Question

I have the following rule which redirects the page “example2.test.com” to “www.example2.test.com/index.shtml” — i.e. it appends index.shtml to it

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example2.test.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example2.test.com/index.shtml [R,L]

If I change the rule to try and catch if a user enters in www.example2.test.com as per below I get an error telling me there are too many redirects

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example2.test.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example2.test.com/index.shtml [R,L]

Is there something I am mising here ?? – im a bit new to this ..

Thanks…

Answer 1

RewriteCond is basically an if statement, and by default the server will try to access the index page, so what your second example says is

if uri is   www.example2.test.com
redirect to www.example2.test.com

You’re creating an infinite loop, because once it gets redirected it gets reevaluated, which redirects it.

If you’re not getting that index.shtml page when you visit that url you might need to add index.shtml to your apache directory index. so open your httpd.conf and find where it says something like

DirectoryIndex index.html

and add index.shtml to it if it isn’t already there so you end up with

DirectoryIndex index.html index.shtml