Official prerender.io .htaccess for Apache.

.htaccess

# Change YOUR_TOKEN to your prerender token
# Change http://example.com (at the end of the last RewriteRule) to your website url

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
    RequestHeader set X-Prerender-Token "YOUR_TOKEN"
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On

    <IfModule mod_proxy_http.c>
        RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} googlebot|bingbot|yandex|baiduspider|facebookexternalhit|twitterbot|rogerbot|linkedinbot|embedly|quora\ link\ preview|showyoubot|outbrain|pinterest\/0\.|pinterestbot|slackbot|vkShare|W3C_Validator [NC,OR]
        RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _escaped_fragment_
        
        # Only proxy the request to Prerender if it's a request for HTML
        RewriteRule ^(?!.*?(\.js|\.css|\.xml|\.less|\.png|\.jpg|\.jpeg|\.gif|\.pdf|\.doc|\.txt|\.ico|\.rss|\.zip|\.mp3|\.rar|\.exe|\.wmv|\.doc|\.avi|\.ppt|\.mpg|\.mpeg|\.tif|\.wav|\.mov|\.psd|\.ai|\.xls|\.mp4|\.m4a|\.swf|\.dat|\.dmg|\.iso|\.flv|\.m4v|\.torrent|\.ttf|\.woff|\.svg))(.*) http://service.prerender.io/http://example.com/$2 [P,L]
    </IfModule>
</IfModule>

If anybody else is having a problem with always returning index file if it's not a crawler, so your SPA router can catch 404, I created a small gist -
https://gist.github.com/markokosir/77e8df3b7cf0b00023178c907f5c998e

A warning to anyone using vector files. You will need to add a |\.svg capture group to the proxy rule.

If anyone needs to redirect .html files only (skipping extensions .xhtml,.shtml,.phtml,.jp,.cgi,.ppl,.pl,.perl,.php)
Here is my fork: https://gist.github.com/BorisPocatko/77f8f3812d05b934556854267a48150f

.htaccess

RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} -d
# Go to it as is
RewriteRule ^ - [L]

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/$
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/$
  RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1 [R,QSA,L]      

RequestHeader set X-Prerender-Token "%MYTOKEN%"

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} baiduspider|facebookexternalhit|twitterbot|rogerbot|linkedinbot|embedly|quora\ link\ preview|showyoubot|outbrain|pinterest [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Yandex(Bot|Images|Video|Media) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _escaped_fragment_

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://service.prerender.io/http://%{HTTP_HOST}$1 [P,L]

# Accept everything on index.html
RewriteRule ^ /index.html`

in index.html

But robots can't see my site.
On prerender.io i have 67 cached pages.

Could you please help me.

@Dizzyspb Did you fix it?

Hey all, I'm running into a problem when trying to Rewrite part of the URL being cached in prerender.io. I've tried removing that part of the URL using:
Rewrite ^root-directory/parent-directory/dist/(.*)$ $1 [R,L]
Doing this inside of:

<IfModule mod_proxy_http.c>
        Rewrite ^root-directory/parent-directory/dist/(.*)$ $1 [R,L]
        RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} baiduspider|facebookexternalhit|twitterbot|rogerbot|linkedinbot|embedly|quora\ link\ preview|showyoubot|outbrain|pinterest|slackbot|vkShare|W3C_Validator [NC,OR]
        RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _escaped_fragment_

        # Only proxy the request to Prerender if it's a request for HTML
        RewriteRule ^(?!.*?(\.js|\.css|\.xml|\.less|\.png|\.jpg|\.jpeg|\.gif|\.pdf|\.doc|\.txt|\.ico|\.rss|\.zip|\.mp3|\.rar|\.exe|\.wmv|\.doc|\.avi|\.ppt|\.mpg|\.mpeg|\.tif|\.wav|\.mov|\.psd|\.ai|\.xls|\.mp4|\.m4a|\.swf|\.dat|\.dmg|\.iso|\.flv|\.m4v|\.torrent|\.ttf|\.woff))(.*) http://service.prerender.io/https://www.example.com/$2 [P,L]
    </IfModule>

Doing this on the live server results in TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS. Is there anyway to solve this? I've changed the https://www.example.com/$2 to represent my sites URL

Hi i have used prerender for my angular project i did everything for activate prerender however not success

My web site url is:http://ugurdogrusoy.com/preparing/

firstly addred

Then added prerender token inside .htaccess you can see rule and token below

RewriteEngine On # If requested resource exists as a file or directory # (REQUEST_FILENAME is only relative in virtualhost context, so not usable) RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} -f [OR] RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} -d # Go to it as is RewriteRule ^ - [L]

# If non existent
# If path ends with / and is not just a single /, redirect to without the trailing /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1 [R,QSA,L]      

# Handle Prerender.io
RequestHeader set X-Prerender-Token "MY_TOKEN"
   

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} baiduspider|facebookexternalhit|twitterbot|rogerbot|linkedinbot|embedly|quora\ link\ preview|showyoubot|outbrain|pinterest [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _escaped_fragment_

# Proxy the request
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://service.prerender.io/http://%{HTTP_HOST}/preparing/$1 [P,L]

# If non existent
# Accept everything on index.html
RewriteRule ^ /index.html

i can't escape We haven't seen a request with your prerender token yet

where have i done wrong you can help me ?

Thanks

I have had the same issue, our site is using react, and we even tried to shift the config file further up to the root. Still the same issue. Any luck with this ?

you are awesome!! i almost wept when i finally saw the token not used message go away. thanks!!

Just adding 2 cents:
On my hosting provider (Dreamhost), the [NC,OR] yielded strange results when just copy/pasting. On RewriteCond with only one line, I had to write it as
RewriteCond … googlebot|yandex|…|…|… [NC]
(re-writing the RewriteCond with one per line also worked, but not with [OR] on the first line. This would work:)

RewriteCond … googlebot [NC]
RewriteCond … yandex [NC,OR]
RewriteCond … WhatsApp [NC,OR]

note the seemingly missing OR on the first line

On the other hand, my second cent is that last WhatsApp entry - turns out WhatsApp does the scraping directly from inside the app (at least it did on my android phone today ;) So my full line is now
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} googlebot|bingbot|yandex|baiduspider|facebookexternalhit|twitterbot|rogerbot|linkedinbot|embedly|quora\ link\ preview|showyoubot|outbrain|pinterest\/0\.|pinterestbot|slackbot|vkShare|W3C_Validator|WhatsApp [NC]

(And my full htaccess

    RewriteEngine On
        
        # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18406156/redirect-all-to-index-php-using-htaccess
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} googlebot|bingbot|yandex|baiduspider|facebookexternalhit|twitterbot|rogerbot|linkedinbot|embedly|quora\ link\ preview|showyoubot|outbrain|pinterest\/0\.|pinterestbot|slackbot|vkShare|W3C_Validator|WhatsApp [NC]
        #        RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} facebookexternalhit|googlebot [NC]   MUST BE WRITTEN WITHOUT OR
        #        RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} googlebot [NC]
        #        RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} facebookexternalhit [NC,OR]          'OR' IS FOR SECOND LINE (AND THIRD AND FOURTH ETC. WON'T WORK ON FIRST LINE)
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ opengraph.php?q=$1 [NC,L,QSA]

        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ redir.php?orig_path=$1 [NC,L,QSA]

</IfModule>

Angular 7 + Apache2: work for me. Ping me if you have any issue

.htaccess: https://gist.github.com/tyluudinh/2149d6cc62219c141f619682b5378c47

.apache2.conf: https://gist.github.com/tyluudinh/bc257a1aa2a4b8826ff28916238cc27d

@tyluudinh This worked for me, thank you 👍