htacess rewrite rule return wrong value in query string

Question

I have a rewrite rule but it is not working as expected.

Rewrite rule.

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ category.php?cat_alias=$1

In server side I get filename as value in request

Array
(
    [cat_alias] => category.php
)

Below is the example url for this rewrite rule http://www.example.com/news

Expected result :

Array
    (
        [cat_alias] => news
    )

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-17 06:03:05Z

1

Problem is that your rule doesn't have conditions and it is writing anything that is not / to category.php. After it rewrite /news rules are executed again in next loop and it performs another rewrite of /category.php.

You need to add rewrite condition to prevent existing files and directories to be rewritten and prevent looping.

# If the request is not for a valid directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# If the request is not for a valid file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ category.php?cat_alias=$1 [L,QSA]

answered Jul 17, 2020 at 6:03

anubhava

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