Question

I’m building a mini framework that supports:

mysite.com/template/
mysite.com/template/action/
mysite.com/template/action/model/

Using as a bootstrap:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/index.php
RewriteRule .* /index.php

But for any request:

mysite.com/template/action/model/**extra/stuff/should/vanish/**

So that the maximum URL size will always drop anything extra:

mysite.com/template/action/model/

Answer 1

You do mean something like this?

# if more than 3 nodes deep          v--- the extra stuff should vanish
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/.+ /$1/$2/$3/? [R=301,L]

This redirects the browser so that it only preserves the 3 nodes if there are more than 3. This should probably go above your routing rules.

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EDIT:

becuase on the forth block this case doesnt hold up: site.com/a/b/c/?d

You’ll need a specific rule to match against the query string here, it’s beyond what you can do in the expression of a RewriteRule. You can put these rules either before or after the above one:

# Check if there's a query string
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^$
# if there are exactly 3 nodes, then remove the query string
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /$1/$2/$3/? [R=301,L]

The query string (everything after the ?) isn’t part of the URI that is used in the rewrite engine, it requires a special condition.