Whenever I try to access a file/folder that doesn't exist using my .htaccess, it returns a 500 error instead of a 404 and the following message in the logs:
Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.
Here is the code causing the issues:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/*$ /$1.php?p=$2 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/*$ /$1.php [L]
</IfModule>
The code converts urls as follows:
http://mysite.com/about -> http://mysite.com/about.php
http://mysite.com/something/else -> http://mysite.com/something.php?p=else
A url causing errors is really any that the server cant find e.g.:
http://mysite.com/Idontexist.php
http://mysite.com/nosuchfolder
Does anyone know how to prevent this?
you have to add a RewriteCond which check if Mod_Rewrite has already made the internal redirection, the L falg stop the current run only, then .htaccess directives will be re-executed again if the url has been changed (which is the case here):
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.php$
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/*$ /$1.php?p=$2 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.php$
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/*$ /$1.php [L]
</IfModule>
Related
These two URLs work right now but they were supposed to show my custom 404 page not found page if extra slashes and some random directory names have been added at the end of the URL like pending/somethinghere/random1/random2 it works but only for the pending one that I have below, if I add extra slash in developers one like developers/dev-name/asdit does not work unless I remove the rule for the other one. What am I doing wrong and how can I fix this?
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\/]*)$ index.php?p=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\/]*)\/([^\/]*)\/([^\/]*)$ index.php?p=pending&h_=$2&n_=$3 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\/]*)\/([^\/]*)$ index.php?p=developers&dev_name=$2 [L]
</IfModule>
this is my htaccess:
Options All -Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^home index.php
RewriteRule ^register register.php
RewriteRule ^rules rules.php [L]
When i add fourth rule to htaccess it returns 500 error.
so htaccess is allowing only 3 rewrite rules?
First thing is when you receive an error you should always check your Apache error_log file. It will give you the specific reason for the error. We would only be guessing at what your problem might be.
Now this might not be "the" issue however the RewriteCond only works for the RewriteRule directly following it. You can't use the same condtions for all of your rules. You should also get in to the habit of using the [L] flag on the rules to prevent it from reading the next rule once it has matched.
Options All -Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^home/?$ index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^register/?$ register.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^rules/?$ rules.php [L]
To start off I know how to do a simple redirect to a 404 when a page doesn't exist with.
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
Is what I want to do is a physical redirect to the index page. So if a user types in mydomain.com/abc and that page doesn't exist it does an actual redirect TO the index page. I don't want the url to remain the same with the bad address. Yes I know its not a big deal but it bugs me. I could accomplish this by having a custom 404 page redirect to the homepage but I don't want this.
I've tried this with the [R] redirect flag and obviously it doesn't work.
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php [L,R]
Update
This is the error I get it rewrites the url to mydomain.com/index.php
I tried to remove the index.php with just / and it didn't redirect but gave the same error below.
The page isn't redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
cookies.
Do this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(?:\.\w+)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ([^/]+)/?$ $1.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ / [L,R]
Explanation:
checks whether the file has extension:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(?:\.\w+)$ [NC]
If not, checks whether file is present:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
If not a file, checks whether it is a folder which is present:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
If not append .php. If / is present at the end, remove it and append .php
RewriteRule ([^/]+)/?$ $1.php
Checks whether the .php appended or whatever extension file is actually a file which is present:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
check whether it is a directory:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
If not, then it is a invalid file request and redirects it to /
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ / [L,R]
This should be your mod_rewrite based 404 handling:
# if it is not a file, directory or link
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L,R]
However I am not sure what are you doing in your first rule? Are you trying to add .php to each request URI?
I have an htaccess file that is supposed to be redirecting any non-existing files/folders/etc into the application's index.php script where they are handled by the application's SEO rewriting.
The problem is that any missing images are also redirecting into the application which is causing a lot of additional load and is unnecessary. I've been attempting to get this htaccess file to ignore images, but even though this should be working, it's not, and I'm completely out of ideas as to why...
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*\.(gif|png|jpe?g|ico|swf)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php?sef_rewrite=1 [L]
When I make a request to http://www.domain.com/folder_that_doesnt_exist/image.jpg this redirects to index.php
When I make a request to http://www.domain.com/folder_that_does_exist/image.jpg it also redirects to the index script
I'm not sure what I'm missing here because unless OR is specified, shouldn't the RewriteRule only be applied if the request passes all of the RewriteCond statements? which it clearly should not be passing...
Update:
I've modified the code to the following just to eliminate possible issues, but it still redirects all non-existing images into the script...
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(gif|png|jpe?g|ico|swf)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(gif|png|jpe?g|ico|swf)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php?sef_rewrite=1 [L]
Maby try this:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \.(gif|png|jpe?g|ico|swf)$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [R=404,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]
My url is something like this
localhost/luz/home -> read home.php file
localhost/luz/content/about -> read content.php?page=about
But somehow it doesn't work completely.
localhost/luz/home -> SUCCESS
localhost/contenttt -> internal server error (contenttt.php doesn't exist and the 404 doesn't work)
localhost/content/about -> somehow it loads content.php?page=about.php/about
My htaccess is simple
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php
RewriteRule ^content/(.*)$ content.php?page=$1
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
You should check if the substitution actually references an existing file:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php
Otherwise you will get an infinite recursion that adds .php at the end every time.