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jwir3
jwir3

Reputation: 6209

Apache redirect not working quite right

I am setting up a redirect for my wedding website so that http://www.mydomain.com/rsvp.php/q/something redirects to http://www.mydomain.com/rsvp.php?q=something, but only on the server-side (that is, the client still sees rsvp.php/q/something in their address bar).

Now, I have the following in my apache config for this site:

<VirtualHost *>
        ServerAdmin [email protected]
        ServerName www.mydomain.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/www.mydomain.com
        Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
        RewriteEngine on
        RewriteRule ^/rsvp.php/q/(.*) /rsvp.php?q=$1
</VirtualHost>

Now, I also have a meta-redirect at the top of the PHP file (in the event that the user doesn't have anything in the q query variable) that redirects to index.html:

<?php
  $userHash = $_GET['q'];
?>

<!doctype html>
<html>
        <head>
                <title>Wedding - RSVP Page</title>
<?php

        // If we don't have a user hash, then let's redirect to the main
        // page.
        if (!$userHash) {
          echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.mydomain.com/">';
        }
?>

Again, this seems to work ok, with one exception. I'm using a form for the user to input their RSVP data. On submit, it calls a script, submit-form.php. When the address http://www.mydomain.com/getID.php is accessed, it redirects to index.html, which is not what I want.

If I remove the RewriteRule, it works as expected, with the exception that I don't get a nice url (I have to use q=something instead of q/something). I'm not very good at mod_rewrite, so I'm wondering if someone could give me some assistance to let me know what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 326

Answers (1)

Yoav Kadosh
Yoav Kadosh

Reputation: 5155

you need to tell apache not to rewrite existing files, using RewriteCond.

in your .htaccess add the following code:

rewriteengine on
Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d  #not a directory
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f  #not a file
RewriteRule ^rvsp/([^/\.]+)?$  rvsp.php?q=$1

than, in your rvsp.php file, add this code:

<?php
$q = $_GET['q'];
?>

the action in the form getID.php should look like this: 

http://www.mydomain.com/rvsp/query

where query is the user input

Upvotes: 1

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