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daemonofchaos
Asked: 2010-10-07 17:14:03 +0800 CST

Apache 2.2 rewrite - Force all requests to index.html

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I need to force all requests regardless of what they are to index.html. Unfortunately everything I have tried has not worked properly.

The following seems to me like it should work but it doesn't. My understanding is that it is saying for anything that doesn't end in /index.html to actually request the index.html file.

Redirect 302 !^/index.html http://www.example.com/index.html

Any help/clarification would be greatly appreciated.

apache-2.2 rewrite redirect

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Using an .htaccess on the root folder this should do the job:

    RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.html$
RewriteRule . /index.html [R=302,L]

    The condition and rule is that if the request does not match index.html it will redirect whatever to it

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  2. Answer of @prix is good. I myself needed to add conditions so that normal resources (images & css) are served as normal:

    RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.html$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(css|gif|ico|jpg|js|png|swf|txt|svg|woff|ttf|eot)$
RewriteRule . index.html [L]
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  3. I voted up the other answers, but in the end they didn't quite help me because I included a logo in the index.html file. So here are my adjustments. First of all, the prerequisites.

    Change

    AllowOverride None

    to

    AllowOverride All

    in

    /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
…
<Directory /var/www/>

    to enable .htaccess file in /var/www/html (example).

    Create or edit file

    /var/www/html/.htaccess

    with content

    RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.+/logo\.png$
RewriteRule . /logo.png [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.html$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/logo\.png$
RewriteRule . /index.html [L]

    As you can see, I'm not using a redirect. This means that the path or URI entered by the user remains the same; nevertheless, the index.html page is displayed with the logo.

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