Redirect All Traffic to Index.PHP Using Mod_Rewrite

Redirect all traffic to index.php using mod_rewrite

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]

Redirect all to index.php using htaccess

Your rewrite rule looks almost ok.

First make sure that your .htaccess file is in your document root (the same place as index.php) or it'll only affect the sub-folder it's in (and any sub-folders within that - recursively).

Next make a slight change to your rule so it looks something like:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?path=$1 [NC,L,QSA]

At the moment you're just matching on . which is one instance of any character, you need at least .* to match any number of instances of any character.

The $_GET['path'] variable will contain the fake directory structure, so /mvc/module/test for instance, which you can then use in index.php to determine the Controller and actions you want to perform.

If you want the whole shebang installed in a sub-directory, such as /mvc/ or /framework/ the least complicated way to do it is to change the rewrite rule slightly to take that into account.

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /mvc/index.php?path=$1 [NC,L,QSA]

And ensure that your index.php is in that folder whilst the .htaccess file is in the document root.

Alternative to $_GET['path'] (updated Feb '18 and Jan '19)

It's not actually necessary (nor even common now) to set the path as a $_GET variable, many frameworks will rely on $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] to retrieve the same information - normally to determine which Controller to use - but the principle is exactly the same.

This does simplify the RewriteRule slightly as you don't need to create the path parameter (which means the OP's original RewriteRule will now work):

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^.*$ /index.php [L,QSA]

However, the rule about installing in a sub-directory still applies, e.g.

RewriteRule ^.*$ /mvc/index.php [L,QSA]

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The flags:

NC = No Case (not case sensitive, not really necessary since there are no characters in the pattern)

L = Last (it'll stop rewriting at after this Rewrite so make sure it's the last thing in your list of rewrites)

QSA = Query String Append, just in case you've got something like ?like=penguins on the end which you want to keep and pass to index.php.

Use htaccess file to redirect all traffic to index.php and non-www to www

Yes, there is. First of all keep your original rule as it was (slightly modified, see below):

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !=www.example.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

After that, add:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =www.example.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?path=$1 [QSA]

So very similar to what you already had, except:

• removing flags on the last rule that weren't necessary
• adding a check for the host on the second rule
• removing slash on replacement in second rule that is not part of the match in a .htaccess file
• changing the RewriteCond check a little, including redirecting anything that is not www.example.com rather than just example.com. I recommend pointing ww.example.com and similar to your site so spelling mistakes like that get redirected with it (personally I just point *.example.com to my site in most cases).

Let me know any problems.

Redirect all requests to index.php in a folder if exists .htaccess

You can use this rule in root .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*?)[^/]+/?$ $1index.php [L]

Mod_Rewrite: Rewrite URL to index.php but redirect index.php to root

Change your THE_REQUEST rule to

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ /index\.php(/.*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /? [L,R=301]

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