Question

I have an htacess file for apache that isn’t working properly.

I have a default cactch-all that grabs all requests however it’s still catching the matched URL above it (ajax/*). I thought that condition to match urls not containing ajax would stop it but it isn’t.

RewriteRule ^ajax/(.*)$ process_lite.php [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^resources/(.*)$ resources/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(css|jpg|js|gif|png)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^ajax
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ process.php [QSA,L]

Can someone help me out?

Answer 1

It’s probably because the first rule matches /ajax/ requests and rewrites it to /process_lite.php, thus the RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^ajax doesn’t match since the URI is now process_lite.php. The regular expression you use won’t match anything anyways because REQUEST_URI variable will start with a leading slash. You can try changing the condition to:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/process_lite.php

Additionally, the “resources” rule doesn’t seem to do anything except end rewriting, you could change it to this if that’s the goal:

RewriteRule ^resources/ - [L]