Question

I have a very simple mod rewrite script taking my php variables and making them into .html files. It works however, I would like to confirm my google webmaster tools url, and it is not working because the url structure is being rewritten. How can i exclude a specific item?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.html$ /index.php?page=$1 [L]

URL i would like to exclude from the rewrite process:

http://www.website.com/google149e37e6d0ddce9a.html

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^google149e37e6d0ddce9a.html$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.html$ /index.php?page=$1 [L]

The dash is a special value meaning nothing will be rewritten. The [L] stops evaluation upon a successful match.