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

Answer 1

Try it without using using RewriteCond.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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]