Question

htaccess in one of my site but getting funny error when i try to open site with http://www.online4movies.com/ it dont work, if i don’t use http://online4movies.com/ it work

here is the code

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.online4movies.com
    RewriteRule (.*) http://www.online4movies.com/$1 [R=301,L]
    RewriteCond %{request_filename} -f
    RewriteRule ^(.*) $1 [L]
    RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)(/([^/]{0,32})(/.+)?)?$  index.php?a=$1&q=$3    [L]

</ifmodule>

Answer 1

There are a couple of things wrong with the above rules, but the one that is really causing you a problem is that you forgot a ! in front of the right operand of the first RewriteCond.

Other things that are wrong include:

• dots . must be escaped to have their literal meaning in a regular expression, which is what the second argument to RewriteCond is.
• the (.*) would be much safer if you included ^$
• request_filename should be capitalised
• Rewriting a URL to itself is confusing and unnecessary, simply pass - as the second argument to the RewriteRule instead. But there is no need for that rule, simply negate the RewriteCond and apply it to the next rule.

Try this file instead:

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c>

    # Turn mod_rewrite on
    RewriteEngine on

    # Force a www on the beginning of the URL
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.online4movies\.com
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.online4movies.com/$1 [R=301,L]

    # Parse URLs for files that don't exist and send them through index.php
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)(/([^/]{0,32})(/.+)?)?$  index.php?a=$1&q=$3 [L]

</ifmodule>