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.htaccessmod-rewriteurl-rewriting
SoWhat
SoWhat

Reputation: 5622

.htaccess rewrite rule not working properly. Redirects to absolute path

I have a .htaccess placed in server.com/site_admin/api (actual directory structure: /public_html/site_admin/api)

I want to direct all requests to the corresponding php file. So api/users would rewrite to api/users.php

So I wrote this rule:

 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

But it doesn't work. I get a 404 when I access the url server.com/site_admin/users

When I added a [R=301] to it

 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [R=301]

I found that it redirects to http://server.com/home/server_user/public_html/site_admin/api/users.php Instead of http://server.com/site_admin/api/users.php

Can someone please help me out here

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2334

Answers (1)

Zagorax
Zagorax

Reputation: 11890

Use this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !php$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

Yours doesn't work because the rewrited url is still matched by (.*), so it will rewrite it again until cause an error. But it's strange it gives you a 404 instead of 500...

The second one doesn't work because [R] generate a new GET request, so you need to add the host or it will request the absolute path to the defined host and it, obviously, will not work. If you want to use [R], you should use:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://server.com/site_admin/api/$1.php [R]

But it will not solve your problem. As I said, it will generate a new GET request and .php will be visible to your user.

Upvotes: 2

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