Unexpected behavior with custom .htaccess rewrite rules

Question

So I have been working on some rewrite rules which aren\'t working as expected. These are some sample requests I am trying to rewrite:

/             -> /index         


        

Answer 1

You have many redundant directives in your .htaccess. Replace all of your .htaccess with this:

# Turn off mod_spelling

   CheckSpelling off
   CheckCaseOnly off


Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# block direct access to file and directories in these directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(?:jpe?g|gif|bmp|png|tiff|css|js)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^(Templates|Files) - [NC,F]

# remove index.php
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*?)index\.php$ /$1 [L,R=301,NC,NE]

# Redirect Trailing Slashes
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

# Handle Front Controller
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(Download|Teaching)/([\w-]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1&id=$2 [L,QSA,NC]

RewriteRule ^(Home)?/?$ index.php?page=Home [L,NC,QSA]

Make sure to clear your browser cache before testing this.