Question

I am using mod_rewrite to create prettier URLs for a website I am working on. However a redirect loop is being caused for my css and js folders.

Here is what is in my .htaccess

AddDefaultCharset On
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
AddCharset UTF-8 .tpl
AddCharset UTF-8 .js
AddCharset UTF-8 .css
AddCharset UTF-8 .php

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /guildtree/
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_'-]+)/(.*)$        characters.php?realm=$1&name=$2     [NC]

My CSS is being redirected to

http://localhost/guildtree/css/error

and my JS is being redirected to

http://localhost/guildtree/js/error

My images are all coming up broken as well, even though the path to them is correct. Going to the images directly results in a redirect loop as well.

http://localhost/guildtree/images/roster/error

Is there anything that stands out as the reason to be causing this loop? Thanks.

Update:

The issue with the CSS and images have been resolved. The JS still doesn’t work though.

Answer 1

This isn’t a redirect loop, your images are probably getting caught by the characters.php route. Add some exclusions to your rule:

RewriteBase /guildtree/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(css|js|png|jpe?g|gif)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_'-]+)/(.*)$        characters.php?realm=$1&name=$2     [NC]

Additionally, you may have a relative/absolute pathing issue. If your links are relative, they will be changed by the new path and you need to add a:

<base href="/guildtree/">

Or whatever the base path should be for all your relative links.