Posted: 15 May 2008 at 1:05am | IP Logged

I have a problem with excluding a sub directory in my re-write rules.

The website has two domains a .com and .com.au version set up on IIS. In the IIS administration panel there is a entry for the two domains pointing to the same directory. I can see the .htaccess code in the IIS administration panel fine, so it looks like it should be working ok.

For the .com.au version of the website the directory is excluded and working as I want.
for the .com version, the directory isn't being excluded.

I don't know if this is because there is essentially two websites setup pointing to the same directory on the file system, or some other issue.

my .htaccess file - I'm trying to exclude drillingfluids sub directory - specifically I want to be able to view .html files:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^(drillingfluids/) - [L]

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

RewriteRule ^midrilling/.*$ /resource-areas/mi-drilling-fluids.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^midrilling/$ /resource-areas/mi-drilling-fluids.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^greatideas/$ /resource-areas/great-ideas.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^resource/$ /resource-areas.html [R=301,L]
#RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/$ /$1.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html index.php?q=/$1 [QSA,L]

The rest of it seems to work fine.

I also put in the "drillingfluids" directory a .htaccess file containing

RewriteEngine Off

and that doesnt work either.

Any suggestions?

Posted: 15 May 2008 at 2:42am | IP Logged

The config should be like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^.*drillingfluids.* - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^midrilling/.*$ resource-areas/mi-drilling-fluids.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^greatideas/$ resource-areas/great-ideas.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^resource/$ resource-areas.html [R=301,L]
#RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/$ /$1.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html index.php?q=/$1 [QSA,L]

Posted: 15 May 2008 at 2:48am | IP Logged

Thanks for the reply

I still have the same problem, I think it is something to do with the wya the person managing the server has setup the two domains on the server.

 http://www.adgglobalsupply.com.au/drillingfluids/freetrial2.html

 http://www.adgglobalsupply.com/drillingfluids/freetrial2.html

i.e. those two websites both point to the same file system, same .htaccess file etc.

Posted: 16 May 2008 at 3:24am | IP Logged

Ok, well, I went to do that, and now it's working.

Perhaps the in correct version of the page was cached in my router/computer. THought I'm pretty sure I did a hard refresh.

So thanks for your help.. but it seems to be re-writing OK now.