Evening all, having a problem and while dusting off the apache for dummies book, thought I would post this perhaps for a quicker response / fix.

This is what is in place right now to redirect for missing files;

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.*
RewriteRule (iws|jsp|jws|cfm|cfml|cfc|cfr|cfswf|sfc|html)$http://{HTTP_HOST}/

The problem is we wish to advertise a link to a folder on our site;
www.domain.com/folder
When we use that link it redirects to;
www.domain.com
I can link to www.domain.com/folder/index.html and that works but when no index.html is there it's being rewritten and I am not sure why. When I commented the above out it did work fine, so I know it's that above, and from some old notes from an old employee, it seems they did that to catch missing files, but couldn't I just use a 404 error catch for that? Either way, can the above be updated as to not redirect on that folder, or an exception made, etc.

Thanks.

Hi,

I don't know if you want to keep these rules, as I don't find they do something useful. You can indeed use a 404 error document to achieve the same.
Anyway if you want to keep using them and want your /folder not to be rewritten, then add as last rule:
Regards

They have been there before me and yea I am going to look a little more and just using the basic 404, but your one liner worked perfect.

Tnx