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Georg Leber
Georg Leber

Reputation: 3580

Apache mod_rewrite Restful api

I'm stuck on a problem with correct .htaccess in my restful webapp. My REST api code shall be accessible via the URL-pattern */api/** which should be redirected to index.php in the api folder.

All other URLs (except static files) shall be redirect to index.html in the root folder.

I have following folder structure:

- api
-- application/...
-- vendor/...
-- index.php
- public
-- css/...
-- js/...
- index.html
- .htaccess

And this is my .htaccess content:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

# redirect all api calls to /api/index.php
RewriteCond "%{REQUEST_URI}" "^/api"
RewriteRule "^/api/(.+)$" "/api/index.php$" [QSA,L]

# If the request is a file, folder or symlink that exists, serve it up
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ - [S=1]

# otherwise, serve your index.html app
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /index.html [L]

I have tried to add another .htaccess to the api folder, to redirect the URLs with /api/* but without any success. So I tried to redirect it with a rule in the .htaccess above.

I think the lower to rules might be correct. Because the redirecting is working as expected. But the /api/ rule does not work. It seems that the requests also redirected to the index.html

What am I missing?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 9448

Answers (2)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785196

Minor tweaks of your regex pattern is what you need:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

# redirect all api calls to /api/index.php
RewriteRule ^api/((?!index\.php$).+)$ api/index.php [L,NC]

# If the request is a file, folder or symlink that exists, serve it up
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]

# otherwise, serve your index.html app
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.html [L]

Upvotes: 6

hjpotter92
hjpotter92

Reputation: 80639

Try the following set of rules:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/api/index\.php$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/api [NC]
RewriteRule ^api/.* /api/index.php$ [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l # to check for symbolic links
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* /index.html [L]

RewriteRule . - [L]

Upvotes: 1

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