Avoid automatic PHP routing in a MVC

Question

I am using a MVC and on my application file, I am routing this way :

# Routing
$routing = array(
    '([a-zA-Z]+)\/?'    =>  array('Post', 'view')
);
framework::routing($routing);

It means that all the URLs like "mysite.com/anything/" will be routed to the same template but with different content. Until then, everything is okay.

My problem is that I would like to make an exception for that,

because I want to access my page "mysite.com/uploads" directly into the browser, but I am redirected, due to the routing php stuff.

Is there a way to make an exception to this routing? Like route all names excepted "upload" ?

I can submit the routing file, but since it's almost the same than codeigniter maybe you won't need it really.

Thanks

If you're using CI why aren't you using CI's routes.php config file? — Rick Calder, Nov 03 '12 at 11:47
This isn't Codeigniter, retag it appropriately with the framework you are using if you're interested in getting help with this. — Wesley Murch, Nov 03 '12 at 13:06

zeebonk · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-03T13:22:12.473

Seeing that your urls don't contain the index.php part anymore, I guess that you added an .htaccess file to do that, probably one that looks like this (straight from the codeigniter docs):

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

If this is that case and the uploads folder is in the same folder as the root index.php file of codeigniter, you should change the second line to:

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|uploads|robots\.txt)

But this all depends on your specific configuration.

EDIT: Altough it seems that you aren't using CodeIgniter, the same applies to Zend Framework MVC. You should make an exception to the rewrite rules to allow direct access to your upload directory.

Avoid automatic PHP routing in a MVC

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