A mod_rewrite rule to map all paths to index.php

Question

I have a script at www.mydomain.com/mydirectory/index.php. I want to map all requests to subdirectories of mydirectories to the script. For instance, www.mydomain.com/mydirectory/mypath/ should be rewritten to www.mydomain.com/mydirectory/index.php/mypath/

How can I accomplish this? Thanks.

Answer 1

Try this in the .htaccess file in your mydirectory directory:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $0 !^index\.php/
RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [L]

Answer 2

This will forward all requests to index.php if a requested file or folder doesn't exist:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

For example, http://www.example.com/category/5/ becomes http://www.example.com/index.php/category/5/

You can parse the path behind index.php using explode() and $HTTP_SERVER_VARS

$url = explode('/', $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['PATH_INFO']);