URL Rewriting

h1. URL Rewriting

{noformat}
<VirtualHost my.domain.com:80>
ServerName my.domain.com
ServerRoot /path/to/server/root/
DocumentRoot /path/to/server/root/my.domain.com/www

RewriteEngine off

<Location />
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule !\.(js|ico|gif|jpg|png|css)$ /index.php
</Location>
</VirtualHost>
{noformat}

Note the forward slash preceeding 'index.php'. These rules differ from .htaccess rules in that respect.

h3. Rewriting with .htaccess

*Routing requests*

Again, these rules direct all requests to index.php, except specified file types:

{noformat}
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule !\.(js|ico|txt|gif|jpg|png|css)$ index.php
{noformat}

*Handling file and directory exceptions*

These rules (used immediately prior to the RewriteRule above) exclude real files and directories from the rewriting and lets them pass through unaffected:

{noformat}
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
{noformat}

You can also simply allow a specified group of files to pass through unaffected by using this line:

{noformat}
RewriteRule ^(foo|bar).* - [L]
{noformat}

In this case, files foo.* and bar.* will be accessed normally.

For more information, see Jayson Minard's [Blueprint for PHP Applications: Bootstrapping|http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/70].

h2. ISAPI_Rewrite for Microsoft IIS

{noformat}
RewriteRule ^[ZFUSER:\w/\%]*(?:\.(?!(?:js|ico|gif|jpg|png|css)$)[ZFUSER:\w\%]*$)? /index.php [I]
{noformat}

To learn more about the ISAPI_Rewrite and its syntax, visit the [ISAPI_Rewrite documentation|http://www.isapirewrite.com/docs].

h2. Lighttpd

{noformat}
url.rewrite-once = (".*\.(js|ico|gif|jpg|png|css)$" => "$0", "" => "/index.php")
{noformat}