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copied!<p>On my server I have a .htaccess file with the following contents:</p> <pre><code>RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^myhost.local$ RewriteRule ^default/.*$ /index.php?id=12345 [L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^myhost.local$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/?$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://myhost.local/default/home [R=302,NC] </code></pre> <p>The phenomenon is that when requesting <a href="http://myhost.local/" rel="nofollow">http://myhost.local/</a>, instead of being 302 redirected to <a href="http://myhost.local/default/home" rel="nofollow">http://myhost.local/default/home</a> as expected, I am being 301 (!) redirected back to <a href="http://myhost.local/" rel="nofollow">http://myhost.local/</a>, resulting in an infinite loop.</p> <p>Another strange thing is that <code>^/$</code> never seems to match my URL even though it should, so I have to use <code>^/?</code> with a question mark for some reason. Whenever there's no match, no rewriting happens and therefore there are no infinite loops, so this is further evidence that my <code>RewriteRule</code> for <code>^(.*)$</code> is indeed picked up on if the Condition is satisfied, only what I want to redirect to and with what code is completely ignored.</p> <p>For the record, I have also had the rules in this format:</p> <pre><code>RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^myhost.local$ RewriteRule ^default/.*$ /index.php?id=12345 [L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^myhost.local$ RewriteRule ^/?$ http://myhost.local/default/home [R=302,NC] </code></pre> <p>Which resulted in exactly the same thing as the first example.</p> <p>What is causing the redirection to happen, but not to the URL I actually gave?</p> <p>Things to note:</p> <ul> <li>There are other entries in this .htaccess file</li> <li>This .htaccess file is within DOCUMENT_ROOT</li> <li>The default VirtualHost has <code>RewriteOptions inherit</code> set</li> </ul>

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