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zensys
Asked: 2013-01-18 02:22:34 +0800 CST

apache mod rewrite too many redirects

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I am trying to redirect all requests for my default language (nl) to /nl..... (without showing the redirect to the user). So example.com should redirect to example.com/nl without visibly altering the url in the browser. Here is what I tried:

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/en.*
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/nl.*
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$  nl$1 [R,L]

The redirect is visible to the user (/nl/index.php) and in addition it results in a 'too many redirect'.

If I try [P,L] I get: no permission to access '\' on this server.

What is the correct way to achieve what I want?

apache-2.2

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    There's shouldn't be an [R] after the RewriteRule as this tells Apache to send a 302 redirect rather than internally rewriting the URL.

    The second part of the RewriteRule should start with a slash unless this is in a Directory context (such as in a .htaccess file or a <Directory > block). Without the slash, you are rewriting the URL to something like http://example.comnl/index.php rather than http://example.com/nl/index.php.

    RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/en.*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/nl.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$  /nl$1 [L]
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