: GoDaddy: RewriteCond in .htaccess not working with "beginning of the line" (^) I have .htaccess containing RewriteCond and RewriteRule. It used to work just fine (it's been a long time since
I have .htaccess containing RewriteCond and RewriteRule.
It used to work just fine (it's been a long time since I last checked), but now it has stopped working. I have narrowed it down to the following example.
Suppose I want to redirect mydomain.com/foo but not when foo occurs anywhere else; so, for example, don't redirect if the URI is /abc/foo, /abcfoo, or /foobar.
Here is my current .htaccess file:
Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks -Multiviews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/foo$
RewriteRule . /redirect.html [last,redirect=temp]
I have tried changing ^/foo$ in various ways, but I can't get this to work.
The following all work as expected:
foo Redirects wherever foo appears, e.g. /abcfoobar
foo$ Redirects whenever foo appears at the end, e.g. /abc/defoo
/foo Redirects whenever /foo appears, e.g. /abc/foobar
/foo$ Redirects whenever /foo appears at the end, e.g. /abc/foo
The following always return 404 Not found, no matter what I put as the URI.
^foo
^/foo
^/foo$
I don't know what's going on.
Please help me fix this. In case it helps, I'm using GoDaddy hosting.
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I have just discovered the solution! This seems to be a GoDaddy special.
Domains in GoDaddy are kept in subfolders; e.g. mydomain.com might be held in a subfolder called md.
Curiously, the start of %{REQUEST_URI} includes this string. Therefore, my RewriteCond should have read:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/md/foo$
It is not needed if the string does not necessarily start at the beginning. This explains my strange results.
I have edited my title to show that this applies specifically to GoDaddy, in the hope that this helps someone else.
I’m not sure what the problem is in your case (I tested your snippet and it works as expected), but maybe this works for you:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^foo$ /redirect.html [redirect=temp,last]
I’m not an .htaccess expert, but I guess this would even be faster, because the RewriteRule pattern gets processed before RewriteCond.
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