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Lydia Maier
Lydia Maier

Reputation: 439

Redirect sitemap.xml

I've got a multi lingual webpage. the sitemaps are in the directory /share/.

share/deutsch.xml
share/englisch.xml
share/french.xml

Now how can I redirect in htaccess from the above .xml files to:

de/share/deutsch.xml
en/share/englisch.xml
fr/share/french.xml

I hope you guys can help me.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 388

Answers (1)

arkascha
arkascha

Reputation: 42875

This should do what you ask for: 

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?[a-z]{2}/share/(\w+)\.xml$ /share/$1.xml [END]

In case you receive an internal server error (http status 500) using the rule above then chances are that you operate a very old version of the apache http server. You will see a definite hint to an unsupported [END] flag in your http servers error log file in that case. You can either try to upgrade or use the older [L] flag, it probably will work the same in this situation, though that depends a bit on your setup.

This rule will work likewise in the http servers host configuration or inside a dynamic configuration file (".htaccess" file). Obviously the rewriting module needs to be loaded inside the http server and enabled in the http host. In case you use a dynamic configuration file you need to take care that it's interpretation is enabled at all in the host configuration and that it is located in the host's DOCUMENT_ROOT folder.

And a general remark: you should always prefer to place such rules in the http servers host configuration instead of using dynamic configuration files (".htaccess"). Those dynamic configuration files add complexity, are often a cause of unexpected behavior, hard to debug and they really slow down the http server. They are only provided as a last option for situations where you do not have access to the real http servers host configuration (read: really cheap service providers) or for applications insisting on writing their own rules (which is an obvious security nightmare).

Upvotes: 0

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