301 redirects

[yellowled]

I just turned my static web site into a blog. The static web site used to have some English pages which I'm kind of tired of maintaining. (Sorry, guys. ), but I want to redirect some pages (since they host my templates/ports) to static pages in the blog.

But apparently, it's not that easy in S9y. Usually, I'd just drop a

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Redirect 301 old.html new.html

into my .htaccess, but that doesn't seem to work at all. Any hints on how to do this in S9y's .htaccess?

YL

[Timbalu]

As seen in your other post, this might happen while having the PHP problem cgi vs module.

When PHP runs as an Apache module, it is compiled into the Apache code itself. This means, when an Apache process starts, PHP starts along with it. They are intrinsically linked, and PHP depends on Apache to operate. The benefit of this is that Apache tends to run very efficiently, and PHP is part of each Apache process. Furthermore, Apache configuration, particularly when using .htaccess files, can also be used to control PHP functions.

The downside of PHP as a module is also that it is part of Apache. If PHP goes down, so too goes Apache. This makes it more of a security risk, particularly on shared hosting accounts.

PHP as a CGI script means that PHP operates as an independent binary with its own processes. It is separate from Apache and can, therefore, run as another user, rather than Apache’s generic user. This increases security and adds a bit of stability, at the expense of speed.

Aside from being slower, the other downside of PHP as CGI is that users cannot use .htaccess files to control any PHP functionality. For that they must create their own php.ini files.

Find out and try the way over php.ini.

Ian

[yellowled]

As seen in your other post, this might happen while having the PHP problem cgi vs module.

I don't think so, since

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<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

works in the same .htaccess. (Redirecting from www.yellowled.de to yellowled.de.) However, I have no idea how to apply that syntax scheme to redirecting i.e. s9y.en.html to s9y.html. Guess I need to reread my .htaccess links.

YL

[Timbalu]

wie isses damit im IfModule?

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RedirectMatch (.*)\.en\.html$ http://yellowled.de$1.html

Ian

[yellowled]

Takes me to 404 view (not a 404 page using .htaccess but template-side using if $view == '404'). The URL bar states http://yellowled.de/ports.html?url=/ports.en.html.

YL

[Timbalu]

You need to get rid of the "?url=/ports.en.html" part, I assume.
There might be a more elegant way, but you could try

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RedirectMatch (.*)\.en\.html(.*)$ http://yellowled.de$1.html

Ian

[yellowled]

Nope, same result. But I think I figured it out:

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RewriteRule (.*)\.en\.html(.*)$ http://yellowled.de/$1.html [R=301,L]

seems to do the trick. It's not perfect, but that's because there are some pages which no longer have an english alternative (like s9y.en.html -> there's no s9y.html now), but I think I can live with that.

YL

[Timbalu]

Good. Adding the [] definitions would have been my next choice...
Perhaps with [PT]
Pass Through: instructs mod_rewrite to pass the rewritten URL back to Apache for further processing.

If it is not ending in the view 404 anymore, you might remove the second (.*) again.

Ian