a simple tutorial for common redirecting examples?

[abubelinha]

I would appreciate a simple guide, or a list of .htaccess files, showing examples of how to do some quite common redirections.

w3id.org/myname ---> my-current.domain/my-site-path/my-file.php
w3id.org/myname?a=1&b=4 ---> my-current.domain/my-site-path/my-file.php?a=1&b=4
w3id.org/myname/a_1/b_4 ---> my-current.domain/my-site-path/my-file.php?a=1&b=4
w3id.org/myname/site1 ---> my-current.domain/my-site-path/site1
w3id.org/myname/anothersite ---> my-current.domain/my-site-path/anothersite

... and so on

Perhaps this is such a basic question, but there are no links in w3id.org to any good tutorial for beginners.

[davidlehn]

Yes, this would be good. It's been on my todo list since forever. Lots of things have been copied around that are probably not optimal. I think the examples should be live working ones and in the an "example" directory.

[abubelinha]

Thanks @davidlehn

Some other related thoughts:

• Nothing is said about "what is an .htaccess file".
  I believe it means an Apache web server special file, used to handle redirections from urls named after the folder where the .htaccess file is placed.
  But I might be wrong, because nothing is said about Apache (or any other particular webserver software), anywhere in w3id website.

• In case w3id.org is using Apache to process redirections, which particular Apache version?
  It could be relevant when looking at documentation, since the syntax for instructions used inside .htaccess files could be different depending on the web server version.

[bact]

@abubelinha We now have https://github.com/perma-id/w3id.org/tree/master/examples with 3 examples of .htaccess together with quick intro to .htaccess. Maybe we can work from there and add more examples.

[bact]

• w3id.org/myname ---> my-current.domain/my-site-path/my-file.php [Covered]
• w3id.org/myname?a=1&b=4 ---> my-current.domain/my-site-path/my-file.php?a=1&b=4 [Covered; not by individual parameters, but the entire query string]
• w3id.org/myname/a_1/b_4 ---> my-current.domain/my-site-path/my-file.php?a=1&b=4
• w3id.org/myname/site1 ---> my-current.domain/my-site-path/site1 [Covered]
• w3id.org/myname/anothersite ---> my-current.domain/my-site-path/anothersite [Covered]