Question

EDIT:

The default installation of Apache2 on a Ubuntu system seems to be completely locked down. This also affects the .htaccess files as these aren’t allowed to overwrite anything from the default configuration.

However, editing the /etc/apache2/sites-available/default file did grant my .htaccess files enough privileges to do what I wanted to do:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www

    <Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
    </Directory>

    <Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

        # Modify this from "None" to "All" (or any other suitable value)
-->     AllowOverride None

        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>
    ...

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EDIT:

This is what my .htaccess looks like as of now:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)/(.+)$ $1-$2.php

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ORIGIN:

I found several how-to’s about this but I can’t get it right (Yes, I’m that tragically stupid).

I would like to translate this:

http://www.mydomain.com/flat/link?a=b&c=d

To this:

http://www.mydomain.com/flat-link.php?a=b&c=d

As of now I only get a stupid 404 complaining about The requested URL /flat/link was not found on this server.

Worth mentioning is that the 404 actually is right; there is no file-structure like /flat/link in the www-root, hence I will translate a fictional path to an actual one (as the flat-link.php file exists). I’ve been told that this isn’t necessarily the most beautiful architecture but it is a valid scenario as I don’t want my file structure to match my REST-api.

Answer 1

.* matches everything, try making it less greedy by appending a ? to it:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+?)/(.+)$ $1-$2.php

If this does not work, try matching everything except for a slash:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/(.+)$ $1-$2.php