Question

Currently I have these rules in my .htaccess file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteRule ^(.*).css style.php?u=$1 [QSA]
        RewriteRule ^(.*).xml rss.php?u=$1 [QSA]
</IfModule>

This will rewrite the following URLs:

 http://domain.com/user.css
 http://domain.com/user.xml

But when I’m trying to grab a file from a subdirectory: http://domain.com/css/style.css it gets rewritten as well.

My goal is rewrite only for current directory and avoid sub-directories, since all real CSS files on sub-directories will be rewritten.

How I can avoid this?

Answer 1

You need to make your pattern more restrictive: this ^(.*).css will match ANYTHING with .css in it while this pattern ^([^/]+)\.css$ will be restricted to something.css (styles\something.css will not match it).

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine On

        # do not do anything to real files or folders
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
        RewriteRule .+ - [L]

        RewriteRule ^([^/]+)\.css$ style.php?u=$1 [QSA,L]
        RewriteRule ^([^/]+)\.xml$ rss.php?u=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>