Question

I have the following .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$
RewriteRule ^awesomeslash/ /somepage.php [NC,PT]    
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]*)/?([^/\.]*)/?([^/\.]*)/?$ /template2.php?slash1=$1&slash2=$2&slash3=$3 [L]

I’ve running into a problem with the rule:

 RewriteRule ^awesomeslash/ /somepage.php [NC,PT]  

When I go to http://www.mysite.com/awesomeslash/

It is not loading somepage.php instead it is following the run under it and going to template2.php

Answer 1

Firstly: This does not make much sense if you want rewrite /awesomeslash/ to /somepage.php:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$
RewriteRule ^awesomeslash/ /somepage.php [NC,PT]    

RewriteRule ^([^/\.]*)/?([^/\.]*)/?([^/\.]*)/?$ /template2.php?slash1=$1&slash2=$2&slash3=$3 [L]

I assume you wanted this instead:

RewriteRule ^awesomeslash/ /somepage.php [NC,PT]    

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]*)/?([^/\.]*)/?([^/\.]*)/?$ /template2.php?slash1=$1&slash2=$2&slash3=$3 [L]

Secondly:

• You need L flag next to [NC,PT]: [NC,PT,L] — this will tell Apache to not to process other rules.

• You also need to add $ at the end of match pattern to make the rule match only this URL and not /awesomeslash/something-else.

  RewriteRule ^awesomeslash/$ /somepage.php [NC,PT,L]