Help with .htaccess for specific purpose

I’m no .htaccess expert but I’d try:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|cifolder)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

…so that your cifolder links do not get handled by EE.

And then inside the “cifolder” put another .htaccess to handle removing that nested index.php using code like what you’ve posted.

Thanks, HD. Unfortunately, this combination doesn’t work, too. I presume that something else is needed in this line in order to “tell” to not check anything after /cifolder/, not just the folder itself:

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|cifolder)

Have you tried also removing the file & dir checking…

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

You may have to explicitly list image/css/robots.txt/etc inside that line along with cifolder.

Yes, I tried that as well, no luck indeed. There is nothing else in this folder, but .htaccess, index.php and cifolder, so what I need to exclude is the latter only.

Here is what I use on my site:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|admin\.php|app1\.php|app2\.php|assets|lib|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

Everything is passed to index.php except the things I list explicitly.

admin.php, app1.php, app2.php are all loaders (admin is EE backend, app1 and app2 are CodeIgniter apps).

I keep all my images, css, javascript in the ‘assets’ folder, so calls to one of these look like this:

Hope this helps.

Okay, figured it out. Following line was taking place in /cifolder/.htaccess:

RewriteBase /

Works now. Thanks for help, guys! 😊