Question

I would like to redirect everything to a.php. And baba to b.php.

I did the following:

.htaccess :

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !a.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !baba
RewriteRule .* a.php

RewriteRule baba b.php

a.php : <?php echo 'a.php'; ?>
b.php : <?php echo 'b.php'; ?>

But baba redirect to a.php too.

So I modified line 4 in htaccess to: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^!baba

And now baba redirect to b.php but everything else gives a Not found error.

How can I do it?

Answer 1

The rewrite engine loops until the URI going into the engine is the same coming out. The reason why baba is going to a.php is because it first gets rewritten to b.php, then when the engine loops, b.php gets rewritten to a.php. You can fix this by adding an additional condition to the first rule:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !a.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !b.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !baba
RewriteRule .* a.php

RewriteRule baba b.php

So b.php won’t get rewritten to a.php