Question

I have a link on the main page to

www.example.com/test

I have a page in a pages directory, called test.php

Here’s what my .htaccess looks like:

RewriteBase /
RewriteEngine on  
RewriteCond pages/%{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*?)$ pages/$1.php

Now, I can get it to work with RewriteRule ^test$ pages/test.php, but as soon as I put in the regex, it won’t work. Also, the RewriteCond rule doesn’t seem to work either. Any solutions you can think of? I have tried adding Options +FollowSymlinks -MultiViews but it didn’t work.

update

If I add a test.php to the main directory, then change RewriteCond pages/%{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f [NC] to RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f [NC] then it works; so that is where the problem is.

I can’t figure out how to check if the file exists in the pages directory.

Answer 1

REQUEST_FILENAME is the full server path. So if your document root path is /home/website/public/ you are trying to check if pages/home/website/public/test.php exists, which of course it doesn’t.

Here are the rules you want.

RewriteBase /
RewriteEngine on  
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/pages/%{REQUEST_URI}.php -f [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*?)$ pages/$1.php