Re-write index.php to /home/ using htaccess

[vjayis]

Hi

i m using htaccess to rewrite my urls.,

In this instead of http://www.mysite.com/index.php i want the url as http://www.mysite.com/home/

any ideas??

and also i m using the following code to redirect to the http://www.mysite.com/index.php when a non-existing filename is typed..

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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/Admin 
RewriteRule ^ http://www.mysite.com/index.php

so i want the url to be displayed as http://www.mysite.com/home/ whenever http://www.mysite.com/index.php is called..And at the same time when an non-existing filename i,e url is passed it must be redirected to http://www.mysite.com/home/ instead of http://www.mysite.com/index.php


regards
vijay

[Atli]

Hi.

You should simply look for "index.php" and redirect it to "/home/".
Using the [R] option will cause a redirect, which will cause the URL to change in the user's browser.

That should be as simple as:

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /home/ [R]

[vjayis]

Hi.

You should simply look for "index.php" and redirect it to "/home/".
Using the [R] option will cause a redirect, which will cause the URL to change in the user's browser.

That should be as simple as:

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /home/ [R]

Hi

tried by placing it but page results by displaying the error message as

""
This webpage has a redirect loop.

The webpage at http://www.mysite.com/home/ has resulted in too many redirects
""

i think it may be due to the rewirte rule i hav placed for the non existing file or urls

[Atli]

Yea, that last rule in your code doesn't look quite right.
If I put that into the .htaccess file on a project I'm working on now I also get the "to many redirects" error.

Try removing that, see what happens.

[vjayis]

tried and it also results in an error which says that

"
Oops! This link appears broken.
HTTP 404 - File not found.

"

[Atli]

Ok.

That may cause a problem, because re-directing back and forth like that ends up causing an indefinite loop.

There is a far easier solution, if you want.

Because index.php is an index file, if you simply specify the directory that contains the file, it will be executed.
In your case, that is the root directory.

So rather than showing example.com/home/ it would just show example.com/.

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ / [R]

That way, you don't need to redirect the /home/ directory back to the index file and enter a loop. The index file would be automatically executed.

And if you want all non-existing files to go there as well, you could catch the 404 error and show the the index file, which would be re-directed like a normal link:

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

[vjayis]

Hi

thanks for ur help., and it works good.,

but the rewrite rules written for index.php gets changed., and no probs i can get rid of it..

but i need it to be displayed as http://www.mysite.com/home/ instead of http://www.mysite.com/

anyother way ???