Rewrite URL

[girish.kc]

Hi,

Is there a way to modify the incoming URL request with rewrite?

In my case, I have an external application calling mine with the URL

https://api.xyz.com/folder

I want this to be rewritten as

https://api.xyz.com/folder/index.php

 

I tried the following .htaccess to do that.

 

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^folder$ /folder/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

 

 

But the problem here is, this is a POST request and because of rewrite server is sending back the '301  Moved Permanently' status back to the requester.

 

Is there any way I can skip sending 301 and redirect without loosing the POST data?

 

Thanks,

Girish

 

[requinix]

Get rid of the [L].

 

But are you sure you even need this? If /folder/ actually is a folder and you have index.php listed as a DirectoryIndex then Apache should do that rewriting automatically.

[girish.kc]

Yes. I have the index.php in DirectoryIndex,

But for the request "https://api.xyz.com/folder" I am getting the following response

 

Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 05:43:55 GMT

Server: Apache

Location: https://api.xyz.com/folder/

Content-Length: 243

Keep-Alive: timeout=1, max=10000

Connection: Keep-Alive

Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

 

 

[requinix]

Yeah... that's DirectorySlash kicking in. Mostly harmless.

[girish.kc]

No.. It is creating the problem.

When a POST request is sent, this 301 will redirect the request and the POST request becomes GET. So the POST value will be lost.. 

[Christian F.]

Get rid of the [L].

Did you do this?

[requinix]

Disabling DirectorySlash is a bad idea. Can't you just change the form to point to the right place?

[girish.kc]

Yes . I tried without [L]. Same result.