Question

I have a directory on a site:

• http://example.com/directory/

In it I have a .htaccess file.

I want it to take any URL like this:

• http://example.com/directory/section/day/

And rewrite it to:

• http://example.com/directory/index.php?arg1=section&arg2=day

Except for any URLs that refer to these directories:

• http://example.com/directory/css/
• http://example.com/directory/javascript/
• http://example.com/directory/images/

I have the first part working, but unable to tell it to exclude files in certain directories:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+) index.php?arg1=$1&arg2=$2 [NC]

Update:

This works in a very basic and simple sense:

RewriteRule ^css - [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^javascript - [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^images - [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+) index.php?arg1=$1&arg2=$2 [NC]

but I’m sure there is a more elegant solution?

Answer 1

I think the keyword you’re looking for is RewriteCond. It’s pretty similar to what you ended up with.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(css|javascript|images)
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+) index.php?arg1=$1&arg2=$2 [NC]