htaccess redirects not working in relative paths

Question

I'm trying to make a redirection from all files to a template file. But redirects only works when I specify an URL

For example:

Does not work (it does not redirects)

Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) /template.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]

Works (redirects to http://domain.com/versioned/template.php?page=index.html )

Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) http://domain.com/versioned/template.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]

And the second option is change the URL in the browser. I need to keep the original URL.

Thanks

The problem is with

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f

If I quit this, it works, but instead of returning the current file in URL, it returns always template.php

Answer 1

If the htaccess file is in the versioned directory, you don't want the leading slash in the rule's target:

Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) template.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]

The relative URL-path in this rule's target, template.php?page=$1 , tells mod_rewrite to rewrite the request to this URL-path that is within the path that the htaccess file is in. When you had the target as /template.php?page=$1 , it assumed an absolute URL-path, which would be equivalent to: http://domain.com/template.php?page=foo .