Excluding a script from the general UrlRewrite rules

Question

Hi,

I have following rewrite rules for a website:

RewriteEngine On

# Stop reading config files
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} .*/web.config$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} .*/\.htaccess$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ - [F]

# Rewrite to url
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(/bilder_losning/|/bilder/|/gfx/|/js/|/css/|/doc/).*
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.cfm?smartLinkKey=%{REQUEST_URI} [L]

Now I have to exclude a script including its eventually querystrings from the above rules, so that I can access and execute it on the normal way, at the moment the whole url is being ignored and forwarded to the index page.

I need to have access to the script shoplink.cfm in the root which takes variables tduid and url (shoplink.cfm?tduid=1&url=)

I have tried to resolve it using this:

# maybe?: 
RewriteRule !(^/shoplink.cfm [QSA]

but to be honest, I have not much of a clue of urlrewriting and have no idea what I am supposed to write. I just know that above will generate a nice 500 error.

I have been looking around a lot on stackoverflow and other websites on the same subject, but all I see is people trying to exclude directories, not files. In the worst case I could add the script to a seperate directory and exclude the directory from the rewriterules, but rather not since the script should really remain in the root.

Just also tried:

RewriteRule ^/shoplink.cfm$ $0 [L]

but that didn't do anything either.

Anyone who can help me out on this subject?

Thanks in advance.

Steven Esser ColdFusion programmer

Answer 1

Please try to put the following line at the top of your config (after RewriteEngine on):

RewriteRule ^shoplink.cfm$ - [L]