By Eric
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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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
#.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>
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