How do I exclude CSS, JS, JPG, GIF files from mod_rewrite rules?

Question

This is what I have so far:

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_]*)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_]*)/([A-Za-z0-9_]*)/?$ index.php?page=$1/$2 [NC]
         


        

Answer 1

Anticipating you're using Apache with mod_rewrite module, you should try the RewriteCond Directive. The following example excludes all the matches from RewriteCond for the following line with the RewriteRule Directive. The rules are basically regular expression. The one in my example excludes everything which starts with either favicon.ico as well as with css, which is the folder, where my Stylesheets resides.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond $1 !^(favicon\.ico|favicon\.png|media|robots\.txt|crossdomain\.xml|css|js)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

Further reading: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritecond