Rewrite Urls without breaking real files

Question

So i'm pretty terrible at RewriteRule and .htaccess, and I've been trying to create a RewriteRule which allows me to redirect any request that doesn't already exist in the directory through index.php.

It looks like this at the moment:

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?name=$0 [L]

However once I started trying to run ajax requests from a redirected url it breaks and returns the whole redirected page instead of the return data of any script that is in the directory. I'm pretty confused as to how I can make this work. \

What I want to be able to do is to be able to rout every non-real request through index.php and every other request as normal.

Answer 1

Your htaccess code is correct. "-f" checks for a valid file and "-d" for a valid directory.

My guess is that you issuing relative ajax requests from an url like /some-dir/another-path/ which is internally rewritten to index.php?name=/some-dir/another-path/. A relative ajax request to ie my-ajax-data.php will be made to /some-dir/another-path/my-ajax-data.php, and not /my-ajax-data.php as you might think. Try using absolute URLs in the ajax requests. Well, it's just a shot in the dark.

Answer 2

You could sneak in another RewriteCond using a RegEx, in case you can find one (or more) for you normal requests. Something like

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^*your* *RegEx* *for* *normal* *request*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?name=$0 [L]