Question

I created an application using the Front Controller pattern, so basically everything is sent to index.php

This is what I currently have in my .htaccess file

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)(\/([a-zA-Z0-9]+))?(\/([a-zA-Z0-9\/]+))?(\/)?$   
                   index.php?class=$1&method=$3&args=$5

(I had to break the line into two, for presentation but you know what I mean)

So it works fine however if I create a directory named /js for example that has to be directly accessible. That means, I can’t put an .htaccess file inside it and put:

Deny from all

Then accessing my site using the URL http://mysite.com/js redirects to http://mysite.com/js/?class=js&method=foo&args=

Putting Options -Indexes in the main .htaccess file doesn’t really help. Any thoughts?

Any clarifications are welcome, I’m not really an good at explaining things.

Thanks

Answer 1

Use

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

Exclude real files and directories from the redirection rule (redirection rule will not apply to the real files and directories).