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Cobra Kai Dojo
Cobra Kai Dojo

Reputation: 1076

RedirectMatch file not found

So, I have in my web root an admin.php file and I want every time someone writes /admin to be redirected to that /admin.php.

I wrote in my htaccess

RedirectMatch 301 ^/admin$ /admin.php

However, I get an error from apache "file not found".

I created an empty /admin folder and it works...

Then I try to have an other (also non existant folder) to redirect to admin.php. So I write

RedirectMatch 301 ^/blah$ /admin.php

and it works...

Finally I delete the admin.php and I have the thing redirected to another .php

RedirectMatch 301 ^/admin$ /index.php

and it works again...

I understand that for some reason apache messes things up when the folder to be redirected from has the same name with the .php

With Rewrite I can do the redirection without any problems but I was wondering if it was also possible with just a Redirect... Maybe I am missing something here...

Upvotes: 2

Views: 118

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785481

apache messes things up when the folder to be redirected from has the same name with the .php

This is due to Apache's content negotiation module that runs before mod_rewrite, mod_alias and makes Apache web server match extensions of files. e.g. /file can be in URL but it will serve /file.php.

To fix this behavior disable MultiViews by placing this rule on top of your .htaccess:

Options -MultiViews

Upvotes: 3

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