mod_rewrite always gives 10 internal redirects and fails

Question

I have a simple .htaccess which fails to redirect correctly on some reason:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^.*$ /test.php [L]

There is a log entry:

[Tue Nov 16 17:04:12 2010] [error] [client 213.141.155.85] 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.
[Tue Nov 16 17:04:12 2010] [debug] core.c(3053): [client 213.141.155.85] r->uri = /test.php
[Tue Nov 16 17:04:12 2010] [debug] core.c(3059): [client 213.141.155.85] redirected from r->uri = /test.php
[Tue Nov 16 17:04:12 2010] [debug] core.c(3059): [client 213.141.155.85] redirected from r->uri = /test.php
[Tue Nov 16 17:04:12 2010] [debug] core.c(3059): [client 213.141.155.85] redirected from r->uri = /test.php
[Tue Nov 16 17:04:12 2010] [debug] core.c(3059): [client 213.141.155.85] redirected from r->uri = /test.php
[Tue Nov 16 17:04:12 2010] [debug] core.c(3059): [client 213.141.155.85] redirected from r->uri = /test.php
[Tue Nov 16 17:04:12 2010] [debug] core.c(3059): [client 213.141.155.85] redirected from r->uri = /test.php
[Tue Nov 16 17:04:12 2010] [debug] core.c(3059): [client 213.141.155.85] redirected from r->uri = /test.php
[Tue Nov 16 17:04:12 2010] [debug] core.c(3059): [client 213.141.155.85] redirected from r->uri = /test.php
[Tue Nov 16 17:04:12 2010] [debug] core.c(3059): [client 213.141.155.85] redirected from r->uri = /test.php
[Tue Nov 16 17:04:12 2010] [debug] core.c(3059): [client 213.141.155.85] redirected from r->uri = /blabla

There URL i'm trying to access is /blabla

It seems to rewrite correctly, but [L] option somehow has no effect. How can that be?

virtual host is configured like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.mx-key.ru
ServerAlias mx-key.ru www.mx-key.ru
ServerAdmin FractalizeR@yandex.ru
DocumentRoot /home/mxkey/mx-key.ru/www
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.php5 index.php4 index.php3 index.shtml
ErrorLog /home/mxkey/mx-key.ru/logs/httpd_error.log
CustomLog /home/mxkey/mx-key.ru/logs/httpd_access.log "%v %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b"
LogLevel Debug
<IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>
        Options +ExecCGI
        FastCgiExternalServer /home/mxkey/mx-key.ru/www/php-fpm.handler -socket /home/mxkey/php-fpm.sock -idle-timeout 600
        AddType application/x-httpd-fastphp5 .php
        Action application/x-httpd-fastphp5 /php-fpm.handler
</IfModule>
</VirtualHost>

Answer 1

You need to specify RewriteCond also - your RewriteRule is always matching everything (because of ^.*$). Take a look here:

• http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/RewriteCond

You need to exclude the target of RewriteRule, which is /test.php.

Something like this should work:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/test.php$

which says something like "rewrite only if the request URI doesn't start with /test.php".