RewriteRule works with Redirect Flag but not without

My only rewriterules is as follows:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(images|design|index.php)
RewriteRule ^(.*[^/])$ index.php?url=$1 [R,QSA,L]

It takes a url: site.tld/site/address
and converts it to site.tld/?url=/site/address
or: site.tld/site/address?abc=123
and converts it to site.tld/?url=/site/address&abc=123

This works great except I don't want the redirect to be visible. When I remove the R flag it creates a circular loop.

I am at a loss. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Can't see the forest for the trees. Remove the R Dumbo.

 

Umm.. Are you posting a question and answering to it yourself? ^

 

If you want to not have it redirect, please try as follows:
(I've changed some of the regex for you)

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^site/(.*)
RewriteRule ^/site/(.*) index.php?url=/site/$1 [L]

(It could be simplified to the second line of the RewriteRule, but I think you might want to modify other rules into the RewriteCond from what I gather in the above example. I don't exactly know what you are trying to do above)

 

yes use the [L] tag