Mod rewrite only working sometimes

[Ssoele]

I have found a strange problem when I was working on a new project.
 
When making some clean URL's, I found that some just didn't want to work, in the code below, line 4 and 5 would work, but line 6, 7 and 9 would not.

RewriteEngine OnRewriteBase /RewriteRule ^home$ index.php [L]RewriteRule ^stats$ stats.php [L]RewriteRule ^signup$ signup.php [L]RewriteRule ^signin$ signin.php [L]RewriteRule ^dashboard$ dashboard.php [L]

When I just add a - to the URLs, line 6 and 7 do work.

RewriteEngine OnRewriteBase /RewriteRule ^home$ index.php [L]RewriteRule ^stats$ stats.php [L]RewriteRule ^sign-up$ signup.php [L]RewriteRule ^sign-in$ signin.php [L]RewriteRule ^dashboard$ dashboard.php [L]

Does anyone have any idea on what might be causing this? I don't have the slightest clue.

[Nallown]

The - (Dash) is a syntax used in regular expressions to define a range.

So for example if you want to grab the alphabet then you can do a-z and it would grab the range between and including a and z.

 

You'd need to escape the dashes using the \ (backward slash).

 

So anywhere you want to use a regex syntax as a character just use the \ to escape them but otherwise at times there are better ways to escape characters but here you're fine just using the \.

 

So you'd have

RewriteRule ^sign\-in$ signin.php [L]

[Ssoele]

 

The - (Dash) is a syntax used in regular expressions to define a range.

So for example if you want to grab the alphabet then you can do a-z and it would grab the range between and including a and z.

 

You'd need to escape the dashes using the \ (backward slash).

 

So anywhere you want to use a regex syntax as a character just use the \ to escape them but otherwise at times there are better ways to escape characters but here you're fine just using the \.

 

So you'd have

RewriteRule ^sign\-in$ signin.php [L]

 

The problem is that it works with the dash and does not work without it.

[Nallown]

The problem is that it works with the dash and does not work without it.

that's a strange one, I'll give it a try when I'm home.

[Ssoele]

that's a strange one, I'll give it a try when I'm home.

 

I found the problem, it's apparently because signin.php, signup.php and dashboard.php already exist as a file (I hadn't made stats.php yet). If I delete those files, it works.

 

I also did it a bit different now, everything is redirected to index.php and that one is getting the right page that is located in a different folder.

RewriteEngine OnRewriteBase /RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-fRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-dRewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]

[Nallown]

 

I found the problem, it's apparently because signin.php, signup.php and dashboard.php already exist as a file (I hadn't made stats.php yet). If I delete those files, it works.

 

I also did it a bit different now, everything is redirected to index.php and that one is getting the right page that is located in a different folder.

RewriteEngine OnRewriteBase /RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-fRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-dRewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]

 

Laravel does it that way aswell. It's just a preconfigured htaccess file which routes to a server file and there it manages the links.

So they'd have server.php which does all the routing seperate from the processing, it would just return links to pages.

[Mojo-Jojo]

 

I found the problem, it's apparently because signin.php, signup.php and dashboard.php already exist as a file (I hadn't made stats.php yet). If I delete those files, it works.

 

I also did it a bit different now, everything is redirected to index.php and that one is getting the right page that is located in a different folder.

RewriteEngine OnRewriteBase /RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-fRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-dRewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]

Please don't do this directly with filenames. It opens up a whole new world of security-related issues.

[Ssoele]

Please don't do this directly with filenames. It opens up a whole new world of security-related issues.

 

In PHP, I have enough checks to prevent abuse.

[Mojo-Jojo]

In PHP, I have enough checks to prevent abuse.

Just making sure