Hello,

I'm totally newbie with ReWriteRules, so I just made a simple one , which is :

RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*) $1.php?$2

it works fine, so it's rename the 1st match 2 file name, then 2nd match to query string, so as I can get all variables in this file name.

But I've the problem, that now I can't load images, css, js, etc. cause it's looking for images.php istead of /images/

so, how can I exclude, images, style, js folders ?

Use a rewritecondition:

in this example the file index.php and the entire directorys scripts, styles and images are ignored.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php|/scripts|/styles|/images
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*) $1.php?$2

it still doesn't work man !!

If I typed :
http://localhost/clienetname.com/file_name/

it loads :
http://localhost/clientname.com/file_name.php

and that's fine, but it looks for images on :/file_name/images/image_name !!!

it doesn't work because you're not in the root directory, try:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/clienetname.com/file_name

Thanks a lot bas for ur efforts, but still doesn't work !!

I changed apache document root, and here's url :
http://localhost/categories/

and here's access.log error :
"GET /categories/images/home_bottom_shadow.jpg HTTP/1.1" 404 1262

and here's error.log error :
File does not exist: D:/xampp/htdocs/clients/clientname/categories, referer: http://localhost/categories/

finally, here's .htaccess content :
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php|/images|/style|/js
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*) $1.php?$2

if url is: http://localhost/categories/

the dir that need to be ignored is http://localhost/categories/images/

and .htacces is in directory categories

then .htaccess content should be:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/categories/images
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*) $1.php?$2

I think u misunderstood me !!
categories should load categories.php , so
http://localhost/categories/ loads http://localhost/categories.php

and the images folder location is http://localhost/images

idd i did, again then:

if main url is http://localhost/
and images folder is http://localhost/images
.htaccess is in root directory

this should really work:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/images
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*) $1.php?$2

now
http://localhost/categories/ is rewritten to http://localhost/categories.php
http://localhost/images/ loads http://localhost/images/
and http://localhost/images/file.png loads http://localhost/images/file.png

btw, I can access the files directly fine , when using :
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php|/images|/style|/js

btw, I'm using relative paths in all images & css, should I use absolute paths ??

Originally Posted by alex_funky_dj

btw, I can access the files directly fine , when using :
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php|/images|/style|/js

btw, I'm using relative paths in all images & css, should I use absolute paths ??

yes you should.
maybe using the base-element would work to ... but don't know for sure

yes, all thes problems were becaise the paths was relative, when I make ti absolute, now works fine
thanks a lot man, really thanks a lot

btw, here's another way, I just discovered, to override the absolute paths issue
RewriteRule ^(.*)/images/(.*)$ /images/$2 [L]

OMFG, GO READ THE FKIN MANUAL!

RewriteRule images|styles|files|whatever|etc - [L]

Why don't you read the fkin manual BEFORE posting into forum? Both of you, the topicstarter and the advisor!

Originally Posted by mtishetsky

OMFG, GO READ THE FKIN MANUAL!

RewriteRule images|styles|files|whatever|etc - [L]

Why don't you read the fkin manual BEFORE posting into forum? Both of you, the topicstarter and the advisor!

Mtishetsky matey.

I've observed a lot of your posts over the months and I can say without fear of contradiction that you come across as one unpleasant MF.

Originally Posted by mtishetsky

OMFG, GO READ THE FKIN MANUAL!

RewriteRule images|styles|files|whatever|etc - [L]

Why don't you read the fkin manual BEFORE posting into forum? Both of you, the topicstarter and the advisor!

cause it's fkin complicated and not that easy !! in comparison with PHP / MySQL manuals !

Manuals are written to be read, not to only waste your disk space. If you are too dumb to understand the manual - quit web development and go wash cars.

Sorry man, there's no available vacancies in car washing in our city !!