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A URL rewrite engine is software that modifies a web URL's appearance (URL rewriting). Rewritten URLs are used to provide shorter and more relevant-looking links to web pages, to route users from obsolete URLs to replacements, or to simplify the format of the URL for human readability. The technique adds a degree of separation between the files used to generate a web page and the URL that is presented to the world.

A URL rewrite engine, part of a web server's URL-to-filename mapping engines, is software that modifies a web URL's appearance (URL rewriting). Rewritten URLs (sometimes known as short, fancy URLs, or search engine friendly - SEF) are used to provide shorter and more relevant-looking links to web pages, to route users from obsolete URLs to replacements, or to simplify the format of the URL for human readability. The technique adds a degree of separation between the files used to generate a web page and the URL that is presented to the world. It is integral in frameworks that route all URI requests through a routing script or a controller.

Useful links

  1. and its tag-wiki for some examples regarding the most widely-used implementation for the Apache web server.
  2. and its tag-wiki for an implementation for java/j2EE technology.
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Microsoft rewriting module - Force www on URL Or remove www from URL

I have a shared hosting plan with Windows Server 2008 and IIS7.5, and there is Microsoft rewriting module installed and enabled. …
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RewriteCond to skip rule if file or directory exists

I am trying to adjust my htacess file to skip the rewrite rule if the file or directory exists, but when the file exists, it changes the URL to something different. I don't know why this is happening. Here is my htaccess file: RewriteEngine…
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How to rewrite an URL on a JBoss server?

I would like to redirect/rewrite this two kinds of URLs: mydomain.com -> newdomain.com mydomain.com/specificPage -> newdomain.com/newSpecificPage mydomain.com/anyOtherPage -> mydomain.com/anyOtherPage (no redirect here) So I just want to redirect…
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.htaccess URL Rewrite to Subdirectory

What is the best method to rewrite anything below "/some/subdir" to "/some/subdir/projects" like from this: http://www.mydomain.com/some/subidr/test/ ... to this: http://www.mydomain.com/some/subdir/projects/test/ I found a similar question…
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htaccess rewrite rule with escaped ampersand in $_GET fails

I am encountering a problem with a get parameter in conjunction with a htaccess rewrite rule. Below is the urlencode()'ed link; the rewrite rule I use to redirect to index.php, and lastly, a print_r($_GET) on the index.php. As you can see, the…
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How to get reverse proxy server's HTTP_HOST in outbound rules of URL Rewrite w/ ARR

I'm using URL Rewrite and Application Request Routing in IIS 7.5 to set up a reverse proxy for a couple of blogs that need to be integrated into existing websites. Multiple domains are bound to one website in IIS, and each one will get a blog that…
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Missing ARR Rewrite option in Failed Request Tracing

I am using Application Request Routing 3.0 with IIS's failed request tracing. I am having issues with my rewrite rules so I wanted to troubleshoot it. I wanted to follow the steps below to enable IIS logging of rewrite rules but the option doesn't…
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Is this the "one in ten" time to rewrite?

I'm very much against rewriting an application if it can be avoided. I understand the rule that 9 times out of 10, it's better to refactor, but I'm in a situation where it might be the one time in ten, and I'm looking to find that line. The current…
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Rewrite or repair?

I'm sure you have all been there, you take on a project where there is a creaky old code base which is barely fit for purpose and you have to make the decision to either re-write it from scratch or repair what already exists. Conventional wisdom…
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Hiding true database object ID in url's

What would be useful solutions for hiding true database object ID in URL for security purposes? I found that one of the solutions would be: 1) Using hashids open source project 2) Using something like same old md5 on creation of the object to…
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How do you remove invalid characters when creating a friendly url (ie how do you create a slug)?

Say I have this webpage: http://ww.xyz.com/Product.aspx?CategoryId=1 If the name of CategoryId=1 is "Dogs" I would like to convert the URL into something like this: http://ww.xyz.com/Products/Dogs The problem is if the category name contains foreign…
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Change parent window URL from iFrame

I'm having a parent site at myurl.com from which I load an iFrame in a an overlay/modal layer. In the iFrame I have different tabs with steps 1-5 containing different form elements - in other words it's a kind of checkout flow. Each tab is located…
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What's the difference between Request.Url.Query and Request.QueryString?

I have been tracking down a bug on a Url Rewriting application. The bug showed up as an encoding problem on some diacritic characters in the querystring. Basically, the problem was that a request which was basically /search.aspx?search=heřmánek was…
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External links URL encoding leads to '%3F' and '%3D' on Nginx server

I got a problem with my server. I got four inbound links to different sites of my dynamic webpage which look something like this: myurl.com/default/Site%3Fid%3D13 They should look like this: myurl.com/default/Site?id=13 I do know that those %3F…
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How to rewrite domain.com to www.domain.com with HAProxy?

We have 1 loadbalancer with 3 members behind it: main balancer: www.website.com members: web1.website.com, web2.website.com and web3.website.com Currently we are using nginx on the loadbalancer, but we want to replace it with HAProxy. Nginx…
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