.htaccess redirect when file does not exist - .htaccess

So I'm using .htaccess to redirect old site pages to new site pages. A typical rule in my file looks like this:
Redirect 301 /faqs.php http://blueprintprep.com/classroom/faq
Strangely, it works fine when the old file exists on the server, but when I remove the file, the final URL actually looks like this:
http://blueprintprep.com/classroom/faq?/faqs.php
What in the blue blazes is going on??
The file is made up of a bunch of these rules and this for CodeIgniter:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^application.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^application_consulting/(.*) http://blueprintprep.com/oneonone/app_consulting [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^weekend/(.*) http://blueprintprep.com/classroom [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^workshop/(.*) http://blueprintprep.com/oneonone [R=301,L]


You can use mod_rewrite instead.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/faqs.php$ /classroom/faq [L,R=301]
This will work regardless if the file exists or not.
Hope that helps.

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.htaccess redirect from folder to file with variable

I'm wondering how I can redirect this:
sample.com/issues/3
sample.com/issues/4
etc.
to
sample.com/issues/index.php?id=3
sample.com/issues/index.php?id=4
etc.
UPDATE: A friend suggested this:
RewriteRule ^issues/(.*)$ issues/index.php?id=$1 [L]
But this redirects to the wrong subdirectory. E.g. it redirects /issues/4/ to /issues/4/?id=4
Strangely it seems to check out on this testing site but it's not working on my local server, nor on my live server.
Any ideas? The full .htaccess now looks like so:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sample.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.sample.com/$1 [L,R=301]
Redirect /archive.php /issues/
RewriteRule ^issues/(.*)$ issues/index.php?issue=$1 [L]

Create a new .htaccess inside issues/ directory with this rule:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([\w-]+)/?$ index.php?issue=$1 [L,QSA]

edit htaccess to get inside a folder for rewrite rule

After some help from another question i managed to figure out about .htaccess on my website for Friendly SEO links.
My public_html folder contains those files
index.php
.htaccess
buisnessdetails.php
eventDetails.php
My htaccess so far is this
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\ (.*)$ /$1-$2 [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /eventDetails\.php\?id=(.+)&name=(.+)\sHTTP [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1/%2? [L,R]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /eventDetails.php?id=$1&name=$2 [L]
</IfModule>
So when someone clicks an href which has http://sourtouki.gr/123/abc
the htaccess file goes to the
eventDetails.php file.
But now i want it to change like this
i've edited my public_html folder like this
index.php
events(folder)
2.1 eventDetails.php
buisness(folder)
3.1 buisnessdetails.php
So with these changes i want to do the following thing
Changed the href link to
http://sourtouki.gr/events/123/abc
What changes i must do to the .htaccess file so it can understand that if someone pushes the above link, to go to the eventDetails.php which is inside events folder??
And is it going to be editable so i can add also buisness folder inside that rewrite rule?

You can use something like :
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\ (.*)$ /$1-$2 [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /events/eventDetails\.php\?id=(.+)&name=(.+)\sHTTP [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /events/%1/%2? [L,R]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^events/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /events/eventDetails.php?id=$1&name=$2 [L]

Two htaccess files in control of one website

When I go to
www.mydomain.tld/sk/
everything works fine, link is not changed.
But when I delete forward slash
www.mydomain.tld/sk
the page is changed to
www.mydomain.tld/domains/mydomain.tld/sk/?lang=sk
Can anybody help please? How can avoid the link to be changed?
When I go to www.mydomain.tld/sk I need it to remain the same.
.htaccess file (1):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301]
RewriteRule ^sk$ /index.php?lang=sk [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^sk/$ /index.php?lang=sk [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^sk/index /index.php?lang=sk [L,QSA]
There is another one .htaccess file (2) in the top main directory
and it contains these lines
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^domains/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/domains/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?(.*)$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/domains/%2 -d
RewriteRule (.*) domains/%2/$1 [DPI,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^domains/[^/]+/(.+[^/])$ /$1/ [R]
Options -indexes
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule /?([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/?$ index.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]
This .htaccess file helps to navigate domains that I am running at server.
All web sites are in a directory /domains .
So for example www.mydomain.tld is pointing to /domains/mydomain.tld directory.
In this directory is the shorter htaccess file (1).

Not so easy, but I think it's because in .htaccess file (1) your link are from the root, and are not at root...
Try with: .htaccess file (1):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301]
RewriteRule ^sk/?$ index.php?lang=sk [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^sk/index index.php?lang=sk [L,QSA]

look at
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^domains/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/domains/
here are you testing if REQUEST_URI does not start with "domains" OR "/domains"
however in the previous htaccess, you guarantee that REQUEST_URI will start with www
you probably want REQUEST_FILENAME instead of REQUEST_URI here

I spent many hours by trying to solve it in htaccess, but nothing work.
So i just 301 redirect the wrong link in php:
if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']=="/domains/mydomain.tld/sk/?lang=sk") {
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.mydomain.tld/sk/");
exit();
}

reroute htaccess when index in any subfolder

I currently have the following rewrite set up in my htaccess:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/(.*)$ index.php?controller=$1&cmd=$2&params=$3 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ index.php?controller=$1&cmd=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ index.php?controller=$1 [L,QSA]
So for example blog just rewrites to index.php?controller=blog or blog/show/32 rewrites to index.php?controller=blog&cmd=show&params=32 etc etc.
I want to shift all my site into a subfolder called testing so need to update my htaccess to suit. Not worried about rerouting to the folder i.e. i'm not bothered about typing www.example.com and it landing at /testing/index.php, I want to type www.example.com/testing/ and it land at index.php which it does but the other rules seem to break.

If you move this .htaccess to the subfolder, together with the files, it will work just as expected. You don't need to change anything. If you have a RewriteBase directive in your .htaccess, you have to update it to reflect the new path.

Keep this rule in your root .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^((?!testing/).*)$ testing/$1 [L,NC]
Keep this rule in your /testing/.htaccess`:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /testing/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/(.+)$ index.php?controller=$1&cmd=$2&params=$3 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ index.php?controller=$1&cmd=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ index.php?controller=$1 [L,QSA]

.htaccess redirect from 1 url (no matter what file/folder) to another url

I have a website http://rochesterwaterskishow.com which they've recently changed their name so they want to update their url to http://skidox.com. I'm trying to redirect any page from rochesterwaterskishow.com to skidox.com/site/index.
I have this line of code which redirects http://rochesterwaterskishow.com to http://skidox.com, but if I go to something like http://rochesterwaterskishow.com/test, it doesn't redirect to http://skidox.com.
RewriteRule ^$ http://skidox.com/site/index [R=301,L]
How can I make it a catch all so anything rochesterwaterskishow.com/* gets redirected to skidox.com/site/index?
UPDATE: Full .htaccess file
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|resources|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^$ http://skidox.com/site/index [R=301,L]

That's because the search pattern ^$ will only match a URI path of "/". You need to pick up the request in a match variable, for example:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} rochesterwaterskishow
RewriteRule ^.* http://skidox.com/site/index/$0 [R=301,L]
I am assuming that you are using SEO optimised-style URIs for the new site. If you want to simply redirect everything to the index page without any context, then you still need a pattern that matches:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} rochesterwaterskishow
RewriteRule ^ http://skidox.com/site/index [R=301,L]
Update following post of full htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} rochesterwaterskishow
RewriteRule ^.* http://skidox.com/$0 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond $0 ^(index\.php$|robots\.txt$|resources)
RewriteRule ^.* - [S=1]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^$ http://skidox.com/site/index/$1 [R=301,L]

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