Tricky .htaccess and Drupal problem

Question

1) I have a Drupal site located at http://example.com and I have a directory located at http://example.com/foo, but I also have a Drupal page with an alias of http://example.com/foo. How can I get the Drupal page to serve? Currently, I get a 403 forbidden page as a result of the Options -Indexes declaration in Drupal's .htaccess file, but I do not want to remove this as I do not want directories to be browsable.

EDIT: I have solved this with the following rule:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://localhost/s2k/index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

2) To make the problem even more difficult, given the same scenario, if I have an index.html file inside the directory http://example.com/foo/index.html I always want this to take priority over Drupal's aliased page (which it does at the moment - currently I have modified the .htaccess file so that any directory with an index.html file displays it - DirectoryIndex index.php index.html).

EDIT:

So now, how can I write a RewriteCond that will look to see whether or not there is an index.html file inside the directory?

Answer 1

I am no RewriteRule Guru and pretty sure there is a nicer way to achieve this, e.g. with conditional RewriteCond.

But simply adding

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} =/foo/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

Above the default rewrite Conds and rules make this rule kick in for /foo/ and not the Drupal-default one. Where a RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d will only apply the RewriteRule if something is NOT a dir.

Answer 2

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d  
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}/index.html !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://localhost/s2k/index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

Answer 3

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}index.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1index.html [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}/index.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/index.html [L]

[normal Drupal rewrite rules]