[wp-hackers] The life and times of an HTTP request

[Matt]

More specifically, it specifies `!-f` and `!-d` so that it first
checks if the file or directory already exists, if it does it serves
that, if it doesn't, it rewrites it to index.php.

See this for more information about -f, -d and RewriteCond:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html#RewriteCond

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Adam Hunter <ah125i at gmail.com> wrote:
> You .httaccess file should exclude files that already exist.  It should look
> something like this:
>
> <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteBase /
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
> RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
> </IfModule>
>
> The rewrite conditions tell the server to serve your stylesheets,
> javascript, etc without being routed to index.php
>
> Adam
>
>
> On Aug 13, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Seth Chromick wrote:
>
>> Assumption #1: If I'm using pretty permalinks, my .htaccess file is
>> telling the server to route every HTTP request to the index.php
>>
>> Assumption #2: Because of #1, this includes all HTTP requests for style
>> sheets, javascript files, images, etc.
>>
>> After  using Google, and Google site: search on the wp-hackers mailing
>> list archive, I couldn't find a sufficient answer... I've leapfrogged
>> through the WordPress source, starting at the index, working my way to
>> parse_request() inside the WP() class, followed through send_headers(), but
>> I'm missing the elephant in the room: How/where does WordPress retrieve and
>> send those files back to the web browser?
>>
>> Thanks for answering my dumb question / Sorry for asking a dumb, most
>> likely previously answered question :)
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