[RESOLVED] quick help with ReWriteRule

[kbc1]

Hi all

Just need some quick advice on a rewrite rule for an existing small PHP site I am working on.

In my htaccess file I have set up some rewrite rules to implement 'tidy urls' as such:

RewriteRule ^home$ homepageNew.html
RewriteRule ^about-us$ AboutUsNew.html
RewriteRule ^products$ ProductsNew.html
RewriteRule ^products/(.*)$ ProductsDetails.html

Via an Admin System I am allowing the user to create new top level menu items and therefore these could be called anything they want, hence I cannot hard code the URL into my htaccess file as I have done with the existing URL's such as:

/home
/about-us
/products

etc etc

Is there a line of code I could use which would be execute AFTER all of the above rules which would take any other url and map it to a new StandardTemplate.html file?

I tried the following:

RewriteRule ^(.*)?$ StandardTemplate.html

but this just breaks my site and all other pages do not run correctly!

Thanks

[bradgrafelman]

Try something like:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ StandardTemplate.html [L]

[bpat1434]

Or just simply:

RewriteRule .* StandardTemplate.html

No need to specify whether it's a valid file or not. If you want to keep your images, JS, and stylesheets visible, you'd use something like:

RewriteRule !(\.(jpg|png|jpeg|bmp|gif|css|js))$ StandardTemplate.html

Works wonders 🙂

[kbc1]

Thanks guys, I ended up using bradgrafelman's method as bpat1434's redirected every request to the same page and omitted my other rules above it in the htaccess file, which I needed to keep working.

Thanks for your help.
K