.htaccess - mod_rewrite, endless loading in browser?

tekp

Hey all,

Didn't quite know where to put this so I posted here. Please move if appropriate.

I'm using .htaccess on a personal site of mine, on a local Apache 1.3 server. I have the following lines in my file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule !.(gif|jpg|png|css)$ /includes/forward.inc.php

I obviously have a page at includes/forward.inc.php with a simple:

<?
print "hi?";
?>

In it.

When I load a page in Firefox pointing to http://localhost/index.php (and any other page for that matter) it continuously loads, endless-loop style.

I commented out the second line and the 'RewriteEngine on' causes no problems on its own, so it's just that second line that causes the browser to load and load and load.

I'm using Apache 1.4 (in c:\apache), PHP4 (I think) and Windows XP Home edition. I installed Apache, PHP and MySQL with the package from PHPGeek.

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot.

Weedpacket

tekp wrote:
Hey all,

Didn't quite know where to put this so I posted here. Please move if appropriate.
...
Any ideas?

An Apache forum, perhaps?

tekp wrote:
RewriteRule !.(gif|jpg|png|css)$ /includes/forward.inc.php

Would a rule that matches forward.inc.php help?

tekp

Would a rule that matches forward.inc.php help?

What do you mean?

drew010

I think you really need a rewritecond, because its going into some kind of endless loop, since that rule isnt working as you want.
you will have to check that the request uri doesnt end in an image extension and then do the redirect, plus you will have to be careful since forward.inc.php doesnt fall into that rule, it will endlessly loop with htaccess sending it back to itself over and over.

tekp

Oh yeah!

I think that might be why it's looping, how dumb of me.

It's probably forwarding to forward.inc.php and then back again?

I checked it doesn't end in an image extension in the above code.

How do I exclude forward.inc.php from being forwarded so to speak?

drew010

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^{..(gif|jpg|png|bmp)$} [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.forward.inc.php$
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /includes/forward.inc.php [R]

try something like that

tekp

Ok thanks, I'll try it and get back to you.