htaccess - unwanted redirection to index.php-CodePudding

RewriteEngine ON

# example.com/index.php?c=kb -> example.com/kb
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} index\.php\?c=([^\s&] ) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1? [R=301,L,NE]
RewriteRule ^([^/.] )/?$ index.php?c=$1 [L,QSA]

the above works fine
now I want internally example.com/contact to be rewriten into example.com/contact.php

# contact -> contact.php
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule ^contact$ /contact.php? [L]

problerm - this redirects me to index.php
if I remove the first block of code (about index.php) - the second part works fine - there is no redirection to index.php
seems something is wrong with the second RewriteCond
pls help

CodePudding user response：

With your shown samples, please try following htaccess rules file. Please make sure to clear your browser cache before testing your URLs.

RewriteEngine ON
##Rule for contact.php rewrite.
RewriteRule ^(contact)/?$ $1.php [QSA,NC,L]

# example.com/index.php?c=kb -> example.com/kb
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/index\.php/?c=(\S )\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1? [R=301,L,NE]

##For internal rewrite rules here.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$ index.php?c=$1 [L,QSA]

OR in case you have to internally rewrite to about to about.php OR contact to contact.php then you can use following rules.

RewriteEngine ON
##Rule for contact.php rewrite.
RewriteRule ^(contact|about)/?$ $1.php [QSA,NC,L]

# example.com/index.php?c=kb -> example.com/kb
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/index\.php/?c=(\S )\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1? [R=301,L,NE]

##For internal rewrite rules here.    
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$ index.php?c=$1 [L,QSA]