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Hi All,

I’d like to use EE to run the homepage, front-end and content pages of a website in combination with a standalone shopping cart software (ISC). Is it possible to use EE as a front controller, but to exclude /shop/?

I’m hoping it’s possible with rewrites to make sure EE ignores /shop/ and lets the software in this directory work independently.

Not a problem.  You might consider running it as a subdomain instead of a subfolder:

http://erskinelabs.com/create-an-alternative-version-of-your-expressionengine-website/

http://supergeekery.com/geekblog/comments/how_to_make_a_mobile_version_of_your_site_with_expression_engine_2

http://www.madebyhippo.com/blog/view/multilingual_websites_in_expressionengine

Good luck!:

Thanks for your fast reply, but what about if it only uses mod_rewrite?

Would this be possible, I think so…?

Can you post what you have in your .htaccess file now?

So I’d need it to ignore anything in “/shop/” but rewrite everything else as shown:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

Within “/shop/” I’d be running Interspire Shopping Cart with its own .htaccess at this level. I just need someone to push me in the right direction.

add:

RewriteCond $1 !^shop

somewhere between RewriteEngine and RewriteRule. You can tack [NC] onto the end of this line if you want to service /shop/ and /SHop/ and /shoP/ and…

Thanks so much for your help!