Rewrite Rules (URL Rewriting, mod_rewrite)

(1) Redirect site from http to https :

add the below in .htaccess file in public_html

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}


(2) Redirecting a domain to another domain via .htaccess

Example :- redirect vivek.com to google.com

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^vivek\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.vivek\.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ “http\:\/\/www\.google\.com\/” [R=301,L]

(3)  Redirect users to access the site with WWW

Example :- redirect vivek.com to www.vivek.com

add the below in .htaccess file

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^vivek\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.vivek.com/$1 [L,R=301]


(4)  Redirect page to another page within public_html

Example1 :- to redirect home.html to index.php

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^home.html$ index.php


Example2 :-   rewrite site  vivek.com/kb/index.php  to   vivek.com/blog/index.html

Go to kb directory and create a .htaccess file

#cd public_html/kb
#touch .htaccess
#vi .htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /blog/index.html