Expression Problem

Hi

I want / and index.php to go index.php page everything other than that go to shop.php but everything is going to shop.php

Here is expressing i am using.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/ index.php
RewriteRule ^[a-zA-Z]([a-zA-Z.]+) shop.php

Code (text):

 

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^/?(index\.php)?$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule . shop.php [R=301,L]

Code (markup):

Try that

 

it's working fine for / and index.php

but not for everything else it says "The page isn't redirecting properly"

 

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^/?(index\.php)?$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^[a-zA-Z]([a-zA-Z.]+) shop.php

this is working fine

now problem at all now

I just wanted to know what does [L] Means?
and
what does [R=301,L] means?

Thank you
dizyn

 

[L] means it's the last instruction, and no other rules are checked
R=301 means redirect with a 301 HTTP header
Try this instead

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^/?(index\.php)?$ index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?shop\.php$
RewriteRule . shop.php [R=301,L]

Code (markup):

 

RewriteRule . shop.php [R=301,L]

PHP:

what's the . supposed to mean here - doesn't it mean 'any single character' (in general)? i would have expected

RewriteRule (.*) shop.php [R=301,L]

PHP:

- just my thoughts.

 

The first rewrite rule is to see if there is no URI or index.php as the URI. The second checks that the current URI isn't shop.php and then if it isn't it will match against any single character of a uri (and since the blank uri has already been accounted for by the previous rewrite rule it will always match) and rewrite to shop.php