Question

In my application, I have wikis blogs and other content where the author can assign a URL when creating them so that is is optimized for search engines.

So, I want to redirect the URLs to index.php where I check against the database and generate the output accordingly.

But, there are also requests for CSS, images and other files which I have to leave alone.

• I can either exclude CSS, images etc in HTACCESS and redirect everything else to index.php.

• Or I can redirect everything to index.php and then simply change back the location using header() for images css etc..

Which method should I go for?

Answer 1

What about only handing any resource file/directory request that doesn’t exist off to your index.php file? I think that’s usually how these things work.

.htaccess –

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule /?([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/?$ index.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>