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Greetings,

I’ve started converting a static site to EE, but decided because of time constraints to leave one big chunk of it (an online store) static for now. Whoops!

I was thinking that if I just point to the actual page that it would still function (like “mydomain.com/store/index.html”—but when I try that, I just get back to the front page.

I’m using an .htaccess file to get rid of the index.php, by the way—not sure if that is affecting it.

So the question: can I link from an EE page to a static page on the same site? If not, what’s the easiest way to get around this?

Thanks for any ideas!

Does the link work if you disable .htaccess? If it does then you know .htaccess needs a tweak!

Yes you can link to anywhere from an EE site, I’ve built several sites that are part EE, part shopping cart. Normally the cart lives in a subdirectory, /shop, /store etc.

Does the link work if you disable .htaccess? If it does then you know .htaccess needs a tweak!

Yes you can link to anywhere from an EE site, I’ve built several sites that are part EE, part shopping cart. Normally the cart lives in a subdirectory, /shop, /store etc.

I tried disabling .htaccess, but there was no change.

I’ve got the store (it’s an ancient, hand-coded site!) in a directory, but a directory that is sitting alongside the EE stuff.

It’s got an address of mydomain.com/store/index.html, and typing that directly into the address bar of a browser still just brings me to the front page.

Any ideas of what I might be doing wrong?

What does your .htaccess file look like?

What does your .htaccess file look like?

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(images|SYSTEMDIRECTORY|themes|index\.php|admin\.php) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

This is pretty much what I use in general…. Do you see something amiss in there?

Add ‘store’ to your list of skipped directories… so

RewriteCond $1 !^(store|images|SYSTEMDIRECTORY|themes|index\.php|admin\.php) [NC]

I’m not an .htaccess wiz but I’m thinking that should work.

Hmm, I thought that might do it, but no. Same result, unfortunately.

I remember having a site behave properly, mixing static and dynamic pages, but I can’t figure out the problem with this.

Oh weird, that usually does the trick for me. You don’t have any templates or entries titled ‘store’ in your EE setup do you? Because I think that’d get overridden no matter what.

I had hopes, too! And, no, nothing named ‘store’ anywhere….

Hmmm, interesting! I should remember to always clear my cache when things seem odd!

I went to another site I’ve got up that mixes static pages with EE pages, and it works fine. So I checked and noticed that I didn’t have an .htaccess file there.

I went back to the site in question, cleared the caches of my browsers, and voilá—it’s fine!

Thanks so much for the assistance!

My entire site of thousands of pages has consisted of a mix for a decade - so there is certainly no problem mixing all the various pieces (static, handwritten, other software, etc.) together.

In my case, the root directory and most of the first level are static…...the EE directory and paths are further down. I did that because EE was added long after the site existed, and it took me years (still not done…never will be) to move content to EE. Once I moved an article, I’d do a redirect in the .htaccess…...