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JimmyBanks
JimmyBanks

Reputation: 4698

403 Forbidden error from specific htaccess Rewrite

I am using .htaccess' RewriteRule to redirect a url to the proper page for a client, everything works fine, except for Rewriting the word catalogue! I get a 403 forbidden error.

This is my code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^catalogue$ /catalogue.php
</IfModule>

This results in this:

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Now, what is driving me crazy is, if i switch the code to RewriteRule ^catalog$ /catalogue.php or RewriteRule ^cataloguee$ /catalogue.php and browse to the respective url, the page displays without the error.

Any ideas why this is occuring?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2146

Answers (1)

Jon Lin
Jon Lin

Reputation: 143886

It looks like what's happening is some kind of DirectorySlash functionality is kicking in (adds a trailing slash when it thinks you're trying to access a directory). It's probably better not to turn that off so just match against the URI with the trailing slash:

 RewriteRule ^catalogue/?$ /catalogue.php [L]

Upvotes: 1

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