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dmoench
dmoench

Reputation: 744

Apache URL Rewrite - Hide /public_html/ In URL Path

I would like to type the following url into my browser:

localhost/mydomain/about.php

And have apache redirect to the actual file location:

localhost/mydomain/public_html/about.php

I wrote the following .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ public_html/$1

I'm totally unfamiliar with Apache and my understanding of reg expressions is very basic - but I thought this would mean "Take any path after the domain name and stick public_html/ in front of it". The result, however, is a 500 Internal Server error.

What am I missing?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2954

Answers (1)

You Qi
You Qi

Reputation: 9211

This is because specifying only ^(.+)$ rule will keep the rewrite in an infinite loop.

about.php > public_html/about.php > public_html/public_html/about.php > ...

A quick fix would be RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ public/$1. or you might be interested with the LAST modifier/flag for rewrite rule:

RewriteRule ^public/(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1

Just in case you would like to know the way of debugging the rewrite_module, you can set LogLevel DEBUG in httpd.conf, then you can check on the apache error log.

Upvotes: 1

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