There's 2 things that you are doing wrong here.
First, your %{HTTP_HOST}
regex is no good. You need to escape the .
dots otherwise they'll be treated as "any character that's not a newline". This essentially makes the %3
backreference the last character of the hostname before the TLD (e.g. http://blah.bar.loc
, %3 = r
).
Second, you can't use backreferences in the regex of a RewriteCond
, only the left side string, it's sort of a weird limitation. However, you can use the \1
references, in the regex so that you can construct a clever left side string to match against. Something like %3::%{REQUEST_URI}
and then you can match like this: !^(.*?)::/\1/?
. This regex essentially says: "match and group the first block of text before the ::, then make sure the block of text following the :: starts with /(first block)
".
So your rules should look like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?([a-zA-Z0-9-]*\.)?([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)\.loc$ [NC]
RewriteCond %3::%{REQUEST_URI} !^(.*?)::/\1/?
RewriteRule (.*) /%3/$1 [L,QSA]