Hi I am looking for some advice on how to do exact matching for mod_rewrite, I have the 2 rules in my config:
Rule1 ==== RewriteRule ^/nokian95 /phones.php?id=555 [PT,QSA,NS,NE] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)phones\.php(.*)$ RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id\=555$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /nokian95? [R=301,L] and Rule2 ==== RewriteRule ^/nokian95plum /phones.php?id=588 [PT,QSA,NS,NE] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)phones\.php(.*)$ RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id\=588$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /nokian95plum? [R=301,L] Now as the Rule1 is first in the config file then any URL string that contains /nokian95 will result in /phones.php?id=555 being called, Rule2 will never be matched because Rule1 will match first. I want to be able to specify that a match is only valid when the text to be matched is *exactly* the text in the rewriterule and not just a fragmement match. Can anyone help me with a pointer? Thanks M