mod_rewrite load css and js if file not found

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I have these lines in my httpd.conf which make the all the url as a single parameter ('name') and when I type an name that doesen't exist index.php is loaded properly and a 404 message is shown. But the problem is that JavaScript, CSS and other assets are not loaded. How to load those files even if a dir/ file doesn't exists. ? I'm using relative paths. Thanks ;)

<Directory  "c:/Apache24/htdocs/public">
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?name=$1 [QSA,L]
    </IfModule>
</Directory>

Add this in the <head> section of your page's HTML: <base href="/" /> so that every relative URL is resolved from that URL and not the current page's URL. — anubhava
– anubhava, Commented Feb 9, 2015 at 18:25

djc · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-09 20:36:38Z

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Generally, the FallbackResource directive is a cleaner and more performant way to achieve what you're trying to do here:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_dir.html#fallbackresource

Instead of the mod_rewrite stuff, just write this:

FallbackResource index.php

Inside the PHP script you can then turn the PATH_INFO environment variable into whatever you're using to capture the name argument.

answered Feb 9, 2015 at 20:36

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M1X Over a year ago

Can you explain me why this is faster and more performant than mod_rewrite? I did this in httpd.conf but now how can I get the name variable from the url via PATH_INFO if my url for ex. is sth like http://localhost/john ? Thanks @djc

M1X Over a year ago

I think this will treat all the url as non existent because name variable will be dynamic. and there will not be a file 'name.php'

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