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denislexic
denislexic

Reputation: 11362

URL rewriting - Follow my rules and leave physical files alone

Noob in mod_rewrite here...I'm developing a new site and using mod_rewrite.

The problem is, when I activate my rules in .htaccess, my links to CSS files and images become unreadable.

For example, I had this: http://www.dico2rue.com/dictionnaire.php?idW=675&word=Resto-basket That I transformed to this: http://www.dico2rue.com/dictionnaire/675/Resto-basket

I know it's probably because the browser is looking for the CSS file in the http://www.dico2rue.com/dictionnaire/675/css/general.css instead of the base directory, but I was hoping there was a way to to leave physical files alone, and only parse other URLs in order to avoid full paths (which apparently slows down downloas speed...?...).

thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 154

Answers (2)

Jake T.
Jake T.

Reputation: 631

This problem doesn't have anything to do with mod_rewrite; you just need to provide a valid URL to your CSS file in the src attribute of your link tag. The relative URL you probably want to use is "/css/general.css". See the relative URL rfc.

On another note, your thinking about mod_rewrite might be a little off. In your example you are actually providing a resource in the /dictionnaire/675/ path of your server. The fact that you are using mod_rewrite to do it instead of some other method makes no difference.

Upvotes: 1

Teneff
Teneff

Reputation: 32158

you need to add these lines to check if it's not a file or directory right before the rewrite rules

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

Upvotes: 0

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