.htaccess seems to continue after Last flag

Question

In the small portfolio website I am making I want to have clean urls. For this I use a .htaccess file. At the moment my website runs at 127.0.0.1/website. My .htaccess looks like this:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /website

RewriteRule ^about$ index.php?page=0 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^portfolio$ index.php?page=1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^cv$ index.php?page=2 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^contact$ index.php?page=3 [L,NC]

RewriteRule ^.*$ about [L,R]

If I remove the last line, everything works fine. I can go to 127.0.0.1/website/about, and the server shows me 127.0.0.1/website/index.php?page=0, while the url does not change. However, I want every other url to be redirected to 127.0.0.1/website/about, and I tried to do that with the last line. However, if I now try to go to 127.0.0.1/website/anything, where anything is any string, it redirects me to 127.0.0.1/website/about?page=0. In addition to this, I would expect 127.0.0.1/website/about to be handles fine, because of the Last flag at the first rewrite rule, but this redirects me to the same bad url.

I am clueless of why this does not work, and confused, because to me it seems like it is skipping the Last flag. I hope someone can point out what I am doing wrong. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

last rule rewrites everything so pattern must be more specific

RewriteRule !^index\.php$ about [L,R]

Answer 2

This might work:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /website

RewriteRule ^about$ index.php?page=0 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^portfolio$ index.php?page=1 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^cv$ index.php?page=2 [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^contact$ index.php?page=3 [L,NC]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  !^/cv        [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  !^/about     [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  !^/contact    [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  !^/portfolio  [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ /about [R,L]

It will redirect everything that isn't /cv, /about, /contact or /portfolio to /about.