# .htaccess exceptions

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/htaccess-exceptions/143673>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 21, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/htaccess-exceptions/143673 "2008-07-21T18:40:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/htaccess-exceptions/143673/1 "2008-07-21T18:40:43Z")

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Hi I’m a .php coder trying to allow a Ruby on Rails website to access  
some .php scripts. I notice everything get redirected with Ruby on Rails  
in the .htaccess file.

How do I stop Rails from redirecting my .php scripts which would be in  
another directory.

Cheers

(.htaccess is below)

# General Apache options

AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi  
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi  
Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI

# If you don’t want Rails to look in certain directories,

# use the following rewrite rules so that Apache won’t rewrite certain

requests

# 

# Example:

# RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_URI} ^/notrails.\*

# RewriteRule .\* - [L]

# Redirect all requests not available on the filesystem to Rails

# By default the cgi dispatcher is used which is very slow

# 

# For better performance replace the dispatcher with the fastcgi one

# 

# Example:

# RewriteRule ^(.\*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]

RewriteEngine On

# If your Rails application is accessed via an Alias directive,

# then you MUST also set the RewriteBase in this htaccess file.

# 

# Example:

# Alias /myrailsapp /path/to/myrailsapp/public

# RewriteBase /myrailsapp

RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA]  
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]  
RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_FILENAME} !-f  
RewriteRule ^(.\*)$ dispatch.cgi [QSA,L]  
RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_FILENAME} \*.php

# In case Rails experiences terminal errors

# Instead of displaying this message you can supply a file here which

will be rendered instead

# 

# Example:

# ErrorDocument 500 /500.html

ErrorDocument 500 “

## Application error
Rails application failed to  
start properly”