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mod_rewrite is a Apache <\/a>module installed on linux servers to manipulate URLs submitted in the browser to perform other functions than it appears. Mod_rewrite can improve SEO appearing to give it a static appearance.<\/p>\n This guide assumes you already have Apache installed, if you do not please see How to Install Apache<\/a><\/p>\n You will want to edit the main Apache configuration file<\/p>\n nano \/etc\/httpd\/conf\/httpd.conf<\/p>\n Add or un-comment the following line<\/p>\n LoadModule rewrite_module modules\/mod_rewrite.so<\/p>\n Once you have saved the file you can go ahead and restart Apache<\/p>\n systemctl restart httpd<\/p>\n or in CentOS 6 or below<\/p>\n service httpd restart<\/p>\n You should now see the module loaded by doing the following command<\/p>\n # httpd -M 2>&1|grep rewrite That is for enabling the module. Mod_rewrite rules can either be inserted directly into the VirtualHost block for a specific domain or in a .htaccess for that given domain.<\/p>\n Rewrite domain.com to www.domain.com<\/p>\n RewriteEngine On The above redirect will take all requests to the non-www domain and redirect them with a 301 code to the www.domain.com url and appendedthe rest of the url to it.<\/p>\n Redirect all requests to https \/ SSL<\/p>\n RewriteEngine On The above redirect will take all non-ssl requests and redirect them to https:\/\/ URLs.<\/p>\n Redirect request from one directory to another<\/p>\n RewriteRule ^subdirectory\/(.*)$ \/anotherdirectory\/$1 [R=301,NC,L]<\/p>\n The above redirect will take any requests towards a single directory and redirect it to another directory with the rest of URL appended to it.<\/p>\n Redirect one domain to another<\/p>\n RewriteEngine On This will redirect any requests with the destination of the olddomain and change them to the new domain. There are numerous redirects you can perform with mod_rewrite these are just a couple of common examples.<\/p>\n Sep 5, 2017LinuxAdmin.io<\/p>\nEnable mod_rewrite<\/h2>\n
\nrewrite_module (shared)<\/p>\nMod_rewrite Examples<\/h2>\n
\nRewriteCond % !^www. [NC]
\nRewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.%% [R=301,L]<\/p>\n
\nRewriteCond % ^domain.com [NC]
\nRewriteCond % off
\nRewriteRule ^(.*)$ https:\/\/%%<\/p>\n
\nRewriteCond % ^olddomain.com [NC,OR]
\nRewriteCond % ^www.olddomain.com [NC]
\nRewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/newdomain.com\/$1 [L,R=301,NC]<\/p>\n