Mod Rewrite ignore url - php

I am creating a site where instead of using GET variables I will just be looking at the url. How would you create a mod_rewrite rule that no matter what directs the user to index.php(Or some page)?
EX:
User enters: www.example.com/blog/programming/postName
User still sees www.example.com/blog/programming/postName in the adress bar but www.example.com/index.php is shown
I have tried:
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+.)?$ /index.php [NC,L]
But that only changes the page for one directory(only worked for www.example.com/worksNow/
RewriteRule ^(.*) /Blog3/index.php [NC,L]
But It got a server error

This behavior/recipe doesn't require mod_rewrite, see FallBackResource.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_dir.html#fallbackresource

You can use this rule:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php [L]
This means if any request that is not for a file or directory then internally rewrite that to /index.php
Reference: Apache mod_rewrite Introduction

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htaccess doesn't work as expected

I have an htaccess rewrite URL as below:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mywebsite.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mywebsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^my-page\.html$ /my-page.php [L]
RewriteRule ^my-page/([^/]*)\.html$ /level1.php?num=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^my-page/([^/]*)/([^/]*)\.html$ /level2.php?level1=$1&level2=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.html$ /level3.php?level3=$1 [L]
These rules above rewrite URLs from mywebsite.com/my-page.php to mywebsite.com/my-page.html.
Now, what I want to achieve is mywebsite.com/my-page/ to be redirected to mywebsite.com/my-page.php (which in turn rewrites to mywebsite.com/my-page.html).
What I have tried, I created a directory "my-page" and tried to redirect requests from mywebsite.com/my-page/ to /my-page.html.
I don't know what went wrong. I can see in the network tab that a request is made to /my-page/ and gets rewritten to mywebsite.com/my-page.htmlmy-page/, which gives a 302 Status ☹
Please help! Thank you.
You can try use RedirectMatch to achieve this.
Redirect to my-page.php:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/my-page/ http://mywebsite.com/my-page.php
or straight away to my-page.html if this is your goal:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/my-page/ http://mywebsite.com/my-page.html
or, what will be best - change the code responsible for mywebsite.com/my-page.htmlmy-page/, but I can't see it in question you have asked :)
Please give the following a try. Brief descriptions are found in the comments for each section.
RewriteEngine On
# Trim www.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mywebsite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mywebsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteBase /
# Redirect /my-page[/] to /my-page.html
# >> Note: change 302 to 301 to make permanent
RewriteRule ^my-page/?$ my-page.html [R=302,L]
# Allow existing files and directories
# Recommended to comment out the first line
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
# Rewrite *.html to respective page
RewriteRule ^my-page.html$ my-page.php [L]
RewriteRule ^my-page/([^/]*).html$ level1.php?num=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^my-page/([^/]*)/([^/]*).html$ level2.php?level1=$1&level2=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]*).html$ level3.php?level3=$1 [L]
The important part here is that you do the required redirect before any other rewrites (except the www. removal).
Also, you previously had the two conditions which stated that if the request was not for a file or directory, then proceed with the next rule, but that wouldn't have accounted for the last two rules. As such, this version tells Apache to stop everything if the request is for an existing file or directory. I would recommend, for security purposes, that you comment out the line that checks for existing directories.

htaccess url rewrites and redirects not working

I have a website that was updated. I want to make the old urls work, I want to redirect some of them, so links from google search still work, and rewrite the url for other urls, using .htaccess.
For example:
one rewrite is a.com/services to a.com/consultancy
one redirect is a.com/services/a/b to a.com/consultancy
One extra comlpication: the site sends every request to /index.php because the URLs are not to physical files, but the index.php script does internal routing, using the requested path, to serve the right content.
I'm not sure if I can do a rewrite (services->consultancy) an then another rewrite (consultancy->index.php) in the same htaccess.
Trying this, I'm getting an internal server error 500 for any URL:
RewriteEngine On
#NEW
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^services$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^services$ consultancy [L]
#LEGACY
RewriteRule (.*) ./index.php
Also tried the Redirect 301 directive but had no luck, the same error 500.
Any ideas of how to mix rewrites, redirects and the final rewrite to index.php?
Thanks!
Update
For the combination of redirect and rewrite I realized some of the rules are a little different than my original question, and those might be causing problems, here is an example:
# Redirect to show "consultancy" in the URL
RewriteRule ^services/a/b?$ consultancy [QSA,R,L,NC]
# If "consultancy" is in the URL, change it to the real path
# "consultancy" is an alias of the path that should be processed by index.php
RewriteRule ^consultancy/?$ en/consultoria [NC]
# Should get the "en/consultoria" path
RewriteRule ^ ./index.php [L]
The problem with the previous example is that I get the redirect "services/a/b" -> "consultancy" OK, but the rewrite "consultancy" -> "en/consultoria" is not done.
Any ideas?
You can use:
RewriteEngine On
#rewrite
RewriteRule ^services/?$ consultancy [L,NC]
#redirect
RewriteRule ^services/a/b/?$ consultancy [L,NC,R=302]
#LEGACY
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

.htaccess doesn't redirect direct link to .php files

This is my current .htaccess file:
DirectoryIndex requestHandler.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ requestHandler.php?/$0 [L,QSA]
I want to redirect alle requests to "requestHandler.php". It works now, but it is also possible to access sites with the direct link, and I don't want that.
For example:
It now works with ".../api/register" , but you can also access it but going to ".../register.php" and that shouldn't be possible. It should only be possible to go to register.php by ".../api/register".
I think I had it working before, but as I continued editing I've seemed to mess it up.
requestHandler.php should be working properly and when I enter ".../register.php" it is not at all redirected to requestHandler, but if I enter ".../registe.php" or ".../register.ph" it is redirected there.
Any solutions?
The rule you posted is only checking if the file/directory exists, and if it doesn't, then redirect to requestHandler.php. So naturally, if an existing file is entered in the URL, it will not redirect.
If you want all ".php" files to get redirected as well, you'll need a more specific Rewrite rules. Something like this maybe:
DirectoryIndex requestHandler.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ requestHandler.php?/$0 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \.php$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ requestHandler.php?/$0 [L,QSA]
You can probably consolidate that into one rule block, but at least this way it's very readable. The second rule block is only checked if the requested file is not a file or a directory.

htaccess redirect loop on joomla

I have all of my customers sites in a directory on my subdomain:
customers.example.com/sites/customer_name
I have rewritten the url from:
customers.example.com/sites/customer_name
to:
customers.example.com/customer_name
the problem is when i go to a joomla site, it makes a redirect loop, resulting in this address:
http://customers.example.com/sites/sites/sites/sites/sites/sites/sites/sites/sites/sites/sites/sites/sites/sites/sites/sites/sites/sites/sites/sites/sites/customername//
my redirect works fine on static pages
Here is my current .htaccess file in the root of my domain:
EDIT:
found a better htaccess script which is faster, but stil gives me the same issue
RewriteEngine On
ErrorDocument 404 http://example.com/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /sites/$1/ [L]
Because joomla is probably doing routing, the two condition checks !-f and !-d will fail because joomla needs to route. Try changing the conditions to:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/sites/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /sites/$1 [L]
Change L to NL on second line.

i need some help creating Htaccess

i need to hide the extensions of my webpage and also want to let the user put the links in both (lower and upper) case:
Example:
the file name is demo.php
www.example.com/demo
www.example.com/DEMO
www.example.com/Demo
Running PHP in a LAMP server, no access to php.ini, just .htaccess
Actualy im using a file like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^/(OUTSOURCING|outsourcing|Outsourcing)$ outsourcing.php [NC,L]
And i m reciving this error:
Not Found
The requested URL /outsourcing was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
www.example.com/DEMO www.example.com/Demo or doing www.example.com/DEMO/page2
RewriteRule ^/(DEMO|demo|Demo)/(.*)$ demo.php?=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^/(DEMO|demo|Demo)$ demo.php [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^/(D|d)emo$ demo.php [NC,L]
or pass anything www.example.com/DeMo www.example.com/bob to demo.php
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ demo.php [NC,L]
you may want to test if your allowed .htaccess RewriteRule /*$ http://google.com [R][L]
here is a good way to do it with case insensitive method
EDIT:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ${lc:$1}.php [NC]
this way anything entered will be redirected to a php file.
edit : this way your js and css file can still run
RewriteRule ^/[Dd][Ee][Mm][Oo]/?(.*)$ demo.php [NC,L]
will redirect any capitalization of "Demo" to demo.php
First add this line in the <VirtualHost> section OR at the end of your httpd.conf file (to enable lc function in .htaccess for later use):
RewriteMap lc int:tolower
Then have these rules in .htaccess file:
Options +FollowSymlinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\s.+\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.php$ /$1 [NE,R=301,L,NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.php$ [NC]
RewriteCond ${lc:%{REQUEST_FILENAME}}.php -f
RewriteRule . ${lc:%{REQUEST_URI}}.php [L]
First rule in .htaccess is doing external redirect by making a URI of /index.php to /index
Second rule in .htaccess is doing internal redirect by makign a URI of /INDEX to /index.php by lowercasing the URI. Assuming you have filename index.php physically present.
That way you can always write URLs without .php extension.

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