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Swati Majumdar
Swati Majumdar

Reputation: 57

Careless mistake in my htaccess rule

I am writing an .htaccess rule as 

RewriteRule ^questions\/interview\/list\/(.+)$ questions\/interview\/list\/index.php?col1=$1

So, when I am calling url questions/interview/list/testme it's redirecting to index.php.

Issue is when i am printing $col1 its showing index.php instead of testme. What am I doing wrong ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 81

Answers (1)

Jon Lin
Jon Lin

Reputation: 143916

This is because the rewrite engine loops, try adding some conditions:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index\.php$
RewriteRule ^questions/interview/list/(.+)$ questions/interview/list/index.php?col1=$1 [L]

or even:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^questions/interview/list/(.+)$ questions/interview/list/index.php?col1=$1 [L]

When the rewrite engine loops, the (.+) part of your regex ends up matching index.php, and thus col1= turns into index.php.

Upvotes: 3

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