RewriteRules can be such a pain for me, I cannot get this one to work. I have to redirect urls like example.com/de/anypath to example.de/anypath.

[anypath] can be really any path, as I have to get it work for example.com/de/articles/programming/hello-world (would be redirected to example.de/articles/programming/hello-world) as well as for example.com/de/events/pic-nic (would be redirected to example.de/events/pic-nic).

This is what I wrote so far :

 RewriteRule "^/de/(.*)$" "http://example.de/$1" [R=301,NC,L]

• I also tried with RewriteCond with no more luck

  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} http://example.com/de 
  

• I am working with xampp, but tested on my web server with same result.

• I know this .htaccess file is working (get error if I enter a typo)

• I got some result when testing with something like :

  RewriteRule "^(.*)$" "https://google.com" [R=301,NC,L]
  

Any help would be appreciated !

CodePudding user response：

RewriteRule "^/de/(.*)$" "http://example.de/$1" [R=301,NC,L]

In .htaccess, the URL-path matched by the RewriteRule pattern does not start with a slash. ie. It should be "^de/(.*)$", not "^/de/(.*)$".

You don't need the double quotes and the NC flag is probably redundant, unless you also need to match dE, Ed or DE.

For example (near the top of the root .htaccess file):

RewriteRule ^de/(.*) http://example.de/$1 [R=301,L]

(HTTP, not HTTPS?!)

The trailing $ on the RewriteRule pattern was also redundant.

Test first with 302 (temp) redirect to avoid potential caching issues.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} http://example.com/de 

The Host HTTP request header (ie. the value of the HTTP_HOST server variable) contains the hostname only. eg. example.com only in your example.

Any server variable that is prefixed with HTTP_ refers to the HTTP request header of the same name.

I got some result when testing with something like :

RewriteRule "^(.*)$" "https://google.com" [R=301,NC,L]

Careful with testing 301s since they are cached persistently by the browser. You will need to clear your browser cache before testing!

CodePudding user response：

I added two conditions (the first is to apply according to local or live site, the second to leave the node paths unchanged) :

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} local.example.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*/de/node/.*$

And it is working as expected. Thanks again.