My gosh - I hate .htaccess ... and don't understand how the hell anything is working. I am trying to ignore 'subfolders' and use these as guest identifyer. Ex:
User types > http://subdomain.domain.com/guest_id
Server sends > http://subdomain.domain.com/index.php
Browser shows > http://subdomain.domain.com/guest_id
My htaccess file:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php [NC]
The code works great... unless there is a trailing slash. In this case, all files are served as 'index.php'. The main Index.php is showing properly, but all external scripts / css / etc. are served as /guest_id/index.php (thus... do not load).
FYI, there might be a conflict as my 'subdomain' is actually invisibly serving domain.com/event/
I have been trying so many permutations... without really understanding how htaccess work.
Your help will be sooooo much appreciated. 1,000 thanks in advance! Damien
When you have URL such as http://subdomain.domain.com/guest_id/ and are using relative links for your css/js/images then browser attempts to resolve all links by prefixing them with current path hence src='image.png' is resolved as http://subdomain.domain.com/guest_id/image.png instead of http://subdomain.domain.com/image.png.
You can have a rule to force remove trailing slash at the end of all non-directory URLs.
RewriteEngine On
# Unless directory, remove trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.+)/+$
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R=301,NE,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
Also you can add this just below <head> tag of your page's HTML:
<base href="/" />
so that every relative URL is resolved from that base URL and not from the current page's URL.