Question

I want to redirect all urls trying to access files in a folder to a common php page where I log the file being download and also checks whether the user is logged in or not, I’m trying the following way, but I’m not getting required result

Method 1:

RewriteEngine on
RewrteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?file=$1

Method 2:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)$ index.php?file=$1

My index.php

<php echo 'file - ' . $_REQUEST['file']; ?>

When I’m using the URL as http://localhost/next/files/Cool
Output Method 1 :

file - index.php 

Output Method 2 :

file - Cool 

Could you please tell me what is the wrong I’m doing in Method-1.
I could use Method-2 but the fileName could be anything [could contain all characters], so I need a regular expression which covers all [like in Method-1]

Regards

Answer 1

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?file=$1 [NC,L]