[drupal-support] Re: changing Drupal .htaccess files directive

[Peter Apockotos]

On Aug 31, 2005, at 6:25 PM, Gunther Herzog wrote:

> Hello Charlie,
>
> Monday, August 29, 2005, 7:35:27 PM, you wrote:
>
> CL> It was the rewrite directives:
>
> CL>    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> CL>    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
> CL>    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
>
>
> CL> Once they were commented out, phpsurveyor
> CL> seemed to work fine. 'Course I need them for
> CL> my Drupal site :)
>
> CL> Note: once I was logged in, I could change the
> CL> directives back and the phpsurveyor admin
> CL> section continued to work. Seems strange.
>
> Yes, it's definitely the rewrite directives. I
> also certainly don't want to disable the rewrite,
> as I've grown really fond of having slashes (/)
> instead of query strings that the search engines
> don't want to follow.
>
> My site is at my document_root, and in the "main"
> (document_root) .htaccess file, here is what I
> added to bypass processing for sub-folders that
> are non-Drupal...
>
> =========[ start of .htaccess snippet]==========
> <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
>   RewriteEngine on
>
>   #stuff to let through (ignore)
>   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} "favicon.ico" [OR]
>   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} "/rss/" [OR]
>   RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_URI} "/test/"
>   RewriteRule (.*) $1 [L]
>
> ====================[ end ]=====================
>
> For each folder you want to bypass, add an
> RewriteCond line, and end all but the final
> RewriteCond with [OR].
>
> In my sample, I don't want Drupal URL processing
> for any requests of the favicon.ico file, my
> non-Drupal RSS feed engine contained in the /rss/
> sub-folder, and any PHP testing I happen to be
> doing in the /test/ folder.
>
> The [L] in the rewrite rule tells it to stop there
> and bypass the rest of the rewrite rules.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --  
> Best regards,
>  Gunther                            mailto:storysmith at softhome.net


Gunther,

Do you have a full example of your modified .htaccess file with your  
improvements?

Thanks,

Peter
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