“Two Way” Rewrite

Question

So, I\'m trying to accomplish this:

We have a URL /brand/new-inventory.php. This is a physical file within our site. What I\'d like it to be is /b

Answer 1

Have it this way:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+brand/new-inventory\.php[/\s?] [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /brand/new [R=302,L]

RewriteRule ^brand/new$ /brand/new-inventory.php [L,NC]

Difference is use of %{THE_REQUEST} that represents original request received by Apache from your browser. Value of this variable doesn't change with application of other rewrite rules.