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hi.

I have one .htaccess file like:

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# @version $Id: htaccess.txt 423 2005-10-09 18:23:50Z stingrey $
# @package Joomla
# @copyright Copyright (C) 2005 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.
# @license http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU/GPL
# Joomla! is Free Software
##

#
#  mod_rewrite in use
#

RewriteEngine On

#  Uncomment following line if your webserver's URL
#  is not directly related to physical file paths.
#  Update YourJoomlaDirectory (just / for root)

# RewriteBase /YourJoomlaDirectory

#
#  Rules
#

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|css|js|pl|txt)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php



RewriteRule ^news(.*).html$ index.php?option=content&task=section&id=1&Itemid=2
RewriteRule ^links(.*).html$ index.php?option=com_weblinks&Itemid=4
RewriteRule ^contact(.*).html$ index.php?option=com_contact&Itemid=3
RewriteRule ^tourism(.*).html$ index.php?option=content&task=section&id=2&Itemid=25
RewriteRule ^personal_care(.*).html$ index.php?option=content&task=section&id=4&Itemid=26
RewriteRule ^education(.*).html$ index.php?option=content&task=section&id=3&Itemid=27
RewriteRule ^opinion(.*).html$ index.php?option=content&task=section&id=8&Itemid=31
RewriteRule ^hardware(.*).html$ index.php?option=content&task=section&id=5&Itemid=35
RewriteRule ^profesional_services(.*).html$ index.php?option=content&task=section&id=6&Itemid=36
RewriteRule ^shopping(.*).html$ index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=7&Itemid=93
RewriteRule ^parties(.*).html$ index.php?option=content&task=section&id=9&Itemid=38

RewriteRule ^costaricaproperty(.*).html$ index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=7&id=15&Itemid=37

#RewriteRule ^index(.*).php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=2&id=7&Itemid=68$ costaricahotel.html

RewriteRule ^costaricahotel(.*).html$ content/blogcategory/7/91/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=7&Itemid=91

#RewriteRule ^costaricahotel(.*).html$ index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=2&id=7&Itemid=68

RewriteRule ^costaricamap(.*).html$ content/blogcategory/51/103/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=51&Itemid=103


But the file don´t work, If I aply that, the server give me problems, and I didn´t see anything bad.

Does you see something wrong?
Thanks

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Manager of http://www.GalleryWebs.com/
http://www.Mercadeo-web.com/

Can you post the exact error you get?

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If anything can go wrong, it will.
If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.
Edward A. Murphy

The problems is:

The link desn´t work!

The link: http://www.SouthernCostaRica.Biz/costaricahotel.html
Must go to:

http://www.SouthernCostaRica.Biz/index. ... &Itemid=91

But it go to home:
http://www.SouthernCostaRica.Biz

The I check the .htaccess file and nothing, all seems to be good!

Note: The .htacces is very long, I only post until costaricahotel.html problem.

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Manager of http://www.GalleryWebs.com/
http://www.Mercadeo-web.com/

Possibly you need to move this line



down to the last position in the file so that it works as a catch-all only for those requests that your previous entries don't handle.

Kind regards,
Zorro

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http://www.nitsche.org

If I do that the site seems worst, all the images losted, and the templates and the css.

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Manager of http://www.GalleryWebs.com/
http://www.Mercadeo-web.com/

Your first rule states that

Everything gets redirected to index.php if
a) the path requested does NOT end with one of .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .png, .css, .js, .pl, or .txt, AND
b) the path requested does NOT exist as a file, AND
c) the path requested does NOT exist as a directory

This means that if you receive a URL request for, say, www .sitename.com/costaricahotel.html then this first rule will say ...

... there IS a path - costaricahotel.html
... that path does NOT end with one of the stated suffixes
... that path does NOT exist as a file (assuming it doesn't!)
... that path does NOT exist as a directory
... all 3 conditions are true, so redirect to index.php

So, the end result is that unless you create html files to match all your expected URLs (ie. to make condition (b) fail) every URL will be redirected to index.php. All your subsequent rewrite rules become useless.

An excellent help source for .htaccess and mod_rewrite problems is http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum92/

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"Its better to be thought an idiot than to open your mouth and prove it!"

Ok, my problem was solved addin html at the end of this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|css|js|pl|txt|html)$

Thanks.

But Now I have one More question:

How can I Redirect from:
http://mysite.com/content/view/277/1/

to

http://mysite.com/component/option,com_ ... temid,117/

I try this two options, but none works:

RewriteRule ^index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=277&Itemid=1$ component/option,com_hotproperty/task,view/id,18/Itemid,117/

RewriteRule ^content/view/277/1/$ component/option,com_hotproperty/task,view/id,18/Itemid,117/

Thanks.

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Manager of http://www.GalleryWebs.com/
http://www.Mercadeo-web.com/

1) Where abouts in the .htaccess file are you inserting these new rules?
2) Your first option bears no resemblance whatsoever to the incoming URL, so unless its intended to act on an already-rewritten URL (which wouldn't make much sense!) you can't expect it to work.
3) Your second option looks as though it should match the incoming URL, but unless its the first rule encountered its never going to be hit (for the same reason as my previous post).
4) Why are you trying to redirect an incoming SEF URL to another internal SEF URL, when this automatically means that another rule will have to be actioned for this new SEF URL to be set to the correct internal address? ... unless you want to make it a permanent redirect rather than in internal rewrite, in which case you need to modify the substitution and set the appropriate flags.

Note: Without [L] flags (=last rule actioned) on some of your rules you're making the web server do a lot more than it needs to.

I'm not really sure what it is that you are trying to achieve, but have you tried using one of the SEF components available - like Xaneon Extensions, or 404_SEF? Personally, I have Xaneon Extensions installed and that does everything for me without having to have all those rules in the .htaccess file.

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"Its better to be thought an idiot than to open your mouth and prove it!"

1. I don´t know what is SEF.
2. The problem is:
I have a lot of properties (real estate) in my site, but the Joomla sistems don´t fit very good to manage real estate options, then I just install the component hotProperty to manage the properties on the site. But now I have a lot of properties indexed in google and I don´t like loose this positions, then I´m thinking in delette the fist page of properties but redirecting eact location to the new location.

For example, the original location was:
http://mysite.com/content/view/277/1/

But now is:

http://mysite.com/component/option,com_ ... temid,117/


I think the best way for redirect from the old location to the new location is using .htaccess file, but I don´t know how to do it.

Thanks.

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Manager of http://www.GalleryWebs.com/
http://www.Mercadeo-web.com/

I created folders called faq contact and home, then I added one line of code to .htaccess for each folder.  Like this.

The URLs the become http://mysite.com/faq
Note, no / is needed at the end if you leave / and $ off the end of faq in .htaccess.  This helps resolve a couple of absolute/relative link problems.  It also depends on your apache as to how these will resolve.  Some will put / on the end anyway.

Preview at http://70.86.30.194/~dbbooks/faq http://70.86.30.194/~dbbooks/contact (real domain not resolved yet)

A couple of issues here.  Different servers have different ways of handling mod_rewrite.  I think it might depends on the version of apache.  I'm running xampp on my windows 2000 box, and it doesn't let me use ReWriteRule to access Joomla rewrites like index.php?action...
However my production server does. Linux/Apache, not sure which version.

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Manager of http://www.GalleryWebs.com/
http://www.Mercadeo-web.com/

je je!!!

Raschidt,

It looks like you've solved your problems, but call me on skype if you need help: b.rudge

Vivo en la argentina, asi que hablo castellano si te es mas facil.

saludos,
Bevan . Leo/

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raschidt, try

RewriteRule ^content/view/277/1/$ http://mysite.com/component/option,com_ ... temid,117/ [R=301,L,NC]

as the first rule (ie. before your first RewriteCond line).

I understand why you are trying to do this now. It seems that you have a load of links ranked fairly high in the search engine, but you have restructured your site so that those links are no longer valid. When your site gets re-indexed hopefully your new links will also get the same high ranking, but meantime you are trying to ensure that anyone using the old links will still reach the correct (moved) page on your site.
The line above does a permanent redirect, which basically tells the requesting browser that the page has moved and gets it re-request the substituted URL. Given my limited understanding of search engines I am not sure whether its the best solution, but it seems appropriate to me.

BTW: SEF = "Search Engine Friendly", similar to SEO ("Search Engine Optimisation").

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"Its better to be thought an idiot than to open your mouth and prove it!"

HEY THANKS, THAT´S THE ANSWE. THAT WORKS.

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Manager of http://www.GalleryWebs.com/
http://www.Mercadeo-web.com/