Excluding directory with ISAPI-Rewrite

Question

I'm trying to exclude a directory with ISAPI-Rewrite (note: this is the windows / iis mod-rewrite port).

The directory I want to exclude is "api" when it is in the root of the site.

Here's my rule:

RewriteRule ^ (/api/)(.+)$ $ 1 $ 2 [NC, L]

The request would look something like / api / v 2 / users? Logins = scottw

Unfortunately the querstring value is always excluded and the url is rewritten as / api / v 2 / users.

I attack on the assumption that (. +) Will take over everything else.

Any suggestions? Or a better way to exclude a directory?

thanks

Update . I also simplified the rule, but that didn't change anything:

RewriteRule ^ (/api/.+)$ $ 1

+1

Scott Watermasysk May 19 '09 at 13:38

2 answers

I've seen the "+" work strange sometimes, you can try going to "..". I'm not saying it will work, but it might be worth trying.

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Kevin Up May 19 '09 at 13:58

Scott Watermasysk · Accepted Answer · 2009-05-19T14:54:56+0000

It turns out there are two things here:

The regex should be ^ (api /), not ^ (/ api). The first "/" is excluded.
The regular expression parser tool that comes with ISAPI_Rewrite does not seem to handle repetitions correctly.

The rule that finally works is as follows:

RewriteRule ^(api/.+) $1 [NC,L]