.htaccess rule appending index.php instead of URI

Question

My .htaccess looks like this..

Options -Indexes

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.domain.com/members/invite/$1 [R,L]

</IfModule>

I want to be able to redirect an URL that looks like this..

https://sub.domain.com/ZTHF76

to...

https://www.domain.com/members/invite/ZTHF76

But instead I am getting

https://www.domain.com/members/invite/index.php

I need to keep the first rule to remove index.php from the URI of the rest of the application.

Any help with this greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You should reorder your rules and keep redirect rule before rewrite one:

Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.domain.com/members/invite/$1 [L,R=302]

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