After a day or two, I am still fighting with Mod Rewrite. It seems that 60% of my development time is spent battling the server.
My current URL structure is such that all http://example.com/xyz and http://example.com/xyz/abc should be handled by index.php. The problem is I have a http://example.com/admin/ section, which is a real directory which I need to be accessible via HTTP request (it s the CMS directory)
When I try to browse to the CMS http://example.com/admin/, It changes my URL to http://example.com/admin/?n=admin and returns a 404. My index.php is receiving n=admin as it s argument.
What I cant understand is why these two conditions are being ignored:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^admin(?:/)?$
And why I m getting that redirect to http://example.com/admin/?n=admin (Rather than just stopping at http://example.com/admin/.
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^admin(?:/)?$
# allow access to certain subdirectories.
RewriteRule ^admin(?:/)?$ /admin/ [L,NC]
# redirect all old URLs to new pages (or 404 sitemap page if no analog?).
RewriteRule ^company/about(?:/)?$ /company [R=301,L,NC]
# catch any others and try to serve them right
RewriteRule ^/?(.+).html$ /$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^/?([0-9]+)(?:/)?$ /index.php?p=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^/?([-a-zA-Z0-9_+]+)(?:/)?$ /index.php?n=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^/?([-a-zA-Z0-9_+]+)/([-a-zA-Z0-9_+]+)(?:/)?$ /index.php?n=$2 [L]
Can anyone offer any ideas or point out any flaws in the .htaccess?