I've inherited a legacy PHP site running on Apache with a custom CMS. The URL structure is currently: https://example.com/topic.php?id=100&Title=Blog+Post+Topic
Is there an easy(-ish) way to automatically map that URL to a more friendly URL using an Apache rewrite so that the URL is like: https://example.com/blog-post-topic/
It reminds me of how WordPress permalinks map its /?p=100 style URLs to /blog-post-topic/
Any and all help is certainly appreciated. Thanks for reading.
On an Nginx install using WordPress with the Jetpack plugin, it has the ability to use domainname.com/?random to redirect to a random blog post.
The problem is that this page is getting cached and after visiting the random link once. It will not randomly redirect anymore - you simply get the same page as the first time random was clicked.
To remedy this, I tried:
location = /\?random {
expires -1;
}
and other variations like:
if ($arg_random){
expires -1;
}
Those don't seem to obey the rules.
I'm grateful for any help. Thanks.
I am running Nginx 1.5.6 and I use the Simple Machines Forum software. Most rewrite rules seem to work properly, with the exception of the RSS feeds.
In my Nginx configuration, I have the following line which is supposed to handle URLs which contain ".xml":
rewrite ^/forum/(\.xml|xmlhttp)/?$ "/forum/index.php?pretty;action=$1" last;
The above rule produces the following URL for the main forum, which returns a 403 Error: http://www.mydomain.com/forum/.xml/?type=rss
I would like the rewrite rule to produce this type of URL, which returns code 200 (a real page): http://www.mydomain.com/forum/?type=rss;action=.xml
Here is the entire block pertaining to the forum rewrites: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=tZkAibW3
I would really appreciate some help to create a rewrite rule to do that. Thanks.
I am trying to force Nginx to redirect/rewrite one URL that uses a query string /?cat=20 to /category/lighttpd/. Here is what I tried, which is not working:
location ~ /\?cat=20 {
rewrite ^ http://kevinworthington.com/category/lighttpd/? permanent;
}
I first tried the first line as:
location ~ /?cat=20 {
but that didn't work for me either.
This is using WordPress as the CMS, if that makes any difference.
Your help or tips are appreciated. Thanks.
Server setup: Ubuntu 12.10, Varnish 3.0.2, Nginx 1.3.14, with a WordPress 3.5.1 install.
We are using the "Random Redirect" plugin which shows a random blog post at the URL http://example.com/?random
I would like to set Varnish to not cache the above URL, since currently the "random" post keeps showing the same post.
A specific snippet to show what to put in default.vcl would be super helpful. Thanks.
I'm running a WordPress site on a shared Apache server on Dreamhost. I already have define('FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true); set (and working) in my wp-config.php so that SSL is used for the /wp-admin/ directory.
Can you point me to a .htaccess set of rules that will still maintain /wp-admin/ over https, but redirect any other directory/URL to use http? All help is appreciated. Thanks.