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Comment by trifid ( trifidian@gmail.com )

Thanks!, worked just the way I wanted with a single line except you have to specify DIR name in .htaccess,
but the following works without DIR name with 3 lines.
[code]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [L]
[/code]

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Comment by SEO ( )

I'm desperately trying to find a .htaccess for rewriting sub directory to subdomain. For instance,

http://www.domain.com/gardening/roses.html

to

http://roses-gardening.domain.com

Is it possible? I've got wildcard subdomains enabled, i'll check back.

It's for http://www.articlesdb.net

Thanks

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Comment by Vincent Bray ( http://freenode.org/#apache )

Note that in addition to the RewriteCond solutions listed above, the %{REQUEST_FILENAME} variable is context sensitive.
In a stanza or a .htaccess file it'll work fine, but in %{REQUEST_FILENAME} = %{REQUEST_URI}.

noodl

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Comment by Karl ( http:// )

WordPress gives this to use

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

And I can't access my script in cgi-bin because of it, and anything I have tried from here has not worked, and even made my blog break down in most cases.

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Comment by Mark Kenny ( http://beingmrkenny.co.uk/ )

Could you put the folder names in just one rule?

RewriteRule ^(folder_name|folder2|folder3)/.*$ - [PT]

Or would that introduce performance problems?

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Comment by Fajita ( http://www.timmyandtimmy.com )

that pass through rewrite rule just saved me from another 30 minutes of trial and error testing.

I was doing something similar with the -d, but I didn't have a -f, that probably would have fixed it for me.

Oh well, this pass through option helped, becuase i think i am only going to have a handful of files that i want to passthrough and not the whole directory.

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Comment by Dave Child ( http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com )

Dario: The problem is though that you have to do the same thing for every folder you want to ignore. That's a lot of unnecessary htaccess files.

Isaac: Nice rules! Those work perfectly.

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Comment by Dario Caregnato ( )

Hmmm sorry but I can't understand...the way I suggested uses inheritance, so if you put an .htaccess file with "mod_rewrite off" in the "ignorethisone" directory, also ignorethisone/subfolder1 and ignorethisone/sub1/sub2 etc etc etc won't use anymore mod_rewrite! ;) All you have to do is place an almost empty htaccess file! And, of course, be tidy with you folder structure...isn't this easier than working with regular expressions??

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Comment by Isaac Z. Schlueter ( http://isaacschlueter.com/ )

Here's an even easier way, so that you don't have to remember to update it each time you add a folder:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [L]

Or, if you know how many rules you're going to have (if they're auto-generated or some such), you can use the "skip" flag in the RewriteRule. (WordPress does this with its automatically created rules.)

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [S=523]
... a block of 523 rules

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Comment by Dave Child ( http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com )

Analgesia: That's fine for a couple of rules. But, for a few hundred, I'm not sure that would be practical. That said, that set of conditions could probably be combined with the rule I posted to make life even easier...

Dario: That's a good solution, but does require many files. Personally, I prefer to keep everything in one file where possible to make things easier to work with later on. Good suggestion though.