htaccess rewrite everything but index and root

Question

I'm trying to set up a site that forwards everything but the root directory and index into a variable. I have the htaccess file set up like this right now:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule -(.*)$ http://blah.com/blah.php?name=$1 [R,NC]

just so that the index works and anything that starts with a hyphen(-) is rewritten

I would like to be able to have anything that isn't the index file rewritten, and still allow the index file be accessed via blah.com and blah.com/

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Try this :

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}   !^/index.php$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}   !^/blah.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}   !^$
RewriteRule ^(.*)         http://blah.com/blah.php?name=$1 [R,NC]

Answer 2

If by any chance you still haven't figured this out, this should work:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(/|/index.php|/blah.php)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ blah.php?name=$1 [R]