Little help with my .htaccess

This is a pretty simple problem, unfortunately I don't understand mod_rewrite syntax so I am unable to solve it.

My current .htaccess looks like this:

RewriteEngine on

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

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?route=$1 [L,QSA]

Code (markup):

Basically, it is just googled solution that rewrites all arguments after index.php.

For example:

http://www.example.com/index.php?route=blog/index

Code (markup):

Wil be rewrited to:

http://www.example.com/blog/index

Code (markup):

Now my problem: I need to exclude a folder 'public' from rewriting because all my stylesheets an js scripts are located in that folder and I cannot access them.

Please help.

 

To be more precise:

CSS works at pages like:

www.example.com

Code (markup):

www.example.com/blog

Code (markup):

However it doesn't work when action is specified, e.g.:

www.example.com/blog/action

Code (markup):

will load without CSS styles.

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)$ index.php?route=$1/$2

Code (markup):

The CSS won't work because of the relative file path you set. If your CSS file is located at www.example.com/style.css, you will have to call it (in the index.php file):

<link rel=stylesheet href="/style.css" type="text/css" media=screen>

Because at www.example.com/blog/action, if you call the stylesheet with "<link rel=stylesheet href="style.css" type="text/css" media=screen>", it will attempt to find it at http://www.example.com/blog/action/style.css and not http://www.example.com/style.css

It doesn't matter that the "real" file, index.php, is located in the correct folder, because with the mod_rewrite rules, the file is now thought to be in a subdirectory, and the relative paths have to be altered accordingly.

Sorry, I can't really make myself clear

 

Hey thanks for help.

I have actually solved it by using HTML <base> tag:

<base href="<?php echo $baseURL; ?>" />

Code (markup):

The $baseURL is defined in PHP as:

$baseURL = substr_replace('http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], '', -9, 9).'public/';

PHP:

That is the only thing that worked (substr_replace is there to remove the index.php).

Is it good solution?

 

Not really; you're just complicating things.

<base href="http://www.example.com" /> would have sufficed. But personally, I'd just used the method I posted above.

 

I know it would have sufficed. But I'm building a simple PHP framework (just for my own purposes) so I want it to work well on different websites. And I don't want to edit the URL each time I upload the framework on different domain.

That's why I went with the simple PHP script mentioned above.

 

For some weird reason it doesn't work for me :|

But the base tag works.

 

<?PHP
    echo '<base href="'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'" />';
?>

PHP:

This should do then

 

That would be enough most of the time but my version will work also if the whole website is in a subdirectory.