.htaccess redirect 404 page not found

Question

I am having some issues with my .htaccess file. For some reason, some domains work while others give me 404 page not found error.

So currently I am entering my domains like this:

http://mywebsite.com/domain/google.com

Which should redirect to:

http://mywebsite.com/whois.php?domain=google.com

Having whois.php?domain=google.com with any domain doesn't give me a 404 error but on some domains I get 404 error with domain/google.com. So I narrowed it down to my .htaccess being at fault.

Here is how my .htaccess looks like:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?domain/([^/d]+)/?$ /whois.php?domain=$1 [L,QSA]

I have tried several different things including adding:

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_FILENAME} [L]

Any help on this would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(domain)/(.*)$  /whois.php?domain=$2 [L,QSA]

So basically whatever comes after domain you pass it as a param to your script.

Explanation of Lines 2-4

• Line 2 - if file is found, execute it, don't pass to whois script (example: http://example.com/somefile.php will get executed correctly)
• Line 3 - if such a directory exist execute (http://example.com/somedirectory)
• Line 4 - everything else is passed to whois.php script, so no such directory or file (example: http://example.com/domain/google.com -> there is no such file or directory)