Re: RewriteCond and Rule (Apache Users)

On Apr 22, 2008, at 05:57, Emil Edeholt wrote:

Hello!

I've been trying to make my urls look like site.com/foo instead of site.com/index.php?page=foo so I have one rewriterurl that rewrites /foo to my php script and one rule that redirects old index.php-url:s to my new urls. When I apply both rules they end up in an infinite loop that I just can't get to stop. I've tried adding a lot of different conds, but I can't get it to work.

# If the url does not contain index.php rewrite to index.php script
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index\.php
RewriteRule ^([a-z_]*)$ index.php?page=$1 [L]

# If the url does contain index.php redirect to /foo
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} index\.php
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} page=([a-z_]*)
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /base/path/%1? [R=301,L]

Any ideas?

Well, it's doing what you told it to do - if it's for /foo it redirects it to index.php?page=foo and if it's index.php it redirects it to /foo

While I understand what you're trying to accomplish - only letting people see the "/foo" version - this just isn't going to work, particularly not in a .htaccess file. Your best bet is to drop the second ruleset, and just ensure that all HTML links contain the desired URL rather than the actual one.

It's possible (I haven't tested this, not certain) that if you are able to move this to the main configuration file, and add a [PT] to the first ruleset and a [NS] to the second ruleset, that it'll do what you mean. But I rather suspect not.

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