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Redirect All Requests Through One File

Posted on Friday 13th April 2018

This is a quick snippet using .htaccess to redirect requests within a directory to a given file in that directory.

Scenario

For a couple of projects have been using the file structure as a routing method and needed all requests to be pointed to the index.php file, so

• /index.php
• /page.html
• /directory/page.html

Would all run through the root directories index.php

I opted to do this using a .htaccess file and use the mod_rewrite module for apache.

Requirements

• mod_rewrite: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html

Install mod_rewrite on Debian, Ubuntu

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Code

Create a file called .htaccess in the root directory of the website with the following contents.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ./index.php [L,QSA]

Explain

RewriteEngine On // Turn on URL Rewriting
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f // Check If file does not exist
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d // Check If directory does not exist
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ./index.php [L,QSA] // Pass through to index.php  if above conditions passed