.htaccess redirecting when file doesn't exists

Question

I'm using .htaccess to redirect users to my main controller and it is working fine. But when i call a js file that doesn't exist like:

<script src="/js/jquery1231231312.js"></script>

Instead of just says 404 - file doesn't exists, this js file is getting the content of index.php. How should i proceed?

This is my .htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

Answer 1

Well, the way that you have it setup, everything gets routed through index.php. If a request is made for a resource that doesn't exist, it gets routed through index.php. It's up to index.php to realize something's not there, and return a 404 error, but I'm guessing it's setup so that if the url= doesn't exist, to returns the home page.

You can change your rules to ignore the routing for certain files, like for your example:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/js/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]

This would make it so nothing in the /js directory will ever get routed through index.php, so if someone requests a non-existing file in the /js directory, they'll just get the regular 404 response.

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EDIT:

That's what I want, to ignore the routing for certain files (js, css, images), because then if the files doesn't exists i would get the normal error!

If you want to ignore all images, javascript, and css, then the 2nd line should be:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(png|jpe?g|gif|css|js)$ [NC]