How to redirect all requests to index page with original url

Question

I need some suggestion on some htaccess rule. What I want is that all requests in my site will redirect to index.php. But also I need to log what url the user was trying to visit in my databse. So, say if someone try to visit a page in my site(which does not exists) like

example.com/somefolder/somefile.php?somevar=someval&somevar2=someval2

then he will actually be redirected to index.php where I will need to somehow get and log the original full url in my database.

Hope I was able to clear my clear my requirement. Thanks.

Answer 1

Put this code in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

Original URL is available to you in $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

Answer 2

The above answer didn't work in my case so after a research I found this helpful and might be helpful for someone else too in future.

To redirect all requests to index.php , provide these lines in .htaccess file

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/index.php$
RewriteRule (.*) /index.php [R=301,L]

Remember this redirects all requests to index.php even if its your stylesheet.css or jquery.js