Topic: Rewrite Rule Help

[jasch]

I am having a hard time, creating a rule to forward a directory.

For example, I have

http://www.domain.com/ftp/marte

But I want users to be able to access it as:

http://www.domain.com/marte

as well (without the /ftp subdirectory).

First of, I tried:

RewriteRule ^marte(.*) /ftp/marte/$1

This worked fine for weeks, until I realized anything that started with "marte" was redirected.

So www.domain.com/marte.swf would return a 404 error (apache was looking for it as /ftp/marte.swf

So I changed it to:

RewriteRule ^marte/(.*) /ftp/marte/$1

This worked fine, but it only works when I enter

http://www.domain.com/marte/

If I enter the URL without the slash at the end:

http://www.domain.com/marte

It doesn work.

Any ideas how can I rewrite the rule, so it would work as expected?

Thanks

[Brian White]

The easiest thing would be to tell Apache not to forward existing directories or files. For example:

[jasch]

Thanks Brian. It worked perfectly. Too bad if you have multiple entries, you have to repeat the same RewriteCond for every line...