.htaccess, redirect all to bye.php, even with more slashes, with exception

Question

I need, in .htaccess, redirect all behind domain, but even with more slashes and with slash or no slash at the end, but with one exception.

For example

example.com/all/sites/should/redirect/to/one/file/
example.com/all/sites/should/redirect/to/one/file    

should go to

example.com/bye.php

but

example.com/exception

should work, no redirect.

I tried this.

# Turn rewriting on
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
# Redirect all requests to bye.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/bye.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*\.png$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*\.jpg$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*\.css$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*\.gif$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/exception
RewriteRule .* /bye.php
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^exception exception.php [QSA,L]

# Slash rules
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R]

It works, but seems only for 1 slash.

example.com/one-slash

When I enter this

example.com/more/slashes

it is not working, it is redirecting here.

example.com/bye.php/slashes/

Answer 1

I think you have two problems:

1. You don't say your bye.php should redirect. Right now you have it specified as a rewrite rather than a redirect. You need to add [L,R] flags to it to get it to redirect.

2. You don't need your slash rules at all anymore. Because you didn't specify "last" with the [L] flag, on your bye.php rule, the slash rules are also taking effect and causing unexpected behavior.

I think you would be fine with:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# Redirect all requests to bye.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/bye.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*\.png$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*\.jpg$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*\.css$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*\.gif$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/exception
RewriteRule .* /bye.php [L,R]

RewriteRule ^exception exception.php [QSA,L]