I run XAMPP and I'm trying to learn how .htaccess works. I have a file structure that looks something like this:
/parent
/foo
/bar
.htaccess
I simply want to change all foo
requests to bar
with a GET parameter appended after them. For example:
foo/
foo/hello.php
turn into:
bar/?test=yes
bar/hello.php?test=yes
When I try to put the <Directory>
directive in my .htaccess file:
<Directory "/foo">
Options +Indexes
</Directory>
I get the following error log:
[Tue Sep 19 17:23:58.356362 2017] [core:alert] [pid 6336:tid 1900] [client ::1:60018] C:/xampp/htdocs/parent/.htaccess: <Directory not allowed here
I checked my httpd.conf file and everything is alright. I'm sure because if I change the contents of the .htaccess file to simply:
Options -Indexes
It correctly displays a 403 error. If I replace the -
with +
, it shows the directory listing.
<Directory>
directive is not allowed in .htaccess and for meeting your requirements you don't even need this in .htaccess.
You can use this rule in site root (parent) .htaccess
:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !(?:^|&)test=yes(?:&|$) [NC]
RewriteRule ^foo/(.*)$ bar/$1?test=yes [NC,QSA,L]