On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Godmar Back wrote: > How can I write an .htaccess that's path-independent if I like to exclude > certain files in that directory, such as index.html? So far, I've been > doing: > > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/services/tictoclookup/standalone/index.html > > To avoid running my script for index.html. How would I do that? (Hint: the > use of SERVER variables on the right-hand side in the CondPattern of a > RewriteCond is not allowed, but some trickery may be possible, according to > http://www.issociate.de/board/post/495372/Server-Variables_in_CondPattern_of_RewriteCond_directive.html) If you're not dealing with further subdirectories, where the index.html file should _not_ be exempted it's easy -- just leave out the path, and anchor it to the end of the string: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/index.html$ (this wouldn't work if 'index.html' if PATH_INFO or QUERY_STRING is sent, but then just don't anchor it, or give it a more complex regex to deal with the alternate forms) ----- Joe Hourcle