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Well, I did above, but here goes again... IF a user requests my website (i.e. domain name) starting with either a "www." OR with no "www." AND the request lacks an "https://" THEN ultimately I want the url to read "https://www.mydomain.com" SO THAT it uses my server's SSL certificate AND is properly formatted like a url should be. The last two code samples I gave should do that, PLUS they do it with one condition like you said I should do. So did I not apply your advice properly to get what I wanted? I will have to ask my webhost how to determine the SERVER_NAME variable and how to set it to - in my case - www.mysite.com That is the proper format of the SERVER_NAME constant, right? Is there any issue hard-coding my domain as www.mysite.com ??

@requinix, Is this what you wanted me to do... RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\. RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule (.*) https://www.mysite.com/$1[L,R=301] Or maybe also this... RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)? RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule (.*) https://www.mysite.com/$1 [L,R=301] Also, you said... Is SERVER_NAME an Apache constant? Or is it a PHP constant? If the former, then how do I find it on my VPS which runs cPanel?

Well, based on the code I posted above, I guess my code doesn't handle that scenario. When I was testing the above rewrites, I typed mysite.com into the address bar, let my website load, and then I added/deleted variants listed above to see if things worked - especially since I was complaining earlier that my SESSIONS were getting broken earlier. My SESSIONS now work, and nothing breaks when I try the variants above, but I'm just being picky and do not want things to go from mysite.com to https://mysite.com Is it correct that when you have multiple mod_rewrite rules, one per line, that each new line adds an AND condition? Is doing an OR condition as simple as adding the word "OR" on the same line?

It sounds like you are proposing a way to make my mod_rewrite more "efficient", but why would this code not work as-is? # NON-WWW to HTTPS://WWW RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule (.*) https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,R=301] # WWW to HTTPS://WWW RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\. [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,R=301]

I don't follow your response.... A user could type in any of these combinations... mysite.com www.mysite.com ---- http://mysite.com http://www.mysite.com ---- https://mysite.com https://www.mysite.com Where I always want them to end up is... https://www.mysite.com That being said, how can you accomplish all of that in ONE rule or ONE rewrite? I would say that you cannot...

Correction: The above code does NOT break my SESSION, however it doesn't work completely as expected. If you go to www.mysite.com then things redirect to https://www.mysite.com This is correct. However, if you go to mysite.com then things redirect to https://mysite.com While this is secure, it isn't what I want. I want to always end up with: https://www.mysite.com Thanks.

I want a mod_rewrite that will take either a non-WWW or a WWW request and change it to an HTTPS://WWW I thought the below code would accomplish that, but it seems to be breaking my SESSION sometimes when I try editing the URL... ## NON-WWW to HTTPS://WWW ##RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC] ##RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off ##RewriteRule (.*) https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,R=301] ## ## WWW to HTTPS://WWW ##RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\. [NC] ##RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off ##RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,R=301] What am I doing wrong?

What consitutes "redirect happy"? I have a constant called BASE_URL and I needed to tweak that to match up like you say above. I also had to tweak my mod_rewrites because they apparently weren't working as expected. How do I do that? Not following you... Yes, after looking over my code and mod_rewrites, I think I go things fixed. However, can you or someone comment if I am doing SESSIONS properly in the code above? I know I found several hits in a Google search about my issue - but didn't have time to read them. It seems like they were saying you have to do more creating adn using SESSIONS than what I have. Comments??

I don't know where to begin... 😞 My code seems to work 95% of the time locally, but there is a problem when it is on my webserver. I found some links late last night where other people are having similar issues and the theme seems to be with the way you handle sessions in PHP, but I am trying to sort out what they say. Here is what is happening... I go to mydomain.com and the index.php page loads which is basically a login form. I log in using the hard-coded credentials, and I set the SESSION['loggedIn'] = TRUE and I redirect as seen below... index.php <?php // Initialize Session. session_start(); // Access Constants. require_once('../secure_outside_webroot/config.php'); // Handle Form. if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']=='POST'){ // Form was Submitted (Post). // Initialize Errors Array. $errors = array(); // Trim all form data. $trimmed = array_map('trim', $_POST); // Validate Form Data. // Check Username. if (empty($trimmed['username'])){ // No Username. $errors['username'] = 'Enter your Username.'; }else{ // Username Exists. $username = $trimmed['username']; } // Check Password. if (empty($_POST['pass'])){ // <<===== Use untrimmed $_POST // No Password. $errors['pass'] = 'Enter your Password.'; }else{ // Password Exists. $pass = $_POST['pass']; // Do NOT trim password!! }//End of VALIDATE FORM DATA // Attempt to Log-In Member. if (empty($errors)){ // Valid Form Data. // Compare Passwords. if (($username == USERNAME) && ($pass == PASSWORD)){ // Passwords Match. // Log In Member. // Set Session variables. $_SESSION['loggedIn'] = TRUE; // Determine Redirect. header("Location: " . BASE_URL . "/client1/menu"); // End script. exit(); }else{ // Invalid Login. $errors['pass'] = 'Username and Password do not match those on file.'; }//End of COMPARE PASSWORDS }else{ // Drop through to display Errors. }//End of ATTEMPT TO LOG-IN MEMBER }else{ // Form was not Submitted (Get). // Drop through to display Form. }//End of HANDLE FORM ?> <!DOCTYPE HTML> <html lang="en"> </html> Here is a snippet of the relevant code in my .htaccess file... htaccess #Prevent Directory Listings. Options -Indexes #Handle Access-Denied. ErrorDocument 403 "/utilities/access-denied.php" #Handle Page-Not-Found. ErrorDocument 404 "/utilities/page-not-found.php" #Turn on mod_rewrite RewriteEngine on # Addresses issues with how Apache handles mod_rewrites!! RewriteBase / # REMOVE INDEX.PHP RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/index\.php RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ $1 [L,R=301] # REWRITE WITH .PHP EXTENSION RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f RewriteRule .* $0.php [L] # REWRITE PHOTO-DETAILS RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule client1/gallery/(.+)/(.+)$ client1/galleries/photo-details.php?gallery-id=$1&photo-id=$2 [L] # REWRITE PHOTO-GALLERY RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule client1/gallery/(.+)$ client1/galleries/photo-gallery.php?gallery-id=$1 [L] After logging in (successfully), I should be redirected to menu.php and a menu of available galleries should be displayed... menu.php <?php // Initialize Session. session_start(); // Access Constants. require_once('../../secure_outside_webroot/config.php'); // Initialize Variables. //unset($_SESSION['loggedIn']); // Check if Logged-In. if (isset($_SESSION['loggedIn']) && $_SESSION['loggedIn'] == TRUE){ // Member Logged In. // Continue processing... }else{ // Not Logged In. // Redirect to Access-Denied. header("Location: " . BASE_URL . "/utilities/access-denied"); // End script. exit(); }//End of CHECK IF LOGGED-IN ?> <!DOCTYPE HTML> <html lang="en"> </html> Unfortunately when I am on my webserver, it seems like 95% of the time I end up on my Access Denied (403) page... header("Location: " . BASE_URL . "/utilities/access-denied"); In DEV I am running the latest version of MAMP which has Apache 2.2 but on my webserver it runs Apache 2.4 Either cPanel or Apache or my php.ini or .htaccess file is breaking my PHP session, but I'm not sure why, because this code has been working fine locally on my laptop? Please help!!!

I have built a simple website to share photos with people at work. And it is based on code - known to work - from a larger website that I built a few years ago. When you land on the site, you have a login screen, and if the username/password match what is hardcoded, then I set $_SESSION['loggedIn'] = TRUE; and I redirect to the menu.php page. If your credentials do not match, then I redirect the user to an access-denied.php (403) page. Here is the problem... Occasionally, when you try to log in you will get routed to the access-denied page. But then if you try a second time you end on on the menu page. I uploaded my otherwise working code to my hosted webserver, and now I can never seem to log in. It seems to me that something is getting screwed up with the session variable? Any ideas what could be causing this strange behavior?

I call a function (below) that reads the files in the photo directory and puts them into an array... function getPhotoFilesArray($photoPath){ $photoFiles = array(); // Check for Photo Directory. if (is_dir($photoPath)){ // Photo-Directory Found. // Open Directory-Handle. $handle = opendir($photoPath); if($handle){ // Initialize Key. $i = 1001; // Iterate through Photo-Directory items. // Return next Filename in Directory. while(($file = readdir($handle)) !== FALSE){ // File or Directory exists. if($file != '.' && $file != '..' && $file != '_thumbnails' && $file != '_photos' && preg_match("#^[^\.].*$#", $file)){ // Not Directory. // Not Hidden File. // Add to array. $photoFiles[$i] = $file; // Simple array. // Increment Key. $i++; } } closedir($handle); } }else{ // Photo-Directory Not Found. // Redirect to Page-Not-Found. header("Location: " . BASE_URL . "/utilities/page-not-found"); // End script. exit(); }//End of RETRIEVE GALLERY-IMAGES return $photoFiles; }//End of getPhotoFilesArray Then in the HTML section, I iterate through the array using a FOR-EACH loop. Locally in my DEV environment this works fine, but on the web server something is getting messed up.

I have a php page that creates a photo gallery with thumbnails. It is populated by code that reads all photo files from a specified photo directory. This was working fine in DEV, but now that I have uploaded to my test web server, the pictures are in reverse order. Not the end of the world, yet annoying, because they should be in chronological order. Files names are straight off my iPhone (e.g. IMG_2203.jpg, IMG_2204.jpg, IMG_2207.jpg) What is happening, and how can I fix this? Thanks!

Working on fixing some other issues but will circle back to this...

Hello. I have code that goes into a directory and reads all filenames. I could use some help tweaking my code - using a regex - to prevent including any folders. Here is what I have so far... while(($file = readdir($handle)) != FALSE){ if($file != '.' && $file != '.' && $file != '..' && $file != '_small' && $file != '_med' && $file != preg_match("#^[^\.].*$#, $file)){ $photoFiles[] = $file; } I couldn't figure out a working regex to prevent folders/subfolders so I had to hard-code the above folders which is of course limiting! Thanks.

I hate array... 😞 So I had a block of code inside my photo-gallery.php script that took the path to my photos directory, and went to that directory, and then read all of the photo filenames into an array. Then in my HTML, I iterate through this array to display all of the photos for my gallery. Now I would like to move that code to an included file so multiple scripts can access it and always be working with the same array. It seems to me that I need to encapsulate my code inside a function? Then I could call my getPhotoFilesArray back to my callings cript, and use that array for whatever. I haven't coded PHP in like 4 years and I am struggling to return the entire array back to my caling script. This is what I have so far... function getPhotoFilesArray($photoPath){ $photoFiles = array(); <code to find corresponding files> $photoFiles gets populated in a loop return $photoFiles; } Then in my calling script, I have... <?php require_once('../../../secure_outside_webroot/config.php'); require_once(WEB_ROOT . 'utilities/functions.php'); getPhotoFilesArray($photoPath); var_dump($photoFiles); I get some error... Notice: Undefined variable: phtoFiles in photo-gallery.php line 133 (which is my var_dump). <br> Would appreciate help getting this to work!

But I'm not sure of how to do that, I create my array in a llop... while(($file = readdir($handle)) != FALSE){ $photoFiles[] = $file; } If I was doing this out of a loop I guess my first entry could be... $photoFiles[1001] = something; But how do I do that in the loop and not have everything be $photoFiles[1001] ?

Taking a stab at it now...

It works

@requinix, In an earlier thread of mine this week, I think you - or maybe it was @Psycho - suggested putting my code which create an array of my photo files into an include file. I think the logic was that then when either my "photo-gallery.php" OR "photo-detils.php" scripts call that code, that the array will always synched because it is the same array. Ring a bell? So super newbie question, but I am rusty on includes... How does this sound... 1.) Create an "/includes/retrieve-photos.php" script? 2.) Reference that in each script, I would do this... require_once('../../includes/retrieve-photos.php right? 3.) To use that code, I would then just reference the populated array... foreach($photoFiles as $photoKey => $photoValue){ } Right?

First off, what are the names for the types of arrays? What do you call an array that uses integers for the key? I think when the key is text it is called an associative array? Anyways... Is there a way to create an array where they keys are integers, but you are defining the first entry? I would like my array to either start with a "1" or maybe "1001". How do I do that?

Can I use pathinfo() just on a filename and not a path?

How about this... foreach($photoFiles as $photoKey => $photoValue){ $new = str_replace(".", "_large.", $photoValue); }

Hello. I have a simple array with a key/value pair like this... foreach($photoFiles as $photoKey => $photoValue){ } The $photoValue would be the file-name (e.g. "IMG_2340.JPG") and is used in my photo-gallery. Now I am building a photo-details page and what I would like to do is have that larger image be "IMG_2340_large.JPG" Is it possible to split up the array value, insert "_large" and then re-assemble the $photoValue so I can use it here... <a href='client1/galleries/$galleryID/{$photoValue}'><image here</a> Thanks.

I trust that it works, it just looked Greek to me and since this is a favor website for my co-workers, I'm trying to not spend forever on it. Or prepend it with X_ which works... True What I thought was maybe I could tell Apache, "If you come across "client1/gallery/(.*)" (e.g. "/client1/gallery/2019-holiday-party") then do NOT treat it the normal way like a directory, but instead make an exception and treat (.*) like is a file. That seems doable, although I'm not experienced enough with mod_rewrites to do that for fear of blowing things up. Thoughts?