How to rewrite /index.php to /app.php

Question

I have this in my .htaccess file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ app.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

It rewrites both, http://www.site to http://site, and site to site/app.php I also want to rewrite site/index.php to site/app.php. How can I do it? When I request /index.php I get a 404 response.

I've tried to rename app_dev.php to index.php en my local host, but doesn't work. I've done the next change in .htaccess:

order allow,deny
allow from all
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  #   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /app_dev.php [QSA,L]   #line deleted
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php [QSA,L]         #line added
</IfModule>

and rename the file app_dev.php to index.php

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 11 '13 at 20:41

How would you do it? With this? RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^index.php$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ app.php [R=301,L]?

No, something like this:

RewriteRule ^index.php$ / [R=301,L]

And you don't want to change the app.php line to index.php, assuming that you're getting a 404 because index.php isn't there, you don't want to be rewriting things to something that isn't there.

How to rewrite /index.php to /app.php

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