URL redirect not working with .htaccess not working

Question

I am trying to provide better URLs to couple of the Surveys which I have hosted in my server.

So here is what I did.

• In the /var/www directory of the server, (in the same location of index.php file resides), I created a file .htaccess.

• Below is the content of the .htaccess file:

  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteRule goodURL BadURL
  Redirect goodURL BadURL
  

Please note that goodURL (midnightsun.hiit.fi/socialnetworking) is something which does not exist, where as BadURL(midnightsun.hiit.fi/limesurvey/index.php/755819) is something that exists.

The reason I want to change this URL redirect is to provide good URLs.

Debian GNU/Linux 7.6 (wheezy) is the OS on the server. It is Apache2.

Can any one help me with this?

Answer 1

Redirect temp /liliurl http://example.org/index.php/755819

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on

    # if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

    # otherwise forward it to index.php
    RewriteRule . index.php
</IfModule>
# General setting to properly handle LimeSurvey paths
# AcceptPathInfo on