Question

I have a tricky issue redirecting some URLs internally for my site.

The situation is this, I currently have a URL like example.com/check/youtube.com which internally redirects to check.php?domain=youtube.com using the following mod_rewrite code:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,NC,L]

RewriteRule ^offline offline.php [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^error error.php [NC,L]

RewriteRule ^check/(.*)$ check.php?domain=$1 [NC,L]

However I would also like to be able to redirect to check.php using a URL like example.com/youtube.com. Unfortunately it is just beyond me to figure it out.

I have a directory /assets/ with all the CSS, JS, etc. which shouldn’t be affected.

Thanks

Answer 1

Try this rule:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^[^/.]+\.[^/]+$ check.php?domain=$0 [L]

This rule rewrites any request with a URL path of the form [^/.]+\.[^/]+ (a string that contains at least one dot but no slashes at all) that cannot be mapped to an existing file to your check.php.