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Tronix
Tronix

Reputation: 3

Exact match specific word with RewriteRule in .htaccess

I'm setting up my .htaccess files with some RewriteRules, but unfortunatly I got stuck. I've found a lot of topics on this, but none mentioning my specific issue. I have this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^en/contact /contact.php?lang=en&slug=ok [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^contact /en/contact [L,R=301]

Purpose is to force the lang as a first parameter in the url if not set. So: www.example.com/contact should be redirected (301) to www.example.com/en/contact which then again loads the content from /contact.php?lang=en&slug=ok

The problem I have is that I end up in a loop as /contact.php?lang=en&slug=ok gets loaded and is parsed by RewriteRule ^contact /en/contact [L,R=301] again.

How can I adapt this rule so it is only triggered for /contact and not for /contact.php or /en/contact or /contactme or any other url that contains contact

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1684

Answers (1)

Amit Verma
Amit Verma

Reputation: 41229

Your 301 redirect rule is causing the infinite loop as it matches the destination path of your first rule. What is happening is that when you request /en/contact your first rule rewrites it to /contact.php?lang=en&slug=ok and then ,your second rule matches the same uri and redirects it to /en/contact .

To fix this, You can either use END flag in your RewriteRule or use THE_REQUEST condition .

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^en/contact /contact.php?lang=en&slug=ok [L,NC,END]
RewriteRule ^contact /en/contact [L,R=301]

Note : END flag works only on apache versions above 2.4 if your server version is less then 2.4 you could use a % {THE_REQUEST} condition to terminate the redirect loop

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^en/contact /contact.php?lang=en&slug=ok [L,NC]
 RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /contact
 RewriteRule ^contact /en/contact [L,R=301]

Make sure to clear your browser cache before testing these redirects.

Upvotes: 0

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