Question

I have this rewriterule:

RewriteRule ^authenticate   /id/authenticate.php [NS,QSA]

I am getting this error:

[Sat Jul 23 05:12:37 2011] [error] [client 62.178.15.161] Request
exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable
configuration error. Use ‘LimitInternalRecursion’ to increase the
limit if necessary. Use ‘LogLevel debug’ to get a backtrace., referer:
https://2x.to/id/authenticate

I thought the NS flag should prevent this from happening.

Is it not working for some reason, did I not apply it correct or did I misunderstand its purpose?

Is there another way to make this rewriterule “work” without renaming the file?

Edit:

I adapted the RewriteRule to:

RewriteRule ^authenticate$  /id/authenticate.php [QSA]

which works just fine. However I am still interested in why NS didnt work.

Answer 1

You probably want [L] here, not [NS] — [NS] is specifically for suppressing the rewrite in some unusual situations where Apache will make an “internal” request to itself, like while processing server-side includes.

You may also need to make the rule more specific — depending on where this rule is, it’s possible that ^authenticate is matching /id/authenticate.php. If that’s the case, you’ll need to add an earlier rule which “carves out” an exception for that file, like this:

RewriteRule ^/id/authenticate\.php$ - [L]