简单的Apache重写规则给出了不需要的404

Question

I have the following rewrite rule: RewriteRule ^/uk/(.*)$ http://www.hostname.uk/$1 [R,L]

which rewrites the url from:

• http://www.hostname.uk/uk/home to
• http://www.hostname.uk/home

However instead of seeing the content at http://www.hostname.uk/uk/home with the shorter address you get a blank 404 page instead. Why is this? How do I fix this?

Answer 1

The rule you have is redirecting from /uk/home to /home , but you don't have anything in place to rewrite in the other direction. This is what you need. You should also use a 301 redirect (permanent) which I did here. You were using a 302 (temporary - the default). You also don't need to specify the http://www.hostname.uk when it's not changing.

RewriteRule ^/uk/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /uk/$1 [L]

I am assuming you are doing this in your main Apache configuration. If it's in your .htaccess then it will need changing.