clean URL but what if a file actually exists?

[micah1701]

I've used mod rewrite a few times in the past for sites to have nice pretty SEO URL's.

 

Here's my current situation though,

 

I want:

domain.com/news/2008/02/27/name

to really be:

domain.com/news/?year=2008&month=02&day=27&title=name

 

I think I know how to do that but here's my problem:

This dynamic url is actually replacing a legacy system which used actual HTML files in sub folders.

 

So while i want the mod rewrite to work for all new links created, I still need the site to be smart enough to check if a file actually exists at the URL and show that file instead of using the cute new link.

 

thoughts on how to handle this?

[trq]

You would simply add some conditions prior to your rules such as....

 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

[micah1701]

Brilliant! you've helped me once again thorpe.  Thanks!