Problems with mod Rewrite in .htaccess

[pftodd]

Hello

I want to rewrite my urls such that ...

/stats goes to /statistics.php

/about goes to /about.php

/ goes to index.php

however, also that a given variable, e.g. '/A6gT5s' goes to /url.php?pft=$1

My code is ...

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^/$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^stats$ statistics.php [L]
RewriteRule ^about$ about.php [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ url.php?pft=$1 [L]

However, these cannot seem to be used in conjunction with each other. I notice websites like bit.ly actively do this, so what would they have in their .htaccess?

Thanks very much,
Patrick

[g1smd]

Change

^([^/]+)$

to

^([^/.]+)$

and it will no longer match url.php, and stop your infinite loop.

[pftodd]

Thanks that seems to have worked! What do you mean by 'stop your infinite loop'?

Thanks.

[g1smd]

The rewrite target matched the pattern and would rewrite again, and match again and rewrite again, and again and again.

[jdMorgan]

Note also that

RewriteRule ^$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^/$ index.php [L]

could be compressed to

RewriteRule ^/?$ index.php [L]

Although technically your original second rule will only match requests for example.com// (two slashes), and really, you should redirect that to remove the second slash instead of accepting it and rewriting it to index.php.

Jim