Question

I would rewrite a very simple url

http://localhost/?page=me

to

http://localhost/me

I have try this in my .htaccess:

RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /?page=$1 [L]

But not work (error 500).

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And like this, it work:

RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/$ /?page=$1 [L]

but the link is http://localhost/me/, i want remove the last /
an idea?

Answer 1

You need to add some conditions to prevent the rewrite engine from looping. Try this:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/$
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /?page=$1 [L]

Unlike the second rule where the URI matched is always non-empty, the / won’t get matched again and continue to loop.