Mod Rewrite Help

[Karl456]

I have my rewrite rules:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule \.(gif|png|jpg|css|js)$|^index\.php$ - [L]

RewriteRule ^admincp/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)?$ index.php?page=admincp&$1=$2&id=$3 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^admincp/(.*)/(.*)?$ index.php?page=admincp&$1=$2 [NC,L]

RewriteRule ^(.*)/([0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z._&-]+)?$ index.php?page=$1&flibble=$1view&id=$2 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/([0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z._&-]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1&flibble=$1view&id=$2 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/([0-9]+)?$ index.php?page=$1&flibble=$1view&id=$2 [NC,L]

RewriteRule ^(.*)/([a-zA-Z._&-]+)?$ index.php?page=$1&skill=$2&orderby=level [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ index.php?page=$1&skill=$2&rsname=$3&action=$4 [NC,L]

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

However, as you can see, it will rewrite anything.

I need to make an exception for the forums directory.

Any ideas how I would do this?

[g1smd]

Use a negative match preceding RewriteCond.

Additionally, change the very very inefficient (.*) patterns to something more precise. There was a thread only yesterday discussing this, and it is a topic that comes up every week.

[Karl456]

I've tried looking at many examples of negative RewriteCond's without any luck.

[jdMorgan]

Exclude requests for the forums directory-path from being rewritten, and exclude the index.php itself from being rewritten -- otherwise you'll get an 'infinite' rewriting loop:

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php$|forums/)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$1 [L]

Jim