.htaccess not allowing sub-directory to work - php

Question

Here is the .htaccess file
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.html|index.php|administrator|system|template|js|lib|favicon\.ico|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.html?tpl=$1 [L]
Options +FollowSymlinks
However what is happening is that all the following folders wont allow me to go into them and view a PHP file.
|administrator|system|template|js|lib
I thought by putting the files in RewriteCond that it would allow a user to still go to http://example.com/news/happy which then would go to the index.php?tpl=etc etc but it has stopped me from going into any subdirectory like
http://example.com/system/index.php

Answer 1

I don't know if this would work for you. But what I do is to add this rules to load calls to any .php file without the .php ending. You can call both, with or without that ending.
For example, you can call my_url.com/myfolder/myfile and it will load myfile.php, with the friendly URL.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

Answer 2

i would like to recommend that you read about mod rewrite first
1 - put that line at top
Options +FollowSymlinks
That line ask your server to follow symlinks but i would like recommend that you use the more secure option "SymLinksIfOwnerMatch"
Source:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#options#FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
Enables or disables runtime rewriting engin
Source:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriteengine
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.html|index.php|administrator|system|template|js|lib|favicon\.ico|robots\.txt)
Here you go . that rule ask the web server to add rewrite Condition to ignore everything listed in your regex
also i have added regex explain for you
!
not equal
^
Start with
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.html?tpl=$1 [L]
you are asking to write everything else to index.html?tpl=$1
** I think you mean index.php i will assume that you don't need the query string
i would like to recommend using a better way to handle the excluding
RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(index\.html|index.php|administrator|system|template|js|lib|favicon\.ico|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.html?tpl=$1 [L]