mod_rewrite problem

I am trying to redirect visitors of my home directory to different
subdirectories, depending on the accept language header sent by the
browser. For this I wrote a .htaccess file with the following content:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE} ^de [NC]
RewriteRule ^/ http://www.domain.com/de/ [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE} ^en [NC]
RewriteRule ^/ http://www.domain.com/en/ [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^/ http://www.domain.com/no/ [L,R=301]

But when I go to www.domain.com (with my browser set to "de" or "en" -
I checked that this is indeed transferred), I always end up in the
.../no directory. Does RewriteCond not understand the
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE variable, or did I make some mistake?

(And yes, I know that I can direct visitors to different files using
AddLanguage etc., but I want to direct them to subdirectories.)

Manfred Kooistra wrote:
> Does RewriteCond not understand the
> HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE variable, or did I make some mistake?

Hard to remember but I think I also tried something like this in the
past which did not work in per-dir and per-server context (even if you
perform a subrequest lookup for the variable). Only HTTP_ACCEPT was
accessible, AFAICR.

--
Robert

Thank you, Robert. Yes, you are right. I found a solution (example for
two languages):

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^.*de.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(index\.php)?$ http://www.domain.com/de/ [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^.*en.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(index\.php)?$ http://www.domain.com/en/ [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^(index\.php)?$ http://www.domain.com/de/ [L,R=301]

The regular expression will be refined not to serve "de" to someone
prefering English but knowing German, not to someone not wanting German
and stating "de; q=0".

Thank you, Robert. Yes, you are right. I found a solution (example for
two languages):

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^.*de.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(index\.php)?$ http://www.domain.com/de/ [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^.*en.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(index\.php)?$ http://www.domain.com/en/ [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^(index\.php)?$ http://www.domain.com/de/ [L,R=301]

The regular expression will be refined not to serve "de" to someone
prefering English but knowing German, nor to someone not wanting German
and stating "de; q=0".