.htaccess redirect all extension except css and javascript

Question

I have a .htaccess file that redirect any extension to a non-extension url and displays the requestedfilename + .php . It works great with the (.*) part of the conditions.

When I type domain.com/file.html or domain.com/file.xml it displays the file.php and the url looks like domain.com/file .

I just would like to know how to exculde extensions like .js and .css from the expression. I don't want to redirect them to any other php file.

I tried things like: (.*!.(js|css)) instead of (.*) but I can't find a working solution...

The current code is this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

#
# to display the name.php file for any requested extension (.*)
#
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.(.*) $1\.php

#
# to hide all type of extensions (.*) of urls
#
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\s.+\.(.*)\sHTTP/.+
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.php $1 [R=301,L]

#
# no extension url to php
#
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule (.*) $1\.php [L]

</IfModule>

Answer 1

If your version of Apache supports it, you may be able to use "negative lookahead" and write the first RewriteRule like this:

RewriteRule ^(.*)\.(?!js|css)([^.]*)$ $1\.php

The [^.] part makes sure the (.*)\\. matches everything until the last . , "positioning" the negative lookahead at the right spot.

Answer 2

The main idea of redirect, is to forward something, when it's not there, so redirect will work only, if the requested url is not present. If you have a http://mysite.com/js/script.js file, it will always open that file as normal one.

So in your case, you don't need a specific redirect for css and js files, if they are actually there.

What you might need to do, is to point the full path of those files. In example:

• http://mysite.com/js/script.js ( works )
• /js/script.js ( works )
• js/script.js ( will fail if you are under a different redirected directory then root )

etc...