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Asked: 2026-06-12T01:13:31+00:00

I want to create a rewrite rule so that www.example.com/whatever/here Would map to www.example.com/index.php/whatever/here

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I want to create a rewrite rule so that

www.example.com/whatever/here

Would map to 

www.example.com/index.php/whatever/here

So that $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] is available. For that, I have created the following ruleset:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond {%REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond {%REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1

Only this gives me a 500 server error. The Apache error log states that

[Sun Sep 30 17:23:08.758705 2012] [core:error] [pid 2584:tid 1704]
[client ::1:58591] AH00124: 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.

But I fail to see the recursion. When I try it with, let’s say a query:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?route=$1

It works as expected, but $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] is not available.

Also, before anyone asks, I want $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] because that way, I can have complicated paths like so:

www.example.com/controller/action/data?more=data

if I require it.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your server environment variables are specified incorrectly in the RewriteCond, if that is your real code. If not a flat out 500 parse error, this would cause the conditions to be ignored and the rewrite to take place on every request causing a loop.

    RewriteEngine On
# The % goes outside the {}
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# And add a [L] flag
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
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