Hello, I have the following .htaccess:

I want to know how to exclude a sub-directory (e.g. “blog/images”) in the url rewriting (RewriteCond line). In the .htaccess I can only exclude a directory, if I want to exclude a subdirectory (a directory within a directory) I can’t do it.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,

1. give access on the root to “blog” folder
2. inside blog add another .htaccess file which blocks everything but images folder.

I haven’t tested it but it might work!

Regards,
Cristi

Thank you.

I changed the permissions of the image folder to 755 and worked fine…

You welcome

@Atas—please be very careful with 755 directories in your public spaces.  Even if you ‘think’ they are not exposed to uploads.  This can be very dangerous for your site.

Then how can I solve mi problem without touching the folder persmissions…

I’m not an .htaccess expert.  They are just regular expressions.  What have you tried that has not worked for you?

it would seem to me that if you negate it just like the others it should work:

vs.

Try it.

I’m kind of running into a similar problem.
My .htaccess looks like this:

I need to access the mail.cgi script in my cgi-bin folder, but I keep getting a 404 page not found error. Any suggestions?

Yednotek - 07 October 2008 07:35 PM

I’m kind of running into a similar problem.
My .htaccess looks like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(trans\.php|index\.php|images|forum|cgi-bin|cgi-bin/mail\.cgi|css|links|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L] 

I need to access the mail.cgi script in my cgi-bin folder, but I keep getting a 404 page not found error. Any suggestions?

Yea…you can’t use ‘paths’ in your RewriteCond above.  cgi-bin/mail\.cgi isn’t going to work.  To do that you’ll need to use maps.

My best attempt would have you try…

That should fix you up.  But like my previous post said. I’m no expert here.

Randy