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Edward Tanguay
Asked: 2019-02-28 11:23:38 +0800 CST

What .htaccess RewriteRule do I need to redirect correctly when no page is specified in the URL?

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In my directory

http://tanguay.info/webtech

I have the following .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ http://127.0.0.1:49900/home [P,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://127.0.0.1:49900/$1 [P,L]

It routes correctly if I provide a page (a node app with .eps files)

http://tanguay.info/webtech/home

But if I don't provide a page:

http://tanguay.info/webtech

It gives this error:

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/tanguay2/public_html/n49900_dpndev/systemPages/index.html.var.ejs'

It seems to be going to index.html.var.ejs instead of the http://127.0.0.1:49900/home that I specified, but I don't know where it is getting this index.html.var information.

How do I get it to correctly link to http://tanguay.info:49900 if I provide no page?

.htaccess

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    index.html.var maybe set as your DirectoryIndex. In which case, mod_dir issues an internal subrequest for this document. (Does this file exist?)

    How you match this with mod_rewrite can depend on your Apache version (2.2 vs 2.4). In Apache 2.2 mod_dir executes before mod_rewrite. The order reversed in 2.4.

    In Apache 2.4 a RewriteRule pattern of ^$ should be sufficient (since it is processed before mod_dir issues the subrequest). If the directory index document does not exist then this should also work on Apache 2.2. However, to catch both possibilities then check for both...

    For example, change your first RewriteRule to read:

    RewriteRule ^(index\.html\.var)?$ http://127.0.0.1:49900/home [P,L]

    Or, you could disable the DirectoryIndex (if it's not being used) at the top of your .htaccess file:

    DirectoryIndex disabled
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