Solve This Rewrite Puzzle?

[consultant]

Ah the infamous mod_rewrite topic, the biggest pain to deal with regarding Apache.

Any easy way to do this.

Browser comes in at URL
[sitedomain.com...]

If the directory does not exist, should rewrite to:
[sitedomain.com...]

[edited by: jdMorgan at 7:30 pm (utc) on Jan. 28, 2004]
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[jdMorgan]

consultant,

See the "-d" CondPattern for RewriteCond [httpd.apache.org].

Jim

[consultant]

I was aware of the -d flag. I was hoping someone could give me an example how I should use it in my case.

[jdMorgan]

Place the RewriteCond in front of your RewriteRule that does the redirect:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} -d

Jim

[consultant]

That's the problem, whenever I try to do a rewrite rule is seems like it takes about a half hour of trial an error. The syntax is hard to understand. I was hoping someone here who's a guru at the syntax could give me a shortcut