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Asked: 2026-05-26T04:00:06+00:00

I use the following .htaccess code to enable friendly URLs in a website. RewriteEngine

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I use the following .htaccess code to enable friendly URLs in a website.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [L]

It works as it’s supposed to but there’s something that bugs me. When, let’s say, I request a page that has a <img src="sth.png" /> in it and sth.png does not exist on the server, the .htaccess code will instruct the server to make a request to index.php?sth.png, which would result in a completely unnecessary load of the whole framework of the website.

What can I do to prevent that?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Adding this RewriteCond:

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.png$

    should exclude PNG files from being subjected to the Rewrite rules.

    But as said in the comment, I would consider handling 404s within index.php regardless of their type – they shouldn’t happen so often that loading the PHP file becomes a performance issue anyway.

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