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Daithí
Daithí

Reputation: 4079

htacess hide the redirect from browser

I've tried all suggestions here and else where but I can't hide the redirect from a .htacess rewrite rule. My full .htaccess is:

RewriteEngine On    # Turn on the rewriting engine
RewriteBase         /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^classes/(.+)?$ index.php [L]

#shop
RewriteRule         ^shop/(sector1|sector2|sector3|sector4)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+) shop?site=$1&category=$2 [NC]
RewriteRule         ^shop/(sector1|sector2|sector3|sector4)/$                   shop?site=$1 [NC,L]

Mose of the advice I've gotten is to remove [r=301] but I've never had that flag there. No matter what I try example.com/shop/sector1 always displays as example.com/shop?site=sector1 any help appreciated

[edit] I'm running this on localhost as a virtual host. Mac OS 7.5, Apache 2.2.26

[edit] Also from the doc root there are other .htaccess files, but none in the 'shop' folder with the above rewrite is supposed to effect.

$ find . -name .htaccess
./.htaccess
./assets/images/.htaccess
./cms/.htaccess
./cms/assets/images/.htaccess
./cms/assets/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/.htaccess
./cms/modules/default_images/.htaccess
./sagepay/VspPHPKit/demo/.htaccess
./sagepay/VspPHPKit/lib/.htaccess
./uploads/.htaccess
./uploads/products/.htaccess

Also my directory structure is (notice that my redirect shop is an actual folder - could this be part of the issue?):

$ tree -d -L 1 ./
./
├── assets
├── classes
├── cms
├── contact
├── foo
├── news
├── page
├── products
├── sagepay
├── sample
├── search
├── services
├── shop
├── snippets
├── uploads
└── widgets

Upvotes: 1

Views: 80

Answers (2)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785406

Missing trailing slash in your rewritten URI after shop is the problem since it is a real directory and Apache's mod_dir will do a 301 redirect to add trailing slash to make /shop/ and that will make final URL as: example.com/shop/?site=sector1

Also better to change order of your rules and make sure to use L flag at the end of each rule:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase  /

RewriteRule ^shop/(sector1|sector2|sector3|sector4)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+) shop/?site=$1&category=$2 [L,QSA,NC]
RewriteRule ^shop/(sector1|sector2|sector3|sector4)/$ shop/?site=$1 [NC,L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^classes/ index.php [L,NC]

Also I suggest you to test your rule in a separate browser.

Upvotes: 1

Josh Harrison
Josh Harrison

Reputation: 6004

This might sound really dumb but it caught me out many moons ago. Given that your code looks fine to me it leads me wonder...

When I found this happening myself, it turned out that all my href attributes were actually the after-redirect address! E.g. double check that your href attributes are example.com/shop/sector1 and not example.com/shop?site=sector1.

Otherwise something else might be interfering. Do you have any other code in your htaccess? Any PHP redirecting etc?

Upvotes: 0

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