htaccess rewrite help please?

[hitch]

Hi i am trying to rewrite my htaccess files with not much luck in finding documentation to help me do it. Here is the htaccess files. I'd love some pointers in the right direction

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^\.htaccess$ - [F]
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule .* - [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php?/$1 [E=VAR1:$1,QSA,L]

AddType text/x-component .htc
<FilesMatch "\.(htc)$">
SetHandler text/x-component
</FilesMatch>

my attempt below (please dont laugh at me

location ~ /\. {
    deny  all;}
if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
break;
}

[APT-Joe]

You are right, if you added those rules it would work just fine.

Just one thing, we do care about the security of all of our customers in our servers, our master Nginx config, we have a predefined set of rules for all VirtualHosts, and one of them is to block any access to the outside of any .ht* files, so really, you shouldn't have to worry about it in your rewrite rules as its already in the master config.

location ~* /\. {
           deny  all;
}

You really don't need the break; in there, just abit neater:

if (!-e $request_filename) {
	rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
}

Take care!

[hitch]

Thanks for the quick help! I have made changes you recomended. This is my last one that i dont really know where to start on. the htaccess file is:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.gif)|(\.jpg)|(\.png)|(\.css)|(\.js)|(\.php)|(\.swf)$ 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .* sapphire/main.php?url=%1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

[APT-Joe]

Here ya go:

if ( !-e $request_filename ) {
    rewrite (/|\.gif|\.jpg|\.png|\.css|\.js|\.php|\.swf|/[^.]*)$ /sapphire/main.php?url=%1&%$query_string last;
    break;
    }
}

[sebi123]

we do care about the security of all of our customers in our servers, our master Nginx config, we have a predefined set of rules for all VirtualHosts, and one of them is to block any access to the outside of any .ht* files, so really, you shouldn't have to worry about it in your rewrite rules as its already in the master config.
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