I am trying to implement SEO friendly URLs using .htaccess and PHP.
I have achieved 90% of my goal and struggling with just one use case.
Here is what happing, when I access the following url
http://somesite.com/cms/movies/tarzan
it lands on
my-handler.php?the_url=movies/tarzan
This is perfect and that is what I want because then I manage it myself. The real problem is when I don't provide any slugs, then it lists the directory (means show all files and folders in it)
http://somesite.com/cms/
Can someone please help me fix following .htaccess content, so that even if I don't provide slug it should still be handled by my-handler.php instead of lisiting full directory?
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /cms/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/(admin|css|fonts|ico|include|js)/
RewriteRule ^my-handler\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /cms/my-handler.php?the_url=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>
Solved
As per @Roman suggestion, I added the following to the above listing and it solved my problem. Plus I do not have to compromise on accessing physical directories RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
DirectoryIndex my-handler.php
My Answer:
You can prevent directory listing and forward all requests to your handler.php by adding the following lines to your .htaccess file:
apache
Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /cms/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ my-handler.php?the_url=$1 [L,QSA]
This code will first disable directory listing with `Options -Indexes`, then it will check if the requested file or directory does not exist (`!-f` and `!-d` conditions) and rewrite the URL to my-handler.php with the requested URL as a parameter.
This way, even if you don't provide a slug, the request will be forwarded to my-handler.php for further processing.
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