their jobs, I'm simply curios if some guy, who is more expert than me in mod_rewrite, could give me some advises like: "it could be better in this way...", "there might be a problem if...", etc.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 75

Answers (1)

Gumbo
Gumbo

Reputation: 655269

  1. Use the ? quantifier instead of * and you don’t need to escape the substitution URL:

    RewriteRule ^folder_name/?$ http://example.com/some/path/some_page.html [R=301,L]

  2. You might want to consider HTTP 1.0 requests where the Host header field is missing. Another useful extension would be to take HTTPS into account:

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(|example\.com)$
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} ^on(s)|
RewriteRule ^ http%1://example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

Upvotes: 1

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