php - How to force .htaccess used for routing to not route .css, .js, .jpg, etc. files?

Question

I have the following .htaccess file in a subdirectory of a site which allows me to route all URLs to index.php where I can parse them.

However, it's not allowing the standard files that I need for the website, e.g. css, javascript, pngs, etc.

What do I need to change (I assume in the fourth line) to allow these files so they don't get routed to index.php?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond $1 !^(index.php|public|css|js|png|jpg|gif|robots.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/params=$1 [L,QSA]
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

Answer 1

Something I noticed. You're using the forward slash instead of a question mark... the params redirect would normally look like this:

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

This should work by itself since any of those files *should* be real files.

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php    

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?params=$1 [L,QSA]

To have the site ignore specific extensions you can add a condition to ignore case and only check the end of the filenames in the request:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.css|.js|.png|.jpg|.gif|robots.txt)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?params=$1 [L,QSA]

If you're trying to ignore a folder then you could add:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(public|css)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.css|.js|.png|.jpg|.gif|robots.txt)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?params=$1 [L,QSA]