URL Rewriting in .htaccess (Apache) displaying 404-Error-CodePudding

this is my first question here on stackoverflow because in the past I always found a question that described my problem perfectly. But now they were not able to do that, so I decided to ask for help myself.

My goal is to display profiles, but the url shouldn't look like "/profile/show-profile.php?user=admin", just "/profile/admin".

So looked it up on google and found URL rewriting to be potentially useful, by editing the .htaccess file.

The problem is, it doesn't work. I already have some things in my .htaccess (redirecting to https and the 404-Page "/pagenotfound.php") and it seems like they don't work in combination.

# https redirecting

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !=443
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://int-politics.com/$1 [R=301]`

# 404 page

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) /pagenotfound.php
ErrorDocument 404 /pagenotfound.php

# URL REWRITING

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /profile/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ show-profile.php?user=$1

When I add the URL Rewriting part the 404-Page doesn't work anymore. Every site that doesn't exist just outputs "/pagenotfound.php" (see image -->) Not-existing site just outputs /pagenotfound.php instead of showing it. And the url-rewriting doesn't work too.

It would be wonderful if you could help me with this problem and tell me whats wrong. Thank you very much!

CodePudding user response：

You usage of the RedirectBase is wrong. It should appear only once in such a distributed configuration file. Actually it is not required in this example at all ... Please take a look into the documentation for details on that: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritebase

Also it is vital to understand that the rewriting engine loops if a rule gets applied. And why that makes using the L or the END flag so important.

That probably is what you are looking for:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# https redirecting
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !=443
RewriteRule ^ https://int-politics.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,END]

# profile rewriting
RewriteRule ^/?profile/(\w )$ /profile/show-profile.php?user=$1 [END]

# 404 page
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^ /pagenotfound.php [END]
ErrorDocument 404 /pagenotfound.php

Best is to implement such rules in the central http server's host configuration. If you do not have access to that (read: if you are using a cheap hosting provider) then you can use a distributed configuration file instead, if the consideration of such files has been enabled (see the documentation for the AllowOverride directive on that).