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PHP

Posted by Jeff See
Jeff See
12,979 Points

Redirect Loop - Enhancing a Simple PHP App

I am struggling with redirecting my shirts.php in the .htaccess file.

The goal is to display shirts/ for the shirts/shirts.php file - in my case this file is located at /shirts4mike/shirts/shirts.php. When I click on a link to that page I get stuck in a redirect loop.

Part of my problem is that I have other projects on my MAMP root folder so I placed this project in a folder called shirts4mike located at localhost/shirts4mike. 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^shirts/$ /shirts4mike/shirts/shirt.php

Pretty sure I've tried all variations of rearranging the slashes and including absolute paths. Any thoughts?

1 Answer

Carles Jove i Buxeda
Carles Jove i Buxeda
4,281 Points
Carles Jove i Buxeda
Carles Jove i Buxeda
4,281 Points

If you're getting a redirect loop, then probably the error is not in the .htaccess file, but in the code.

However, just in case:

  • Try removing /shirts4mike/ from the path, and leave it as shirts/shirt.php
  • In MAMP, go to Preferences > Apache > and set Document Root to [whatever/path/you/have/before]/localhost/shirts4mike

The thing is that when you navigate to http://localhost:8888/ in the browser, you should see your Shirts4Mike site.

Hope this helps. If you still get the redirect loop, try to paste some of the PHP code.