: .htaccess RewriteRule contains wrong value I have a RewriteRule that is not behaving as I expect. I want site.com/author/fred to map to site.com/author/index.php?a=fred I have an author directory

@Sims2060225

Your pattern ([^/]+)/?$ will match fred as well as index.php.

The key here -- the way how [L] flag works. After initial rewrite of fred occurs it goes to next rewrite iteration, where it will rewrite index.php?a=fred to index.php?a=index.php. Because URL was rewritten, it goes to 3rd iteration, where index.php?a=index.php will be rewritten to the same URL index.php?a=index.php. Because input and output URLs are the same, rewrite exits and you have what you have right now.

You need to add a condition to prevent looping. For example (one of the possible approaches):

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index.php$
RewriteRule ([^/]+)/?$ index.php?a= [NC,L]


or

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ([^/]+)/?$ index.php?a= [NC,L]


or even

RewriteRule (?!index.php)([^/]+)/?$ index.php?a= [NC,L]


Read a bit more: RewriteRule Last [L] flag not working?

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