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Jacob Tomlinson
Jacob Tomlinson

Reputation: 3773

$_GET parameter after mod_rewrite

I am attempting to use my .htaccess and mod_rewrite to redirect requests for mp3 files inside a directory called download to a PHP file called download.php. This file makes a Google Analytics request and then does a server side redirect to the actual mp3 file located in the files directory.

The rewrite should specify the mp3 name as a url parameter which I can access from the PHP via $_GET. However this isn't working.

My .htaccess looks like this

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^.*download/(.*)\.mp3$ /download.php?url=http://static.example.com/files/$1.mp3 [QSA]

The download.php file is executed but if I do var_dump($_GET); it returns with array(0) { }

What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 75

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785128

Most likely you have MultiViews enabled, disable it by using this line on top of .htaccess:

Options -MultiViews
  • Option MultiViews is used by Apache's content negotiation module that runs before mod_rewrite and and makes Apache server match extensions of files. So /file can be in URL but it will serve /file.php.

Upvotes: 2

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