RewriteCond not stopping at end.. /example will work... but example/anotherlink doesnt

Question

Hi.. this might be a no brainer to some, but I am trying to specify some RewriteCond in an .htaccess file and I am failing badly.

Heres what I have :

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} employee   [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /resources/employee [L,R=301]

will redirect fine... but if I include any other rules that include 'employee' like this:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} employee/another   [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ resources/employee/another [L,R=301] 

It redirects me to the first Rule: /resources/employee

I have tried many variations, but no luck. Any ideas?

Answer 1

RewriteCond uses a regular expression, and searches your value for it. To make sure it only matches whole string, use the ^ and $:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^employee$ [NC]

Answer 2

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} employee   [NC]

will match anything with employee in it, try using some anchoring, like to the beginning and end of filename or similar:

# Match everything that starts with /employee, might be followed by a slash and then ends
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^/employee/?$   [NC]