Question

I want to redirect all requests like:

/xml/doSomething?arg=value

To:

/xml.php?action=doSomething&arg=value

I tried this simple rule:

RewriteEngine
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^xml/([^/]+)[/]? xml.php?action=$1 [R=302,L,QSA]

But it not works. The xml.php is executed with arg=value param only. The problem is that there is that file named xml.php, as the first part of my rule. In fact, if I change the rule to:

RewriteRule ^asd/([^/]+)[/]? xml.php?action=$1 [R=302,L,QSA]

And I point to:

/asd/doSomething?arg=value

I’m correctly redirected to:

/xml.php?action=doSomething&arg=value

How the presence of a PHP file named as the first part of my rewrite pattern can break it all?

Answer 1

I solved. The problem is that I had Options MultiViews in my virtual host configuration. I did not know about this option:

A MultiViews search is enabled by the MultiViews Options. If the server receives a request for /some/dir/foo and /some/dir/foo does not exist, then the server reads the directory looking for all files named foo.*

That simply explain why my rule does not work.