Setting a default Apache RewriteRule entry

Question

I want to set a 'default' rewrite rule to catch anything that didn't match the previous rewrite entries. I've tried this:

RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$ index.php?url=$1 [L]

But the output returned is:

url = index.php

Ideally what I want is to attach all the GET values to 'url' so they will be saved to my web log. Anyone have any suggestions how to solve this?

Answer 1

You need to exclude the destination from your rule:

RewriteCond $1 !=index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$ index.php?url=$1 [L]

Answer 2

Omit needless parentheses in regular expressions whenever you can:

RewriteRule .* index.php?url=$0 [L]

If you want to exclude "index.php":

RewriteRule ^(?!index\.php).* index.php?url=$0 [L]

Answer 3

Try to remove slash:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [L]