Redirect Doesn't Work

**Shanester** · Mar 10, 2012 04:12

Greetings,

I want to redirect visitors if the URL doesn't match. I'm trying this:

Code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(https?:\/\/)?(w{3}\.)?popupsinc\.com\/intranet\/?$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.custompopups.com
</IfModule>

However, this redirects everything. Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong? I suspect it might be my rule patten "(.*)", but I don't know how to change/fix this.

Thanks,
Shane.

**ScallioXTX** · Mar 10, 2012 04:34

%{HTTP_HOST} only contains the host name, nothing else. So it does not (like you seem to assume) contain the schema (http/https) and also does not contain the requested path.

What you need to do is forget about http/https, and spread the host and path over %{HTTP_HOST} and %{REQUEST_URI}, like so

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(w{3}\.)?popupsinc\.com$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/intranet/?$ [NC]
RewriteRule .? http://www.custompopups.com/ [L,R=301]

Note that I've removed the <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>...</IfModule> since they are quite abusive of the server (why ask for something over and over again when you already know the answer?)

Also, I added [L,R=301] to the last rule to make it a 301 (permanent) redirect instead of the default 302 (temporary).

**Shanester** · Mar 11, 2012 02:07

OK, I got it working:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/intranet([/\w\.-]*)*\/?$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://www.custompopups.com

This redirects everything except visits to the intranet subdirectory. I also see that slashes didn't need to be escaped. Thanks for the tip.

Do you think the "RewriteEngine on" directive is necessary?

Thanks,
Shane.