Working with Slim Framework and htaccess

Question

I have the following code:

RewriteEngine On





# If you need to use the `RewriteBase` directive, it should be the

# absolute physical path to the directory that contains this htaccess file.

#

# RewriteBase /



RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f





RewriteRule ^category/(.*)$ searchPage.php?crs_category=$1 [NC,QSA]

RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]

Now the way Slim Framework works is that all requests are redirected to

index.php

, where

index.php

route the requested path to its render page.

Hence, typing

category/business

will not rewrite the url of

searchPage.php?crs_category=business

but instead redirect to

index.php

where Slim Framework will throw a page not found since there is no path

category/:name

defined to be routed.

My problem is working out this scenario, where I would like all requests except

category/NAME

to be redirect to

index.php

.

I would also appreciate when someone types

searchPage.php?crs_category=business

for that url to be rewritten to category/business with ideally a 301 status code.

Answer 1

You can use RewriteCond to apply some conditions to the following rules. In your case, something like:

RewriteRule ^category/(.*)$ searchPage.php?crs_category=$1 [L,NC,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/searchPage.php
RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]

I added the "L" switch on the first match, so it will not continue parsing rewrite rules for current request.

On the next request, the RewriteCond line says "only apply the following rule if the URI does NOT start with searchPage.php".

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