.htaccess, Probably easy but I can't find out how!

Server Config
1

Hey,

I have searched for this and can’t get on the right track, I don’t know if I’m ever going to understand .htaccess!

This seems easy but I can’t get it right! I would like to have when you go to this URL:

http://workspace/MVC/

So it Rewrite the URL to:
http://workspace/MVC/index

I have tried DirectoryIndex index.php, but you see it has to actually load index.php in the first place and then PHP handles other things.

I would just like it to be rewritten to /MVC/index only when nothing is after /MVC/.

The reason I want to do this is because I don’t want to have to write two sets of urls,
/index/page
or /page/

based on whether or not they have index/ loaded or not in the URI.
Thanks for your time.

2

Thanks I will try this,
Haha I hadn’t even considered that wasting resources thanks!

3

If you send it to /index it’s going to be looking in the directory index, not the file index. I’m not sure what the controller stuff you’re talking about is.

4

Okay, you’re correct about DirectoryIndex serving the actual page selected from the list of files for the DirectoryIndex.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

ARGH! Are you a webmaster or not? Okay, asking Apache to use <IfModule> for EvERY request is extremely wasteful! REMOVE THAT NONSENSE!

Then, before the first RewriteCond, insert

RewriteRule ^MVC/$ MVC/index [R=301,L]

Regards,

DK

5

That doesn’t help that redirecting to /index will look for the directory index.

Tell me this, what exactly (in detail) are you trying to do, and why?

6

Well I already have this,
and anything after index.php loads a controller, but the URL looks like
http://workspace/MVC/controller/function/value

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

7

Heya,

just /index

Because the actual index.php loads, Then /index is a controller,
but I want it to show /index (because thats a controller name)

8

Do you want it /index or /index.php?