I am trying to implement SEO friendly URLs using .htaccess and PHP. I have achieved 90% of my goal and struggling with just one use case.
Here is what happing, when I access the following url
http://somesite.com/cms/movies/tarzan
it lands on
my-handler.php?the_url=movies/tarzan
This is perfect and that is what I want because then I manage it myself. The real problem is when I don’t provide any slugs, then it lists the directory (means show all files and folders in it)
http://somesite.com/cms/
Can someone please help me fix following .htaccess content, so that even if I don’t provide slug it should still be handled by my-handler.php instead of lisiting full directory?
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /cms/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/(admin|css|fonts|ico|include|js)/
RewriteRule ^my-handler.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /cms/my-handler.php?the_url=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>
Solved
As per @Roman suggestion, I added the following to the above listing and it solved my problem. Plus I do not have to compromise on accessing physical directories RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
DirectoryIndex my-handler.php
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Answer
At first you have to set the DirectoryIndex to handle every request which points to / with your my-handler.php. This can be done by adding the line to your .htaccess
DirectoryIndex my-handler.php
To disable the directory listing, you have to forbid the listing by adding the following line to your .htaccess
Options -Indexes
Remember that this configuration is per .htaccess and just for the directory you are placing the file in. If you want to make changes for your whole webserver, you can edit the httpd.conf and search for
Options Indexes
and remove the Indexes option.
Documentation
The listing is provided by the mod_autoindex module.
Nice side-fact
If you just want to disable the listing of specific file-types like .env or .php files, you can add the option IndexIgnore *.php to you .htaccess