Redirect all traffic to index.php using mod_rewrite

Question

I'm trying to build a url shortener, and I want to be able to take any characters immediately after the domain and have them passed as a variable url. So for example

http://google.com/asdf

would become

http://www.google.com/?url=asdf.

Here's what I have for mod_rewrite right now, but I keep getting a 400 Bad Request:

RewriteEngine on  
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f  
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d  
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php?url=$1 [L,QSA]

Look into the `error.log` for the actual error reason. Otherwise set up the `RewriteLog` — mario, Dec 21 '11 at 20:36
possible duplicate of [Simple Mod Rewrite](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7093190/simple-mod-rewrite) — mario, Dec 21 '11 at 20:38
Before all is agood idea add the RewriteBase directive. Second, the server allow mod_rewrite ? — macjohn, Dec 21 '11 at 20:41

gen_Eric · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-21T20:46:18.740

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Try replacing ^(.*) with ^(.*)$

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [L,QSA]

Edit: Try replacing index.php with /index.php

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?url=$1 [L,QSA]

edited Dec 21 '11 at 20:46

answered Dec 21 '11 at 20:36

gen_Eric

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I gave it a shot, but still get the 400 Bad Request. Looking through the logs now, but I can't seem to find anything worth while – bswinnerton Dec 21 '11 at 20:42
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@bswinnerton: Try adding a `/` before `index.php`. Check my updated answer. – gen_Eric Dec 21 '11 at 20:47
Okay, so I no longer get the error anymore, but it doesn't redirect to url=asdf when I type in /asdf =/ – bswinnerton Dec 21 '11 at 20:51
@bswinnerton: What do mean by "when I type in /asdf"? What's the URL you're trying to load? – gen_Eric Dec 21 '11 at 20:57
For example if I type in google.com/asdf it just goes back to google.com instead of google.com/?url=asdf – bswinnerton Dec 21 '11 at 20:59
Building on that, I think that this might have something to do with my source code. Thanks for the help! – bswinnerton Dec 21 '11 at 21:01

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 21 '15 at 19:51

ByTheWay don't forget to enable mod rewrite,in apache on ubuntu

sudo a2enmod rewrite

and then restart apache2

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

edit: it is an old question that helped me but I lost hours testing my apache2.conf file on one side and .htaccess file on the other side and still no light.

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 29 '16 at 07:44

To rewrite all requests to /index.php ,you can use :

RewriteEngine on


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /index.php?url=$1 [NC,L]

The RewriteCondition RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php$ is important as it excludes the rewrite destination we are rewriting to and prevents infinite looping error.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 31 '15 at 04:11

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Check under Apache modules and make sure that rewrite-module is enabled. I had a similar issue and it was resolved by enabling the rewrite-module.

answered Oct 31 '15 at 04:11

bfpetersjr

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what use does it have to answer a super old question **that already has been answered**? – Olle Kelderman Oct 31 '15 at 04:51
Actually this solved my problem after 2 hours of searching, I'm not a PHP programmer but I use it some times on my website. – Andre Sep 27 '19 at 19:19

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 08 '21 at 15:14

in the framework folder create an .htaccess file with the following contents

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule ^$ public/ [L]
    RewriteRule (.*) public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

then in the framework/public folder create an .htaccess file with the contents

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [L]
</IfModule>

by adding the .htaccess file as above we can make the URL on the website more user-friendly. For example if we write a URL like

http://google.com/asdf

will be converted to

http://google.com?url=asdf

for test purposes, we create a php index.php file in a public folder with the following content

<?php
    echo $_GET['url'];
?>

if when run in a browser using the URL above the result is 404 not found, most likely mod_rewrite has not been enabled as in step 1. if the result is 500 Internal Server Error, there may be an error in writing .htaccess

score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Aug 14 '15 at 23:55

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Try it without using using RewriteCond.

edited Aug 14 '15 at 23:55

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answered Dec 21 '11 at 20:33

PseudoNinja

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Those two `RewriteCond` lines are to make sure that files and folders that really exist don't get rewritten. For example `http://example.com/images/logo.png` won't get rewritten if that image exists. – gen_Eric Dec 21 '11 at 20:38
@Rocket Good to know for future reference. I was just working with the information I was given. – PseudoNinja Dec 21 '11 at 20:40

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