[girasquid]

Hello, all.

I'm currently working on a website that has a blog and a forum, integrated into each other.

The blog is at website.com/blog, and the forum is at website.com/forums. I would like to write an .htaccess file so that if the URL a user is requesting does not start with 'forums', they will be redirected to the blog. This is what I have:

RewriteCond {REQUEST_URI} !^forums.*
RewriteRule /blog/{REQUEST_URI} [NC,L]

But when I go to test the site, the redirect does not appear to be working at all. Can anyone point out where I am going wrong?

Thanks,
Girasquid

edit: just to be clear, I want this to fire only when the word 'forums' is at the beginning of the URL - not if, for example, a user tries to visit something like website.com/blog/forums-are-dumb.

edit #2: I figured it out - I need to used %{REQUEST_URI} instead of just {REQUEST_URI} - but now I have a new problem. This is my rule:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^forums.*
RewriteRule /blog/%{REQUEST_URI} [NC,L]

And firefox dies with the message "Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete". Does anyone know how to get the rewrite to stop after the rule has fired?

This post has been edited by girasquid: 10 April 2008 - 11:52 AM