htaccess / mod rewrite

[philiplikens]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule !\.(gif|jpg|png|css)$ /home/swc/public_html/index.php

that's my code. i have an index.php file in my root directory. i also put the .htaccess file that contains the above code in the same directory. all i'm wanting is for any request for a php or html/htm file go to index.php in the root directory. from there i can handle all the info. i've put this all on the server but i can't seem to get things to work.

if you would like to test:

https://www.smallwoodlandcreatures.com/whatever.htm

and i would like the above to simply forward to:

https://www.smallwoodlandcreatures.com/index.php

any help is greatly appreciated. i searched the old htaccess topics on this forum and nothing seemed to work for me. do i need to install the files somehow?

[Buddha]

Your rewriting a url not a path. /home/swc/public_html/index.php this looks like your path. Try something like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule !\.(gif|jpg|png|css)$ index.php

[philiplikens]

thanks for your help.

i tried what you said and got no love. i'm leaving right now for the weekend but i'll check back here sunday or monday and work on it more then. do i need to set special permissions for any of the files or anything?

thanks.

[philiplikens]

back.

i tried what was mentioned above...and i tried changing the file permissions to 775...i'm not sure what else to do. if any one has any ideas i'm open to them.

thanks so much for your help.

[Buddha]

Might try this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule !\.(gif|jpg|png|css)$ /index.php

I'm always forgeting the slash.

[philiplikens]

still no love. i would think this should be easy.

i'm getting a 500 Internal Server Error if that helps.

[-Oz-]

modrewrite is never easy

[mkraai]

"Custom error pages" instead?

I've used the "custom error pages" (ErrorDocument) mechanism for similar purposes. Check out this article: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2...avidsklar.html

[philiplikens]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule !(css) index.php

that works. i'll have to play with it some more but i finally got something to work! thanks for everyone's suggestions.

mkraai - thanks for the link. i'll check it out.