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Rewrite rules .htaccess for facebook app trailing slash and exclude internal files js/css/images/etc


sspoke

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I just started working with my first .htaccess RewriteRule because when submitting a facebook app, it must end with either a trailing slash or be a dynamic URL. My domain already is used for another project so I put my app into a sub-directory so it looks like this

 

http://www.example.com/app/index2.html

I'm trying to convert it to be in this format

http://www.example.com/app/fbapp/

 

I can't use app's sub-directory as index.html or index.php which is already used outside of a facebook with Google Ads, since Google Ads are illegal to be used on facebook, I created a copy of the index.html called index2.html without any Google ads on it.

 

I started messing around with .htaccess and I got it semi-working but in Google Chrome it seems to detect the URL as being a folder and starts loading the stylesheets and javascript scripts from the fake virtual directory assuming that fbapp is a directory when it should be app/file.xxx instead of app/fbapp/file.xxx

 

Here is what I got so far I still don't understand how to use Rewrite Condionals but from my understanding if the RewriteCond is triggered it will run the line right under it, otherwise it will skip it somehow and go to the third line which works fine as long as it's not a script/image/stylesheet/etc...

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(favicon\.ico|favicon\.png|robots\.txt|css|js) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [E=BASE:%1]

RewriteRule ^fbapp index2.html [E=BASE:%1]
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