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.htaccess passing through non existent extension

I am having one of those developer moments where I am not seeing the obvious.

I have an .htaccess file that does two things

Either sends requests of the type

http://domain/service/blah/blah/blah => service.php?args=$1
Failing that everything is sent to index.php

All works - except for one small thing - the args passed to service .php starts with .php so using the above example service.php receives

.php/blah/blah/blah

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Instead of

blah/blah/blah

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The rewrite rule for service is as follows

RewriteRule ^service(.*)$ service.php?args=$1 [L,NC,QSA]

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What am I missing? Why the .php prefix?

Dave Baldwin

I don't know but I see examples written these two ways.

RewriteRule ^service(.*)$ /service.php?args=$1 [L,NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^service(.*)$ http://service.php?args=$1 [L,NC,QSA]

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http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/htaccess.html#Htaccess_File_Syntax

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Julian Hansen

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Thanks Dave for the response.

The /service option won't work on my side - I am using a RewriteBase directive so all my rules are relative to that - but appreciate the feedback.

Dave Baldwin

Glad you got it figured out anyway.

Julian Hansen

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Found the solution on my own