apache/htaccess url rewriting help

Question

Okay what i want to do is ...

http://domain.com/hdu79ejo

above should be redirected to

http://domain.com/client/?share=hdu79ejo

where hdu79ejo can be any value.

But ...

http://domain.com/client

and

http://domain.com

should not be redirected at all.

Here is my code

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(client)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /client/?share=$1 [L]

it works fine except http://domain.com also getting redirected to http://domain.com/client/?share= .

Thanks for help ..

Answer 1

You could modify your rewrite cond to:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !(^client|^$)

Answer 2

You will have to add another RewriteCond. Something like this should work (untested):

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/client/?$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /client/?share=$1 [L]