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Apache Rewrite - Hiding a directory, but it's not working

August 31, 2007 11:58pm

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#1 / Aug 31, 2007 11:58pm
Hop Studios
500 posts
I’m trying to get an Apache rewrite to work properly. I’m trying to intercept what would be a directory listing, and instead send it to the index.php program for processing.

http://www.moviemaker.com/magazine/issues/62/

(This address happens to also be a directory on the server.)
```
RewriteCond $1 ^magazine/issues/(..?.?)$
RewriteRule ^/magazine/issues/(...) <a href="http://www.moviemaker.com/index.php/magazine/issue_forward/$1">http://www.moviemaker.com/index.php/magazine/issue_forward/$1</a>    [L]
```
Any idea why this wouldn’t work? (i.e. I get the directory forbidden message)? I’m sure the RewriteCond is working, because a different RewriteRule does get acted upon…

TTFN
Travis
#2 / Sep 05, 2007 6:20pm
Hop Studios
500 posts
The answer turned out to be, don’t use a RewriteCond at all, the RewriteRule itself was specific enough. Oh, and leave off the opening slash. Go figure.
```
RewriteRule ^magazine/issues/(..?.?)$ <a href="http://www.moviemaker.com/magazine/issue_forward/$1">http://www.moviemaker.com/magazine/issue_forward/$1</a>    [L]
```