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php.htaccessmod-rewriteurl-rewritingfront-controller
jim
jim

Reputation: 1

mod_rewrite redirect if file not found

I've got a website that use a front controller that redirect traffic to certain files so I can employ SEO friendly URLs however there are some static pages on the site which I don't want traffic directed away from:

I currently have the following .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.exmple.com/$1 [L,R=301]
ErrorDocument  404  /controller.php

which seems to work fine:

The problems is that it still reports a 404 error even though the page is still sent and displayed correctly - it doesn't look any different to the end user but its messing up my SEO with Google as the Google bot sees the 404 and assumes there's nothing else there.

Is there any way I can simply redirect all traffic apart from a list of certain pages or is there a more elegant solution?

Any help, thoughts, comments, etc. would be most welcome

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3990

Answers (1)

Dejan Marjanović
Dejan Marjanović

Reputation: 19380

RewriteEngine On
ErrorDocument  404  /controller.php

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,NC]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT]

You should route through index.php... otherwise line below should work instead of upper one.

RewriteRule .* $0 [PT]

Upvotes: 1

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