Question

I’m having an issue with mod_rewrite where I want to match—and replace—a specific URL. The URL I want to rewrite is:

http://example.com/rss to http://example.com/rss.php

That means, if some one were to append anything after rss a 404 Not Found response be sent. Currently I’m using this mod_rewrite snippet:

Options -Indexes

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# pick up request for RSS feed
RewriteRule ^rss/?$ rss.php [L,NC]

# pass any other request through CMS
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+) index.php/$1

But this matches rss and rss with anything else added to the end. How can I re-write the above to acces only http://example.com/rss as the pattern for mod_rewrite to match against?

Answer 1

You are getting this error because /rss is being redirected twice in your rules by both RewriteRules. Have your rules like this:

Options +FollowSymlinks -MultiViews -Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# pick up request for RSS feed
RewriteRule ^rss/?$ /rss.php [L,NC]

# pass any other request through CMS
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (?!^rss\.php$)^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L,NC]

So with above rules it will redirect /rss OR rss/ URIs to /rss.php however /rss/foo will be redirected to /index.php since your 2nd rule is forwarding everything to /index.php