htaccess-rewriting, but excluding sub-directory [duplicate] - php

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I have a general rewrite-rule in my sites root which looks like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([\w]+)/?([\w]+)? index.php?action=$1
which works fine for rewriting URLs like "www.example.com/myAction" to "www.example.com/index.php?action=myAction"
This must stay like this, but I need to exclude a subdirectory ("/login") from rewriting.
So I tried:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/login/
RewriteRule ^([\w]+)/?([\w]+)? index.php?action=$1
but still no luck. I've read several answers here on SO but can't find the flaw. Any ideas? Thank you!

Answer 1

You've an extra slash. .htaccess doesn't use the preceding slash unlike a Virtual Host. Also /login/ is a directory. So you're matching anything that is not a real file, but could potentially be a real directory. So if for instance '/css/' exists, you're rewriting it to index.php as an action on request.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^login/
RewriteRule ^([^/]+) index.php?action=$1
If it's still acting unexpectedly you might need to make sure you're not rewriting existing directories and try this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^login/
RewriteRule ^([^/]+) index.php?action=$1
I also noticed that you're only capturing up to the first slash (possibly) with your posted example code since you're using the ? look-up, so in my previous layout's I'm showing that code a little shorter. To capture the whole URI you would use this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^login/
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php?action=$1
To capture a second (and third) string you can do something like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^login/
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+) index.php?action=$1&page=$2&response=$3

Answer 2

What you have should work, but you can alternatively try to have all requests for /login/ be passed through instead:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^login/? - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([\w]+)/?([\w]+)? index.php?action=$1