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Asked: 2026-05-11T22:08:01+00:00

I am trying to get URL rewriting to work on my website. Here is

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I am trying to get URL rewriting to work on my website. Here is the contents of my .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^blog/?$ index.php?page=blog [L]
RewriteRule ^about/?$ index.php?page=about [L]
RewriteRule ^portfolio/?$ index.php?page=portfolio [L]
#RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php?page=blog [L]

Now the 3 uncommented rewrite rules work perfectly, if I try http://www.mysite.com/blog/, I get redirected to http://www.mysite.com/index.php?page=blog, the same for “about” and “portfolio”. However, if I mistype blog, say I try http://www.mysite.com/bloh/, then obviously I get a 404 error. The last rule, the commented one, was to help prevent that. Any URL should get redirected to the blog, but of course this rule is still parsed even if we have successfully used a previous one, so I used the “last” flag ([L]). If I uncomment my last rule, anything, including blog, about, and portfolio, redirect to blog. Shouldn’t the “last” flag stop the execution as soon as it finds a matching rule?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could add a condition like:

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^index\.php

    I’ll also mention that using RewriteRule ^.*$ is a good way to break all of your media requests (css, js, images) as well. You might want to add some conditions like:

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

    To make sure you’re not trying to rewrite actual files or directories that exist on your server. Otherwise they’ll be unreachable unless index.php serves those too!

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