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Apache added a ? in .htaccess 301 Redirect

I'm redirecting this URL:

http://mydomain.com/expandyourtaste

Using this .htaccess file:

#Expand your tastes redirects
Redirect 301 /expandyourtaste http://mydomain.com/mobile
Redirect 301 /expandyourtaste/tastyextras http://mydomain.com/mobile/tasty_extras
Redirect 301 /expandyourtaste/coffee http://mydomain.com/mobile/coffe
Redirect 301 /expandyourtaste/400Calorie http://mydomain.com/mobile/400calories
Redirect 301 /expandyourtaste/Kidsstuff http://mydomain.com/mobile/kids_stuff
Redirect 301 /pickyourpasta http://mydomain.com/mobile/pickyourpasta
Redirect 301 /newpastaentrees http://mydomain.com/mobile/newpasta

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mydomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

#Expression Engine
# I BELIEVE THE ISSUE LIES HERE
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
AcceptPathInfo On

</IfModule>

# enable gzip compression
<FilesMatch "\.(js|css|php)$">
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</FilesMatch>

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header unset ETag
FileETag None
</IfModule>

<FilesMatch "\\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$">
Header set Cache-Control "public"
Header set Expires "Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:00:00 GMT"
</FilesMatch>

<FilesMatch "\\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css)$">
Header unset Last-Modified
</FilesMatch>

# force download pdfs
AddType application/force-download .pdf

#Increase File Upload Size
php_value upload_max_filesize 20M
php_value post_max_size 20M

The issue is that when the URL is redirected, is ends up like this:

http://mydomain.com/mobile?/expandyourtaste

I think I have narrowed down the issue to the marked section in the code. Do you see the issue?

Solution

  • What happens if you convert your Redirect statements to RewriteRule? mod_rewrite executes before mod_alias, regardless of the order in your .htaccess. Mixing the two can cause weirdness.

    Edit:

    Take a look at http://my.opera.com/GreyWyvern/blog/2007/09/12/apache-mod-rewrite for more info