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Exempting specific files from Rewrite Engine.

I have this code right now that works...

when i type something like www.mysite.com/first_test.html

it gives me www.mysite.com/result.asp?kwds=first test, but it still keeps the static html(for SEO purposes)

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z]+)[_]([0-9a-zA-Z]+)[_]([0-9a-zA-Z]+).*$ results.asp?kwds=$1+$2+$3
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z]+)[_]([0-9a-zA-Z]+).*$ results.asp?kwds=$1+$2

The problem is, if for example i have a real file that is named second_test.html on my server with content in it.

When i type in www.mysite.com/second_test.html ....it rightfully takes me to

www.mysite.com/result.asp?kwds=second test

Is there a way for me to exempt certain files from being excuted by this script?
So that when i type in www.mysite.com/second_test.html i get the actual file on the server not the generated page. I only want to be able to specify certain files not to be excuted by this script.

Please help.

Thanks.

HackneyCab

How about a RewriteCond that checks for a set of document names:

RewriteCond %REQUEST_URI !^/path/(doc-name1|doc-name2|doc-name3)\.html$

The next RewriteRule that follows this can only execute if the REQUEST_URI is none of the following:

/path/doc-name1.html
/path/doc-name2.html
/path/doc-name3.html

You ought to be able to use this pattern to rule out a number of actual static HTML files that you don't want redirected to a script.

However, my site is small, and I'm not sure if this multi-name pattern can scale up to a large number of document names.

See the RewriteCond section in the Apache docs:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html#RewriteCond

shatteredstone

If you want a generic rule that only rewrites if a given file does NOT exist (and it sounds like you might want that),

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

would test for that (inside the server configuration; insite a .htaccess it's %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} instead).

You also do not need more than one RewriteEngine on. So in the end, your ruleset would look like this :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z]+)[_]([0-9a-zA-Z]+)[_]([0-9a-zA-Z]+).*$ results.asp?kwds=$1+$2+$3
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z]+)[_]([0-9a-zA-Z]+).*$ results.asp?kwds=$1+$2

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Thanks! If i had more than one file i want to exlude - do i have to do include each one?

Thanks for your help...

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