Question

I have a website that employs a generic mod_rewrite rule to push all requests to the index.php page, with the exception of certain file extensions:

RewriteRule !\.(js|ico|gif|jpg|JPG|png|css|php|phtml|pdf|txt|xml)$ index.php 

What I need to be able to do is also exclude a certain directory (including any files or sub-directories contained within) from this rule – what is the best solution?

Here is my full .htaccess file, in case something else within it is intefering:

RewriteEngine ON RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\..* RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}   !^$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]*)\.(co\.uk) RewriteRule ^.*$     http://www.%1.%2%{REQUEST_URI} [R=permanent,L]  AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .phtml  RewriteRule !\.(js|ico|gif|jpg|JPG|png|css|php|phtml|pdf|txt|xml)$ index.phtml  php_value display_errors 'On' 

Answer 1

Before the line you have quoted, for a directory named ‘style’ for instance, you need:

RewriteRule  ^style/  -  [L] 

The hyphen means ‘no redirection’, and the ‘[L]’ means ‘last rule’, as in don’t carry on trying to match the URL to the follwing rules. You can put as many of these lines in as you like, but they must be before the line you give in the question.