Can't exclude subfolder from rewrite rules in Joomla

Question

My website is made with Joomla. I've got a subfolder which contains plain html/css pages. I don't want Joomla to rewrite URLs inside this subfolder. Now, I have the page in this path:

http://www.mywebsite.com/myfolder/mypage.html

Joomla rewrite the URL in this way:

http://www.mywebsite.com/en/myfolder/mypage.html

And the I get the message:

Article not found!

I'm not a pro with .htaccess configuration, but I've made a couple of tries. For example, I've but an .htaccess file in the subfolder with:

RewriteEngine Off

And in the root .htaccess file I've added:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(demo_formati.*)$

But both of these operations are not the solution... Any help? thank you.

Answer 1

First, the .htaccess should only do the rewrite, if the file or directory referenced is not found. So the most likely reason for this is that there is a typo in either the folder name or the directory name.

Second, if you can't find the typo and your site does is not configured to add .html to the urls, you can edit the line that checks file extensions and remove "html?|" from it.

Also, if you use custom error pages redirects to password protected folders will fail, if the defined custom error page returns a "not found" error. As far as the rewrite is concerned a 404 is a 404.

Answer 2

try this

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(foldername|foldername/.*)$

in your .htaccess file, replace "foldername" with your folder