Prevent loop of RewriteRule in .htaccess

.htaccessmod-rewrite

I am trying to introduce nice urls:

RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ index.php?arianne_url=content/$1 [L]

And i want to externally rewrite access to the old style urls:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} arianne_url=content/([^&]*)
RewriteRule ^.* /%1.html? [R=301]

The problem is that this ends in an endless loop.

I tried to define env and check it, but this still results in an endless loop

RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ index.php?arianne_url=content/$1 [L,env=arianne:rewrite]

RewriteCond %{env:arianne} ^$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} arianne_url=content/([^&]*)
RewriteRule .* /%1.html? [R=301]

I have to do this in .htaccess as I don't have access to the server configuration files.

Edit:

Logfile: http://pastebin.ca/1927769

# enable nice urls
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ index.php?arianne_url=content/$1 [L,env=arianne:rewrite]

# Redirect old style request to new nice url
RewriteCond %{env:arianne} ^$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} arianne_url=content/([^&]*)
RewriteRule ^.* /%1.html? [R=301,L]

Best Answer

Have you tried adding 'L' (last) to your RewriteRule? i.e.,

RewriteRule ^.* /%1.html? [R=301,L]

This will mark the rule as being the last rule, and is essentially equivalent to a break statement in C. Once this rule is executed, it will stop matching rules.

Could that be the reason?

Andrew

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