Need help with Apache Rewrite issues

Question

Hey guys,

My developer has provided me some Apache rewrite rules that are required for our application to work. When I added them to Apache my www.domain.com/blog and www.domain.com/phpmyadmin pages no longer worked. I tried to add the first RewriteCond rule for my blog and also the final phpmyadmin rule but neither one is working as expected. Essentially I want any requests to /blog or /phpmyadmin to NOT rewrite and go to my document root directory and run those applications outside of rewrites. Can you help me figure out a solution? Thanks

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/blog/
RewriteRule ^/(.*_css.*\.css.*) /$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^/(.*_js.*\.js.*) /$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^/(.*_swf.*\.swf.*) /$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^/(.*_img.*\.[jpg|JPG|jpeg|JPEG|gif|GIF|bmp|BMP|png|PNG].*) /$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^/phpmyadmin(.*)$ /phpmyadmin$1 [QSA,L]
</VirtualHost>

They are located at www.domain.com/blog and www.domain.com/phpmyadmin.

Apache 2.2.13

Thanks!

Answer 1

Err... not sure what you are trying to do. Are you trying to "Exclude" static files as images/stylesheets/flash movies/javascript files and the link to PHPMyAdmin? Maybe something like this could do the job for you 'quick 'n dirrrrty'

# Enable the RewriteEngine
RewriteEngine   On
RewriteBase  /

# Check if the file, directory or symlink does not already exists.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-F
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !favicon\.ico
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !robots\.txt

# Rewrite all other requests to the index.php
RewriteRule ^(.+)$  /index.php?url=$1  [QSA,L]

Answer 2

If you want to avoid rewriting URLs that begin with /blog/ or /phpmyadmin/ then you may be able to get away with the first rule being:

RewriteRule ^/(?:blog|phpmyadmin)/ - [L]

(replacing your RewriteCond and then removing the old phpmyadmin rule).

A quick explanation: this matches any URLs that begin with /blog/ or /phpmyadmin/ and doesn't rewrite them (- for the replacement), and then stops any further rewriting ([L]).

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Previous answer:

Your rewrite rules are conflicting, for a start. Also, at the moment, the RewriteCond only applies to the first rule. Also, the final rule is ignored because of the rule before it matching everything. You may want something like this:

RewriteRule ^/blog/(.*)$ /index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]

as I assume you're just trying to rewrite all URLs from /blog/foo/bar to /index.php?url=foo%2fbar? If not, please explain what you're trying to accomplish and I'll edit my answer.