Question
htaccess redirect non-existent directories to index.php
- Posted July 4, 2019
- LAMP StackApacheUbuntu
Goal: have www.website.com/anything redirect to www.website.com Issue: 404
I’ve meticulously followed: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/htaccess-and-subdomain-issues
Confirmed: Activate Mod_Rewrite ✓ Create new .htaccess file ✓ Allow use of .htaccess ✓ Restart Server every change ✓
My current .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /
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#.htaccess file to redirect all non-existent paths and files to "/index.php"
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [L,QSA]
</IfModule>
I am facing same issues, and not able to get any resolution. please share, how you fixed this issue.
Hi,
What I could suggest is first to make sure that your .htaccess file actually works. You could try causing a 500 error by adding some random characters on top of the file (Example: just pot asd on the first line of the .htaccess file and save it) then try accessing your site, if you get a 500 error then you would know that the .htaccess file actually works.
If this is the case, you could try modifying your redirect rule a little bit:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^ /index.html [L]
If the .htaccess file is not working you would need to check your Apache config again.
Hope that this helps! Bobby
The tutorial link above was supposed to be this DO article, instead