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Asked: 2026-05-11T11:01:28+00:00

Here is the begining of my .htaccess # invoke rewrite engine RewriteEngine On RewriteBase

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Here is the begining of my .htaccess 

   # invoke rewrite engine         RewriteEngine On         RewriteBase /~new       # force non domain.com to www.domain.com      RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.     RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L,NC]

everytime I request http://www.example.com/~new/whatever I am sent to http://www.example.com/whatever . I placed brackets around the $1 and I get http://www.example.com/%5Bwhatever%5D.

Why is it stripping out my RewriteBase var ?

Or, is there a way to set an environmental variable in .htaccess that I can set RewriteBase to and also put in front of the $1 to make the redirection work?

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  1. Well, that’s kind how RewriteBase works: it blows away all leading path information from your request, and then reinserts the RewriteBase afterward. But in your example, it can’t perform the reinsertion because you’re giving it a redirect to a fully-qualified URL.

    I think you should back up and define exactly what you’re trying to do, and possibly ask a new question about that, instead of assuming that RewriteBase is what you need to be using and focusing on ‘why isn’t RewriteBase doing what I want’. RewriteBase may be nothing to do with it.

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