Question

I want to redirect rewrite /zp-core/admin.php to admin but somehow I can’t get it to work.

I’ve added this rule to my htaccess:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^/admin$ /zp-core/admin.php [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^albums/?(.+/?)?$ $1 [R=301,L] 
...
# Catch-all - everything else gets handled in PHP for compatibility.
RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$                        index.php?album=$1 [L,QSA]

The third rule should do it, but somehow it doesn’t. In the end it falls back on the catch all rule

Answer 1

When you say “rewrite A to B“, usually, “A” is what the user types and “B” is where you want him to get.

If A=’/admin‘ and B=’/zp-core/admin.php‘ then the first rule is ok, if you remove other rules, it will work.

The problem is – apache looks into .htaccess on every request, including sub-requests, and your redirect does a sub-request… So it does not match the first rule anymore, but then comes the catch-all rule, and it is a match again (you’ll see that $_GET["album"] will be /zp-core/admin.php when hitting index.php on such request.

What you need to do is to add RewriteCond either checking that the uri is not /zp-core/admin.php OR that you’re not in sub-request…

Either:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/zp-core/admin.php$

OR:

RewriteCond %{IS_SUBREQ} !=true