Question

I’m cleaning up some old code and came across a rule in a .htaccess that doesn’t make sense to me.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(/listener/v2/bbin/)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /listener/v3/v210_ui.php$1 [L]

This .htaccess file is located in <docroot>/listener/v2/. Unless I’m mistaken, the rule basically is stating that if the request is for a file in this directory, internally redirect it to /listener/v3/v210_ui.php.

My confusion stems from the fact that there are a lot of files in this directory. Am I missing something? Did the old developer just not clean up after themselves?

Answer 1

You’re close…

If the request is for a resource in /listener/v2/bbin/ and has does not start with /listener/v2/bbin/ in the URI redirect it to /listener/v3/v210_ui.php and append the URI.

Now why you’re doing this I can’t answer. Read up on RewriteCond.