[UPHPU] redirect off site works, onsite loops

[velda]

Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
> If I run…
>
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/en [NC]
> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://cheese.com/en/$1 [R=301,NC,L,QSA]
>
>
> …on the URL…
>
> http://example.com/this/that/the/other
>
>
> …it redirects to…
>
> http://cheese.com/en/this/that/the/other
>
>
> If I run…
>
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/en [NC]
> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /en/$1 [R=301,NC,L,QSA]
>
>
> …I get an infinite loop error instead of…
>
> http://example.com/en/this/that/the/other
>
>
> Can anyone explain why?
It can't loop on cheese.com, because cheese.com isn't using 
example.com's .htaccess, right?  What happens if you put example.com in 
place of cheese.com on your second line there, instead of referencing 
relatively like in your example, anything?

-V