Apache and backslashes in mod_rewrite
- by NuCalTone
I want to process all incoming requests through a single script (index.php in web-root).
So, the following is what currently happens: http://localhost/foo/bar/baz
Is routed by Apache (through .htaccess) to: http://localhost/index.php?url=foo/bar/baz
This works well, however, in Firefox I am able to do this: http://localhost/foo\ - notice the backslash.
And Apache, instead of doing: /index.php?url=foo\
Emits a generic error page saying:
Object not found! The requested URL
was not found on this server. If you
entered the URL manually please check
your spelling and try again.
If you think this is a server error,
please contact the webmaster.
Error 404 localhost Apache/2.2.14
(Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.14
OpenSSL/0.9.8l mod_autoindex_color
PHP/5.3.1 mod_apreq2-20090110/2.7.1
mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1
Directly going to: http://localhost/index.php?url=foo\ works without issues, however.
All the sites that I've seen on the internet seem to be able to handle backslashes gracefully (e.g., http://stackoverflow.com/tags/php\\\\\).
I consider this behavior a bug and I want to force Apache to forward backslashes correctly.
Here's my .htaccess file in its entirety:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [L]
How can I make this work properly?
