Question

I’m using following htaccess rule which is proposed all over internet for removing index.php in codeigniter urls. And there are some of the redirection rules i added above it.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

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

The problem is:
I’m getting some odd http request, which i think is caused by htaccess rules above.
Here are some of them :

https://www.sitename.com/index.php/favicon.ico
which ought to be .com/favicon.ico

https://www.sitename.com/index.php/scripts/jquery.js
which ought to be .com/public/jquery.js
as a side note im using base tag to redirect assets to /public/

strange thing is i couldnt find where the second redirection happens
i tested whole site and javascript & css files load correctly

i handled this redirections by making my controller ignore those requests but a while ago
a strange error happened. which i asked here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11775849/htaccess-didnt-work-until-renaming-and-then-renaming-back

my guess is that, even though i ignore misredirected request, hosting company receives them and probably it was causing some trouble for them which led to the problem i shared in linked question by a maintenance of hosting company.

Anyway, Question is:
How can i make htaccess rule only redirect requests that doesnt have file extension at the end?

Answer 1

You’re missing a line before the REQUEST_FILENAME line:

 RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|assets|something|fav\.ico|robots\.txt)

You can modify this to suit your needs. I’ve got my JS/CSS etc in the assets folder so it’s not affected by the rewrite.

so the full .htaccess will look like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|assets|something|fav\.ico|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?$1 [L]