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Javier Novoa C.
Asked: 2011-01-13 10:27:28 +0800 CST

Apache rewrite to ignore certain directory and all its contents

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I'm looking for the rewrite rule for mod_rewrite in Apache so that when asking for a specific subdirectory, it and all its contents gets redirected to another location.

I currently have the following:

    RewriteEngine  on
    RewriteRule    ^/SUBDIRECTORY(/.*)?  /another/location

But this only manages to redirect /SUBDIRECTORY requests to the desired location, while all others (like (/SUBDIRECTORY/ , /SUBDIRECTORY/anything/else ) gets me an error telling me that the redirection is not valid... The error is

Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS)

as if the redirections loops themselves...

any ideas?

Thanks!

apache-2.2 mod-rewrite

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Maybe try it without the question mark?

    RewriteRule ^/somepath(.*) /another/location

    Edit: I wonder if its just hitting some sort of loop, maybe try external redirection

    RewriteRule    ^/SUBDIRECTORY(/.*)  /another/location [R]
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