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I’m using mod_rewrite to remove index.php from urls - a pretty simple thing that I’ve done loads of times before successfully - but this time it’s giving me really weird results. I have my stylesheets and javascript all in the same template group as the rest of the site, but no javascript or css templates ever load. They are there if I use index.php to access them, but will not load otherwise. Has anyone ever come across this before?

Here’s my rewrite rule if it helps:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond $1 !^(images|lm_system|themes|favicon\.ico|robots\.txt|index\.php) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

Hi antiuser,

We actually do not support the removal of index.php by htaccess in the Technical Support forums.
I am moving this thread to Community Help for you as more appropriate there.

There is also a community written article on the process in our Wiki which may help

Thanks. I did read that article, but nothing on there seemed to work?
I should add that my site is built around the Structure module so I only have one single template group, and that I’m not using the EE css tag because my stylesheets use EE variables inside them, so I’m just doing straight {site_url}style.css

The same issue is occurring with my javascript templates - so in short, anything that isn’t a “web page” template returns a 404, but can be accessed through index.php.

Did a bit more testing and narrowed it down to it being the dot “.” on the template name that screws with the rewrite. For example, http://domain.com/style loads, but not http://domain.com/style.css. Changing the rewrite rule flag to [R=301] works, but defeats the purpose as that rewrites the url in the address bar - but it does show that the rule itself is correct, which leads me to believe it’s something in EE that’s causing it not to work. Any help would be appreciated…