Question

I’m trying to redirect anything to my index.php file to do myself the redirection.

If i use this:

#RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?path=$1%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

but that’s not working because it is “looping” on the rule.

This works :

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?path=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

but i want to redirect it even if it is an existing file or directory (i thing i will make specials routes for image, js and so on to redirect on them with php without loading any script.

In fact, if there were a “no-loop” flag, that would be fine.

Anybody knows the solution ?

Thanks

Answer 1

Here is one way to avoid looping:

RewriteRule ^(?!index\.php)(.+)$ index.php?path=$1%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

Uses negative lookahead (?!) to see if the string includes index.php. If it doesn’t, then carry on with the rewrite!