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Asked: 2026-05-27T08:23:50+00:00

I’m trying to use mod_rewrite to create clean links. I’ve gotten it to take

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I’m trying to use mod_rewrite to create clean links. I’ve gotten it to take my urls from this:

http://www.example.com/index.php?LTKeywords=long-tail-keyword

to

http://www.example.com/long-tail-keyword/

Which is exactly what I want. The code I used is:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)/ index2.php?LTKeywords=$1

One Problem.

It now redirects all of my folders, so anything in my /images/ or /css/ folders will not show up. Is there a way to stop it from rewriting specific folders?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The easiest way is probably a RewriteCond. You can prefix with ! to specify must-not-match:

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/css

    for example.

    You may also just want to exclude directories which actually exist:

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-d

    Finally, you could also put your static content on a different hostname (virtualhost), avoiding your rewrite rules all together.

    You could also add some more RewriteRules to match your CSS, etc. and make them not actually change anything (rewrite /css to /css) but specify the L (last) flag, so the other rules wouldn’t run.

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