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Hi all,

Here comes a quite complicated issue.

I remove index.php from my website by using the Exclude method. Hosting provider (Engine Hosting) says it is the only permitted way on their servers.

Now I also want to create a redirection.
The following code in my htaccess file aims to redirect all entries in template_group/template_name to a new directory, called v1. So I write:

#Redirect
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^template_group/template_name/(.*)$ <a href="http://mydomain.com/v1/index.php/template_group/template_name/$1">http://mydomain.com/v1/index.php/template_group/template_name/$1</a>

This works perfectly well alone. But it doesn’t work with the code for the Exclude method.

- If I put first the code above I get a 302 Found error.
- If I put first Exclude method code (without the final [L] which signifies the last rule to execute) I get a 404 page.

I know it is not simple but I hope for a solution. Any help would be much appreciated.

(We’re talking about 2 installations of EE. mydomain.com uses EE 2.1 and in v1 directory there’s an 1.6.8 installation.)

[Mod Edit: Moved to the CodeShare Corner forum]

Found out what happened.
Here is my .htaccess file:

#Redirect
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^template_group/template_name/(.*)$ <a href="http://mydomain.com/v1/index.php/template_group/template_name/$1">http://mydomain.com/v1/index.php/template_group/template_name/$1</a> [301,L]

Then comes the code for the Exclude Method.

In other words all I needed to do is to add [301,L] in the end of the rewrite rule.

Dear moderators consider this issue solved. If you think it could be added to the Wiki please tell me to do so.