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Dylan
Dylan

Reputation: 859

htaccess rewriterule

A fairly basic htaccess question, but I don't use it much, so i have no idea. I want to check if the requested file exists. If it does, forward to one page, and if not forward to another page and pass the requested path as GET.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 570

Answers (2)

Daniel Vassallo
Daniel Vassallo

Reputation: 344281

RewriteEngine On

# check if requested file or directory exists
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

# if not, pass it to index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php?page=$1 [QSA]

As Gumbo suggested, you can repeat the condition without the ! if you also want to rewrite the URL when a file exists. Maybe you want to 'protect' your real files and folders with this method.

Upvotes: 2

Gumbo
Gumbo

Reputation: 655169

Use the -f expression in a RewriteCond condition to test if the given path points to an existing regular file:

RewriteEngin on

# file exists    
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^ one-page [L]

# file does not exist
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ another-page [L]

The initial requested URI should then be available in an environment variable.

Upvotes: 1

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