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apache.htaccessmod-rewriteurl-rewriting
Greg
Greg

Reputation: 1243

mod_rewrite using rewritten name instead of original

This is probably a pretty basic question for anyone familiar with mod_rewrite, but I'm not so here it is:

I am trying to redirect urls from baseurl/school/<name> to baseurl/school/result.php?name=<name>. My .htaccess currently looks like this:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^school/([^/]+)/?$ school/result.php?name=$1 [NC]

I make a test request to baseurl/school/aoeu. The request is rewritten, but the result.php script reports the value of $_GET['name'] to be "result.php", not "aoeu". I tried changing the GET variable to something other than "name" but the issue persisted.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 20

Answers (1)

Jon Lin
Jon Lin

Reputation: 143906

You need to add some conditions to prevent looping. The rewrite engine continues to run the rules until the resulting URI stops changing. Try:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^school/([^/]+)/?$ school/result.php?name=$1 [NC]

Upvotes: 1

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