Question

I’ve got a wild card virtual host which I match with the following condition:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z0-9_\-]+)\.([\d]+)\.mydomain\.com [NC]

This rule works:

RewriteRule ^/?$       /index.php?customer=%1&cluster=%2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

However if I try to complicate the pattern at all:

RewriteRule ^([\w\-]+)/?$ /index.php?customer=%1&cluster=%2&load=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

It doesn’t catch it. What am I missing?

With the rules above:
http://dev.0.mydomain.com:8080/ works with the first rule
http://dev.0.mydomain.com:8080/x/ fails on the second rule (i.e. modified first rule, there’s only one rule)

Answer 1

Your second rule doesn’t include the leading slash. Assuming your rules are in vhost context, that part is needed. Specifically, ^([\w\-]+) doesn’t match /anything. This would: ^/([\w\-]+).