.htaccess - Two rewrites to the same location

[Russinating]

I've got a page that displays a YouTube video and we pass the info via the YouTube ID in the URL, for example domain.com/w/BzMLA8YIgG0. It passes through as GET as follows:

if(isset($_GET['v'])){
$v = $_GET['v'];

The existing rewrite rule is:

RewriteRule ^w/(.*)$ watch/?v=$1

I also want the following, but it appears they clash as I get a 500 Internal Server Error.

RewriteRule ^watch/(.*)$ watch/?v=$1

 

[daz]

I'm pretty sure the last one will generate a redirect loop, hence the 500.

You'll probably need to do a RewriteCond, perhaps check to see if v has been set.

 

[kaku]

Like daz said, you would want something like:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/watch/\?v=.*

to avoid re-matching the rewritten URL.

At the moment, this is happening:

example.com/watch/test -> example.com/watch/?v=test -> example.com/watch/?v=?v=test ...