htaccess mod rewrite problem

Question

Let me start immediately with my problem:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase / 
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ sinj.com.hr/index.php?var1=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ sinj.com.hr/index.php?var1=$1&var2=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ sinj.com.hr/index.php?var1=$1&var2=$2&var3=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ sinj.com.hr/index.php?var1=$1&var2=$2&var3=$3&var4=$4 [L]


RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ sinj.com.hr/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ sinj.com.hr/$1/$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ sinj.com.hr/$1/$2/$3 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ sinj.com.hr/$1/$2/$3/$4 [R=301,L]

There is folder sinj.com.hr/administracija and when I try to access http://localhost/sinj.com.hr/administracija I am redirected to

http://localhost/sinj.com.hr/administracija?var1=administracija

What I would like is when user enters http://localhost/sinj.com.hr/administracija that he is redirected to http://localhost/sinj.com.hr/administracija/index.php. I tried to do this with header("Location:... ") but it always redirects me to http://localhost/sinj.com.hr/administracija?var1=administracija. If folder administracija is renamed then header() function works. Any ideas how to solve this?

Thanks, Ile

Answer 1

Testing on my own Apache configuration I created the directory DOCUMENT_ROOT/sinj.com.hr and placed the .htaccess file in there along with a simple index.php file that just dumped the $_REQUEST contents back to me.

Here is the .htaccess I used:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /sinj.com.hr
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/sinj.com.hr/index.php
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ index.php?var1=$1 [R,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ index.php?var1=$1&var2=$2 [R,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ index.php?var1=$1&var2=$2&var3=$3 [R,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ index.php?var1=$1&var2=$2&var3=$3&var4=$4 [R,L,QSA]

The RewriteCond line catches the index.php to keep it from going into a recursive loop. I also gave each RewriteRule the redirect (R) and query string append (QSA) flags in addition to tell them they were the last (L) rule to apply.

I also changed the match grouping to include anything except a slash (/) to simplify the matching.

Answer 2

Hmmmm...what about trying the

DirectoryIndex

directive in the .htaccess file under the administracija folder? In this case, I'd specifically suggest:

DirectoryIndex index.php

Answer 3

couldnt get text being displayed as code in comment so I'll have to use answer...

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}/index.php -f
RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}/index.php

Answer 4

The following rule is causing the behavior:

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ sinj.com.hr/index.php?var1=$1&var2=$2 [L]

That is redirecting /sinj.com.hr/administracija to sinj.com.hr/index.php?var1=administracija