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April 23rd, 2008, 02:22 PM

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Redirect everything under a dir to one page, except if linked from that page..

Hi all,

I am trying and trying, but in the end need your help..
I would like to create an htaccess file to do the following:

Code:

- Redirect everything in and under the directory /content/
- except if it is linked by the frameset /index.php
- to the /index.php?f=$1

I have tried to accomplish this with the following htacces:

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.domain.com/index.php$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/content/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/index.php?f=$1 [R=301,L]

Somehow, it doesn't work (it does not redirect). I appreciate any help with this or direction towards the solution. :-)

Last edited by driz : April 24th, 2008 at 02:31 PM. Reason: Just anonimized the url :-)

April 24th, 2008, 02:21 PM

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Would it be possible to reword your explanation and include the <frameset> HTML and how it all ties together?

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April 24th, 2008, 02:30 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jharnois

Would it be possible to reword your explanation and include the <frameset> HTML and how it all ties together?

Hi Jeremy,

Let me explain what every rule in my htaccess should do:

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.domain.com/index.php$

Exclude all requests that are linked by the frameset /index.php

Code:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/content/$

Include everything in and under the directory /content/

Code:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/index.php?f=$1 [R=301,L]

Redirect all requests to /index.php?f=$1 where $1 contains everything after www.domain.com

Hope that makes it more clear... Here's the code for the frameset. Well, it's not really a frameset, but it has iframes. Please find the relevant code below:

Code:

<div id="titel_container">
<div id="titel">
<iframe name="titel" src="titel.php" width="247" height="60" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>
</div>
<div id="content">
<iframe name="content" src="/content/<?= $_GET[f]; ?>" width="572" height="233" frameborder="0"></iframe>
</div>

In the end I woulde like to accomplish that every request to e.g.

www.domain.com/content/great-content/bla/bla
www.domain.com/content/worst-page-of-this-site
www.domain.com/content/worst-page-of-this-site/but/this/one/is/better/

that is not in the iframe of index.php is direct to respectively

www.domain.com/index.php?f=/content/great-content/bla/bla
www.domain.com/index.php?f=/content/worst-page-of-this-site
www.domain.com/index.php?f=/content/worst-page-of-this-site/but/this/one/is/better/

I hope I have made myself more clear! :-)

Last edited by driz : April 24th, 2008 at 02:50 PM. Reason: Added what I want to accomplish, inspired by jeremy's sig :-)

April 29th, 2008, 12:45 AM

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Is it still unclear what I want?

April 30th, 2008, 07:14 AM

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I don't believe the referrer is set when a page is requested through an <iframe>, so I don't think that's a valid test. The src= of the <iframe> most likely causes a completely separate request that is independent of any referrer. You can check this using something like the Live HTTP Headers extension for Firefox.

Do the individual pages (e.g. /content/great-content/foo, /content/worst-page, etc) share a common JavaScript or include()d file of any kind?

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Yes they do, they're all in the same (Wordpress) CMS. Any other ideas on how to solve this?

April 30th, 2008, 08:32 AM

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I would be included to take a JavaScript or server side script route. I believe the DOM for any page should include the existence of an <iframe>, so you could use JavaScript to test that. And you could do it server side by adding a query string in the src= for the <iframe> and having each of those pages check for that query string.

You could also do the query string trick with mod_rewrite, but I'm not sure I'd use that in this situation.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jharnois

You are right, iframe does not set a referer.. I guess than htaccess is not going to work. Thank you for your suggestions to solve this, i'll try the query string option.

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Note that you can combine the query string option with mod_rewrite.

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