htaccess url rewriting, ignoring files

Question

I am trying to come up with a rewrite rule, but I am having problems.

What I need - any url that starts with /services/XXX to be redirected to /services/api.php?service=XXX

I also want to ignore any files or folders that might also match.

What I have so far:

RewriteRule ^services/([a-z]+)$ /services/api.php?service=$1 [NC, L]

But this does not work at all, it shows a 404 page saying that file is missing when I test it. Any help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

To ignore the files that exists just ignore the "RewriteCond"s.

Just rewrite everything that comes into services/ to api.php?service ...

Put this into your services folder.

Be careful with your encoding, save the file as .htaccess with a encode that your server reads.

# .htaccess mod_rewrite

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ api.php?service=$1 [QSA,L]

If you don't need to avoid Files, then just go to:

# .htaccess mod_rewrite

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ api.php?service=$1 [QSA,L]