RewriteCond to skip rules if the file exists doesn't work

Question

I'm using this in my conf:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$      /index.php?page=$1 [QSA]

But files such as /theme/styles.css still get redirected to index.php

Does anyone know why this doesn't work?

Answer 1

Just a note, /theme/styles.css is a REQUEST_URI not a REQUEST_FILENAME; the _FILENAME is a full path on disk. Try adding debugging to see what is being evaluated:

RewriteLog /tmp/rewrite.log
RewriteLogLevel 3

Find the relevant section of your request in the log and it should show you what's wrong, but if not then paste it for us to see.