mod_rewrite doing index incorrectly

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I have the following mod_rewrite directives in a .htaccess file, so that URLs like http://example.com/foo/bar/baz are internally rewritten to index.php?page=baz

RewriteEngine on RewriteBase /foo/bar/ RewriteRule ^index.php - [L,NC] RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/?$ index.php?&p=$1 [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/?$ index.php?&p=$1&v=$2 [L,QSA]

It works fine at

and anything else I've thrown at it, except if the first parameter is index.

http://example.com/foo/bar/index and
http://example.com/foo/bar/index/baz do not work.

I've turned RewriteLogLevel up to 9, and I get entries like this one when I visit http://example.com/foo/bar/index/baz

[perdir ..../foo/bar/] add path info postfix: ..../foo/bar/index.php -> ..../foo/bar/index.php/baz

So it looks like something internal to apache is actually rewriting the /index/ part of the URL to /index.php/ before mod_rewrite even sees it, which is a bit of a problem. It isn't rewriting anything else incorrectly, just index.

I really don't understand why it won't work with index but will with everything else. These are the only rewrite directives for this project, and it's a stock setup otherwise.

This is Apache 2.2.21 and PHP 5.3.8.

I hope I'm being clear, but just in case, I want URLs rewritten like this:

/foo/bar/index --> /foo/bar/index.php?page=index
/foo/bar/index/ --> /foo/bar/index.php?page=index
/foo/bar/page1 --> /foo/bar/index.php?page=page1
/foo/bar/page2/word --> /foo/bar/index.php?page=page2&v=word

It all works fine, except for URLs with index.

try adding Options -MultiViews to your htaccess, to prevent the clash with index.php — Gerben
– Gerben, Commented Mar 15, 2012 at 18:44
Brilliant. That's exactly what I needed to do. Thanks! I guess that's some sort of content negotiation. — Michael
– Michael, Commented Mar 16, 2012 at 4:11
Yes it is, and Multiviews takes precedence over mod_rewrite, resulting in your problem. — Gerben
– Gerben, Commented Mar 16, 2012 at 13:16

Gerben · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-16 13:16:54Z

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Try adding Options -MultiViews to your htaccess, to prevent the clash with index.php

answered Mar 16, 2012 at 13:16

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