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Asked: 2026-06-05T21:01:21+00:00

I’ve already been in contact with my webhosting and they’ve been, somewhat, less than

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I’ve already been in contact with my webhosting and they’ve been, somewhat, less than helpful, so I’ve come to the geniuses here.

I’m unable to rewrite any of my URLs on my website, via the .htaccess file.

I only have one .htaccess file, which is in the root of my home directory. Here is that file:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

# The support guys thought it was in issue with the L flag below, so I commented out my original implementation and used their supplied one

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mythofechelon.co.uk$ [NC]
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mythofechelon.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(([a-z0-9_]+\.)?mythofechelon\.co.uk)$ [NC]
RewriteRule .? http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]


RewriteRule ^/$ /main/pages/index.php?home
RewriteRule ^/home(.*)?$ /main/pages/index.php?home
RewriteRule ^/404(.*)?$ /main/pages/index.php?404

#I will eventually change the following commands to link to the rewritten URLs when this all eventually works
DirectoryIndex /main/pages/index.php?home
ErrorDocument 404 /main/pages/index.php?404

AddType application/x-shockwave-flash swf

Options All -Indexes

#Protect .htaccess
<files .htaccess>
    order allow,deny
    deny from all
</files>

<Files *.reg>
    ForceType application/pdf
    Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</Files>

#Block bots
<limit GET POST HEAD>
    Order Allow,Deny
    Allow from all
    Deny from env=bad_bot
</limit>

RewriteRule ^.* - [F,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Anarchie [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ASPSeek [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^attach [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^autoemailspider [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^BlackWidow [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Bot\ mailto:craftbot@yahoo.com [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ChinaClaw [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Custo [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^DISCo [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Download\ Demon [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^eCatch [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EirGrabber [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailSiphon [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailWolf [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Express\ WebPictures [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ExtractorPro [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EyeNetIE [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^FlashGet [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^GetRight [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^GetWeb! [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Go!Zilla [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Go-Ahead-Got-It [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^GrabNet [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Grafula [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^HMView [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} HTTrack [NC,OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Image\ Stripper [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Image\ Sucker [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Indy\ Library [NC,OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^InterGET [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Internet\ Ninja [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^JetCar [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^JOC\ Web\ Spider [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^larbin [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^LeechFTP [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mass\ Downloader [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^MIDown\ tool [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mister\ PiX [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Navroad [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NearSite [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NetAnts [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NetSpider [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Net\ Vampire [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NetZIP [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Octopus [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Offline\ Explorer [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Offline\ Navigator [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^PageGrabber [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Papa\ Foto [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^pavuk [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^pcBrowser [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^RealDownload [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ReGet [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SiteSnagger [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SmartDownload [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SuperBot [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SuperHTTP [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Surfbot [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^tAkeOut [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Teleport\ Pro [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^VoidEYE [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Web\ Image\ Collector [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Web\ Sucker [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebAuto [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebCopier [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebFetch [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebGo\ IS [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebLeacher [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebReaper [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebSauger [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Website\ eXtractor [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Website\ Quester [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebStripper [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebWhacker [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebZIP [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Wget [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Widow [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WWWOFFLE [OR] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Xaldon\ WebSpider [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Xenu [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Zeus.*Webster [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Zeus 

SetEnvIfNoCase user-Agent ^FrontPage [NC,OR]
SetEnvIfNoCase user-Agent ^Java.* [NC,OR]
SetEnvIfNoCase user-Agent ^Microsoft.URL [NC,OR]
SetEnvIfNoCase user-Agent ^MSFrontPage [NC,OR]
SetEnvIfNoCase user-Agent ^Offline.Explorer [NC,OR]
SetEnvIfNoCase user-Agent ^[Ww]eb[Bb]andit [NC,OR]
SetEnvIfNoCase user-Agent ^Zeus [NC]

(Man, you guys need to change it so that you don’t have to manually indent every single line.)

I have independently confirmed that:

  • The DirectoryIndex command is working, as DirectoryIndex /main/pages/index.php works.
  • The ErrorDocument 404 command is working, obviously.
  • Linking to files using PHP variables works, as the current implementations of the DirectoryIndex and ErrorDocument 404 commands work.
  • It is not an issue with any of the file-protecting or bot-blocking commands.
  • It is not an issue with the “www.” removing commands, as I have commented out and completely removed all attempted implementations of them and still had the same issues.

The issue lies, seemingly, entirely with the RewriteRule commands. RewriteEngine is enabled, at least in the .htaccess and mod_rewrite was working a few days ago, before I restarted my site.

I’m thinking that it may be because the RewriteRules have no RewriteConds, but these exact commands were working a few days ago.

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  1. Editorial Team

    In the .htaccess you posted above, there is no RewriteRule immediately following these rules:

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

    So they will be combined with the next uncommented rules which does the redirect but does not define what file should handle these requests:

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(([a-z0-9_]+\.)?mythofechelon\.co.uk)$ [NC]
RewriteRule .? http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

    You’ll want something like this:

    # Strip www. from domain name 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

# Send requests for non-existent files and directories to index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^home/(.*)$ /main/pages/index.php?$1 [L]

    Order of rules is essential with mod_rewrite. Another example in your file where things are out of order is the section where you’re trying to block bad bots. The RewriteRule must come after the RewriteCond rules. Also, your limit section doesn’t actually do anything since none of the rules about the bots actually set the environment variable.

    There’s actually another directive you can use specifically for looking at user agents and setting environment variables: BrowserMatch and BrowserMatchNoCase – http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_setenvif.html#browsermatchnocase.

    I’d replace the lines for the bad bots with something like this: 

    BrowserMatchNoCase Anarchie bad_bot

    Then move your limit section below the BrowserMatchNoCase entries — otherwise the environment variable may not be set yet.

    Also, mod_rewrite flags are not valid with SetEnvIfNoCase entries.

    Update

    To handle the 404s you could either add the following:

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^!home/(.*)$ /main/pages/index.php?404 [L]

    Or (and this is what I would suggest) you could change home to .* and then update your php script to send the 404 when appropriate.

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