Only Root Routing works on Godaddy Server

Question

Trying to setup basic routing on godaddy, but only the first two cases work with the root but not for cases with words - browser returns Not Found. My guess is that instead of routing case it searched for a folder/file with the word in URL, nothing I tried worked.

.htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)＄ index.php

index.php:

<?php

$request = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$viewDir = '/';

switch ($request) {
    case '':
    case '/':
        require __DIR__ . $viewDir . 'home.html';
        break;

    case '/test':
        require __DIR__ . $viewDir . 'boost.html';
        break;
}

Hosting type: Deluxe Linux Hosting with cPanel

Even with deleted .htaccess code the first two cases in index.php work. I renamed index.php file and even root routing doesn't work - which means htaccess never worked. Godaddy on shared hosting doesn't allot apache config access but allows to configure .htaccess file.

Answer 1

Instead of the mod_rewrite old recipes we still suffer and see, all questions like this should just go to a more modern/actual and simple approach which does not need mod_rewrite at all.

DirectoryIndex index.php # if necessary/needed
FallbackResource /index.php

The first one will look for index.php when a directory path is requested, as in with a trailing slash.

The second one will load /index.php when a request points to a non-static or non-existent element.

Modules needed for this: mod_dir

Answer 2

Changing the rule a bit worked: RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [QSA,L]

Thanks everybody for the helpful comments!