[wp-hackers] The life and times of an HTTP request

[Adam Hunter]

You .httaccess file should exclude files that already exist.  It  
should look something like this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

The rewrite conditions tell the server to serve your stylesheets,  
javascript, etc without being routed to index.php

Adam


On Aug 13, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Seth Chromick wrote:

> Assumption #1: If I'm using pretty permalinks, my .htaccess file is  
> telling the server to route every HTTP request to the index.php
>
> Assumption #2: Because of #1, this includes all HTTP requests for  
> style sheets, javascript files, images, etc.
>
> After  using Google, and Google site: search on the wp-hackers  
> mailing list archive, I couldn't find a sufficient answer... I've  
> leapfrogged through the WordPress source, starting at the index,  
> working my way to parse_request() inside the WP() class, followed  
> through send_headers(), but I'm missing the elephant in the room:  
> How/where does WordPress retrieve and send those files back to the  
> web browser?
>
> Thanks for answering my dumb question / Sorry for asking a dumb,  
> most likely previously answered question :)
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