mod rewrite - Redirect all traffic to index.php using mod_rewrite

Question

I'm trying to build a url shortener, and I want to be able to take any characters immediately after the domain and have them passed as a variable url. So for example

• http://google.com/asdf

would become

• http://www.google.com/?url=asdf.

Here's what I have for mod_rewrite right now, but I keep getting a 400 Bad Request:

RewriteEngine on  
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f  
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d  
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php?url=$1 [L,QSA]  

Answer 1

Try replacing ^(.*) with ^(.*)$

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [L,QSA]

Edit: Try replacing index.php with /index.php

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?url=$1 [L,QSA]