Problem with Ignoring a folder in the rewrite

[kennova]

I have moved my blog from http://blah.com/home/blog to http://blog.blah.com

I created an .htaccess file and used the following redirects

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RedirectMatch 301  ^/home/modules/blog(.*)$ http://blog.blah.com$1
RedirectMatch 301  ^/home/blog(.*)$ http://blog.blah.com$1
RedirectMatch 301  ^/blog(.*)$ http://blog.blah.com$1

This works great. However, (you knew it was coming), I have old posts and those posts have images that exist in the folder.

http://www.blah.com/home/modules/blog/uploaded_images/

So I want to exclude the uploaded_images folder. From I could read in the documentation there are a couple ways to do this, a back reference to a parameter using rewritecond and a subsequent rewriterule with a R=301 so I did that. (The other way is with the full http_uri and I tried that too)

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond $1 !uploaded_images/
RewriteRule  ^/home/modules/blog(.*)$ http://blog.blah.com$1 [L,R=301]
RedirectMatch 301  ^/home/blog(.*)$ http://blog.blah.com$1
RedirectMatch 301  ^/blog(.*)$ http://blog.blah.com$1

The RedirectMatch rules still work, but the new RewriteRule does not. So existing blog posts found at

http://www.blah.com/home/modules/blog/2 ... -post.html

no longer redirect to http://blog.blah.com/2009/06/blog-post.html like they should.

My images don't redirect either, but that's a good thing I guess. If I remove the RewriteCond it doesn't change anything. I think it's something wrong with the rewriterule but I can't figure it out. I've stared at it for 2 days and read everything I could find. HELP!!

[richardk]

I created an .htaccess file and used the following redirects

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RedirectMatch 301  ^/home/modules/blog(.*)$ http://blog.blah.com$1
RedirectMatch 301  ^/home/blog(.*)$ http://blog.blah.com$1
RedirectMatch 301  ^/blog(.*)$ http://blog.blah.com$1

This works great. However, (you knew it was coming), I have old posts and those posts have images that exist in the folder.

RedirectMatch is part of mod_alias not mod_rewrite. If you are only using Redirect* directives you do not need

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

Try

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond $1 !^/uploaded_images/.+$
RewriteRule ^home/modules/blog(/.+)$ http://blog.blah.com$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(home/)?blog(/.+)$      http://blog.blah.com$1 [R=301,L]

[kennova]

Thanks for the reply. But. that didn't work and now the other redirects that were working no longer work either.

It might be a problem later down the line.

In the "home" directory I have an .htaccess file

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule \.(css|jpe?g|gif|png)$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?module=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?module=$1&location=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?module=$1&location=$2&id=$3 [L]

but that's it, no other folders have any rules. The rules you posted are sitting on the root directory.

[kennova]

I thin k it's still something with the rewriterules in general.

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RewriteRule ^home/modules/blog(/.+)$ http://blog.blah.com$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(home/)?blog(/.+)$      http://blog.blah.com$1 [R=301,L]

Even these all by themselves don't work. So even without the conditional I think there is something up with using rewrite rules. The rules in the "home" folder work though so I know I have the server configured properly.

[richardk]

What URL are you visiting to test?

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RewriteRule ^(home/)?blog(/.+)$      http://blog.blah.com$1 [R=301,L]

should be

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RewriteRule ^(home/)?blog(/(.+))?$      http://blog.blah.com$3 [R=301,L]

Try adding

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RewriteOptions Inherit

in /home/.htaccess.

Or try

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond $1 !^/uploaded_images/.+$
RewriteRule ^home/modules/blog(/(.+))?$ http://blog.blah.com$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(home/)?blog(/(.+))?$      http://blog.blah.com$3 [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^home/.+\.(css|jpe?g|gif|png)$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^home/([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?module=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^home/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?module=$1&location=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^home/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?module=$1&location=$2&id=$3 [L]

in a .htaccess file in your document root and no .htaccess file in /home.

[kennova]

Option 2 or 3 didn't work
Test url

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http://www.blah.com/home/modules/blog/2009/06/apple-day-keeps-doctor-away-right.html


root .htaccess file I have now

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Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond $1 !^/uploaded_images/.+$
RewriteRule ^home/modules/blog(/(.+))?$ http://blog.blah.com$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(home/)?blog(/(.+))?$      http://blog.blah.com$3 [R=301,L]

/home .htaccess file

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule \.(css|jpe?g|gif|png)$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?module=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?module=$1&location=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?module=$1&location=$2&id=$3 [L]

This works when I try to to www.blah.com/blog and I get redirected to blog.blah.com

www.blah.com/home/blog - doesn't get redirected
www.blah.com/home/modules/blog - doesn't get redirected.

also the test url does not redirect. So we are getting closer and at least some rewrites are working. I really appreciate the help.

[richardk]

What happens with

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RewriteOptions Inherit

added to /home/.htaccess?

[kennova]

Yeah I tried that too. I also turned on logging, but I couldn't understand what it was telling me.

[richardk]

Post any relevant parts of the log.

[kennova]

I turned the log back on and went to the different locations like

http://www.blah.com/home/blog
http://www.blah.com/home/modules/blog
http://www.blah.com/home/modules/blog/2 ... right.html

and got the following log

Currently I have .htaccess files on
/ (root)

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond $1 !^/uploaded_images/.+$
RewriteRule ^home/modules/blog(/(.+))?$ http://blog.blah.com$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(home/)?blog(/(.+))?$      http://blog.blah.com$3 [R=301,L]

/home

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RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule \.(css|jpe?g|gif|png)$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?module=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?module=$1&location=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?module=$1&location=$2&id=$3 [L]