.htaccess redirect all to subfolder

Question

I have this site, say http://example.com/. I want all requests to redirect (the user has to see the url in his address bar) to http://example.com/#!/the_requested_page.

So this is what I want to happen:

• Request http://example.com/ => Show http://example.com/
• Request http://example.com/somepage => Show http://example.com/#!/somepage
• Request http://example.com/#!/somepage => Show http://example.com/#!/somepage

How can this be done with the .htaccess file?

I tried this, but it doesn't do the second part of the list above.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/#!/

# Don't apply to URLs that go to existing files or folders
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# Rewrite all those to insert /folder
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /#!/$1 [L]

If I request http://example.com/somepage it shows that in the address bar, but the website shows the home page (http://example.com).

Besides that, this doesn't redirect, but it just rewrites...

I hope you can help me out.

Answer 1

Get rid of the first condition. The # part of the URL is never sent to the server so there's no way for you to match against it. Then change the rule to this:

RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /#!/$1 [L,R,NE]