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Shane Smiskol
Shane Smiskol

Reputation: 966

Redirect "Not Found" links on web server to directory with sub directory as what the user attempted to reach with .htaccess?

I want to have whenever the user types a "Not Found" link (using WAMP Server) on my server to redirect to a certain directory with the subdirectory as what the user originally typed.

What I mean is, if the user wants to access smiskol.com/hello, and it doesn't exist, then the page gets redirected to smiskol.com/specific-page/hello where the page the user tried to access is appended to the end.

I cannot for the life of me figure it out, as I'm new to the syntax of .htaccess. So far I have the following, but it doesn't work:

Options -Indexes

Redirect 302 /drop /file-drop

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ /short-links/%1 [L]

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 320

Answers (2)

Shane Smiskol
Shane Smiskol

Reputation: 966

Thanks to @Eduardo Escobar and some extra time, I finally came up with a good solution!

This is the final code I used:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/short-links/$1.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /short-links/$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/short-links/$1.php !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php [L]

The first chunk redirects to /short-links/hello if hello.php exists in the short-links directory and if the page doesn't exist by itself, while the second redirects the user back to the index page if the page doesn't exist and the short-link doesn't exist. Viola!

Upvotes: 1

Eduardo Escobar
Eduardo Escobar

Reputation: 3389

In your last line, use this instead:

RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ /short-links/$1 [L]

Upvotes: 1

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