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

... it assumes the css is located in /whatever/ssi/*.css.
I just want to be able to write a condition that says "if it's a css file, don't apply these rules."

This translates directly to

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/whatever/ssi/[^/]+\.css$
RewriteRule ...