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I have organized my huge .htaccess file by Redirect permanent first which I would like to have executed if found. In those case, I don't want later mod_rewrite processed.

Is there any way to achieve that?

Examples:

Redirect permanent /products/example.aspx http://www.example.com/products/example/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} products/([1-9a-zA-Z\s-]+)/ RewriteRule ^products/([0-9a-zA-Z\s-]+)/tutorials(/|\.php)$ /products/$1/help/ [R=permanent,L]

While above does not conflict, my .htaccess file is 60k large, and there are some simple "Redirect permanent" that seems to be ignored because a later RewriteRules (that e.g. redirects a pattern instead)

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    Could you show us a few example (not your whole file) of your Redirect permanent and mod_rewrite rules? Commented Mar 11, 2013 at 22:51
  • Tonin: Are you asking because Redirect permanent should already take precedence by default? Commented Mar 12, 2013 at 10:30

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Putting "Redirect" statements before "RewriteRule" in a .htaccess file does not mean they get executed first. RewriteRules get executed before Redirect and Alias directives. They are handled by different modules, and mod_rewrite gets called first. For this reason I sometimes use a rewrite to short circuit all alias and redirect statements.

I would suggest not to mix redirects and rewrites, and to convert your redirects to rewrites and add them to the head of your list or rewrites.

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  • Thanks. I had hoped for a way to override behavior on what got processed first. But I will be changing them all to rewriterules over time then :) Commented Mar 12, 2013 at 11:00
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    Could you provide a source for the mod order? Commented Jun 29, 2015 at 8:20

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