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Amy Neville
Amy Neville

Reputation: 10581

Simple .htaccess rewrite rule doesn't work

I have the following .htaccess file. It refuses to access the following url structure:

www.example.com/test

Even though it accesses this fine:

www.example.com/test.php

I've ran some more complicated rewrite rules using this file and it worked just fine. For example:

RewriteRule ^tests/([0-9]+)/?$ /tests_page.php?id=$1 [PT,L,QSA]

I don't understand how this can be happening. What am I missing here?

#OPTIONS
Options -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks

#ACCESS TO THE .HTACCESS FILE
<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>

#REWRITE ENGINE
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteEngine On

#PAGES REWRITE
RewriteRule ^test/?$ /test.php

Update:

I renamed the file to tests.php and changed the rule to this and it worked:

RewriteRule ^test/?$ /tests.php

This still does not explain why this is happening though.

Why can't I have the url folder name match the file name?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2474

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 784898

This appears to be a problem with MultiViews option. Disable it by using:

Options -MultiViews

line at the top of your .htaccess. Option MultiViews is used by Apache's content negotiation module that runs before mod_rewrite module and makes Apache server match extensions of files. So /file can be in URI but it will serve /file.php.

Upvotes: 3

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