rewriterule infinite loop

  • I’m attempting to set up a rewriterule in my .htaccess file that will allow me to send visitors arriving via specific referrer to a certain wordpress page. I have been successful in setting up a rewritecond to accomplish this when forwarding the traffic to a non-wordpress file (ie. index.html), but when I attempt to rewrite the url to a wordpress url (ie. /welcome/) it’s creating an infinite loop for some reason — can anyone spot the error?

    RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} wordpress\.org [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/welcome/$
RewriteRule .* /welcome/ [L,R]

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress
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  • Thread Starter kallywag

    (@kallywag)

    My thinking here is that the HTTP_REFERER condition should rewrite any requests coming from www.ads-software.com to mydomain.com/welcome/ which would then trigger the wordpress conditions and rewrite it to mydomain.com/index.php, which would then figure out via php how to display the /welcome/ page. Somehow it’s getting stuck in a loop though. Here is a slight modification that actually works to forward www.ads-software.com traffic to a non-wordpress file (indexold.html):

    RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} wordpress\.org [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/indexold.html$
RewriteRule .* /indexold.html [L,R]

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress
    Thread Starter kallywag

    (@kallywag)

    Any mod_rewrite gurus out there that could take a stab at this?

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