Access directory while mod rewrite is on

Question

I am using the following .htaccess file to keep my URL's clean

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+)/?$ index.php?get1=$1 [B]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ index.php?get1=$1&get2=$2
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ index.php?get1=$1&get2=$2&get3=$3

It works so far, but I now want to access a directory.

For example. If someone goes to mysite.com/news/post-title, the URL is rewritten and everything is ok.

Now I want to have a directory that can be viewed when someone goes to mysite.com/directory and have it's contents shown.

Is there a way to do that?

Answer 1

Put a RewriteCond in front of each RewriteRule, to force the RewriteRule to be skipped if the request is made to a location that's a directory and exists.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+)/?$ index.php?get1=$1 [B]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ index.php?get1=$1&get2=$2
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ index.php?get1=$1&get2=$2&get3=$3

All that's going to get you is the actual directory listing. If you want to allow the users to also access the files within those directories, you should also add a condition to each of those checking for file existence:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

Answer 2

I would go for something like the following;

<Location /Somedirectory>
    Options Indexes
</Location>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [NC]
RewriteRule ^/Somedirectory - [L]

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+)/?$ index.php?get1=$1 [B]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ index.php?get1=$1&get2=$2
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ index.php?get1=$1&get2=$2&get3=$3