Question

Im working on a server with the following htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule .* index.php
RewriteRule  ^[^/]*\.html$ index.php
RewriteRule ^/(typo3|typo3temp|typo3conf|t3lib|tslib|fileadmin|uploads|showpic\.php)/ - [L]
RewriteRule ^/(typo3|typo3temp|typo3conf|t3lib|tslib|fileadmin|uploads|showpic\.php)/.*$ - [L]

Now they asked me to prepare a static page inside their server, lets call it http://www.myserver.com/mystaticpage.html

The problem is that when i try to access that url, it redirects to index.php. How could I alter the htacces file to address this problem without messing anything with the installed CMS?

Answer 1

Try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteCond ${REQUEST_URI} !^/(typo3|typo3temp|typo3conf|t3lib|tslib|fileadmin|uploads|showpic\.php)
RewriteRule .* index.php

• The rules you used before were redundant: if .* is rewritten to index.php then why also rewrite ^[^/]*\.html$ index.php to it? it already matched previous rule…
• They also overlapped – since the three RewriteCond conditions were only applied on the first rule. So the second rule was also applied to static files on disk.
• Also, the two rules that were listed last had no effect whatsoever. Either you needed to list them first, or not at all. I converted them to an additional RewriteCond since they were only attempted to avoid rewrite on certain uris