Apache htaccess rule for url shortening

Question

I'm trying to create something short.com/ASWi7 -> short.com/index.php?h=ASWi7

so I tried using this code on my htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  !^/index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?hash=$1   [L]

but the website loses the css and everything...i organized my site in folder etc... so how can i exclude all the folders or cetain files to be part of that rule?

Answer 1

Try the following:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  !^/index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?hash=$1   [L]

!-f checks for existing files

!-d checks for existing directories

Hope that helps.