Question

I have the following .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L] 

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

RewriteRule ^mykeyword$ news.php [L,QSA,NC]

However, when I open the news.php, the url is still the same, that is http://www.mydomain.com/news.php instead of http://www.mydomain.com/mykeyword

I make the following test:

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteRule ^test\.html$ test.php [L]

I upload 2 files on my server, test.html and test.php and after I type http://www.mydomain.com/test.html, my php page was displayed, so that mean that I have no problem with my settings. What on earth I am doing wrong???

Any help will be deeply appreciated.

Regards,Zoran

Answer 1

Change your .htaccess to this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(mydomain\.com)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%1/$1 [R=301,L] 

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+news\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^ mykeyword [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^mykeyword/?$ news.php [L,NC]