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URL not working on FallbackResource in htaccess

i am trying to redirect user to external website using FallbackResource

when i am trying FallbackResource https://www.example.com i am getting 500 error.

But when i do something like FallbackResource /fallback.phpeverything is fine.

How to make user redirect using FallbackResource?

Solution

  • You can't use an external URL with FallbackResource. You can't externally redirect the request using FallbackResource. As the docs state, this should be a local-url.

    If you want to do this then use mod_rewrite instead. For example:

    RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . https://www.example.com/ [R=302,L]

    This gives you more control that FallbackResource. You can set the 3xx status and you can choose to redirect requests that would otherwise map to a directory, which FallbackResource would not (and often doesn't return a meaningful response for the user anyway).

    The above 302 redirects any request, other than the document root (denoted by the regex .) and that doesn't map to a file or directory to https://www.example.com/.