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Asked: 2026-05-26T17:06:41+00:00

I would like to type the following url into my browser: localhost/mydomain/about.php And have

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I would like to type the following url into my browser:

localhost/mydomain/about.php

And have apache redirect to the actual file location:

localhost/mydomain/public_html/about.php

I wrote the following .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ public_html/$1

I’m totally unfamiliar with Apache and my understanding of reg expressions is very basic – but I thought this would mean “Take any path after the domain name and stick public_html/ in front of it”. The result, however, is a 500 Internal Server error.

What am I missing?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This is because specifying only ^(.+)$ rule will keep the rewrite in an infinite loop.

    about.php > public_html/about.php > public_html/public_html/about.php > …

    A quick fix would be RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ public/$1. or you might be interested with the LAST modifier/flag for rewrite rule:

    RewriteRule ^public/(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1

    Just in case you would like to know the way of debugging the rewrite_module, you can set LogLevel DEBUG in httpd.conf, then you can check on the apache error log.

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