Home/ Questions/Q 6872379
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-27T03:55:13+00:00

I want to have an exception for… http ://localhost/ …while rewriting the index of

  • 0

I want to have an exception for…

http ://localhost/

…while rewriting the index of any directories underneath…

http ://localhost/directory1/

http ://localhost/directory2/

By having an empty item below (the first item which is between the characters (| on the third line) it creates an exception for ALL indexes so how can I make the exception NOT apply to the localhost/ itself using this copy of .htaccess?

http ://localhost/.htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(|directory2/|directory2/) - [L]
RewriteRule !\.(css|xhtml|xml|zip)$ rewrite.php

…and I can not mess with server configuration. Additionally this question is not redirect related.

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    This rule makes an exception for the root index. Since nothing is between ^ (^ = starts with) and $ ($ = ends with) the requested URI this matches http:// localhost/ exactly. Having [space] index.php (or change the extension to what you want) forces the file to rewrite to itself. It does not appear to loop.

    RewriteRule ^$ index.php [QSA]
    • 0