How to avoid htaccess redirect-rewrite loop?

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My current htaccess does two simple url rewrites for two simple page. Here is the code.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule    ^home/?$    index.php#home    [NC,L]
RewriteRule    ^contact/?$    index.php#contact    [NC,L]

now mywebsites.com and mywebsite.com/home are the same pages. I am using the twitter bootstrap carousel to flip slide between page without actually loading them.

Unfortunately the number of facebook share on mywebsite.com/home is 2000 and on mywebsite.com/ is 29. So I want to 301 redirect mywebsite.com/ to mywebsite.com/home but that puts the htaccess into an infinite loop.

any help will be widely appreciated.

Does the redirect from mywebsite.com/home to mywebsite.com/index.php#home have to be a hidden redirect? I'm not totally sure, but this seems to be not possible: stackoverflow.com/questions/5526203/… — Christopher
– Christopher, Commented Jun 25, 2012 at 16:45
Hi Christopher, It is totally Possible and I am already doing it. In this case the pages are actually one page and they slide transition to each other on clicking the navigation menu. It is based on a jquery carousel. — Rooturaj Pattanaik
– Rooturaj Pattanaik, Commented Jun 27, 2012 at 8:10

Unamata Sanatarai · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-13 12:05:07Z

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The following should allow for only ONE redirection.

RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} 200
RewriteRule .* - [L]

Does that help?

answered Mar 13, 2013 at 12:05

Unamata Sanatarai

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