Exclude subfolder from WP-redirect works with html but not php files

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Exclude subfolder from WP-redirect works with html but not php files

Raphael

2021年8月30日 19:04

I want a certain subfolder excluded from being handled by WP with its 404 - page not found message.

My problem is:

example.com/Non_WP/myfile.html - shows correctly

but

example.com/Non_WP/myfile.php - will trigger a WP 404-page not found message.

Both files, myfile.html and myfile.php exist in the Non_WP folder.

My .htaccess file looks like this:

# BEGIN WordPress
IfModule mod_rewrite.c
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(Non_WP|Non_WP/.*)$ 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
/IfModule
# END WordPress

It should exclude WP from handling the "Non_WP" folder.

WP is installed in the root folder and there are no redirect-plugins active.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Any idea where to locate the problem other than the .htaccess file?

Topic exclude directory htaccess Wordpress

Category Web

Raphael · Accepted Answer · 2017年11月1日 19:12

Well localized the problem (without understanding it so far)

It was not the .htaccess file.

It was not plugins or themes (which I deactivated all to see what happens)

But my little php app had their own session handling and modified the header. Just simple textbook stuff (login etc..) which works flawless outside WP.

I didn't analyse why this happens, but without the session/header stuff my php app works fine alongside WP.

MrWhite · Accepted Answer · 2017年11月1日 18:31

There's "something else" going on. Providing these two files exist (as you say they do) then you shouldn't have to do anything to allow direct access. This is what the two RewriteCond directives do that check against REQUEST_FILENAME - these two conditions ensure that only requests that do not map to existing files/directories are routed through WP. Without these two conditions then none of your static resources (CSS, JS, images, etc.) would work.

Your additional condition to exclude the /Non_WP directory is an optimisation, since it prevents the file/directory checks. However, as mentioned above, this should not be necessary to make it "work".

However, this "optimisation" should be moved outside of the # BEGIN WordPress block, to prevent your modification being overwritten by WordPress later. Instead of modifying the WordPress block, include the following directive before the WordPress directives (before the # BEGIN WordPress comment):

RewriteRule ^(Non_WP|Non_WP/.*)$ - [L]

This is effectively the reverse of your condition. If the /Non_WP directory is accessed then do nothing. No further processing of the mod_rewrite directives in the .htaccess file will occur.

Exclude subfolder from WP-redirect works with html but not php files

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