Question

I would like to redirect all non-files, non-directories to index.php, so everything that exists is directly accessible – except for one directory (which should also go to index.php)

What I have is:

# Files
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

# Directories except /orderfiles/*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^/(orderfiles/)* [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule .* index.php [L,QSA]

This works for directories inside /orderfiles, but a files inside of /orderfiles still goes to that file. I tried adding

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^/(orderfiles/)* [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

But this breaks and sends every file to index.php.

Answer 1

You’re close, you want something like this:

# Files
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

# Directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# except /orderfiles
RewriteRule !^/?orderfiles index.php [L,QSA]

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I realized I mistyped what I was trying to do, I meant “but send one directory to index.php” (I edited my question to be more accurate). I do want /orderfiles to be routed to index.php

Then what you have is correct, but you need to change this line:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^/(orderfiles/)* [OR]

to:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/orderfiles/ [OR]