why doesn't 'index' rewrite to 'page.php?p=index' ?

Because you (or your host) enabled (by accident?) MultiViews (provided by mod_negotiation) in an Options directive.

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mod_negotiation registers a type_checker hook, which runs prior mod_rewrite's fixup hook. Your request was internally fast redirected to index.php and your regular expression does not match against index.php. That's why your rule failed to match.

OMG tyvm looked like hell for it and couldn't find it.

Options -MultiViews fixed the problem :)

OK, next problem:

DirectoryIndex page.php?p=home

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9\-\+]+)$ page.php?p=$1 [QSA,L]

Going to /?style=4 redirects to /page.php?p=home?style=4
As you see a double ? so style isn't another query, is this possible to fix?

Looks like your Apache install is broken then, because your rule should not rewrite "/?style=4" at all: Your rule requires that the requested URL-path be non-blank, e.g. example.com/<something-here>?<any-or-no-query-here> in order to be invoked.

And if that requested URL-path is non-blank (e.g. as a result of the action of the preceding DirectoryIndex directive), then your rule requires that that URL-path *not* resolve to a physically-existing file or directory, and that that URL-path contain only alphanumeric, hyphen, or plus-sign characters (i.e. a request for page.php won't match this pattern, because it contains a period and because page.php exists).

Note that in the first line of this post, I said that your rule should not "rewrite" -- If you are instead seeing a redirect (i.e. the browser address bar changes), then you've likely got another (faulty) rule invoking an external redirect, or one of your scripts is invoking an external redirect. I suppose this might be better news than being told you need to re-install Apache, though... :)

Jim

:(

First for clarifying: It rewrites and doesn't redirects ;)
Second it's a hosts server <snip>
Thirt you're right about the fact it shouldn't rewrite at all.

So I don't think asking the host for re-install they will listen xD

And as it's only a little error (wich normally never happens), I don't gonna put much more time in it. Except as you "mini-experts", knows why it happens and how to fix it.

Anyhow already thanks for the answer

[edited by: jdMorgan at 6:15 pm (utc) on Aug. 23, 2009]

You should definitely fix this problem, even if it only happens occasionally.

This is a time-bomb which might destroy the ranking of your site.

Jim

Hmm, it happens because of : "DirectoryIndex page.php?p=home"
So not because of mod_rewrite

(BTW I tested it on my test-server and it got the same result)

You can get rid of that DirectoryIndex directive and replace it with a rewriterule if you like:

# Replace "DirectoryIndex /page.php?p=home" directive
RewriteRule ^([^/]+/)*$ /$1page.php?p=home [L]

Put this ahead of your existing rule.

Jim

Thx, works perfect, just changed [L] to [QSA,L] and removed the first /

You guys are really just great!