Having trouble with a simple .htaccess redirect

Question

I've been working on this for a while and have tried a lot of different solutions I've seen on the web and can't seem to get this to work.

I have a site at www.mydomainname.com. The page that I want to handle ALL page requests is www.mydomain.com/index.php. I'd also like to set this up to work for any other domains that I point to this code base (using wildcards would be the way to go for that I think).

So the following URL types (or any other) should automatically go to index.php, while still keeping the original URL structure in the browser address bar:

 www.mydomain.com/
 mydomain.com/
 www.mydomain.com/item/111
 www.mydomain.com/item/itemname/anothervariable/value
 www.mydomain.com/item/itemname/?variable=value

I'm using PHP 5 and a recent version of Apache with mod_rewrite enabled.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Answer 1

Include this once per .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule (.*) index.php

If you need the information from the matched URL you can modify your RewriteRule to match portions of the old URL or just include everything by using the variables $1 and so forth. If for instance you wanted to get the item number passed in quickly to index.php, you could use this rule:

RewriteRule item/(.*)$ index.php?item=$1

Answer 2

Simple:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(jpg|gif|ico|png|bmp|css|js)$

RewriteRule .* index.php

Answer 3

You could use the follow RewriteRule

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?originalUrl=$1

Untested, but it should work. You will then also have the original URL available in the 'originalUrl' GET parameter for further parsing.