Hi,

this was very helpful for me! Thanks for sharing!

Just one issue I noticed: if you have pagination in your albums, the links to the pages are broken as they are not correctly rewritten by your rules. However I could easily add one more rule which will fix this. So for everyone else that has pagination issues with the above solution, just add the following rule:

# redirect incoming short category url with pagination back to its original long url:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(.*)php(.*)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)start-([0-9]+)$
RewriteRule ^/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/start-([0-9]+)$ /index.php/category/$1/start-$2 [NC,NE,L]

Another small edge case that is not covered so far: if your album name contains the string "php" the rewrite will not work at all since this part will not match:

!^(.*)php(.*)$

But since this is a really unlikely edge case I did not change it :) (e.g. if you have an album called "josephphotos").

Thanks again for the effort!

Best regards
pre

To Pre:

Glad you were able to make it work. Good catch about the pagination issue! I didn't test it in my own site, since I make sure to put all my album photos on a single page. I will add your code to mine, anyway. It's possible I could decide to paginate in the future.

About the rare case of an album name "innocently" including the string "php" in its name, I imagine just changing "^(.*)php(.*)$" to "!^(.*).php(.*)$" would take care of the issue. But I also now wonder if the problematic line -- RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(.*)php(.*)$ -- is even necessary, since the very first passthrough [PT] rule would filter any .php URIs and they would never even reach the last RewriteCond. Later on I'll try deleting it and see what happens.


To EdwinKort:

What I did really was just insert two lines near the end of the make_index_url function at the original line 151 (just above return $url; ):
    $url = str_replace("category/","",$url);
    $url = str_replace("picture.php/","",$url);

And I also inserted two more lines near the end of the function make_picture_url at the original line 264 (just above return $url; ):
    $url = str_replace("category/","",$url);
    $url = str_replace("index.php/","",$url);

These lines are insertions, not replacements. The rest of the code in the functions_url.inc.php file remained EXACTLY the same as the original.

I'm sorry my post wasn't clear. Unfortunately, the "Code" block in these forum posts do not permit adding colours to the lines, or I would have highlighted only the newly inserted lines of text. But I hope this clarifies what I did and that it can work for you. Otherwise, I'm not sure what to suggest.

Hello.

This works perfectly with the last version (I setup piwigo yesterday, so it's 2.10.1).
Thank you.

It definitively should be in the wiki/FAQ or integrated in piwigo.

Last edited by Klug (2019-12-04 12:16:47)

Hi,
Normally, I believe that an .htaccess should go in piwigo root... On my machine that's /var/www/piwigo/. You may need to set or modify the "AllowOverride all" directive in your piwigo conf file or perhaps in your main apache conf.

The main apache tutorial on .htaccess is quite good: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/h … ccess.html
Note that they discourage using .htaccess files at all, mainly for performance reasons. That's one of the reasons I put those rewrite directives inside my piwigo conf.

Hope this helps. Good luck!

Just to clarify, I don't mean the piwigo internal config file: /.../piwigo/include/config.default.inc.php . That has nothing to do with .htaccess. Not sure if I was unclear about that.

I am talking about the apache "conf" files, usually found in /etc/apache2/ and /etc/apache2/conf-available/. Those are normally where the website "conf" files are stored.

Just so there's no confusion... 8-)

Here is the virtual server for my piwigo. You can see I just embedded the rewrites after the ServerName and before my SSL stuff. My DocumentRoot directives come at the end.:

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName travelrainbow.servehttp.com

RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

#  passthrough any uri with ".php" in it:
  RewriteRule ^(.+)\.php(.*)$ - [PT]

#  passthrough empty (Home) uri:
  RewriteRule ^$ - [PT]

#  redirect incoming short picture uri (in the form "/961/album-5-bangkok") to its original long uri:
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(.*)\.php(.*)$
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/([0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$
  RewriteRule ^/([0-9]+)\/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ /picture.php/$1/category/$2 [NC,NE,L]

#  redirect incoming short category uri (e.g. "/album-5-bangkok", no pagination) back to its original long uri:
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(.*)\.php(.*)$
  RewriteRule ^/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ /index.php/category/$1 [NC,NE,L]
 
#  redirect incoming short category uri (with pagination) back to its original long uri (!! thanks to user "pre"):
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(.*)\.php(.*)$
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)start-([0-9]+)$
  RewriteRule ^/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/start-([0-9]+)$ /index.php/category/$1/start-$2 [NC,NE,L]

IncludeOptional /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/ [REMOVED]
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/ [REMOVED]

DocumentRoot /var/www/piwigo
<Directory /var/www/piwigo/>
    Options +MultiViews
    Allow from all
    Satisfy any
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>

I'm having an issue with the Piwigo rewrites. I don't know if this is because the installation is in a subdirectory /g and not the root.

I keep on receiving this error:

Not Found
The requested URL /g/events was not found on this server.

I believe it's because it's located in a subdirectory, but I'm not exactly sure on how to go about solving it.