Apache Rewrite Rule Cheatsheet

A collection of example Apache rewrite rules that perform various commonly needed actions.

Redirecting WWW and non-WWW versions of a domain

Redirect to the WWW subdomain, keeping any specified page URI

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www [NC]
RewriteRule (.*)         https://%{HTTP_HOST}$1 [L,R=permanent,QSA]

Redirect to the non-WWW subdomain, keeping any specified page URI

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www [NC]
RewriteRule (.*)         https://some-domain.com$1 [L,R=permanent,QSA]

Redirect alternative versions of the domain name to the main domain name. E.g. redirect some-domain.co.uk and some-domain.org to some-domain.com

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^some-domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*)         https://%{HTTP_HOST}$1 [L,R=permanent,QSA]

Redirect to SSL

Redirect the current URL to the HTTPs equivalent

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=permanent,QSA]

Redirecting specific URLs

Redirect a single URL to another URL

RewriteRule ^/page-foo$ /page-bar [L,R=permanent,QSA]

Redirect any page under a directory "/foo" to the equivalent under "/bar"

RewriteRule ^/foo/(.*) /bar/$1 [L,R=permanent,QSA]

Removing .php extensions from URLs

This will make "/foo" to "/foo.php" on the filesystem

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*) $1.php [QSA]