Question

This problem has been bugging me for a while now.

I have a created a small site engine and I’m using mod_rewrite to tell the engine what page to proccess, SEO friendly links is a bonus :).

This is how it’s works today:

the adress http://www.example.com/site/page
becomes http://www.example.com/engine.php?address=page

But what i want is:
the adress http://www.example.com/page
becomes http://www.example.com/engine.php?address=page

Everything works fine if i create a psuedo directory for the calls (/site) but when i try to do the same from the root strange things start to happends.

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^site/(.*) engine.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&address=$1

Works fine: /site/about/contacts becomes eninge.php?address=about/contacts

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ eninge.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&address=$1

Doesn’t work, for some reason /about/contacts becomes eninge.php?address=eninge.php

Answer 1

(.*) means catch anything. Have you tried exluding files and directory before your catch-all ? Because it will cause an infinite recursion without it.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ eninge.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&address=$1 [L]

More information is available in the official documentation: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html

Update: You should also specify [L] at the end of your rule, to tell Apache to end the rewriting process here.