Exclude URIs from rewrite

If you have set up virtual hosts and want to exclude certain URIs from the rewrite, e.g. for other scripts like a webmail script at http://www.example.com/webmail or a stats script at http://www.example.com/stats you can do the following.

In your httpd.conf rewrite rule use

RewriteRule !(^/stats/.*$|^/webmail/.*$|(gif|css|jpg|png|js|asf|avi|wmv|swf|xsl|jar))$ /<your path to>/index.php

for the above example URIs to be excluded from the rewrite.

You will need to avoid the words stats and webmail as first level nodes in your site when using url_alias (nice urls).

Thanks to Paul Borgermans

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check for .htaccess

Dmitry Yakovlev

Tuesday 24 February 2004 12:53:58 pm

Running in virtual host setup, check for .htaccess file in the root folder of eZ. Remove it (or comment out ReWrite rules in it) to avoid unexpected access mistakes.

Rewrite conditions

Harry Oosterveen

Thursday 16 October 2003 11:00:01 pm

Of course you can do a lot in the RewriteRule pattern, but it looks a bit simpler if you use the RewriteCond, which can specify which folder to exclude (and many more conditions):

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(stats|webmail)/.*$
RewriteRule !\.(gif|css|jpg|png|js|asf|avi|wmv|swf|xsl|jar)$ /<your path to>/index.php

Error in virtual host code - dot missing

Chris Winchester

Wednesday 09 July 2003 4:44:05 pm

I think the code should have been:

RewriteRule !(^/stats/.*$|^/webmail/.*$|\.(gif|css|jpg|png|js|asf|avi|wmv|swf|xsl|jar))$ /<your path to>/index.php

There needs to be a dot before the (gif|css|...) etc, or Apache treats these as filenames rather than extensions, and most of the graphics/stylesheets on your site will disappear!

I'm a bit of a newbie, but just discovered this by trial and error...
- Chris

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