Htaccess code redirects to XAMPP index page

Question

I am trying to write htaccess codes which redirect all URLs apart from directly linked files (e.g images & css files) to my index.php file for processing

http://localhost/testsite/login

redirects to

http://localhost/testsite/index.php?cmd=login

But the htaccess code instead redirects me to the XAMPP homepage. This is my htaccess code

DirectoryIndex index.php

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /index.php?cmd=$1  [QSA,NC,L]

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Remove / from target and use proper RewriteBase:

DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /testsite/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?cmd=$1  [QSA,L]

/index.php will route it to site root index.php instead of index.php in current directory.