On 8/5/07, Michael B Allen <ioplex@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a very simple mod_rewrite requirement but I can't seem to make it work. > > I want all paths to invoke a php script *except* some that begin with > certain directories. For example, consider the following URLs: > > http://www.example.com/z/blog/07/10 > http://www.example.com/z/css/style.css > > I want the first to execute the PHP script. But if the request path > begins with /z/css/ then I want the PHP script to NOT be executed such > that css/style.css is retrieved as if there had been no RewriteRule at > all. > > I tried the following: > > Alias /z/ /home/miallen/p/z/www/ > <Directory /home/miallen/p/z/www> > RewriteEngine On > RewriteBase /z > RewriteRule ^/css/(.*) css/$1 [L] > RewriteRule ^/* index.php > Order allow,deny > Allow from all > Options Indexes FollowSymLinks > </Directory> > > The second RewriteRule works and I have seen the first rule work if I > don't prefix it's expression with ^/ but they do not work together. This first thing is to put the rewrite stuff in the main server context instead of inside a <Directory> section: RewriteRule ^/z/css - [L] RewriteRule ^/z.* /home/miallen/p/z/www/index.php You can alternatively use a RewriteCond %{Request_URI} to exclude some paths from the RewriteRule. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx