Going mad with infinite loop and RewriteCond, need help.

[Racoon]

I want to redirect users to my home page if they enter any URL not starting with 'en' or 'fr'. I've spent hours trying to make this work but this proves too tough for my fragile newbie brain. Currently, if I try to go to

http://mysite.com/fr/produits/

Firefox tells me that the redirect will never complete.

 

Here's what I want:

http://mysite.com/en/whatever/ ==> rewrite as /whatever/index.php?lang=en

http://mysite.com/fr/whatever/ ==> rewrite as /whatever/index.php?lang=fr

 

http://mysite.com/jp/whatever/ ==> 301 redirect to /fr/accueil/

http://mysite.com/whatever/ ==> 301 redirect to /fr/accueil/

 

Here's my current htaccess. See inline comments for details.

 

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

 

# Require no www

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^mysite\.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mysite.com/$1 [R=301]

 

# Redirect from root to /fr/accueil/, the URL for the default home page

RewriteRule ^/$ http://mysite.com/fr/accueil/ [NC,R=302]

 

# Rewrite language path fragment (/fr or /en) as a parameter

RewriteRule ^fr/accueil/$ /accueil/index.php?lang=fr [QSA,NC]

RewriteRule ^en/home/$ /accueil/index.php?lang=en [QSA,NC]

RewriteRule ^fr/produits/$ /produits/index.php?lang=fr [QSA,NC]

RewriteRule ^en/products/$ /produits/index.php?lang=en [QSA,NC]

 

# I'm aware that the rules in this htaccess are re-examined each

# time a rewrite is issued. So the 'fr/accueil/' I'm redirecting to

# will itself be rewritten as /accueil/index.php?lang=fr. That is

# why I'm providing 3 conditions:

# If URI does not start with 'en' AND

# If URI does not start with 'fr' AND

# If QUERY_STRING is not exactly 'lang'

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^en/.*$

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^fr/.*$

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^lang$

RewriteRule ^.*$ fr/accueil/ [NC,R=301]

 

Please put me out of my misery. Cheers!

[cags]

RewriteRule ^fr/accueil/$ /accueil/index.php?lang=fr [QSA,NC] 

 

... and ...

 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^en/.*$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^fr/.*$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^lang$
RewriteRule ^.*$ fr/accueil/ [NC,R=301]

 

Will cause a loop. The second redirects the URL to a link that matches the URL to be written in the first. But since you are checking !^lang$ you are only comparing QUERY_STRING values that are exactly 'lang', whereas you are sending to 'lang=fr'. Remove the dollar sign from that RewriteCond or at the .* as you have done in the others.

 

[Racoon]

THANK YOU!

The code I had was based on a faulty example -- grr! 

Thanks for putting me right.